GSN is seeing an opening, as the WGA strike sends Dave/Jay/Conan/Craig/Jimmy/Carson/Jon/Colbert into reruns, so they're starting a new ad campaign with the slogan "You Can't Write This Stuff"--one of the spots, featuring someone we know and love, is embedded with the blog post:
http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2007/11/gsn.php In the post, James Hibberd quotes Ryan Seacrest as saying that the non-WGA "Chelsea Lately" on E! is late-night television that's "strike-proof." Of course, considering that there seems to be at least one repeat a week of the program in the 11:30 p.m. ET first-run slot, which Seacrest intros in wrapping up "E! News" as "all-new" whether it is or not, that's not too much of a comfort.
ObGameShow: One of Chelsea Handler's panelists in the A block of her show recently was our good friend Rossi Morreale.
/Hope he got paid lots of love for doing the gig