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That Don Guy

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Any Soupy Sales tributes planned for GSN?
« on: October 23, 2009, 01:17:41 PM »
To be honest, when I heard he died, the first thing I thought was, "He was still alive?"

How long was he a regular on Bruner/Blyden WML?  GSN shouldn't have any problems digging episodes up if they put their mind to it - assuming, of course, that they still do "tributes".

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xavier45

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Any Soupy Sales tributes planned for GSN?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2009, 01:26:00 PM »
[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' post=\'229102\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 01:17 PM\']GSN shouldn't have any problems digging episodes up if they put their mind to it - assuming, of course, that they still do "tributes".[/quote]
The only problem is, they don't have the rights to What's My Line? anymore.

Ian Wallis

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Any Soupy Sales tributes planned for GSN?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2009, 04:03:49 PM »
If it's true that GSN actually doesn't have the rights anymore, they could still lease a few episodes for a one-time showing.  They've done that sort of thing various times in the past.
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Matt Ottinger

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Any Soupy Sales tributes planned for GSN?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2009, 04:12:51 PM »
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'229111\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 04:03 PM\']If it's true that GSN actually doesn't have the rights anymore, they could still lease a few episodes for a one-time showing.  They've done that sort of thing various times in the past.[/quote]
While that probably falls into the "all things are possible" category, I really don't think that's where GSN's interest is anymore.  Even when they had unfettered access to the G-T library, it got to the point that most of their "tributes" came down to just juggling a couple of black and white episodes at three in the morning.  To go out of their way at this point seems mighty unlikely.
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Jay Temple

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Any Soupy Sales tributes planned for GSN?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2009, 04:28:28 PM »
Pity they don't have the rights to a big win on Pyramid. Like, say, a $50,000 win.
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Any Soupy Sales tributes planned for GSN?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2009, 07:31:19 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'229114\' date=\'Oct 23 2009, 04:12 PM\']To go out of their way at this point seems mighty unlikely.[/quote]

Even worse, I wouldn't be surprised if the current brass feels the target demographic would say "Who?!?" to a tribute