Second season for "Minute to Win It"

[mcsittel]

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/4...nk_You_Are_.php

1.8 rating last night is 'good enough' I guess... enough to start running it twice a week?  I wonder how quickly NBC can inflict viewer burnout...

[BrandonFG]

This is the same network who thought putting Jay Leno in primetime was a great idea. I think NBC is officially desperate.

[WarioBarker]

Nah, I think the point of desperation is when they finally decide to bring back Concentration.

(For the record, here's a list detailing where the rights to Barry-Enright games have gone -- NBC has quite a few other games they haven't touched.)

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238912\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 06:12 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'238907\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 07:26 PM\']I think NBC is officially desperate.[/quote]I think the point of desperation is when they finally decide to bring back Concentration -- a show THEY OWN -- after desperately trying to avoid that situation for over a decade.[/quote]As part of my penance, I'm supposed to let people dig their own holes more: how is NBC desperately trying to avoid airing Concentration?

Can't sleep, rebus'll eat me.

[WarioBarker]

how is NBC desperately trying to avoid airing Concentration?

When NBC canned Later Today in August 2000, they mulled over bringing back Concentration; two months later, they decided to extend Today to three hours. In January 2007, they announced that Passions would be canned and Today was given a fourth hour.

NBC's had quite a few opportunities between 1991 and 2010 to revive Concentration, although they evidently thought it good to slap repeats on from 1991-93. They've canned some daytime shows in the interim, only to either give back the slot to affiliates or expand Today.

As such, it seems to me that NBC is actively trying to avoid reviving a show that would undoubtedly attract people -- and let's face it, the network really needs eyeballs. It's more or less the Fred Silverman era all over again.

[Fedya]

Or, more likely, they determined (and probably rightly) that Hour #54210437852 of Today would draw more viewers than Concentration.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238915\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 06:46 PM\']When NBC canned Later Today in August 2000, they mulled over bringing back Concentration;[/quote]
Citation, please.

[Joe Mello]

I'm sure I'm getting ahead of myself, but...

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'238922\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 01:44 AM\'][quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238915\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 06:46 PM\']When NBC canned Later Today in August 2000, they mulled over bringing back Concentration;[/quote]
Child, please.[/quote]
Fixed that for you.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238912\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 08:12 PM\']What does NBC have against a show they own?[/quote]You tell us.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238912\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 09:12 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'238907\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 07:26 PM\']I think NBC is officially desperate.[/quote]
I think the point of desperation is when they finally decide to bring back Concentration -- a show THEY OWN -- after desperately trying to avoid that situation for over a decade. What does NBC have against a show they own?
[/quote]
Umm, yeah okay, that too. My point stands-they thought that putting Jay Leno on 100 minutes earlier, five nights a week, was the next revolutionary idea. They also said they were sticking with said idea for the long haul, yet the show lasted less than six months, and NBC is back to airing dramas on most nights (not counting Marriage Ref. But, hey, they saved $10-15 million, good job right, Zuck? (sarcastic thumbs up)

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'238922\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 01:44 AM\'][quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238915\' date=\'Apr 5 2010, 06:46 PM\']When NBC canned Later Today in August 2000, they mulled over bringing back Concentration;[/quote]
Citation, please.
[/quote]
I do remember them considering it back in 2000, right when Millionaire was taking off, and 21 was showing its potential. This ATGS post mentioned a Variety article.

And here's the article from March 2000. As I suspected, the announcement was from earlier in the year, as 21 was canned by Memorial Day.

/Has it really been a decade?!

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'238928\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 04:40 AM\']And here's the article from March 2000. As I suspected, the announcement was from earlier in the year, as 21 was canned by Memorial Day.[/quote]
And doesn't come any closer to confirming Dan's claim than "we're looking at classic formats we own the rights to." Which may or may not include Concentration.

[WarioBarker]

I don't think there were any available slots in daytime until Later Today was canned in August. It seems like NBC News has quite some power, given that they make up 80% of NBC's current daytime schedule.

[tpirfan28]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238959\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 02:58 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'238938\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 12:00 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'238928\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 04:40 AM\']And here's the article from March 2000. As I suspected, the announcement was from earlier in the year, as 21 was canned by Memorial Day.[/quote]And doesn't come any closer to confirming Dan's claim than "we're looking at classic formats we own the rights to." Which may or may not include Concentration.[/quote]
My source was this comment on BuzzerBlog by "DeVares"; the guy seems to know his stuff based on his comments over the past months, and besides that I don't think there were any available slots in daytime until Later Today was canned in August.[/quote]
So you blindly believe things random people say on the Internet?  Oy.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238959\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 11:58 AM\']My source was this comment on BuzzerBlog by "DeVares"[/quote]
Even better.

(the fifth hour, of course, is Days Of Our Lives).

Zach! Down Zach!

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'238976\' date=\'Apr 6 2010, 04:02 PM\']It made sense, and Wikipedia backed it up (I checked, and that particular fact about the canning of LT was not changed).[/quote]
Magical. (Right now I'm thinking a weird amaglam of Horan and Adam Kleist. Panel?)

and (based on comments here) I don't even want to be associated with him.

Too late, methinks.