[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Mar 21 2005, 04:09 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Mar 18 2005, 10:09 AM\']One show I think might work well on GSN would be Big Brother, but not in reruns. I would negotiate to show the real time web feed from the time the contestants get up to when they fall asleep (notice I didn't say go to bed). Poker after that, then Infomercials.
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Especially since Channel 4 in the UK pretty much turns their sister digital/satellite channel E4 to "Big Brother Live" when their version runs every summer. I'm surprised that it hasn't been considered in the U.S., or if until Spike TV came along there wasn't really a place in the MTV Networks portfolio for "BB." (Now that Viacom seems to be dividing into two, that sort of synergy may be out the window, but it doesn't mean that they could sell "BB Live" to GSN...)
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For the first season of BB, the camera feeds were made available online for free, and there were quite a few of us who would wind up in BB-related chat areas watching the monkeys dance and talking about it.
Then someone decided they could make money from it, and now you have to pay money to access those feeds.
Which is why your ideas to negotiate and show the feeds on TV for free won't work. Someone's already placed a dollar value on them.