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Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: uncamark on November 13, 2007, 04:45:04 PM

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 (http://\"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

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: tpirfan28 on November 13, 2007, 05:24:21 PM

I have to admit...GSN's promotion department capitalized perfectly on this ad campaign.  I wonder what the other commercials are.

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: MikeK on November 13, 2007, 07:10:50 PM

Is anybody else having problems viewing the video?  It's not loading on Firefox or IE7.

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: tpirfan28 on November 14, 2007, 10:42:40 AM

That's very odd...I used Firefox and it fired right up.

But for a quick summary...it's John Carpenter's famous Phone-A-Friend call, followed by a still of the words "You can't write this stuff" or something to that extent.

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: clemon79 on November 14, 2007, 11:28:55 AM

Plays fine for me, too. Mike, maybe you need a Flash upgrade?

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: mmb5 on November 14, 2007, 12:05:17 PM

Didn't work for me.  And I have the latest Flash.  They're checking for something weird.


--Mike

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: MikeK on November 14, 2007, 12:33:29 PM

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'169496\' date=\'Nov 14 2007, 11:28 AM\']Plays fine for me, too. Mike, maybe you need a Flash upgrade?[/quote]
Nope.  Everything on my home PC is current.

The page worked without a hitch on IE7 here at work.  I've seen a similar ad with Joe Trela's Millionaire moment during the end credits of some GSN shows.  Indeed it is good stuff.

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: clemon79 on November 14, 2007, 01:02:27 PM

Hmm. I wonder what the check is that is breaking it for you guys and not me. Kooky.

Title: GSN vs. Late-Nights
Post by: WhammyPower on November 14, 2007, 04:30:05 PM

It could be a Javascript check.  Other than that, I have no idea.

/Speaking of which, I disabled the stupid Javascript check on my site today.