Leno was in reruns last week.
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Leno was in reruns last week.
Which doesn't answer the question of why Arsenio is already in reruns. Talk about cutting your own throat. I can assure you that hard working Jay Leno never would have taken a vacation a few weeks into his run at The Tonight Show. It makes me wonder if they went on hiatus to re-tool the show in some way.
Pre-sweeps week; all talk shows usually take a week off before sweeps to refresh or renew after the fall launch and before November and the Oscar movie season kicks off. NBC had their break last week, Conan took time off after the NLCS ended and this week Letterman and Ferguson take their week off. No conspiracy theory here.
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I'm not saying it's a "conspiracy," just stupid. It seems to me that if the other talk shows were on hiatus, it's all the more reason for Arsenio to be first-run. He could have picked up viewers that were not interested in their regular show's reruns.
That might be true in theory, but keep in mind that a large amount of stations carrying Arsenio now are Fox affiliates (my local Fox station, KOKH, being one of them). With the World Series having started last night, Arsenio would be subject to half-hour delays at minimum on Fox stations airing the show due to the game overrunning into Arsenio's timeslots on nights during the work week when a game is scheduled (if the World Series reaches past five games, at least one of these extra games would spill over into an Arsenio timeslot). If new episodes aired this week, ratings would be lower in markets where it airs on a Fox station (therefore factoring into the show's overall national viewership) due partly to these delays since some people would go to sleep at a certain time.
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Couldn't help but notice that Arsenio has ditched the dreadlocks that he had during his "off" years, and now looks like he did in his heyday.
That said, I wonder why Arsenio and FOX did not work out a deal to get him on their network? Were they that badly burned by the Joan Rivers fiasco? Arsenio is on my local FOX affil (WZTV here in Nashville), and I seem to recall that he was on the FOX affil in Cape Girardeau (KBSI) when I lived in west Tennessee and watched him back then from there.
The irony here is that I can't watch his show now because I have to get up so early in the morning. Back then, I was a college student, and could stay up late(r) if I wanted.
That said, I wonder why Arsenio and FOX did not work out a deal to get him on their network? Were they that badly burned by the Joan Rivers fiasco? Arsenio is on my local FOX affil (WZTV here in Nashville), and I seem to recall that he was on the FOX affil in Cape Girardeau (KBSI) when I lived in west Tennessee and watched him back then from there.
The irony here is that I can't watch his show now because I have to get up so early in the morning. Back then, I was a college student, and could stay up late(r) if I wanted.
It wasn't lethal at the time, and a little distance and Fox would've been fine. However, The Wilton North Report and Chevy Chase were the silver bullets that made Fox flee late night forever; they put in tons of money to remake what is now the home of Nickelodeon's sitcoms into a large venue for Chevy and got burned badly. After that, The Simpsons and Seinfeld became money mines for local stations in late night and they aren't about to give that up to Fox anytime soon.
I don't even remember a Wilton North Report, and Chevy's talk show only lasted about six weeks, so you may have something there.
But wasn't Arsenio one of the million guest hosts that FOX floated for the Late Show in the immediate post-Joan Rivers days? They had so many that it is hard to keep track.
But wasn't Arsenio one of the million guest hosts that FOX floated for the Late Show in the immediate post-Joan Rivers days? They had so many that it is hard to keep track.
From my understanding, Fox wanted to keep Arsenio as the host of The Late Show, but he was pretty much getting ready to commit to Paramount at that point. The ratings went up with him as the host, but Fox more or less waited too late to lock up him long-term.
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Did any station broadcast a new edition of "The Arsenio Hall Show" yesterday? Zap2it's programming guide for my local affiliate of the program now has the word "new" beside its listings for the program for this Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Arsenio was back last night with new episodes for this week; Piers Morgan was one of his guests. I only watched the monologue, and in my opinion, not much as changed in terms of the jokes--it was hit or miss.
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