Re: "Deal or No Deal" and "Trivial Pursuit": Where will they be playing in...
imhomerjay said:
If you'd looked it up Julius, you'd see the Trivial Pursuit list shows they'll be on Fox 29 at 4 am, leading into Family Feud at 4:30 a.m. (Come on now, double runs of those hideous court shows and TMZ, and the best they can do is a 4-5 am block? Ick.)
Deal airs on NBC10 at noon (likely to be slaughtered by Action News).
The Bonnie Hunt Show also is buried on in the wee hours on CW 57. Seriously, I remember she had a TGIF show on ABC, Life with Bonnie, and I didn't realize she had a syndicated talk show now until I saw some listings when I was looking at New York and CT timings. Apparently Bonnie Hunt distributed by Warner Bros. that also distributes Ellen, and once distributed Rosie O'Donnell then briefly Caroline Rhea. I'm not sure of the format, but if its just general variety, why is Warner Bros. diluting the Ellen show with a Bonnie Hunt show? I've never know it when WB had 2 of the same on that the same time. Anyways, I'm sure Ellen gets better guests, but perhaps its a transition for when Ellen leaves. It seems most NBC O&Os and a lot of other stations are carrying it, before Ellen.
Anyways, I've noticed this pattern. It seems like the content distributors need to get New York and LA clearances. The station owners are hesistant, esp. if its not from a sister company, and they are not like "sure, we'll give you clearances across the board". Instead, they are of the approach, "let's see how ratings are in these cities, and earn it, then we'll make room for it in the these cities" Somehow Philly also gets certain shows late, or not at all (often gets cancelled before ever getting a daytime slot). In Chicago and LA, there are more stations however KCBS has KCAL, etc. so more time slots for these shows.
And while 17, 29 and 57 have ample of time slots, they seem to follow a format. Right now its very heavily court-room TV shows. At one time, it was all talk shows. And in the late 90's, they preferred airing sitcoms (even while the New York TV stations had moved on to the trashy talk shows - WWOR and WPIX with Ricki Lake, Richard Bey, Jenny Jones etc.)
