In what would be considered a response to Antenna TV's acquisition of Johnny Carson's version of "The Tonight Show", another classic TV diginet, GetTV (owned by Sony Pictures TV, and is carried mostly on the subchannels of Univision/UniMas-owned stations, plus others across the country) acquired the broadcast rights to "The Judy Garland Show" and "The Merv Griffin Show", and those shows will air every Monday night starting October 12th, as part of a new programming block.
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GetTV acquires rights to Judy Garland and Merv Griffin shows
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Interesting move. Seeing the Garland shows some 50+ years after they first aired will be a draw, but what happens six months from now when they've gone through all of them?
I love the spin they put on Merv "helping to create the celebrity guest-based talk show genre" when Carson (and before him, Jack Paar) had already largely defined it. I hope they choose the episodes carefully ... I remember his years on Metromedia and a lot of the time he was phoning it in.
Now the specials will be worth seeing. I doubt many of them have been seen, even as clips, since they originally aired.
I love the spin they put on Merv "helping to create the celebrity guest-based talk show genre" when Carson (and before him, Jack Paar) had already largely defined it. I hope they choose the episodes carefully ... I remember his years on Metromedia and a lot of the time he was phoning it in.
Now the specials will be worth seeing. I doubt many of them have been seen, even as clips, since they originally aired.
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Oh, BTW ... in addition to the block being repeated on Monday night so as to cover prime-time across the country, there will also be replays on Fridays at 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT and on Sundays at 9:00am ET/6:00am PT, per the GetTV schedule on their website. Both will be the same three hours as the preceding Monday, in the same order.
From the excerpts I've seen over the years the show appears to be well preserved in good quality from the original videotapes. Will be interesting to check out from a TV history perspective.
Bonanza was a ratings monster opposite Judy for that season, so an uphill fight even without all the behind the scenes chaos that marred production of the show.
I'm curious if GetTV will run the shows in their original air order, or in the order they were produced. CBS did a lot of shuffling of the show order during the original run. Aparently the final few shows which just have Judy singing for an hour are the best incarnation of a format that morphed several times during the 26 episode run.
Bonanza was a ratings monster opposite Judy for that season, so an uphill fight even without all the behind the scenes chaos that marred production of the show.
I'm curious if GetTV will run the shows in their original air order, or in the order they were produced. CBS did a lot of shuffling of the show order during the original run. Aparently the final few shows which just have Judy singing for an hour are the best incarnation of a format that morphed several times during the 26 episode run.
The Judy Garland Show definitely sounds like a yawner to me. As for Merv Griffin this definitely isn't on the same level as Antenna getting Carson. The only other talk show worth seeing in repeats to me would be David Letterman, which might be a problem since NBC has his shows there and Worldwide Pants would have the CBS shows.
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I am hoping that the Griffin program featuring the celebrities that I liked during the 70s will be included.
I had posted several months ago about how the tapes of the daytime talk shows of the 60s, 70s and 80s had probably disappeared forever. I hope that the Merv programming will disprove that!
Oh, and if you're wondering:
I was a teen girl in the 1970s, so all the celebrities I liked were uncool then and are all but forgotten now except as objects of mockery: the Cassidys, Andy Gibb, the Bay City Rollers, Battlestar Galactica and John Denver. And I remember seeing all of them on The Merv Griffin Show.
I am hoping that the Griffin program featuring the celebrities that I liked during the 70s will be included.
I had posted several months ago about how the tapes of the daytime talk shows of the 60s, 70s and 80s had probably disappeared forever. I hope that the Merv programming will disprove that!
Oh, and if you're wondering:
I was a teen girl in the 1970s, so all the celebrities I liked were uncool then and are all but forgotten now except as objects of mockery: the Cassidys, Andy Gibb, the Bay City Rollers, Battlestar Galactica and John Denver. And I remember seeing all of them on The Merv Griffin Show.
The Judy Garland Shows are being aired in the order they were taped (the first show GetTV aired was taped in July of 63, but didn't air until December) I'm also surprised to see those shows have been edited to fit the the hour time slot (44 minutes without commercials), given they run the classic Western TV Show on weekends uncut in longer time slots. As for Merv on GetTV; the channel is owned by Sony, and the shows have been gathering dust in the studio vault ever since they acquired Merv Griffin's production company some years back.
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