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Joining shows in progress after sports events

i could be wrong but the 1984 emmys were delayed for this game? was a overtime game
packers-buccaneers. cbs, jim kelly, jean fugett the jim kelly here was the golf announcer who did some nfl games for cbs in the 80s
 
"The Simpsons" got joined in progress last night. And that's a real shame, even though I already saw the episode, because Fox did both the crossover episodes, the one with "Futurama" and the one with "Family Guy".

That, of course, is cheating. They were able to show two "Last Man on Earth" episodes last night as a result, although the Family Guy/Simpsons crossover was an hour and wouldn't have really affected their ability to do that.

I'm glad they showed both episodes of "Last Man" because he is NOT the last man any more. He hasn't been the last person since the end of episode one, and now the population of Earth is up to four.
 
You realize, of course, that Fox scheduled reruns rather than first-run episodes precisely for this reason (possible pre-emption, either in whole or in part) ...
 
ixnay said:
What was the theme?
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Chimp thinks that running two crossover episodes of The Simpsons back-to-back constitutes a "theme night".

Show of hands: Who agrees?

Oh, look ... no hands.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Chimp thinks that running two crossover episodes of The Simpsons back-to-back constitutes a "theme night".

Show of hands: Who agrees?

Oh, look ... no hands.
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True, they didn't devote the whole night to it, but they did put both episodes on that night. But "Bob's Burgers" went in between.
 
NASCAR has this silly rule that requires the drivers to try to run three 'extra' laps without a caution('Green White Checkered'). If there is another caution, they attempt the GWC finish two more times. It adds a lot of extra time to the race...and kind of makes a joke of the whole sport, too.
 
vchimpanzee said:
True, they didn't devote the whole night to it, but they did put both episodes on that night. But "Bob's Burgers" went in between.
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Sorry, but that still does not constitute a "theme night". If the entire prime-time schedule had a common thread running through it, that would qualify. Two episodes -- and separated by something else, you now tell us! -- is not anywhere close.
 
i do remember Costas or Scully announcing that Carson would not be seen sometimes if a baseball playoff game was quite long like extra innings
 
Carson had it in his contract: if the Tonight Show didn't go on *BEFORE*Midnight Eastern, it didn't go on at all.

In the early 80s, I actually ended up signing off a station nearly 30 minutes early because of the rule. Some show ran long, we did our late news, then joined network for Late Night with David Letterman early--at 11 PM (Central). Tomorrow was up at Midnight (30 minutes early) and we signed off.
 
newsmark said:
Carson had it in his contract: if the Tonight Show didn't go on *BEFORE*Midnight Eastern, it didn't go on at all.

In the early 80s, I actually ended up signing off a station nearly 30 minutes early because of the rule. Some show ran long, we did our late news, then joined network for Late Night with David Letterman early--at 11 PM (Central). Tomorrow was up at Midnight (30 minutes early) and we signed off.
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I don't know how factual this was, being that it was part of a storyline in HBO's "Late Shift" movie, but Letterman had a clause in his CBS contract, at least when he first joined the network in '93, that if The Late Show didn't go on the air before Midnight ET, CBS would have to pay him $45 million.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
I don't know how factual this was, being that it was part of a storyline in HBO's "Late Shift" movie, but Letterman had a clause in his CBS contract, at least when he first joined the network in '93, that if The Late Show didn't go on the air before Midnight ET, CBS would have to pay him $45 million.
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Did any stations in the East coast delay him? station stations in the central time zone did at fast
 
Perhaps to make sure his show was going out to an audience that was awake and had not turned off their TVS to go to bed...
 
i remember a few baseball games on NBC that wiped out the local news,nightly news, and "Solid Gold" usually happened once a year
 
WPPCProductions said:
Yes I'm tired of ET's weekend show getting hosed at the beginning at the 7pm time slot on saturday.I'm glad the affiliate reruns ET weekend at 3 in the morning again.To this day I still think if they start a hour earlier instead of the time now.
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I'm with you on that one. I used to get mad if "Dance Fever" on WYFF/4 got preempted by the NFL games when i was younger. "Solid Gold" got the same treatment when NBC did a baseball GOW doubleheader.
 
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