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The "New i".....Phase 1.2

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RadioFanBoy

I've heard of baby steps but jeez.......Anyway

Richard Karn's final season of "Family Feud" will not be seen on "i". Perhaps Game Show Network later on down the road. A second episode of "Green Acres" will take its place on Sept. 4 (which was in the oringinal plan, a two-hour block of classic comedy to start). "Doc" is being banished to Fridays at 10pm, and like "Sue Thomas F.B. Eye", will now only air once a week, and will be subject to possible endless movie pre-emptions. "Diagnosis Murder" will air for 2 hours from 9-11pm. And beginning September 15, "Smart Place for Kids" will air Fridays from 3-6pm.

Did I mention before what a long, slow, and seemingly painful process this was going to be?
 
RadioFanBoy said:
I've heard of baby steps but jeez.......Anyway

Richard Karn's final season of "Family Feud" will not be seen on "i". Perhaps Game Show Network later on down the road. A second episode of "Green Acres" will take its place on Sept. 4 (which was in the oringinal plan, a two-hour block of classic comedy to start). "Doc" is being banished to Fridays at 10pm, and like "Sue Thomas F.B. Eye", will now only air once a week, and will be subject to possible endless movie pre-emptions. "Diagnosis Murder" will air for 2 hours from 9-11pm. And beginning September 15, "Smart Place for Kids" will air Fridays from 3-6pm.

Did I mention before what a long, slow, and seemingly painful process this was going to be?
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What's this "Smart Place For Kids" all about? Children's programming and only on Fridays at that. I knew that Family Feud was going to go away after September 4th as well because quite possibly GSN might be airing all versions of the Feud(Dawson's,Combs',Anderson's and Karn's) before too long. I wish that the "I" would go ahead and get the other shows they have planned like Starsky and Hutch,The Partridge Family,I Dream Of Jeannie,Bewitched,Alice,Welcome Back,Kotter and other shows they have promised that they would show.
 
Braves2005 said:
What's this "Smart Place For Kids" all about?
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It's a new, E/I-friendly children's block, a joint venture of i, NBC (plus Telemundo), Nelvana, Scholastic and Classic Media, designed to promote literacy and values.

You can read more aboit it in this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Place_for_Kids

Children's programming and only on Fridays at that.
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The initial press release mentioned that it would be seen weekdays on i.

I wish that the "I" would go ahead and get the other shows they have planned like Starsky and Hutch,The Partridge Family,I Dream Of Jeannie,Bewitched,Alice,Welcome Back,Kotter and other shows they have promised that they would show.
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With "Smart Kids" only on one weekday a week, and all the schedule announcements being made for prime-time, I take it that infomercials will still overdominate i's schedule, with the best stuff reserved for digital viewers.
 
So the "i" that used to stand for INFOMERCIAL will now stand for IRRELEVENT.

It's amazing it is still in business.
 
Here's some more tidbits to chew on -----

"America's Most Talented Kids" and "Animal Tails".....or is it "Miracle Pets"?......anyway, those shows gasp their last the week of Sept. 4, because the new E/I content will roll in the next week. "Bonanza" will go Monday-Friday at 6pm on Sept. 11 (as I predicted it would). "Kung Fu" is set to debt on I Sept. 30 with the pilot movie and another long-unseen 90 minute episode (It's first season, "Kung Fu" rotated with "The Six Million Man" on ABC in a 90-minute time slot. "Saturday Action Theatre" I think they called it. They put on movie-length episodes of series from different studios. It only lasted the 1973-74 season). When "Kung Fu" begins its weekday run on Oct. 2, there's a good chance it might be slotted from 5-6pm if "Smart Place for Kids" expands to 5 days a week in October.
 
QUOBO??????? What the heck??????? Oh well........but I just got the line-up and here 'tis:

Fridays only

3pm Veggie Tales -- episodes culled from the videos to begin with, and original shows to follow
3:30 Dragon -- I have no idea what this show is.......Anyone have info?
4pm 3-2-1 Penguins and The Adventures of Larryboy -- See Vegge Tales
4:30pm Babar -- All 5 seasons; 78 episodes of the elephant prince previously seen on HBO Family
5pm Jane and the Dragon (different from "Dragon") - Jane is a medieval middleclass girl being raised as a Lady-in-Waiting, but she’s got much bigger plans for her future! Training to become a Knight is what she’s all about - good thing she’s got a fire-breathing dragon as a best friend and a prince who owes her a big-time favour! This show only began on YTV in Canada this past January. One of Nevela's newer products.
5:30pm Jacob Two-Two -- (from TV.com) Based on the celebrated author Mordecai Richler's delightfully irreverent books, Jacob Two-Two is a stylish animated adventure series featuring globetrotting, freewheeling international spies, mysterious neighbors, revolting cafeteria food, treacherous teachers and one very spirited boy. The youngest of five children, Jacob is nicknamed Two-Two because he sometimes has to say things twice just to be heard! Small for his age, Jacob nonetheless has a big heart and a heaping helping of determination, anything from foiling the plots of internal spies to exposing the evil ways of the cafeteria lady. An enduring book-based property, Jacob Two-Two features a beloved underdog's run-ins with the mysterious and often surreal world of adults in a show that is Two good Two be true! This show is also rather new from 2003,and also from Nevela.
 
I wonder if they'll do anything with the 3-6p block Mondays-Thursdays.

I thought I read somewhere that i would have access to such shows as "Pinky and the Brain," "Animaniacs," among others. I'd be nice to see entertaining cartoons on the schedule as well. Wow! A cartoon block on over the air commercial television? There's an out of the box concept for station owners. :)
 
Kids shows on local tv. WHO could they sell that to? Not Geico, not Levetra. Except for the last quarter, nobody would want their commercials in that block.
 
I though NBC was supposed to finalize the purchace soon. What is going on?
 
I just read a message that says Animal Tails will be cancelled by i on Friday, September 8th. Could you please explain why just in case I forget what the answer was? Please let me know. Thank you.
 
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