Newsgasm: Monday Night Fumble

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By B-Side | Tuesday, August 9, 2005 | 12:17 pm | 4 Comments

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  • Monday Night Football‘s last season on ABC premiered last night as the Bears and Dolphins duked it out (Bears won). Unfortunately, no one seemed to really tune in. Man, remember the days when a meaningless pre-season game between two lackluster teams in the middle of summer actually meant something? For shame. [Hollywood Reporter]
  • Maybe the football fans were bracing for a different sort of pigskin on their TVs: Madden 2006 hits stores today. See you in four months, potential television viewers… [NY Post]
  • Perhaps hoping to pull youngsters away from their Playstations, ABC enlists the Rolling Stones to promote Monday Night Football. This is all just one big mess, isn’t it? [Variety]
  • Speaking of Monday night footballers, looks like former soccer player Gordon Ramsey will be back for more berating. Fox officially picked up Hell’s Kitchen for a second season. [Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo]
  • Here’s the verdict: NBC is guilty of airing a dumb show. The Law Firm is sentenced to life on Bravo. [Mediaweek]
  • We’re not the only ones with mixed emotions. The Los Angeles Times (the “Tried To Stab His Brother” of newspapers) slams Brat Camp for exploiting troubled teens for ratings. [LA Times]
  • Ellen’s taking her show on the road. Literally. She plans to film entire episodes in different towns and cities across America. This might be the most exciting thing to happen since Foreigner announced its summer tour. [NY Post]

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4 Comments

  1. 1
    Ashes
    Posted August 9, 2005 at 12:43 pm

    I watched a few minutes of the law firm show. Anyone who has so much as watched one season of Law and Order can tell that these people don’t know the basics of the law and that the case was decided on something other than the actual law. I guess it was decided based on who sounded the best, which is a public speaking contest, basically. It was beyond stupid. You don’t have to be a lawyer to know that it was fake as could be.

  2. 2
    British
    Posted August 9, 2005 at 12:59 pm

    I didn’t expect Rock star:INXS to be moved to VH1 of all places. VH1 is CBS dumping ground? Then again, I didn’t know NBC had 2 stations for dumping reruns/canceled series(MSNBC and Bravo).

  3. 3
    tv freak
    Posted August 9, 2005 at 4:05 pm

    British, CBS didn’t dump INXS, they just aired ONE episode on VH1 (for what reason, I do not know) Where are the INXS recaps. They are not trying to replace Michael Hucthinence but find someone to lead the band in a new direction. Come on TV Gasm!

    I was only into The Law Firm because it dealt with interesting situation. Buh-Bye Law Firm. Hope y’all don’t get dumped by Bravo (which is a channel I don’t get so I can’t watch it, darnit.)

    G-Ram was a soccer player. whaa?

  4. 4
    Ashes
    Posted August 10, 2005 at 8:29 am

    tv freak, CBS did dump one of it’s previous three nights of INXS on VH1. The performance and elimination nights will still be on CBS. The “clinic” night will always be on VH1 now. So CBS didn’t dump the whole show but also didn’t dump just one single episode.

    Also, G-Ram was a soccer player (apparently pretty good with a chance at a career in it) but got hurt. I think it was a knee injury, if I’m correctly recalling things he’s said about it on his British reality shows.

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