I'm told that Media Rights Capital which is programming The CW netwrk's Sunday nights is pushing their show premieres back a week to October 5th, supposedly to get them out of the way of the Emmys. But the move also enables MRC to produce and then run more consecutive new episodes. (Mercifully, MRC is holding up the premiere of Bob Saget's show, which doesn't begin production until the week of September 15, until March sweeps. But why is there a Saget show in the first place, pray tell? The guy is lame.) So, the revised MRC/CW schedule is now:
5PM-5.30PM: 4 REAL
5.30PM-6PM: 4REAL
6PM-7PM: IN HARMS WAY (ORIGINAL FIRST WEEK, REPEATS IN FOLLOWING WEEKS)
7PM-8PM: IN HARMS WAY (ORIGINALS)
8PM-9PM: VALENTINE
9PM-10PM: EASY MONEY
4REAL is an 8-part MTV Canada series following movie and music celebrities, including Cameron Diaz, Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes and Casey Affleck, as they travel to distant parts of the world to meet local leaders that introduce social change. Executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, Chris Haddock and Laura Lightbown.
IN HARM’S WAY: Craig Piligian serves as executive producer for the series hosted by Hunter Ellis, former 10-year Navy fighter pilot, on this one-hour docu-reality series that looks at lives of people doing dangerous jobs.
VALENTINE: Kevin Murphy is executive producer/creator along with executive producer Courtney Conte on this one-hour romantic comedy about a family of Greek Gods, the Valentines, who do whatever it takes to bring soul mates together, all the while keeping their true identities secret.
EASY MONEY: Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider are executive producers, with producer Brandon Hill, on the series where Morgan Buffkin (Jeff Hephner) finds himself in charge of Prestige Payday Loans, his eccentric family’s enormously successful short-term loan business, for a modern-day Dickensian tale of money and identity.
It also gives them time to…I dunno…actually PROMOTE the shows. I seriously have yet to see a single ad for any of them.
And what’s with the Bob Saget hate? Yeah, Full House was awful, but after his appearance in Half Baked the man is cool in my book.
I wish more people were reporting on this whole MRC/CW thing, which is one of the weirdest things going on in the TV industry right now. I’m rooting for it to succeed, but I gotta ask, how are they going to promote these shows, which have nothing to do with the CW brand (which finally shows some promise of panning out, just maybe)
Anyone who hates Saget obviously hasn’t seen The Aristocrats. Just freaking amazing, never knew the guy had it in him.
Hey Nikki, Saget isn’t “lame”. Full House was lame and he made a killing from it. Seriously, Nikki, see his stand-up. The guy is dark and bizarre and very funny.
Milo was right, he was the best thing in “The Aristocrats”, a movie featuring about a hundred great comedians.
This deal isn’t really that strange. NBC already does with Saturday mornings, leasing it to Discovery channel.
Someone commented in an earlier forum specifically how “Easy Money” “Valentine” and “In Harms Way” did not look like any shows that would ever be on the CW or match their brand.
Now I get it. D’Oh!
Saget is totally lame. He’s in the league of putting Burt Reynolds or Andy Griffith back on TV. Enough with this guy. There are at least a hundred comics more original, more exciting and much more funny than Saget ever was. He’s a TV guy’s idea of what was funny. In the eighties!
Saget isn’t lame he just gets lame parts. In person he is one of the fastest-thinking comics in the business and he is some kind of dirty. He’s also one of the rare nice guys in this business, makes for a refreshing change.
Tom
The Great CW Sunday night experiment is failing already!
Who’d have thunk it?
This from the network that canceled Everwood, Gilmore Girls & Veronica Mars.
From what I hear, MRC wants to rebrand CW’s Sunday night line up and change the demographic to 18-49 male.
Bob Saget should be doing some dark and edgy comedy on HBO, Showtime or whatever the Paramount/Lionsgate Frankenstein network will be called.
His turns in Entourage and The Aristocrates are hilarious and show another, totally fresh side of him. The man (and his act) is ripe for reinvention.
Serioiusly Saget, stop sucking on the teet of network TV and do something with balls.
Have they been smart enough to leak any of these onto the Internet? If not, ratings = FAIL.