Re: [OT] This Week in Cable-Network Mutation, 11/25

"Derek Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Now that the "Queer Eye" All-Gay Bravo network craze was proven to be a
> plot by evil Crab People (5 pts., and I don't even watch it), we're now
> witness to THIS year's latest inexplicable cable network-mutating
> off-topic flash-in-the-pan fad craze:

Poor little five points! Does no one love you? "South Park." There. Come
along, little friends.

> Apparently, the Travel Channel, still searching for their *own* "Why in
> heaven's name are they showing THIS??" hit-craze show to become a trendy
> cult hit and lead them off the garden path to destroy their concept and
> restructure the entire network around it to cash in (to go with E's Anna
> Nicole, VH-1's Top 20 lists, Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, and
> whatever this year's MTV hit is), discovered that "World Poker Tour" was
> their #1 rated show.
> (Hmm:  Travel advice...Poker...Yeah, I can see that.)

Well, as has been pointed out in this thread, it's the *best* television
treatment of a poker game ever created, so it's definitely worth watching,
whatever channel happens to host it. I confess to an addiction. (Well, that
one, anyway.)

> And, as it must to all hits, check this week's TV Guide for a full-page
> ad for Bravo's upcoming "Celebrity Poker Showdown", featuring Ben
> Affleck, J-Lo, David Schwimmer and Martin Sheen--
> But that's not the ironic part...Check what was meant to be the "hip"
> tagline: "The NEXT Big Bravo Thing."

Flaunt it, baby! FLAUNT IT!

Seriously, the way *I* knew that the Bravo-as-Gay-Channel thing had gotten
out of control was when the entire cast of "Will and Grace" appeared on
"Inside The Actors Studio." *aggada aggada aggada*

> Derek Janssen (and *where*, I ask you, is Gabe Kaplan??)

Beating the shit out of Robert Conrad in a footrace over on Trio?

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