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Obama to interrupt Knight Rider and Gary Unmarried

by Bob Sassone, posted Oct 10th 2008 1:03PM
Knight RiderThis news is going to upset fans of Knight Rider. Both of them.

Senator Barack Obama has bought 30 minutes of airtime on NBC on October 29 at 8pm, which means that he'll knock Knight Rider off the air for the night (no idea what NBC will put in the other 30 minutes, perhaps a repeat). Obama has also bought 30 minutes at the same time on CBS, which means that The New Adventures of Old Christine will air at 8:30 and the new Jay Mohr sitcom Gary Unmarried won't be on that night at all. FOX won't air the ads because of the World Series, and ABC said they'd air it only if Obama would dance with someone and/or get an extreme makeover.

And yes, if you're curious, the networks have of course offered Senator John McCain the same deal, though analysts aren't sure if he has the money to afford the 30 minute ads.

I don't mind this move because I don't watch either show. Now, if he were to interrupt 30 Rock or Mad Men or Heroes, well, then we'd have a problem.

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PORSCHE

Now I know why gas prices were so high this summer...OPEC needed the money for these infomercials.

And with all the illegal votes being signed up for by acorn does he even need to bother?

October 12 2008 at 10:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AussieFoodShop

Who cares about another remake? Knight Rider!? Let's make space for Obama, there are important things

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October 12 2008 at 2:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ashley

It won't be a candidate "speaking truthfully" to the American public. It will be Obama talking about how great he is and how bad McCain/Palin are, with no one to interject and present the facts that he will no doubt misrepresent. (Notice, I intentionally didn't mention Biden, since no focus is being put on him at all, but if Palin doesn't do 75 interviews a day the campaign is "hiding" her.)

I am not saying this as a McCain/Palin supporter, but as an educated American. Either candidate given the opportunity (or paying for the opportunity) would spin the whole half hour to "I'm great, he's not." I hope that no voter would be ignorant enough to not check all of the facts personally before voting for either candidate. All ads/media hype on both sides are not 100% truthful. It is our job as voters to RESEARCH and vote accordingly, to our beliefs, whatever they may be. Unfortunately, it saddens me that a lot of people do probably base their vote on television ads and who their favorite celebrity supports.

October 11 2008 at 7:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Wayne Dunham

Let's see 30 minutes of Knight Rider lost? Sorry, but that is no loss.

Let them air all the KR scenes with the 2 hotties scantily clad which are the only scenes of the show worth watching unless you've taken some poison and don't have any ipecac on hand to force you to vomit.
Sheeesh, and I thought the original KR was bad. Here I thought it was just because Hasselhoff was in the original,but I guess that wasn't the whole reason.

October 11 2008 at 8:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
StillBash

Yeah Bob I guess you have a problem if you are addicted that much to TV that you can't wait another week for your precious Heroes.

October 11 2008 at 4:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jimmy

The hard truth is, he'll most likely draw more viewers than Knight Rider or the awful Gary Unmarried. Hell, if Ross Perot can draw 16 million viewers for his ad surely Obama can match that.

October 10 2008 at 10:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Max

Bob said that the reason they're doing this is because they support money.

Really? Seems like they won't be making any money...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/10/obamas_primetime_buy_comes_at.html

October 10 2008 at 8:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike Doran

Let's see now... Obama's buy is just on CBS and NBC, which would that ABC and FOX would be airing their regularly scheduled programs - PUSHING DAISIES and BONES respectively. Obviously, since BONES usually wins that hour handily, FOX would want to maintain the status quo, so that leaves ABC, which might just get a spike for DAISIES from the absence of other competition. I know few people who aren't sick to death of this campaign, and since this will be an Obama infomercial as opposed to a possible newsbreak... well, let's see what happens on the night.

October 10 2008 at 4:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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D Colin

Fox may or may not have game 6 of the World Series, that is what they have said is the reason for selling Obama the air time.




now I actually think it's a cool idea. I think candidates actually speaking to the public instead of bs ads that are all distorted is better. And I say that about both sides -- I hate negative ads by either side. Sh-t I live in Minnesota and Norm Coleman and Al Franklin have been going at it. I'm tired of distortion - I just want honest talk. McCain has the chance to do this too, so it's fair.

Too bad life isn't TV sometimes - I'd love Bartlet or Santos right now

October 11 2008 at 4:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Darren

I say keep these guys OFF the air or put them on at 3 in the morning - Eastern - so that if anyone actually wants to watch them flap their gum's they can stay up and watch it, otherwise quit interrupting our prime time schedule with BS.

October 10 2008 at 4:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
karenlu

If only this kind of money could be spent on....oh, something like feeding the homeless or providing health care for those who don't have any!

October 10 2008 at 4:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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scott

Yes, it would, which is why I've donated for the first time in my life to a political campaign.

Look at it this way - if the donated money needs to be spent on a half hour of national television time by one candidate to counter all the negative (100% of ad buys across the country as of this writing) attacks our TAXPAYER money has funded for the other candidate, then spend away, spend away.

And if McCain does win, then good luck with the feeding the homeless and health care for all.

October 10 2008 at 4:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scott

i meant to say, "yes, if only..." there - yes it would makes no sense. oops. ;-)

October 10 2008 at 4:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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