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FNC Picks UP "The 1/2 Hour News Hour"
Rush Limbaugh ^ | 3/7/07 | Rush

Posted on 03/08/2007 3:57:58 AM PST by pookie18

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RUSH: I meant to announce this at the top of the hour, and I had other things to do. It would have been a scoop then, but it's no longer a scoop. But I can tell you that the Fox News Channel has picked up 13 episodes of the 1/2 Hour News Hour. The two pilot episodes succeeded in their mission. Fox is going to pick those up, and they're going to be in production. They're going to start gearing up. These were pilots.

Now they're going to go out and get real production staff, writers and so forth (it takes four to six weeks of putting it all together), and then the 13 week run will commence. So 1/2 Hour News Hour has been picked up for 13 weeks by the Fox News Channel -- and 13 weeks is a goldmine in this business. That's where you get the chance to really strut your stuff, when get enough of a financial commitment there to gin up a great staff of people and so forth.

So they're off and running with that.

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1 posted on 03/08/2007 3:57:59 AM PST by pookie18
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2 posted on 03/08/2007 4:07:03 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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To: pookie18

Some of my former students inform me that it is already being attacked relentlessly on youtube. YouTube has many full time anti-Christian marxists who spend countless hours on YouTube lying in an attempt to sour young people to all things conservative and all things that favor traditional America.


3 posted on 03/08/2007 4:11:39 AM PST by Old Landmarks (No fear of man, none!)
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To: pookie18

I hope FOX invest the resources in it to help the show reach it's full potential.

I like the concept of the show there's certainly enough raw material to sustain it. The execution and presentation could be better, though.


4 posted on 03/08/2007 4:11:53 AM PST by AIM-54
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To: pookie18

Um, I heard the first episode sucked. Was the second episode much better?


5 posted on 03/08/2007 4:12:02 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: pookie18

Laugh track - ugh! I can't stand programs with laugh tracks. And it is not particularly funny.


6 posted on 03/08/2007 4:15:53 AM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: Bushbacker1
Mega-ditto!


7 posted on 03/08/2007 4:19:31 AM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: Old Landmarks
Rush had commented previously on how those "people" on YouTube were "commenting" re the released clips from the pilot episodes...


8 posted on 03/08/2007 4:24:08 AM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: AIM-54
Sounds as if it will be better. However, even if it weren't, I'm going to watch it just to savor the rarity of comedy attacking liberals!!


9 posted on 03/08/2007 4:25:59 AM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: bahblahbah

You heard wrong. I had long distance calls informing me to "turn it on NOW"! Some people didn't like Pryor, some disliked Hope and some didn't like Lenny Bruce.

You can dislike their humor, but to deny their humor runs counter to millions of laughing fans. Enough fans laughed at "1/2 Hour" that Fox signed them for 13 eps!

LLS


10 posted on 03/08/2007 4:26:32 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: bahblahbah
I enjoyed parts of both pilot episodes & it rated highest on all cable news channels in its time slot.


11 posted on 03/08/2007 4:27:31 AM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: Northern Alliance
What show do you watch that pokes fun at liberals on a consistent basis? (take all the space you need for your list ;-)


12 posted on 03/08/2007 4:29:42 AM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: pookie18

This show has liberals drooling spittle from the corners of their mouths. That alone, makes it a good thing. The libs are mounting a major battle to attack Fox. They say it is a right wing network and too partisan. Too funny. Like we just wink when they profess that CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS have no bias.


13 posted on 03/08/2007 4:35:50 AM PST by dforest (Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
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To: bahblahbah
Um, you heard wrong. I have seen both episodes and they are hysterically funny. Maybe your source was Al Franken or Keith Olbermann.
14 posted on 03/08/2007 4:36:31 AM PST by Stars&StripesNE (Liberals are the enemy within)
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To: pookie18

what is the 1/2 hour news hour, please?


15 posted on 03/08/2007 4:36:55 AM PST by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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What show do you watch that pokes fun at liberals on a consistent basis? (take all the space you need for your list ;-)

How I wish I had a list, but that doesn't change the fact that personally I can't stand laugh tracks and did not find the show particularly clever or funny. I mean, if it I see it come on, I watch it, and wish it every success, but so far it has been disappointing.

16 posted on 03/08/2007 4:37:30 AM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: pookie18

I thought the shows were lame.


17 posted on 03/08/2007 4:37:50 AM PST by sauropod ("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
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To: sauropod

Agreed. The show was / is pathetic.


18 posted on 03/08/2007 4:42:36 AM PST by JNL
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To: pookie18

I thought the two pilots were fine. I seem to watch worse daily. They do have better moments than from what I have seen from the daily show (Not that I watch that drivel often).


19 posted on 03/08/2007 4:51:38 AM PST by usnret99 (I served! Have You? Would You?God Bless You!)
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I am *very* pleased. It's not *for*
the Dims to like, or not like.
It's for *us*...the other half of
America.


20 posted on 03/08/2007 4:52:16 AM PST by NickatNite2003 (From the Man from Hope" to the wife who snarls "Abandon All Hope!")
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