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THE LATEST: Fox Reality becomes NatGeo Wild

UPDATE Friday, Oct. 16 -- Turns out those crazy folks at Fox already had plans for their Fox Reality channel position before declaring the end of FRC this week. They quickly announced that NatGeo Wild will soon be airing animals in place of . . . well, that one is just too tempting, isn't it?

Fox cable and Washington-based NatGeo have run the original National Geographic Channel as a joint venture for a decade, but anybody watching NGC can tell which part of that partnership is firmly in control.

Thank god.

Full story can be read here.

ORIGINAL POST --

Aw, gee, gosh golly darn, and ----in' shocking! Fox Reality Channel will be no more. It will cease to exist when it expires March 31. It's a stiff.

And pretty much was from its May 2005 debut on cable, recyling shows nobody wants to see a second time. Once you know who backstabbed whom originally, and who best betrayed other competitors while trampling to the title, what's the point in a replay?

Here's the news, fresh from our friend Joe Adalian at newsy Hollywood site TheWrap.com.

Oh, dear! Where will Househusbands of Hollywood go now?

At least the channel taped its annual reality-show Really Awards on Tuesday before dropping the boom. Watch 'em Saturday at 10 p.m. ET on Fox Reality.

While you can.

2 Comments

Tom Brinkmoeller said:

Perhaps the thinning of the weak from the pack has begun in earnest. Scripps Networks recently announced FIne Living Network (an anachronism born during the era of excess) will be replaced in the third quarter of 2010 with something called the Cooking Channel. Scripps also runs Food Network, and its release makes the retooled network sound a lot like Food Network at birth: "The new Cooking Channel will be a 24-hour network that caters to avid food lovers by focusing on food information and instructional cooking programming." Exhibit B: "While instructional cooking will be one of the main ingredients of the new Cooking Channel, the network also will explore food origins, culture and history as part of the programming mix."
Deja vu!
Finally: "The primetime lineup of the Cooking Channel will feature original new shows hosted by fresh, new talent as well as some of the most familiar faces in the food genre."
Could the next Emeril be lurking out there? Be very afraid.

October 15, 2009 10:21 AM

Chris Collins said:

Maybe they can sell the channel to NBC and they can make it their NBC Serious Dramas Worth Watching Channel.

October 15, 2009 10:59 AM

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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