A pilot for “ESPN Hollywood,” a half-hour show that will focus on the intersection between the worlds of sports and entertainment, will be shot Sept. 13. If it makes the cut, “ESPN Hollywood” would land in the 6 p.m. ET slot Monday-Friday on ESPN2.
“Think ‘Entertainment Tonight’ or ‘Access Hollywood’ but for sports,” said Mark Shapiro, executive vp programming and production at ESPN. – Reuters
Oh, screw off.
The proposed schedule ESPN schedule is
06:00p: cheese personality features crap (working title)
06:30p: news show hosted by a “Strong Personality”, which could mean any number of bad things (“it’s the Stu Scott hour! HOLLA!”), but would be much more fun to speculate about if they had let Olberman do Old School week.
07:30p: ACTUAL SPORTS!
12:00p: night time talk show
They’re aiming for early next year.
The best part of the whole article is this paragraph about Scott Christ’s favorite show:
“It has been what we envisioned it to be,” Shapiro said. “The feedback is that the viewers want more sports out of it.” Added to the staff to give it more of a sports flavor are Woody Paige and Skip Bayless. Instead of being a variety show with heavy sports sprinkled in, Shapiro said, “Cold Pizza” will now become a heavy sports show with variety sprinkled in.
The people who watch ESPN2 want to watch sports! I sure hope they didn’t spend too much money on market research for that one. I wonder if Mark Shapiro debates having a pizza with sausage and cheese or a pizza with cheese and sausage.
(The second best part is Tony and Wilbon have gotten five year deals. Yay, money. Boo, not having to do a radio show for it, Tony.)
They’re sending Kenny Mayne to IRAQ (as part of a SportsCenter deal.) He must’ve been said something unfortunate on the horceracing.
I’ve watched 30 minutes of Baseball Tonight in the last month, and not only did I immediately regret it, so did all the people I was chatting with.
Cold Pizza really did need more sports. I’m…not sure Skip Bayless was the man for the job but whatever. As long as they maintain Kit.
Speaking of Stu Scott, will his left eye eventually close fully and force him to wear a patch over it? Just something that crossed my mind during that “This Is Sportscenter” behind the scenes deal.
Skip and Woody on the same show? Good Lord.
considering it is the ENTERTAINMENT and Sports Programming Network, I wouldn’t mind the Deuce becomig another E!, as long as Eileen Lange and Audrey Perry McGraw aren’t involved.
donald
Dixie Chicks, YOU’RE NOT WELCOME EITHER~!