The VP of sales will eat something even worse.

I post this only because everyone's favorite TV publicist, Cindy Ronzoni, sends it along:

GSN President and CEO Rich Cronin bet OLN President Gavin Harvey that his network’s THE AMAZING RACE would outperform OLN’s SURVIVOR in total viewers for the first month. Cronin told Harvey that if THE AMAZING RACE lost the bet that he would “race” to-and-from work, walking four miles each way for one week.  Harvey countered saying that if OLN’s SURVIVOR did not beat THE AMAZING RACE’s viewership that he would “survive” by eating a cricket.

The results are in and GSN’s THE AMAZING RACE averaged 355,000 total viewers each night in prime time, peaking with 495,000 on July 14.  OLN’s SURVIVOR averaged 200,000 total viewers each night in prime time, peaking with 362,000 viewers on August 3, putting GSN ahead of OLN in total viewers. True to his word, Harvey will honor the bet and eat a cricket with Cronin as a witness the next time the two are together in either New York or Los Angeles.  Surprisingly, both cities have a few good restaurants that serve this fine “delicacy.”

This reminds me of something Jack Paar once said: "Steve Allen says he's written 5,000 songs. Name two." Well, half a million people watched "The Amazing Race" on cable. And I'll bet you can't name two.

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TVNewser posts a memo from CNN chief Jim Walton congratulating everybody on CNN International's 20th anniversary.

CNN International is not on my cable system. CNN International used to run nights and weekends when CNNfn wasn't on. But now that CNN is out of the biznews business, CNNfn has gone away and no more CNNI. That's a disgrace, and no one at CNN has the right to congratulate themselves until CNNI is on 24/7 on my cable system.

My Time Warner Cable system.

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I've been a little derelict posting my reviews from the other site. Perhaps you've been visiting there anyway (a link is in the sidebar under, appropriately enough, Links). Here they are, in reverse order starting with today's:

Link: Kansas City Star | 09/29/2005 | A strange new drama stalks prime time

Link: Kansas City Star | 09/28/2005 | Reality and Mars are all right tonight.

Link: Kansas City Star | 09/27/2005 | ‘Chief’ has its work cut out for it.