Celtic Guardian

She (i.e. Molly Holly) was hired in another era when there were voices there in favor of a legitimate women's wrestling product. Those voices have since been silenced.

Source???

I suspect simply because it hurts TNA to lose him and WWE wants TNA to be hurt.

Well, at least my Landover Redskins won yesterday though why they changed away from a perfectly good Raljon Redskins moniker, I'll never know. Stupid Snyder.

That would place you in the same category as pretty much everyone else on the planet.

Who the fuck is Dwayne Johnson? Nobody cares about him;call him the Rock damnit. He's even billed as such for his movies. Shame that it says that he's probably not going to be spending much time on the shows though. Blah. Well, Meltzer still believes there is a country called Czechoslovakia. The man knows his wrestling for sure but really needs to have a different set of eyes proofread these things.

They did the same last year. If I remember correctly, the 3rd season premiere ran one hour without commercials in its regular Tuesday slot. There was one original episode shown on a Sunday later in the season after the scheduled Tuesday airing was axed by a presidential speech.

Actually, that's not necessarily true. I forgot who it was, but a person overlooked the WWF writers in 2000, when the show was at it's peak. I believe it was a lady, but I can't recall her name. And USA promoted Raw better than Spike TV/TNN did. There was a producer for USA that helped Raw, but I think she left the network before Raw did. I believe the person in question is named Bonnie Hammer. She eventually became president of Sci Fi Channel. Of some note, Hammer is now president of USA Network as well, the additional responsibilities added as part of the NBC Universal merger. Things do tend to move full circle, it seems.

Nidia did win on a reality show, maybe she could be feuded with Fairplay. Granted, that's not really a good idea but it's an idea.

Jeez, WWE makes this sounds like an Islamic version of "Amish in the City". Somehow, I doubt it will be actually be depicted that way. The fact that these characters will make their television debut during Ramadan seems especially intended to provoke controversy, much like the idea for the characters in the first place.

This vote count must make Rodney "Mr. 0.58" Mack feel really special.

The problem is that the whole perceived credibility of this PPV concept is completely shot if the "voters' choice" doesn't wrestle as advertised. Edit: Assuming Michaels really is legit hurt, WWE should probably just go with the honest approach, remove Michaels from the ballot citing the injury and let fans who already voted for Michaels do a revote for Edge or Benoit.

Probably. Amish in the City and America's Next Top Model both do better ratings than Smackdown, have more of a mainstream buzz and don't have the negative stigma that Wrestling has. Not really in the case of the former. "Amish in the City" fell off sharply in ratings after a strong opening. "America's Next Top Model" is still doing okay. I wouldn't be surprised though if "WWE Smackdown" does get cancelled. The negative stigma among ad buyers is real. UPN just can't get the ad money for "WWE Smackdown" that it can now get for other shows with equivalent ratings. Network fall 2004 ad rates, courtesy of The Futon Critic...

PWInsider.com followup PWInsider's Dave Scherer talked to the writer of The Hollywood Reporter story. The word relayed was that the Turner and Fox groups are "not seriously interested" in a WWE deal. USA is the only outside player of interest at this point. I don't doubt that the Turner stations have no interest in this. WWE doesn't really fit well in either the TNT drama format or the TBS comedy/reality format.

Comedy Central press release via TV Barn The LCS3 finale is now slotted for Saturday 8 p.m. Eastern on Comedy Central with a Sunday morning rebroadcast, also on Comedy Central.

JayMohr.com has word that there will be a final LCS3 episode to be shown on Comedy Central, not NBC. (There's no word anywhere yet on the date & time of that cablecast.) NBC's LCS3 page is again promoting an announcement of the LCS3 winner during a "Father of the Pride" marathon.

The NBC board mod may well be right on this. NBC's page for LCS3 has removed references to a results announcement during "Father of the Pride," now stating that results will simply be announced "Next Tuesday".

http://www.jaymohr.com/ FWIW, the NBC site says the LCS3 winner will be announced during a "Father of the Pride" marathon next Tuesday. What a complete crapout!

Considering it is WWE, the writers may not have to know about even Attitude-era pro wrestling as part of their job. The fault for glitches like this starts at the top.

TNA Wrestling has cancelled next week's Impact taping in Orlando due to the threat of Hurricane Ivan. Fox Sports Net affiliates will show an Impact rerun next week. PWInsider.com story link

...not to mention the launchings of "Joey" (i.e. the "Friends" spinoff) and the new season of "The Apprentice". Smackdown will almost certainly do worse in ratings than two weeks ago.

Like an idiot? Sorry, that was just too easy.

It is on tonight too, check listings for time. NBC scheduled two separate episodes this week.

What city drew the short straw and got stuck hosting the Sept. 20 Raw anyway?

FYI, Dave Meltzer wrote that there are no WWE house shows this weekend. The next one is a Smackdown brand show on Monday night.