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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

A WHOLE CARNIVAL WILL KISS ARNOLD'S ASS ON NBC.

"The New Celebrity Apprentice" premieres on January 2 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC.

The world's largest leisure travel company, today announced it will sponsor the two-part finale of the upcoming season of NBC's "The New Celebrity Apprentice" airing next year on

With "The New Celebrity Apprentice" featuring a component that brings attention to worthwhile charities, the Charity Challenge will give viewers of the hit program opportunities to win cruise giveaways each week while also supporting the charities chosen by the celebrity participants. The initiative will go live in December and run through the duration of the program's eighth season. Further details on the Charity Challenge will be released by Carnival Corporation in mid-December.

Carnival Corporation and its four North American brands – Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Seabourn – will be featured in the show's two-part season finale, details of which will be shared in the coming months. These brands and Carnival Corporation's six other global cruise line brands, comprise the world's largest cruise company.

"Cruise vacations are growing faster than ever in popularity, but there are still many people who have not discovered why cruising is such a great vacation and exceptional value," said Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival Corporation. "We expect 'The New Celebrity Apprentice' will be a big hit with viewers, and being able to reach millions of people watching the program is a powerful way for us to generate awareness of cruising and help inspire people to consider cruising when they are planning their vacations. We are also looking forward to generating awareness of and support for several well-deserving charitable groups by offering cruise giveaways that will create a lot of excitement."

Carnival Corporation's sponsorship of NBC's popular program is the latest initiative in the company's ongoing strategy to find innovative ways to expand the market and inspire consumers to consider a cruise for their next vacation.

Carnival Corporation recently launched three original television programs that showcase adventures aboard each of the company's 10 cruise line brands, which includes "The Voyager with Josh Garcia," airing on NBC nationwide on Saturday mornings. Additionally, Carnival Corporation exposed a broader consumer audience to cruising with its first-ever Super Bowl commercial in 2015, also on NBC, and an initiative this year with AT&T and Samsung to allow consumers to take a fully immersive virtual reality cruise.

Former two-term California governor, successful businessman and international movie superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger will host the show and work with world-class business leaders as boardroom advisors. The list includes investment guru Warren Buffett, one of the most successful businessmen in the world; former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer; Tyra Banks, a supermodel, actress, TV host, producer, and CEO of the Tyra Banks Company and cosmetics brand, TYRA Beauty; actress, author and entrepreneur Jessica Alba, founder and chief creative officer of The Honest Company and Honest Beauty; and Schwarzenegger's trusted confidante and nephew, prominent entertainment attorney Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger.

This season's 16 celebrity contestants vying for the title of Celebrity Apprentice and a $250,000 check to support their designated charity include the following:

Four-time boxing world champion Laila Ali; actress, host and entrepreneur Brooke Burke-Charvet; Pro-Football Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson; Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Boy George; American Ninja Warrior host and comedian Matt Iseman; actress, producer and writer Carrie Keagan; Emmy Award-winning television star and celebrity stylist Carson Kressley; four-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion Lisa Leslie; comedian, film and television star Jon Lovitz; Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil; reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi; actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards; former UFC standout mixed martial artist Chael Sonnen; co-host of Dish Nation and Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams; Heisman Trophy winner, College Football Hall of Fame inductee and ESPN sports analyst Ricky Williams; and singer and television host Carnie Wilson.

Monday, November 28, 2016

EXPOSE: SHOULD GSN PULL A CW, AND CATER TO MORE MALE FANS?

The CW network is seeing a renaissance of creativity and decent ratings ,since the UPN and CW merged the best of their former networks. Under Mark Pedowitz who succeeded Dawn Ostroff who turned the female driven channel,in a sea of female networks (Oxygen,OWN, Lifetime,WE, & ABC Family/Freeform,which had become the new WB) into the DC Superhero network. He also been able to continue to extend a hand to the ladies with the horror show that will never die, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin and white soul sister series, Crazy EX Girlfriend. Should the competition based GSN, which has pathetically chased female demo for years, create more guy centric games and save the network, like the CW did?

GSN time slot's are 70% filled w/ Steve Harvey's Family Feud, thanks to binge watching its the ONLY show that averages about 500,000+ viewers all day long. The recent episodes, give the channel an allure of relevance.

Currently president Amy Introcaso-Davis, keeps trying to run the channel ,like its the Oxygen network and only wants to launch women based shows, yet failed to be female compassionate and give away parting gifts to the losers on her shows. She even cancelled: Emmy nominated quiz marathon game (hosted by a woman!) The Chase & a less dark version of often reran series Chain Reaction, which still gets good numbers that exceed or nearly matched the Feud runs.

The self produced hits now, only include Idiot Test (the smartest show ever produced on the channel) and reality show clone Skin Wars.Wars success is troubling, since the network spent almost 20 years to find a reality show hit. Once they did, they just tried to clone Wars,with Steampunk-ed and a spin-off show called Skin Wars:Fresh Paint. Even worse for GSN, Wars numbers are cooling with woman, and men tiring of the non-sexualized female models being painted on this show, not being showcased like a Deal or No Deal model. This is the height of Davis's reign, other than being smart enough to buy the Feud reruns, in the first place.

The network hoped to find more comedy based,knock-offs, that succeed like Feud.This lead to failed clones like, Mind Of A Man with Empire alum Dee Ray Davis or Top Ten Fact Stacker, Winsanity with former Scrubs star Donald Faison.

Putting a man back in charge proves, "that Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with" and launch games that appeal to men without running off the ladies,like in the glory days of Head TV programmer Bob Boden. His reign lead to a Renaissance of gaming. It included critical acclaimed and popular games: quizzers Russian Roulette, Friend or Foe and the rerun abused Whammy!,the all new Press Your Luck w/ Emmy winner Todd Newton. Three shows that need to be relaunched, pronto.

The new guy can launch the Feud clones properly with outright looking, like their doing that. This could lead to buying reruns of Wipeout- the hilarious Double Dare style game show, hosted by John Henson & Anderson. Also, another show in this vein, Oh Sit!, basically an indoor knockoff of Wipeout, but as big money musical chairs. The new guy can also launch sex based puzzle games in untried territory, like late night or bring back the prime time interactive games (phone/web) that kept viewers glued to see if they won, during the commercials.

Scum-bag elect Donald J. Trump said, about Hilary Clinton.....on the Epic Rap Battles of History. "We need a STRONG male leader" who deliver games that's appealing to men that satisfy woman- without making stupid,youth chasing programming decisions- that alienate everyone (like Trump himself) and as the Cinema Sins YouTube site deduced, ".....Reasons?!"