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The talk show hosted by Greg Gutfeld averaged the largest audience in its five-year history (446,000) as well as 177,000 in adults 25-54. In the demo, it edged Piers Morgan (176,000) at 9 PM as well as a slew of other cable news programs in way more trafficked time slots: CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront (146,000) at 7 PM, MSNBC’s Morning Joe (141,000) from 6-9 AM, MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews (163,000) at 5 PM and 7 PM, HLN’s Nancy Grace (157,000) at 8 PM, and CNN’s John King USA (121,000) at 6 PM.

Full story here.

–GREG GUTFELD MOVES TO PRIMETIME!

Is five p.m. primetime? Let’s just say that it is. After all, we here at Big Hollywood have been pushing for Primetime Greg for a while now and unlike the Soros’ funded, tax exempt Media Matters, we’d like to move on from bothering Fox News.

But take heart “Red Eye” lovers. Nothing’s changed in Unicorn Land. Greg’s simply doing double duty. The new Fox News Channel show is called “The Five” and it’s on at five p.m. and it’s on at five p.m. with five panelists. Get it? Along with Greg, you’ll find Bob Beckel, Dana Perrino, Eric Bolling and others talking about the big issues of the day — including, coincidentally, Soros’-funded Media Matters and their tax exempt status. Check out that clip. Yes, there is a leg chair.

Congrats and good luck, Greg. Well deserved. Though we do miss those ‘logues over here.

And now the Big Hollywood push to get Bill and Andy to primetime begins…

–BIG HOLLYWOOD CONTRIBUTOR DANA COMMANDATORE NEEDS YOUR VOTE

Through her invaluable blog, Rethinking Autism, and her superb work here at BH, Dana has (among other things) taken on some in Hollywood who have used misguided and even dangerous medical causes to promote themselves. Now she needs your vote. Click here and vote for her Rethinking Autism blog.

–JOHNNY DEPP IN BIG SCREEN VERSION OF “THE NIGHT STALKER”?

It’s one thing for an increasingly desperate Hollywood to remake a decent concept, it’s another to try and remake an iconic character. Like the ill-fated television reboot of “The Rockford Files” (that never got past the pilot stage), you can’t recreate Darren McGavin’s Carl Kolchak any more than you can create James Garner’s Jim Rockford or Red Foxx’s Fred Sanford. These are lightning in a bottle, character-driven classics.

Furthermore, television already tried and failed to reboot “The Night Stalker.” Is Hollywood now so out of ideas they’re actually remaking failures?

Note to Hollywood: You can call it “The Night Stalker,” but it won’t be “The Night Stalker.”

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QUICK HITS

–“THE THING” PREQUEL POSTER DISAPPOINTS

–SNEAK PEEK AT TNT’S UPCOMING “DALLAS” REMAKE

–THIRTY PERFECT OPENING SCENES

–REVIEW OF THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF HARRY POTTER

–COULD BE HE WAS ON A MISSION FROM GOD

–FILM SCHOOL REJECTS IS REVIEWING EVERY “TWILIGHT ZONE” EPISODE

–SPIKE LEE TO DIRECT AMERICAN “OLDBOY” REMAKE

–‘SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS’: GOOD TITLE. GOOD TRAILER.

–ADAM WEST, BURT WARD AND JULIE NEWMAR TO APPEAR TOGETHER AT COMIC-CON

–MTV MOVIES BLOG HAS ALL THE HARRY POTTER NEWS YOU COULD EVER WANT (SCROLL)

–IF A MAN IS ARRESTED AT HALLE BERRY’S HOME, IS HE STILL AN “ALLEGED” STALKER?

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CLASSIC PICK FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 13TH

Turner Classic Movies:

8:00 PM  Music Man, The (1962) — A con artist hawks musical instruments and band uniforms to small-town America. Dir: Morton DaCosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett.  C-151 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

Robert Preston delivers one of the greatest and most infectious screen performances of all time as a con man looking to take a small town of “rubes” for everything they have until he meets and falls in love with a local librarian played by a luminous Shirley Jones. There are too many highlights to list, but if forced to pick one … it would be this.

If there’s a more perfect film for young kids it’s called “The Wizard of Oz.”

Other than that…

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Between Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Bill Maher, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Janeane Garofalo, and so many other nasty Hollywood degenerates, the beating our side takes in the realm of ad hominem, sexist and racist attacks is non-stop. Some of the ugliest things imaginable are constantly thrown our way and it’s gotten to a point where we now expect it.

And it’s not just left-wing celebrities. Left-wing “journalists” like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and Politico’s Kenneth Vogel are nearly as bad. 

Who on our side does this to the Left?

Who on our side launches the same kind of personal attacks at Democratic stars?

I listen to Dennis Miller and watch Greg Gutfeld, two of the funniest and most talented right-of-center entertainers out there, and they never go as far as a Bill Maher or David Letterman. Not even close. In fact, they’re never ugly towards anyone. And when they do make a joke or comment there’s never a sense that it comes from a place of hate, anger or malice.

There’s just something missing in the Left’s DNA. A decency gene. Too many of them are awful people or those who tolerate awful people. Of course, that makes defeating them all the more satisfying.

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For those of you unfamiliar with the story, here’s our own Dana Loesch, whose offered second-to-none coverage at Big Journalism yesterday. And this was just Round 1:

As a result of this morning’s post condemning an outrageous post from Wonkette in which blogger Jack Stueff mocks Trig Palin over his Down Syndrome and suggests that Todd Palin slept with his daughter, outrage spread across Twitter and now Wonkette advertisers are pulling ads.

Check out Big Journalism and scroll… scroll… Great story. Great day for Citizen Journalists who took to Twitter and made a difference.

Really.

Purely by coincidence, here’s a piece I wrote yesterday on the political power of Twitter, especially when it comes to politely but firmly calling the MSM out on their biases.

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The only thing more maddening than not having a weapon, is having a weapon that’s not being used properly. In the form of the “Red Eye” crew, Fox News has a proven talent at their disposal and there’s obviously a market for a primetime, satirical look at the day’s events. Does anyone doubt that Colbert and Stewart’s relentless leftism drives people away? And anyone who’s seen an episode of “Red Eye” knows there’s no one better suited to pick that audience up than Greg Gutfeld.  

Mediaite’s Matt Schneider makes the same case:

First, why does Red Eye deserve the larger audience that would no doubt be waiting for it at an earlier time slot? Besides regularly featuring intelligent debates, provocative guests and hilarious comedy bits, Red Eye is unique in that it is basically the only conservative answer to many left-leaning successful comedy shows like Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Today’s generation of young information seekers often prefer to be entertained while getting the news and Maher, Stewart and Colbert can often be the only means by which some young people stay informed. Red Eye can serve a similar purpose and fill the comedic void that young conservative-leaning Americans no doubt desire.

That’s true to a point but there’s something bigger and more important to consider here. The mainstream media  — and that includes Mediaite — uses the likes of Colbert, Stewart, and SNL as weapons to bludgeon conservatives with. Call it the Tina Fey Factor. These entertainers know and count on the news media viralizing their most potent attacks against the right — and the news media never fails to comply. With a potent talent like Gutfeld in a slot that doesn’t require DVR viewing the next day after the news cycle has already moved on, right-of-center ideas have a real chance at earning a seat at this table.

People who understand the power of satire, especially in the way the mainstream media intentionally amplifies it to damage conservatives, say all the time, “Why don’t we have our Jon Stewart? Why don’t we have our own Stephen Colbert?”

Well, guess what? We do.  And it’s time to stop making such a secret of him.

For over three years now, Greg Gutfeld, TV’s own Andy Levy, Bill Schulz, Pinch, a myriad of fascinating guests from all walks of life, and the Leg Chair, have been producing the best news/satire/interview/comedy show on television. It’s an hour of cool, funny, irreverent, intelligent and informative entertainment, but … it airs at three in the morning. And yet, “Red Eye not only has as dedicated a following as anything on television right now, it’s also been known to pull in more viewers than CNN’s primetime … at three in the morning.

Furthermore, we live in a world where popular entertainment culture rules as much as the news, where Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, and SNL can help to set the national debate and steer the political narrative as much if not more than political newsmakers. Fox News grabbing a piece of this only makes sense from a business, influence and ratings point of view, but for those of us tired of the Hollywood left owning almost every square inch of this valuable turf, having “Red Eye’s” conservative-to-libertarian ideas penetrating this world would be a real breath of fresh air.

There is an untapped market here, somewhere in the, oh, 50% range.

Since 2007, night after night, those of us dedicated to the show have all seen what the Red Eye crew can do with a newspaper puppet, virtual robots, paper unicorns, a full-time ombudsmen (that would be TV’s Andy Levy), and … did we mention the Leg Chair? The talent and ability to sustain a quality show with what must be a budget smaller than whatever Jon Stewart spends on goatee consultants, is not in question, and there’s no reason that same talent and dedication can’t make a successful transition to primetime.

For you “Red Eye” fans worried about what fixing something that currently ticks like a Swiss watch might do to your favorite show, we get that. We also get that a move to a primtime slot would obviously mean changes to the show and change isn’t always good. But keep in mind that Fox News is very, very good at what they do and so is the “Red Eye” gang.

America deserves an alternative to the the Stewarts and Mahers and Lettermans and Tina Feys, and we all know that in a just pop culture world it would be Greg Gutfeld accepting the Mark Twain Prize next year.

“Red Eye” is currently the best kept secret in the world of political satire and we think the time to share that secret has arrived.

The petition is below. Please sign away you signing petition signers, uhm, signatories– See what we mean? There’s only one Greg Gutfeld.

SIGN THE PETITION TO GET GREG GUTFELD ON FOX:

To sum up: The father of a fallen Marine had sued the church, saying their protests were intentionally meant to inflict distress. The Court disagreed, saying these creeps had a right to promote their “message.”

We skipped the story because we felt any mention of Westboro is a win for Westboro.

Which is still true, today.

But I’m bringing them up anyway, because, the ruling sucks.

Look – If you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater – which is an act meant to cause harm – how are the actions of the Phelps any different?

Their whole schtick, after all, is using language and props to incite grieving folks to violence.

That ain’t freedom of speech, it’s a pack of ghouls looking for trouble.

And it makes me wonder if the Supreme Court – and the media – would feel different if the Phelps were to crash a black church carrying signs with the “n-word” all over them. Of course, the Phelps would never do that: the cowards wouldn’t make it out alive.

Mourners are easier pickings.

Which is why they should be protected.

So what’s the solution? Passing laws keeping these weirdos a safe distance away would help. But for the media, it’s time to bring back that old fashioned time-tested practice: shame.

We, the media, must agree to turn our backs on Westboro. Because, if no one reports on a protest, then – like that proverbial tree falling in the forest – it never happened.

And, you know, for the Phelps – being ignored is a punishment worse than hell.

And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Westboro.

Tonight:

Kevin Sorbo!

Brooke Goldstein!

KABC’s John Phillips

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S.E. Cupp!
Joe DeRosa!
Terry Schappert!

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