Hi. I'm 15qa and I'll be your Ask the Expert...

[secondchance]

Great job on today's show, 15Q.

Bad news, tho, for your airings this week in L.A. The show will be pre empted on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday for basketball games on KCAL. They usually still keep them in chronological order, so your second show should air Thursday, and your third will hopefully be made up over the weekend, probably on Sunday.

Thanks for the heads up. I had a look at TitanTV for the changes:

Tue show: Thu 6:30 pm
Wed show: Sat 3:00 am
Thu show: Sun 1:00 pm
Fri show: Sun 1:30 pm

The last two won't be me. I know it's going to be a $100k winner - quite possibly Tom Spencer again.

Glad to help. I'll set the VCR for Sat. @3am; I would have missed it by waiting for the Sunday morning newspaper listings.

[KillerTomato]

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you only did half-a-day's tapings? Were you unavailable for the second half of the taping day, or were you only asked to do three shows?

[Estonut]

Bad news, tho, for your airings this week in L.A. The show will be pre empted on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday for basketball games on KCAL. They usually still keep them in chronological order, so your second show should air Thursday, and your third will hopefully be made up over the weekend, probably on Sunday.

The first year or two that KCAL aired SyndieBAM, they would often just drop any shows pre-empted by Lakers or Dodgers coverage. They are much better now at making them up in the wee hours or on weekends. I only remember one occasion where they aired the show out of order, and that was fairly recently. Maybe September or October.

[15QuestionsAway]

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you only did half-a-day's tapings? Were you unavailable for the second half of the taping day, or were you only asked to do three shows?

I was asked to do just the three shows this week. I'll be on again later in the season though.

[15QuestionsAway]

Bad news, tho, for your airings this week in L.A. The show will be pre empted on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday for basketball games on KCAL. They usually still keep them in chronological order, so your second show should air Thursday, and your third will hopefully be made up over the weekend, probably on Sunday.

The first year or two that KCAL aired SyndieBAM, they would often just drop any shows pre-empted by Lakers or Dodgers coverage. They are much better now at making them up in the wee hours or on weekends. I only remember one occasion where they aired the show out of order, and that was fairly recently. Maybe September or October.

They've had more trouble this season because of preemptions due to the fires and last minute decisions to show the presidential debates despite sister station KCBS-2 showing them. They have been good this year when there's been advance notice of preemption, such as for the Lakers.

I've pestered KCAL's schedulers a couple of times this season asking what's happened to some episodes. They've been quite nice to me about answering questions. One thing that happens sometimes is that airtime has been sold for infomercials, and there's no slots available over late nights and weekends for short-notice rescheduling.

The 1:00-2:00 pm Sunday time seems to be their first choice for rescheduled Millionaire episodes.

[Estonut]

Bad news, tho, for your airings this week in L.A. The show will be pre empted on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday for basketball games on KCAL. They usually still keep them in chronological order, so your second show should air Thursday, and your third will hopefully be made up over the weekend, probably on Sunday.

The first year or two that KCAL aired SyndieBAM, they would often just drop any shows pre-empted by Lakers or Dodgers coverage. They are much better now at making them up in the wee hours or on weekends. I only remember one occasion where they aired the show out of order, and that was fairly recently. Maybe September or October.

They've had more trouble this season because of preemptions due to the fires and last minute decisions to show the presidential debates despite sister station KCBS-2 showing them. They have been good this year when there's been advance notice of preemption, such as for the Lakers.

I've pestered KCAL's schedulers a couple of times this season asking what's happened to some episodes. They've been quite nice to me about answering questions. One thing that happens sometimes is that airtime has been sold for infomercials, and there's no slots available over late nights and weekends for short-notice rescheduling.

The 1:00-2:00 pm Sunday time seems to be their first choice for rescheduled Millionaire episodes.

Have you pestered them by phone or e-mail? I've never received a response to an e-mail about programming. I often don't notice problems until after business hours, so I can't call them.

I totally agree with what you've said about them doing much better, at least with the planned pre-emptions. I know we had at least 2 pre-emptions in the last year because of fire coverage.

I would just add that Saturday at 6:30PM seems to be fairly common, too. I only recall the Saturday 3:00AM slot being used 3-5 times in the last couple of years.

[peacock2121]

I hated that you asked her what she was thinking.


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You'll be pleased to know that that's the only time I remember doing that unnecessarily. First time jitters.

The shows airing this week were taped on September 17, so I only saw Ogi Ogas and Bill Nye as Experts on TV beforehand. Those two set the Expert standard quite high.

I get first time jitters. I forgive you.

Onward to seeing you be brilliant!

[earendel]

I know. I've been crying into my pillow every night since, ruing the day I was born.

If it makes you feel any better, I only knew slightly more about your question 14 than René Syler. I could have told you there's a McLean, VA. You don't have that reckless a disregard for money to have gone for it based solely on that piece of information, do you?

By the way, you did an outstanding job in the hot seat. Hopefully, by now they require a signature when your check is delivered - mine was left in front of where I was living, sticking out under the doormat.

I seem to recall someone (Daniel?) from the primetime show mentioning their check was also left lying on their doorstep....

lb13

Mine was in a FedEx (no arrow ) envelope stuck between the screen door and the door.

[WheresFanny]

Aw Crap meisha you're right! Dammit if he'd been your expert you might have done well!

I know. I've been crying into my pillow every night since, ruing the day I was born.

If it makes you feel any better, I only knew slightly more about your question 14 than René Syler. I could have told you there's a McLean, VA. You don't have that reckless a disregard for money to have gone for it based solely on that piece of information, do you?

By the way, you did an outstanding job in the hot seat. Hopefully, by now they require a signature when your check is delivered - mine was left in front of where I was living, sticking out under the doormat.

Pogo has a daily game of Trivial Pursuit (they have tie-ins with the game show), 20 questions each day.

A couple days ago one of the questions was "What war is said to have started in Wilbur McLean's front yard and ended in his parlour?". I knew it because of Meisha and got inordinately excited about it.

[15QuestionsAway]

Have you pestered them by phone or e-mail? I've never received a response to an e-mail about programming. I often don't notice problems until after business hours, so I can't call them.

I totally agree with what you've said about them doing much better, at least with the planned pre-emptions. I know we had at least 2 pre-emptions in the last year because of fire coverage.

I would just add that Saturday at 6:30PM seems to be fairly common, too. I only recall the Saturday 3:00AM slot being used 3-5 times in the last couple of years.

I've called them during business hours. The person that answers the phone has access to the schedule. One time when I called, we discovered an episode was missing, so I was transferred to a scheduler.

I've found titantv.com quite useful for seeing when future episodes air. They're usually about 1 week ahead.

[sunflower]

Checks on a doorstep?? Mine was in my mailbox...

[Ritterskoop]

I'm in the middle of watching today's episode, and...

Spoiler

... you're off to a great start, but I'm sure you'd agree that it must have been the easiest $25K question in recent years. I hope you'll do just as well on your more challenging questions.

Is this what they mean by "damning with faint praise"?

My dad used to say that, or Shakespeare, can't rememebr which. I get them mixed up all the time.

[Bob Juch]

I'm in the middle of watching today's episode, and...

Spoiler

... you're off to a great start, but I'm sure you'd agree that it must have been the easiest $25K question in recent years. I hope you'll do just as well on your more challenging questions.

Is this what they mean by "damning with faint praise"?

My dad used to say that, or Shakespeare, can't rememebr which. I get them mixed up all the time.

Actually I think it was Pope who coined it.

[WheresFanny]

I'm in the middle of watching today's episode, and...

Spoiler

... you're off to a great start, but I'm sure you'd agree that it must have been the easiest $25K question in recent years. I hope you'll do just as well on your more challenging questions.

Is this what they mean by "damning with faint praise"?

My dad used to say that, or Shakespeare, can't rememebr which. I get them mixed up all the time.

Actually I think it was Pope who coined it.

Alexander or Leonard?

[TheConfessor]

I'm in the middle of watching today's episode, and...

Spoiler

... you're off to a great start, but I'm sure you'd agree that it must have been the easiest $25K question in recent years. I hope you'll do just as well on your more challenging questions.

Is this what they mean by "damning with faint praise"?

My dad used to say that, or Shakespeare, can't rememebr which. I get them mixed up all the time.

Nope. I try not to damn anyone, especially brilliant, accomplished, likable game show legends whom I consider to be my friends. I also try not to patronize anyone by pretending to be impressed by basic fifth grade knowledge. It was just a quick shout out while the show was still on the air, intended to express my confidence in Jeff's abilities and my hope that the best was yet to come.

[Estonut]

I've found titantv.com quite useful for seeing when future episodes air. They're usually about 1 week ahead.

That is my primary source, too. Once or twice when the TitanTV schedule was missing an episode, I found them in odd (at the time) time slots on Zap2It.com.