RED EYE W/ GREG GUTFELD

'''Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld''' is a late-night talk show on the Fox News Channel.
Airing at 2:00 a.m. ET, the show covers a variety of topics, including news, entertainment, sports, and gossip. Hosted by Greg Gutfeld, the show features a round table of panelists, as well as guests linked by satellite. Bill Schulz appears as a regular panelist, while Andrew Levy acts as the show's ombudsman. Rachel Marsden was formerly a regular panelist alongside Schulz.
New episodes regularly air Monday through Friday, with Saturday and Sunday episodes being repeats from earlier in the week. An exception is made if the show is pre-empted during the week, in which case the unaired episode will be shown on the weekend. As of September 7, 2007, this has only occured twice.

Contents

Format

Ratings

Rachel Marsden's departure

Legal issues

Trivia

Reviews

External links

References

Format

Pre-taped, the program has a casual atmosphere and many comical references. The "Greg-alogue/Gut Feeling" (which first premiered on the June 12, 2007 broadcast) (formerly "from the Gut") where Gutfeld opens the show by delivering a usually sober short monologue on a given topic, a la Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points" and Stephen Colbert's "The Wørd." In "Schulz on the Street," which began as an experimental segment for a week before being brought back as a regular feature, Bill Schulz does mock reporting by asking real people for their opinions on given topics, often seeking absurd answers or odd-ball interviewees.
Gutfeld regularly displays his art, as part of the "I Draw the News" segment. The art usually features a humanoid unicorn named Unicorn Jones and Fluffy McNutter, a cat-dog hybrid. Viewers can submit titles for the piece and possibly win it, autographed by Gutfeld himself.
Another regular feature is Andrew Levy doing the Halftime Report in which he "corrects" and makes jokes on the news stories covered in the first half hour. A fake "News Alert" with Andrew Levy temporarily replaced the Halftime Report and had Levy giving a brief headline summary coupled with a joke or two.
Gutfeld reads and responds to viewer mail near the end of the show. Gutfeld's 83 year-old mother, Jackie, is the "senior" correspondent and calls in from California to review stories that appeared on the Fox News Channel earlier that day, especially on ''The Fox Report'' and ''The O'Reilly Factor''. The newest segment the Post-Game Wrap-up with Andrew Levy (though Levy would previously appear at the end of the show give a ''Brit Hume fun fact'' and tell you who was coming on tomomorrow) at the end of the show where he makes jokes comments about the people on the show.

Ratings

In March 2007, the show averaged 309,000 viewers in its time slot, down about 9 percent from the same timeslot in 2006 but still beating MSNBC's true-crime programs and CNN's reruns of ''Anderson Cooper 360''.^[1] In the 25-54 age demographic, ''Red Eye'' went up 15 percent from the timeslot in 2006. In March of that year, the 2 to 3 a.m. time slot averaged 134,000 viewers from that demographic; with ''Red Eye'', it increased to 154,000. In the 18-34 demographic, the time slot went up 27 percent, from 33,000 to 42,000.^[2]

Rachel Marsden's departure

On Wednesday, May 30, 2007, ''Red Eye'' panelist Rachel Marsden was removed from the show and escorted out of the ''Red Eye'' offices by security guards, which Marsden alleged is standard procedure when a Fox employee is fired.^[3], ^[4] On her blog, Marsden, who remains a "Fox News Contributor", said, "I will no longer be appearing on the show, as I have been told that it is heading in a 'different direction' from its inception and I am the 'first casualty.' As a political and news commentator, being a panelist on what had become a totally off-the-wall-and-into-orbit show was an interesting experience. It was also the first time that I was ever considered the 'sane one' on any program, so I am grateful for that unique opportunity and wish the boys the very best of luck.'" ^[5] Her last appearance on the show was the 5/30/2007 episode at 2 a.m.

Legal issues

Following the first weeks of the program, the ''Chicago Tribune'' filed suit against News Corporation, the company which owns Fox News Channel, alleging that the show's title could be confused with the ''Tribune's free commuter daily, ''RedEye'', launched in 2002.^[6].
FNC has admitted it did not run a trademark check prior to naming the program and changed the title of the show's section of the FoxNews.com website from ''Red Eye'' to ''Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld''^[7]

Trivia

There have been two presidential candidates who've appeared on the show: Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.

Reviews

★ Slate Review

★ New York Times Review Registration required.

★ New York Observer Mostly about Red Eye and Greg.

External links

★ The show's unofficial Youtube profile

★ Greg during the e-mail segment of the show (7/13/07 2am EST)

★ "''Wasteland''", the pilot for "''Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld''" which was taped in November 2006 and aired on FoxNews.com:

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References

1. New York Times
2. Media Bistro
3. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/220115
4. http://www.brooksbulletin.com/news/entertainment.asp?itemid=63115
5. http://www.rachelmarsden.com
6. News Corp. sued over `Red Eye' use
7. Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld