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Red Eye
File:Redeyeprogram.png
Title card for Red Eye
GenreTalk show
Presented byGreg Gutfeld
StarringBill Schulz
Andrew Levy
Voices ofMs. Jackie Gutfeld
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes111 as of July 13, 2007
Production
Production locationNew York City
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkFox News Channel
ReleaseFebruary 5, 2007 –
present

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld is a late-night talk show on the Fox News Channel.

Format

Airing at 3:00 a.m. ET (beginning early morning October 18, 2007), the show covers a variety of topics, including news, entertainment, sports, and gossip. Hosted by Greg Gutfeld, the show features a round table of panellists, as well as guests linked by satellite[1] . Bill Schulz appears as a regular panellist, while Andrew Levy acts as the shows ombudsman. Rachel Marsden was formerly a regular panellist 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 October 18, 2007, this has only occurred three times. As of October 20, 2007, the show stopped being aired on the weekends.

Pre-taped, the program has a casual atmosphere and many comical references. It opens with the "Greg-alogue" (briefly "from the Gut"), which first premiered on the June 12, 2007 broadcast, in which Gutfeld delivers a short monologue on a given topic, à la Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points" and Stephen Colbert's "The Wørd." Gutfeld closes his "Greg-alogue" with the line, "And that's my gut feeling," or its German translation, "Und das ist mein Darmgefühl!" 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 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 and sometimes Wilford Brimley. Viewers can submit titles for the piece and possibly win it, autographed by Gutfeld himself. Another regular feature is Andrew Levy doing the Half-time 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 Half-time 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. When the show first started, Andrew Levy would give a closing commentary or provide a Brit Hume "fun fact." This was later scrapped for several months, but returned in September 2007 as a "Post-Game Wrap-Up" where he gave the people on the show arbitrary fake scores, à la Whose Line is it Anyway?. The fake scores were later dropped and replaced with Andy simply asking the people on the show questions.

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.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4], [5] 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.'" [6] Her last appearance on the show was the 5/30/2007 episode at 2 a.m.

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.[7] 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[8]

Notable guests

Red Eye has featured several notable guests, including figures from sports, politics, and the media. They include:

References

  1. ^ New York Observer profile of Greg Gutfeld
  2. ^ New York Times
  3. ^ Media Bistro
  4. ^ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/220115
  5. ^ http://www.brooksbulletin.com/news/entertainment.asp?itemid=63115
  6. ^ http://www.rachelmarsden.com
  7. ^ "News Corp. sued over `Red Eye' use". Chicago Tribune. 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2007-03-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld". Retrieved 2007-03-10.
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