Dee Dee wrote:

>
> "Default User" > wrote in message
> ...
> > hermit wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Perhaps this has already been discussed, but does anyone know why
> > > Mario is gone from the Food TV Network?
> >
> > FN told him that they weren't going to renew the contract on the old
> > reruns of Molto Mario. He got in a snit and said that if they did
> > that he wouldn't do Iron Chef. They said ok.
> >
> > Fairly dumb on both sides, dumber on Mario's if you ask me.

> I wonder if that is why Alton Brown had that program last night about
> the "Next Iron Chef."

I'm sure that's all part of it.

> I think it was dumber on food network's part not to renew the
> contract on the old reruns of Molto Mario. I'm still watching them,
> loads of which I've never seen; surely there are other people who are
> just discovering Mario.

What are the ratings though, compared to what they cost? I don't know,
but if they could make more money running those then I'm sure they
would.

> Mario doesn't need food network; he's got a gzillian restaurants and
> books. (I just bought an older published book of his the other day.)
> Who needs to be connected to a failing network! Dee Dee

But being on primetime Food Network is free publicity for all that. To
throw that way over those old reruns makes little sense.




Brian

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