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Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
Image:redeyeprogram.png
Title card for Red Eye
Genre Talk show
Presented by Greg Gutfeld
Starring Bill Schulz
Andrew Levy
Voices of Ms. Jackie Gutfeld
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of episodes 200 as of November 21, 2007
Production
Location(s) New York City
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Fox News Channel
Picture format 480i NTSC
Original run February 5, 2007 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

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

Contents

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 former Maxim UK editor Greg Gutfeld, the show features a round table of panelists, as well as guests linked by satellite.[1] Bill Schulz appears as a regular panelist, while Andrew Levy acts as the shows ombudsman. Rachel Marsden was formerly a regular panellist alongside Schulz.

New episodes generally air Tuesdays through Saturdays, with Sunday and Monday 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 replayed on the weekends. However, as of October 27, 2007, a new show airs on Saturdays at 11:00 p.m ET[2] this was changed to 10:00 p.m ET with it being replayed on Sundays and Mondays 2:00 a.m ET. Reruns are played on Friday mornings 3:00 a.m ET.

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 often closes his "Greg-alogues" with the line, "And that's my gut feeling," or for a while its German translation, "Und das ist mein Darmgefühl!" Bill responds to the Greg-alogue with a "Bill-A-Buster". Gutfeld often introduces his guests with double entendres. 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 comments and jokes on the comments the panel made and the news stories covered in the first half hour and ask questions. 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. 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 reads and responds to viewer mail in the "Mail Time" segment. 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" and mention who was coming on the next show. 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 asking the panel questions.

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.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5],[6] 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.'"[7] 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.[8] 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[9]

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

  1. ^ New York Observer profile of Greg Gutfeld
  2. ^ The Daily Gut - Blog run by show host Greg Gutfeld
  3. ^ New York Times
  4. ^ Media Bistro
  5. ^ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/220115
  6. ^ http://www.brooksbulletin.com/news/entertainment.asp?itemid=63115
  7. ^ http://www.rachelmarsden.com
  8. ^ "News Corp. sued over `Red Eye' use", Chicago Tribune, 2007-02-17. Retrieved on 2007-03-10. 
  9. ^ Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
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