When you do a search for Gotta Skate on the CBC website it brings up the date and 8 - 9 time slot (in 24hr clock format, though). Gosh, I'm hoping this is a typo. Given the theme format involving every skater, it's hard to imagine how they can edit the tape to show one program of each skater, 2 Kurt programs (they better ), and the Kurt/Brian duet (major highlight) ... all in one hour less commercials? And still maintain the continuity of the show? Me thinks not!
Re: Gotta Skate review on BOI site
well if CBC does a crappy job with it we still have NBC... I'm hoping they give it 2 hours because will be mad if it's one hour!!
*~Luv Karen~*
Kurto is the man!
"No garlic bread before Ice Dancing!"
- Victor Kraatz
Re: Gotta Skate review on BOI site
Well, this wouldn't be the first time CBC has broadcast a show like this in a 60-minute timeslot--they did the same thing with Sk8 With Elvis and Holiday Festival On Ice last year (and plan to do the same with this year's Holiday Festival On Ice show).
CBC's 60-minute Holiday Festival On Ice broadcast wasn't too bad--yes, a lot was chacked, but we eventually got to see most of those chacked programs on other skating broadcasts anyway (and fortunately, they did include both of Kurt's programs!) Their 60-minute Sk8 With Elvis broadcast, OTOH, was absolutely horrible! Half the skaters in that show were chacked altogether and a lot of the programs they did show (Elvis skating to Elvis, both of S&P's programs) were ones most fans have already seen over and over again anyway.
I'm hoping the CBC Gotta Skate broadcast will be more like Holiday Festival On Ice than Sk8 With Elvis! At least it'll be nice to get an early "sneak preview" of the show, if nothing else!
BTW, is anyone planning to watch the ESPN broadcast of Gotta Skate? I've heard some people say it's just a rebroadcast of last year's show (which they already showed last month), not this year's. Can anybody clear this up? Thanks!
Re: Gotta Skate!!!
Bumping this up because Gotta Skate will be broadcast tomorrow on CBC from 8-9pm. I will be taping it since I have to work. Let's see how much they chop out
*~Luv Karen~*
Kurto is the man!
"No garlic bread before Ice Dancing!"
- Victor Kraatz
Re: Gotta Skate!!!
Unfortunately, brenlynn, I didn't see your flags during last week's CBC broadcast (you were probably sitting at the same side of the rink as the TV cameras). They did show a brief shot of Kurt pointing at the flags after his duet with Brian, though--and if it wasn't for reading other posts here, I wouldn't have known what he was pointing at, so thanks for that!
Here's what else CBC showed last week:
A somewhat cheesy (IMO) intro with Kurt sitting at the piano and welcoming us to Club Shae-Shae's. It sounded like the intro was written by the same people who wrote all that cheesy dialogue during last month's CSOI broadcast.
The entire (or what looked to me like the entire) intro with Kurt introducing the other skaters (and their "characters") on the ice.
Jennifer Robinson's tango SP--which I actually thought worked better as a show program than as a competitive program. I didn't like this program at all the first time I saw it at Skate Canada, but I liked it much better here for some reason.
B&K's "Sway" number
Kurt's "Moondance" number
B&K's "Mack The Knife" program--normally I could have lived without seeing this one again, but considering it was B&K's last televised performance as a couple (sniff!), I thought it was fitting for CBC to include it...even though they didn't mention B&K's splitting up after this show at all. I guess they thought a happy, upbeat show like this wasn't the most
appropriate place to announce the breakup of two of Canada's most beloved skaters.
B&E's "The Middle" program
"Fever" with Michael Buble, Shae-Lynn and the two Jennifers. I have to agree Shae's definitely the most convincing "vamp" of the three! :-)
Brian Boitano's "Hernando's Hideaway"
Kurt's "Ding Dong Daddy" and "Hey Pachuco"
Kurt and Brian's duet--probably the one performance I most looked forward to seeing in this show and it definitely didn't disappoint. I especially enjoyed seeing the two of them performing the same moves when both their skating styles are so different.
And last but certainly not least, they actually showed Kurt singing his version of "Piano Man" with David and Michael! That was probably the most pleasant surprise of all--the last time I remember TV actually showing retake footage from any show was Kurt's 1995 proposal to Sonia!
The only major complaints I had about the broadcast (apart from the fact it was too short) was M&S and Todd Eldredge getting chacked altogether and, of course, the fact the camera just had to cut away several times to show closeups of Michael Buble during B&K's and Kurt's first programs, but I guess we should expect that by now during any skating performance to live music. I loved what we did get to see of both programs, though!
Overall, not a bad job at all for only a 60-minute broadcast. I can't wait to see the rest!
), and the Kurt/Brian duet (major highlight) ... all in one hour less commercials? And still maintain the continuity of the show? Me thinks not! 
I especially enjoyed seeing the two of them performing the same moves when both their skating styles are so different.
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