Heavy STXI Advertising During Spike Star Wars Marathon

[Carpe Occasio]

Spike TV had a Star Wars marathon Saturday. I watched episodes IV, V & VI (actually watching VI right now) and saw many Star Trek XI commercials. It seemed like there was a Star Trek ad every commercial break.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Last night I saw about ten minutes of what I guess was "Attack Of The Clones" - Anakin had short hair and was mooning after a rather reticent Princess Ardala or Impala or whatever her name was - but I didn't realize that it was a marathon. Didn't see any of the ads.

 

[Squiggy]

Anakin had short hair and was mooning after a rather reticent Princess Ardala or Impala or whatever her name was -

Panda Bear

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Anakin had short hair and was mooning after a rather reticent Princess Ardala or Impala or whatever her name was -

Panda Bear

I thought that was the cartoon critter that keeps popping up in those TNZ threads about young girls.

 

[shapeshifter]

Of course many Trek episodes are going to run during a Wars marathon, George Lucas may now have a permanent stake in future Trek projects. His boys @ ILM could now become the sole authority to all future canon Starship design projects, naturally he wants to help this succeed.

 

[RAMA]

Spike TV had a Star Wars marathon Saturday. I watched episodes IV, V & VI (actually watching VI right now) and saw many Star Trek XI commercials. It seemed like there was a Star Trek ad every commercial break.

I've kept track of Trek movie promotion for years and I haven't seen this much in al my life. STF and Generations did have a lot in the last week before the movie, but even then it wasn't like this.

 

[Sector 7]

Anakin had short hair and was mooning after a rather reticent Princess Ardala or Impala or whatever her name was -

Panda Bear

I thought that was the cartoon critter that keeps popping up in those TNZ threads about young girls.

Padme... a.k.a. Panda Bear from Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode I... which was funny!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Not this guy, then: http://sc.tri-bit.com/Image:m0033.jpg

 

[TenLubak]

The Star Wars marathon is about the only thing Spike has been good for in a long time. Watching STAR WARS now 242am oclock. (VGR is on a 3a 3 days a week, awful; i bet they wish they didn't pay all that money for it now! hA) Anyway, maybe some of these comercials will come on. The new film looks neat!

 

[Nardpuncher]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37600369@N08/3455147094/

That's the poster in Chinese, sorry I took it from so far away...I was in a rush.

 

[24thcenstfan]

I watched a little bit of III and IV, and was very happy to see XI advertising. They run SW all the time. I was able to catch an ad that I hadn't seen yet too. Interesting that they are running so many different commercial spots.

 

[phylogeny]

It makes sense to advertise the new Trek movie for people watching Star Wars. Star Wars fans, especially the younger ones, are the target audience Paramount is hitting hard to get into the theater.

 

[bryce]

Anakin had short hair and was mooning after a rather reticent Princess Ardala or Impala or whatever her name was -

Panda Bear

I thought that was the cartoon critter that keeps popping up in those TNZ threads about young girls.

All I can say is that I really didn't like the way that panda at the zoo was leering at my 8-yo daughter.

I don't care if it's from an endangered species - maybe if they'd stick to hitting on their on kind, they wouldn't be facing extinction!

 

[Saga]

well i'd rather they run ads during a Trek marathon. its like Spike has gone from being proud to have several hours of Trek on its programming block to burying it.

 

[Data Holmes]

I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that paramount owns spike...

 

[Borgminister]

And?

 

[Data Holmes]

And?

Just making an observation. Star wars gets high viewership numbers... the channel is owned by paramount. Paramount has a movie coming out in a month, and put a ton of those adds during a program which gets a large number of viewers.

Simple... Logic...

 

[Devon]

Actually it is owned by MTV Networks.

 

[Squiggy]

Which is owned by Viacom who also owns Paramount and Dreamworks.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Who are all secretly owned by me...but keep this between us.