NBC PREMIERES "POKER AFTER DARK" HOSTED BY SHANA H

[BiggDawgg]

NEW YORK – Dec. 19, 2006 – NBC invites viewers into the exclusive Las Vegas poker scene with its new late night show, "Poker After Dark," debuting Jan. 2 at 2:05 a.m. ET/PT. The nightly hour-long show, hosted by Shana Hiatt, one of poker's most recognizable faces, will air Monday – Saturday and features six poker professionals vying for a winner-take-all $120,000 first place prize.

Hosted by former World Poker Tour host Hiatt – dubbed one of Maxim magazine's "Hot 100 of 2005" – each night of original programming will feature an intimate look at one table as it develops over the week, culminating with a winner on Friday night. Saturday night's show – the "director's cut" – will recap the week's events with Hiatt and that week's winner offering commentary and insight into their winning strategy (airing from 1-2 a.m. ET/PT following "Saturday Night Live," check local listings).

Set in the back room of various casinos on the Vegas strip, "Poker After Dark" gives viewers an intimate look inside a poker game usually reserved for the eyes of the professional poker players themselves. "Poker After Dark" will feature the world's top pros, all miked during the weekly battles for the $120,000 pot – including Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Harman and Gus Hansen – fighting it out for poker supremacy.

"There's a vibrant late night audience looking for original programming," said Marc Graboff, President, NBC Universal Television, West Coast. "We felt this inside look at the professional poker scene is perfect for late night television and those viewers seeking an unique and original broadcast."

[BiggDawgg]

Gonna be an interesting week on Poker After Dark

They have Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Mike Matusow, David Grey, Jerry Buss, and Gabe Kaplan playing winner take all NL Holdem for $120,000

[dpk57]

that could be interesting to watch see how the stars do. i think a pro will win

[mdelia8]

I watched this since it started. *Its on 2:05 AM EST 5 days a week. *The first week was pretty good (Gus Hansen, Huck Seed, Phil Hellmuth, im trying to think who else but cant remember) I think Gus won. *Anyway this week there are more entertaining players cause we all know The Mouth has his entertainment factor and put him at the table with Danny G there is some good banter going on, but this week there is just 1 problem which I noticed last night. *Its an hour long show and I swear there were like 12 commercial breaks. hich is like insane cause most shows have a commercial every 15 mins. I might be exagerating a little about the exact number but it felt like the had one after every hand almost. *Watch a hand, get a commercial, watch a hand, get a commercial, *I almost threw the remote at the TV last night while lying in bed it was driving me crazy.

[BiggDawgg]

Appearing on NBC's new poker show, "Poker After Dark," starting Jan 15th, Jamie Gold, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Chris Ferguson, Carlos Mortensen and Chris Moneymaker.


Jamie Gold will also be on Game Show Network's "High Stakes Poker," which debuts 9 p.m. Monday Jan 15th.