Poker After Dark Tapes in Vegas and Airs on NBCLate Night Poker Programming Features Well-Known Poker Pros and Hostess Shana Hiatt |
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NBC began taping Poker After Dark at the South Coast Hotel Casino in Las Vegas earlier this week with
an estimated 52 episodes in the making. The show will debut on Jan. 2, 2007 at 2:05 a.m. ET, six nights a week.
Poker After Dark is NBC's second poker program. The first was the National Heads-Up Poker Championship that aired earlier this year and sent ratings through the roof. NBC executives expect the late-night poker show to satiate the appetites of poker fans as it competes directly with ESPN's scheduled reruns of the 2006 World Series of Poker.
Each hourlong show will feature six professional poker players
competing for $120,000 in a winner-take-all format. Players include Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Harman, David Benyamine, Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen, and more.
The show's hostess is the former World Poker Tour's Shana Hiatt, a familiar and welcome icon in the industry. As only the veteran hostess of poker can do, Hiatt lights up the screen and brings her own style and professionalism to Poker After Dark.
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. The Saturday night show, called "The Director's Cut," will recap the week's events with Hiatt and the winner of the week reviewing the week's events and offering commentary.
Poker After Dark is produced in conjunction with Poker Productions, the only
television production company owned and operated by top professional poker players. Producers Mori Eskandani and Eric Drache bring 63 years of combined poker experience to their company and both have played a key role in producing some of television's best poker shows, including both seasons of NBC's National Heads Up Poker Championship, two seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker, three seasons of Fox Sports Net and NBC's Poker Superstars and CBS's Intercontinental Poker Championship.
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