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Cold Pizza

2003 · 1 season

Bright, chatty morning sports banter that plays like background company, easy to dip in and out of.

Genres
News
Starring
Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Woody Paige, Kit Hoover
Overview
Cold Pizza was a television sports morning talk show that aired weekdays on ESPN2. The show's style was more akin to Good Morning America than SportsCenter's straight news and highlights format. It included daily sports news, interviews with sports journalists, athletes, and personalities, and an assortment of other sports and non-sports topics. This show began airing on October 20, 2003. The show's launch team and daily production management was led by broadcast executives James Cohen, Joseph Maar and Todd Mason. Although Cold Pizza was simulcast on ESPN2HD, it was not produced or presented in high definition. On October 2, 2006, DirecTV became the presenting sponsor with the show titled as Cold Pizza presented by DirecTV. Two back-to-back two-hour episodes aired each weekday from Monday through Friday, with the live episode airing from 10 a.m. ET until noon, followed by a repeat at 12 p.m. ET. The show was hosted by former SportsCenter personality, Dana Jacobson, who joined the program in 2005, and Jay Crawford, who was with the show for its entire run. Skip Bayless contributed during the "1st and 10" segments. Woody Paige, who had been his antagonist during those segments, left after the November 28, 2006, episode, citing health and personal reasons, leaving New York to return to the Denver Post, where he had been a longtime writer.

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Genres
News
Starring
Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Woody Paige, Kit Hoover
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Tone
    Pacing
    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • sport
    • media
    • celebrity
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • procedural
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness0
    Complexity1
    Emotional weight1

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    Genres
    news
    Starring
    Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Woody Paige, Kit Hoover, Skip Bayless, Thea Andrews, Peyton Manning, Omar Gooding, Jeremy Piven
    Length
    1 seasons, 26 episodes, 120 min each
    Network
    ESPN2
    Languages
    English

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