Jeffrey Tambor, John Michael Higgins, Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard are helping DirecTV revive its popular “Empty Cable Suit” commercials from 2008 for the cable provider’s latest ad campaign, “Cable Corp.” In “Merger,” the first commercial airing Thursday, Tambor’s character announces Cable Corp’s partnership with CableWorld in order to take on DirecTV. The campaign aims to highlight the benefits of DirecTV — a member of the At&T family since July — over cable. “We know that DirecTV is better at this whole TV thing, so to beat them, we’re going to get bigger and we’re going to merge with CableWorld,...
- 10/1/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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