Or American Idol is rigged.
Michael Johns never makes an appearance in the bottom 3, then gets voted off. Carly Smithson– no visits in the bottom 3 and love from Simon, and in the same week one idol forgets her lines, and Smithson gets voted off and the girl forgetting her lines? Not even in the bottom 3!
That’s not fishy. That’s 1000 pounds of grade A Halibut.
I’m glad I don’t watch this show, and only catch the highlights. To everyone out there– get over it. Idol is rigged.
It’s sad, but it’s also awesome. It’s the best show on TV, better than Numb3rs. I swear.
Socks, prepare to be blown off feet. Battlestar Galactica 4.0 is in the house.
Maybe I’ll come back and blog about it after I come down from the endorphin rush.
UPDATE: Yeah, it was awesome. I’m still in shock. SHOCK, I tell you.
Why am I compelled to write this story? It’s embarrassing. Not to me, but to popular culture.
Yahoo picked it up (and I love the fact the picture associated with the pregnant man wasn’t the pregnant man, but Oprah). It was an exclusive in People. And the “pregnant man”, one Thomas Beatie, was on Oprah yesterday.
I’m going to go into the story, but I want to post a content advisory here because I’m talking about reproduction. So you’ve been warned.
Last night I stayed up watching the 2-hour documentary “Quest for the Lost Ark” last night. It was interesting, detailing many different possible pathways to the Lost Ark, then having the narrator, Parfitt, reveal right at the end he’s found the Lost Ark, and it’s in Zimbabwe. So, he send in a film crew to record and detail it, and they show it, explain how this tribal drum is the Ark of the Covenant, and I’m all excited about it, until he says, “Well, I had it carbon dated, and it’s 600 years old.”
600 years old? And he’s saying, ‘I found it! Check it out!’? What a bunch of crap. I mean, this is as bad as Geraldo at Al Capone’s vault.
Lost Ark indeed.
Congratulations to Drew Carey. I was actually pulling for Todd Newton, but I think Drew is a good choice for The Price is Right. Drew’s a very nice guy (I actually fielded a call from him when I worked at America Online and reset his buggy password) and he’s good natured. He also ad-libs well, and he seems to have Bob Barker’s blessing. So, good luck Drew. You have the hardest job in show business– following in Bob Barker’s footsteps.
A good friend of mine had a revelation regarding Rosie. She said, “Hey, it could be worse. It could be Andy Dick.”
Sounds like there was an offer out there, but Rosie didn’t want to leave New York.
Bullet dodged. My childhood is secure.
My money is on Todd Newton. He’s like a young Barker, even though he’s bought into the global warming thing. But I’ve liked his hosting style since day one, and politics shouldn’t be a factor in whether or not you get TPIR hosting gig.
Update: Sounds like Rosie is getting her own talk show. Big surprise there. You know what that means– more showtunes!
Barker says CBS is talking to Rosie about taking over as host for “The Price is Right”. I can’t think of a person who could be worse for the job . I’d even pick Hugo Chavez over Rosie.
I only see one thing that Barker and Rosie have in common. They both love the models.
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You can’t think “Game Show” without thinking about Bob Barker, who’s final show airs this Friday. There’s a tremendous send-up of him over at Canada.com.
Personally, I’m going to miss Bob. I never got a chance to be in the audience, to “come on down”, but I loved sitting around on days off, indulging my game-show hunger for an hour as Barker hosted pricing challenges to adoring fans.
Make no mistake– the audience has gone from a “materialistic” crowd to an audience filled with people to see Barker, the prizes, and celebrate something that’s been a constant all of their lives.
Let’s face it. The information age offers changes every five years. We’ve gone from rotary phones to cell phones. We’ve gone from typewriters to voice-activated word-processors. No longer do we have to dial a radio in our car– the ‘Seek’ button does that for us.
But Bob Barker hasn’t changed. Surely he’s aged, but it’s the same voice, the same warm enthusiasm for his job, the same kindly old soul who’s been giving away cars back when they cost less than $10,000.
Perhaps it’s our desire to to never age that makes us look on “The Price is Right” so fondly. Certainly the games haven’t aged– that little Cliffhanger guy is the same cardboard cutout they put together back in the 70’s. Perhaps its the familiarity of a childhood memory, remembering Bob showing a contestant how easy the put is in ‘Hole in One’. Or maybe it was just a good time. There’s no worry about wars. The military men who show up are always in good health, and there’s no awful pall that hangs in the air. There’s no grim economic news. Global Warming? Not if they’re giving away SUVs. The only activism has been Barker’s devotion to animals, something most viewers can relate to.
It’s not that he’s a playboy icon with all the models. It’s not that he’s a “sugar daddy”. Those are misrepresentations of Barker in the above article. He’s the kindly old friend we see every time we turned on the television at 10:00 AM every weekday. And he’s getting such a sendoff not because he’s a television icon (which is is rightly so), but because he’s a man who’s been a part of so many lives– a friend who’s been there to make us smile regardless of age.
So I want to dedicate this column to Bob Barker, my friend, and wish him a happy (and well-deserved) retirement. Thank you, Bob, for all the warm memories!
It’s the TV pitch generator! Which of these lists is fake, and which is coming in Fall 2008?
Or:
I’d actually watch the fake shows over the real shows anytime.
EDIT: I just got this one and it’s awesome.
The problem with Fred is that he’s a TV star, and McCain-Feingold doesn’t like people who are on TV without being “fair” to everybody else.
Fred’s got some issues. He still wants to get paid for his Law & Order gigs, but so long as he shows up in those eps, there needs to be equal time for his opponents elsewhere. Given that there’s potentially up to 20 opponents, Democrat & Republican, a 15 stint on Law & Order will mean NBC has to grant 300 minutes of time to everyone else (that’s 5 hours of programming).
Absurd as it sounds, it’s the law, and Thompson has to play it safe or risk alienating the one item that’s keeping him in the spotlight.
Now, he may leave L&O at the end of the season– that’s fine. And they’ll run reruns on NBC through the summer. But when the new Fall season starts, the eps will be Fred-free, and there’s no longer any campaign finance problems.
So expect Fred! to announce in September when the new Fall season starts and there are no conflicts there for NBC.
As for TNT and USA and all the other stations that run L&O repeats, they can keep running with Fred!, no problem, because the restrictions on cable are few, and equal time is not guaranteed. Got that, Ken Levine? If that were the case, all the old eps of SNL with Al Franken would have to be pulled. And hopefully burned. Then for once in his life Franken will be funny.
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