Walter Cronkite is coming back to television.
Oh, sure, you hear his voice every night in the intro to The CBS Evening News, but his entire body is coming back to TV, on a cable network called Retirement Living TV. It's a year-old network aimed at people who constantly scream at the TV and always misplace "the clicker."
Actually, it sounds like an OK channel for people 55 and older (though isn't 55 a little on the young side?). Shows will include Healthline, Bargain Retirement Places, and Who Wants To Buy A Coffin? Just kidding on the last one. Also signed up on the network are ex-CNN anchor Mary Alice Williams, ex-NBC News anchor/reporter John Palmer, and Florence Henderson, who has hosted several daytime shows, including that Today spinoff a few years back.
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9-19-2007 @ 8:24PM
Karen said...
Bob, maybe you should leave the jokes to the TVSquad-ers who are actually funny.
I was going to send this news to my 81-year-old Mom, but I didn't think she'd find your coffin humor all that amusing.
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9-20-2007 @ 5:15PM
Smiley said...
"network aimed at people who constantly scream at the TV and always misplace the clicker."
Watch CBS news sometime and count the number of depends commercials.
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