Posts with tag AlRoker
Posted Apr 3rd 2008 2:38PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Game Show, Casting, Reality-Free
Al Roker is in final negotiations to host the NBC celebrity edition of Family Feud, the one that we wrote about recently as a
summer series on the Peacock.
Roker, currently the main weatherman and easy-going interviewer on
Today (the first three hours at least!), would seem a perfect fit for this job. He's friendly, funny, personable and has a high recognizability/likability rating. He's also busy on the dial with Food Network shows, both producing and hosting. In fact, in 2006 his production company put out
Celebrity Food Fights, about competing celebs -- not unlike
Family Feud concept -- for Food Network.
Continue reading Al Roker ready for the Feud?
Posted Mar 27th 2008 11:04AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, TV Squad Lists
So, AOL TV did a poll about
America's favorite talk show hosts and 1.3 million people made their feelings known. Interesting results. I didn't agree with some of them, like who I like waking up with. Diane Sawyer was the top choice, but I'd go for the second place finisher, Matt Lauer. As for whom to go to bed with -- TV talk show wise, that is -- I can't believe most of the people chose Jay Leno. Is he really that popular? I prefer David Letterman; I'm a sucker for the Top Ten lists.
Continue reading AOL readers rate TV talk show hosts
Posted Jun 17th 2007 1:40PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Web, Celebrities
A while back, I showcased some blogs that celebrities were (at the time) keeping. David Duchovny had one for a while, but it was just to promote one of his movies and he stopped it. Zach Braff had one for Garden State, but doesn't update it as much as he used to at his new site (though it's still pretty entertaining). And of course we know that Rosie O'Donnell updates hers, a little too much probably.
But there are other TV celebs who blog too, so it's time for an update. After the jump, a list of some of the better blogs out there.
Continue reading Celebrity blogs you should be reading
Posted Mar 31st 2007 5:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
CBS has March Madness all night. - TLC has a new Moving Up at 8.
- Disney has a new Kim Possible at 8.
- GSN is showing four classic episodes of Press Your Luck starting at 8.
- Also at 8: Nickelodeon has the annual Kid's Choice Awards.
- At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
- Suze Orman celebrates her 5th anniversary on CNBC at 9.
- A&E has a new Flip This House at 9.
- AMC has Deliverance at 9.
- Al Roker hosts Childhood Obesity: Danger Zone, on Food Network at 9.
- At 11, IFC is showing the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
- At midnight, USA has the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, followed by all the Trump/McMahon nonsense on a new WWE A.M RAW.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Mar 31st 2007 3:22PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, News, Documentary
Tonight at 9:00 p.m. on the Food Network, Al Roker will host Childhood Obesity: Danger Zone, a special that delves into the obesity epidemic that now affects more than 12 million children in America. The special will focus mostly on children, including: a teenager who weighs 500 pounds; the public policy initiative put in place by Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to help overweight children; and a doctor who teaches kids how to shop for healthy food.
Continue reading Al Roker hosts childhood obesity special tonight
Posted Dec 7th 2006 6:41PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: NBC, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show, Ratings
The end of sweeps last week marked
Today's eleventh consecutive year as the number one morning news program in the nation. The big ratings all started in 1995, when Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric hosted together. The addition of Matt Lauer in 1997 only strengthened the show's ratings. And now, with Katie gone to CBS, the addition of Meredith Vieira seems to be fine with viewers. In fact, they seem to really like her since about 20,000 more people are watching
Today than they were at this time last year.
Why is
Today still number one? I think it's simply tradition.
Today was the first of its kind.
Good Morning America and
The Early Show both are copycats of the successful format but neither show has ever been able to match
Today. Even now, the anchors on
Today all seem much more relaxed. The show seems to flow much smoother than
Good Morning America, which is legendary for its awkward transitions, and
The Early Show, which constantly seems to be fumbling. Also, NBC has 'hosts', while the other networks have 'anchors'. NBC gets that the morning programs stopped being about news a long time ago.
[Via
TV Newser]
Posted Aug 4th 2006 11:28AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: NBC, News, OpEd, Daytime, Things I Hate About TV, Commercials
I think I'm living some kind of weird Rip Van Winkle life lately. Suddenly, without warning, there are these bizarre promos running during the breaks on the
Today Show showing Matt, Al, Ann and Meredith laughing, goofing and dancing together as if they'd been on the air for ten years with Meredith. Who are they trying to fool? Who are these people? What is going on here?!
Maybe they did an excellent video editing job and stuck Meredith's head on Katie's body, and this is an old goofy video they're using. And even then, when I say the promo's goofy, I mean GOOFY. I'm trying to imagine what the director was saying while trying to get the team to feel all chummy together, as if we're supposed to believe they're really that pally with Meredith: "OK now Al, you do a little hop and shuffle, then eat a beignet. Matt, you stick out your tongue, slap Ann on the ass and dip Meredith. No, on the ass, Matt. Meredith, you flex your biceps while Ann laughs hysterically in the background. No Ann, laugh. Like this 'hahaha.' There you go."
Posted May 13th 2006 11:29PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Cable, Talent, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Food Network
I just got done watching
Al Roker's Diner Destinations on the Food Network; in the show, Al visits diners all over the country, including a couple in my diner-heavy home state of New Jersey. During the show, he makes huge burgers, pastichio, and other dishes that would make a cardiologist woozy.
But he doesn't eat any of it. Why? Because Al's had a stomach the size of an egg since he had a
gastric bypass operation in 2002; if he
did partake in more than a few bites of any of the high-fat meals he cooked on the show, he'd likely get violently ill.
So why does Al continue to do
specials like this? I mean, I'm not a skinny guy myself; just the sight of all that yummy greasy food was sending me to the refigerator (don't worry, I got an apple... honest). I can't imagine the willpower he had to exert being around all that stuff in person. Maybe it's the "if I eat this I get sick" incentive, but I can't be sure. One thing I
do know, however; if I were Al, I'd stay away from the food and do specials about weather or something.
Posted Apr 17th 2006 9:04AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Podcasts, TV Squad APB
Joel and I try something a little different this
time, limiting our topics to five minutes each. I think it worked out pretty well, so let us know what you think.
Topics we cover this week:
- Joel's upcoming interviews: George Takei and Christopher Gorham.
- The new "Five Quick Questions" interview feature.
- Al Roker ... funny?
- What's with all the Paula Abdul talk lately?
- Comedy Central Motherlode
contest -- will it make someone's career?
- SNL's best of TV Funhouse is coming! Sweet!
- HUGE I mean HUGE and very spoilery spoilers about not this week's, but next week's
Prison Break. I'll likely not post these, so you'll have to listen to know.
Grab the file directly
(
link), subscribe to our podcast RSS feed (
link), or visit the iTunes music store (
link). (Running time:
40:09)
Posted Apr 14th 2006 11:32AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: NBC, News, Talent, OpEd, Daytime, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
God help me, but for some reason, I've always
thought Al Roker was funny. Whenever I've seen him on the
Today show, especially in the third-hour segment
that he co-hosts, he always seems to make a joke or two that's goofy but kind of snide at the same time.
For
instance, this morning, he was hosting a cooking segment that used artichokes. The cook mentioned that when you take off
the artichoke leaves, you rub the bottoms with lemon so they don't turn black. "You might even want to rub lemon on
your hands so the black doesn't get on them either," he said.
"Well, it's a little too late for me,
but..." Al shot back, causing the crew to break out in laughter.
See what I mean? That was funny! And a
little edgy (I mean, if Chappelle can do racial humor, why not Al?). He just seems like one of those guys who would
make a lot of dumb jokes at lunch that all somehow make you laugh, even when you know you shouldn't.
Am I
off-base here? Do I need a sense of humor transplant? Let me know in the comments.
Posted Feb 9th 2006 9:41AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Programming
One of the many stories left out of our history books
about World War Two is the heroics of the 761st Tank Battalion, a group of black soldiers that history forgot. But not
the History Channel. This month, presumably in honor of Black History Month, the History Channel is airing
Honor
Deferred. Narrated by Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, the documentary pairs historical photos and video archives
with interviews of the black men who served in the 761st. The men spent 183 consecutive days in combat, fighting Nazi
Germany and its allies. It comes highly recommended
by
reviewers as an important piece of American history.
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