RegisPhilbin-related stories
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 3:02PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, Casting, America's Got Talent
Don't worry. Nick Cannon won't necessarily be packing his bags any time soon, but former host
Jerry Springer is coming back to America's Got Talent. He's slated to host that Planet Hollywood live show in Las Vegas Cannon has been pimping every week.
Springer originally left
America's Got Talent to appear on Broadway in
Chicago, but that gig has since wrapped. I'm not sure what that means for next season of the talent show. After a shaky start, I think Nick Cannon has emerged as a capable and fun host for the wackiness of
AGT. He's got a natural sense of humor about everything, which is essential when talking to "The Hoff."
Continue reading Jerry Springer comes home to America's Got Talent, sort of
Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:31PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Daytime, Video, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show
Bob Sassone already did a post on how the amazing
Anderson Cooper caused a little bit of an
accident on the set of Live with Regis and Kelly yesterday morning when he subbed for the Reege. As funny as that -- and really, the entire "host chat" segment was -- it was not my favorite thing that happened on the show yesterday.
That honor goes to Cooper's interview with
The Bachelorette's
Jillian Harris. Harris was on the show with her "fiance," doing the post-finale press tour and shilling for the jeweler who provided the diamond ring that Ed bestowed upon her on Monday's season-ender.
While Kelly stuck to the script and asked the common, "when did you know he was the one?" questions, Anderson wasn't having any of it. He's Anderson freakin' Cooper, and as he demonstrated with his
swift takedown of the Lohan clan, he doesn't have time for the shenanigans of D-list reality stars (except Kathy Griffin). So Cooper, always trying to get to the bottom of the story, flat-out asked Jillian how many dudes she boned in the
Bachelorette mansion.
Continue reading Anderson Cooper gets real with The Bachelorette
Posted May 9th 2009 12:50PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Reality-Free
Radner.
Louis-Dreyfus.
Poehler.
Fey.
Shannon.
Suffice it to say, the number of women who became famous on
Saturday Night Live before graduating to solo success is few and far between. Sure, Gilda Radner can be considered a pioneer in the art of sketch comedy. And
Julia Louis-Dreyfus undoubtedly honed her comedic skills before becoming a sitcom icon on
Seinfeld. And, yes,
Tina Fey can easily be considered a heroine to comedy nerds everywhere who have witnessed her climb from
Weekend Update anchor to
Mean Girls scribe to single-handedly decimating the vice presidential chances of one certain gun-wieldin', six-pack-totin' Alaskan governor.
But, sadly, the number of men who left Studio 8 for the superstardom of Planet Hollywood (not the theme restaurant) easily outnumbers the ladies. For every
Amy Poehler, there's a
Will Ferrell. And a Bill Murray. And a
Mike Myers and
Eddie Murphy and
Adam Sandler (although, to be fair, there's also a
David Gary Kroeger, A. Whitney Brown, and Charles Rocket for every Melanie Hutsell, too). (And for the record, no, you shouldn't recognize those names.)
Continue reading Why isn't Jan Hooks famous?
Posted Jan 8th 2009 11:03AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Festivus, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
Ah, 2009. Come in, come in! Have a seat at my crystal ball. Oh, I know it's cracked, but don't worry -- it's still useful.
You are so young, so virile, my little new year. You are also ripe...ripe for me to predict your future. I see plenty in my cracked crystal ball -- yes, yes, it's working just fine. Some of it is good, some is bad, and the rest I can't see because of all the cracks. Those predictions probably don't mean much anyway. I mean, Dustin Diamond being cast in a remake of Cop Rock? Who would believe such tripe?
Oh, don't get up! Yes, Allison gave us her predictions already, but that was with a different ball. So, sit, sit, and let me predict your future in television through my fractured sphere.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: 2009 predictions from the cracked crystal ball
Posted Nov 6th 2008 5:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
He's the Guiness World Record holder for the most time spent in front of a television camera, and now he plans to defend that title for at least three more years. I'm speaking, of course, of Emmy-winning TV host, Regis Philbin.
Regis Philbin renewed his contract with Disney through 2011, assuring that he will be sitting beside Kelly Ripa on
Live with Regis & Kelly till he's 80-years-old.
Make that 80-years-young because even though Regis comes on as a curmudgeon, nobody would call him a grouchy old man. In fact, he's still a hoot to watch in the morning as he goes on about the tabloid headlines, the parties and openings he attended with Joy, and the status of the New York Yankees and Notre Dame football.
Frankly speaking, I'm glad that he's chosen to remain active. To me, ever since the day Johnny Carson retired from
The Tonight Show, that show has never been the same. The Jay Leno years just don't compare. Johnny retired too soon.
Continue reading Regis renews Disney deal through 2011... but no more side projects?
Posted Nov 4th 2008 12:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Near the end of today's
Live with Regis and Kelly, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa offered their apologies to the Dominican community over remarks they made on the show last week. It seemed like a sincere apology, even if it was read from a teleprompter.
Anyway, since I don't watch the show every day, I had no idea what remark they were talking about. So I immediately fired up the ol' Google search machine and plugged in "regis kelly dominicans." Sure enough, a story (and accompanying video) came up from our cousins at TMZ about the Reege laughing at a joke where
Kelly associates "donkeys" with "Dominicans," and the ensuing protest by Dominican organizations.
But then
a click on the video clouds the issue a bit.
Continue reading Regis and Kelly offended Dominicans? When?
Posted Oct 25th 2008 8:33AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Don't tell Keith Olbermann -- he of the
Countdown special commentaries -- but
CNN's Anderson Cooper is the Edward R. Murrow of our era. That's according to Lisa DePaulo of
Elle, but the popularity and proliferation of Cooper, from CNN to CBS's
60 Minutes to anchoring Times' Square on New Year's Eve and filling in for Regis Philbin on
Live with Regis and Kelly, backs up her assertion.
"He is our generation's Edward R. Murrow; that is, if Murrow were this good-looking and had lived in a world with Gawker and TMZ," DePaulo writes. "This is not just because of Cooper's exacting standards of journalism-hard work, legwork, no-divaness. He's a purist, really-like Murrow."
Continue reading Anderson Cooper is today's Edward R. Murrow
Posted Sep 29th 2008 11:30PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E02) "This burger is so good I want to sew my ass shut."I don't tend to open my reviews with a quote, but this one from Barney was too good to ignore. Might as well give it the
Best Barneyism of the week, but it's only one of a ton of memorable lines from all the characters in this episode. Was it funny? Damn straight. Did it make me hungry? Absolutely. Did it make me afraid of Regis Philbin? Maybe a little.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: The Best Burger in New York
Posted Sep 10th 2008 3:40PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Interviews, How I Met Your Mother, Reality-Free
Yes, I know:
I just spoke to Carter Bays a couple of months ago, right before
How I Met Your Mother's season finale. But there was so much news coming out about the show over the summer --
The Bro Code,
a wedding, self-contained episodes,
Regis -- that I felt I had to speak to him again before the fourth season started on Sept. 22.
(Well, I actually wanted to talk to both Carter and his show-running partner Craig Thomas, but, as usual, the mystery man was elsewhere. I've met him more than once, though, so I know he does exist.)
Anyway, I could have spoken to Bays at the CBS press tour party in July, but I wanted to get a bit more in depth, so we arranged a phone interview; that took place a couple of weeks ago, right after the third episode of the fourth season wrapped. He was a bit more evasive about those topics than he's been in the past, but he still provided me some good information about the upcoming season, the "haunting" singing voices of his male stars, and what it's like to see his show being played on an airplane. Interview is after the jump.
Continue reading Carter Bays of How I Met Your Mother: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Aug 11th 2008 11:23AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Look, I don't know what it is, but I'm kind of obsessed with
Regis Philbin. Maybe it's the way his hair doesn't look like it's moved since 1956, or the way he doesn't even bother to hide the fact that he has no idea who half the people are who he interviews. The point is, I get really excited any time I come across some Regis news, so I'm totally psyched that he's set to
guest star on How I Met Your Mother.
Philbin is going to play himself on the sitcom's second episode of the season. Apparently the gang runs into him at Marshall's favorite NYC burger joint.
While having Regis Philbin on the show may not earn them quite the record-breaking ratings that
Britney Spears did, it does offer a distinct advantage: The possibility of one of
Neil Patrick Harris' famous Regis impressions. Harris, who has filled in for Philbin on
Live With Regis and Kelly on several occasions, is known for doing one of the best "Reeges" out there, and that, to me, beats staring at Britney's extensions any day.
Posted Aug 5th 2008 9:25AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Celebrities, Ugly Betty, Casting, Reality-Free
One of the best things about moving your show to New York? New York guest stars.
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa have signed up to play themselves on the September 25th season premiere of
Ugly Betty. Conveniently,
Ugly Betty's star,
America Ferrera, announced the casting news while she was a guest on ...
Live With Regis & Kelly.
In addition to the morning duo, other guest stars lined up for the new East Coast version of
Betty include Ripa's husband, former
All My Children star
Mark Consuelos and Long Island native
Lindsay Lohan. Lohan is reprising her role as Betty's high school rival for five episodes.
I'm a sucker for shows that are filmed in New York, so I'm super-psyched about this season of
Ugly Betty. Now that they've already snagged Regis & Kelly, what other New Yorkers should
Ugly Betty try to get as a guest star? Personally, my fingers are crossed for
Anderson Cooper. But then again, my fingers are
always crossed for Anderson Cooper.
Posted Jul 30th 2008 2:24PM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, America's Next Top Model, Game Show, Casting
A day hasn't gone by where we haven't received some sort of tip or email asking us, the TV Squad, how to get on [insert reality show here]. Unfortunately no, Simon Cowell does not work for us, and Donald Trump isn't my BFF, so we really can't help all that much.
The folks at RealityWanted.com often send us a list of new and existing reality shows that are looking for new, er, talent, and they've given us permission to make mention of them here. We'll try to make this a regular feature as often as we get a new list.
This time we have America's Next Top Model, Don't Forget the Lyrics and a lot of new shows.
Continue reading Reality show casting calls
Posted Jun 25th 2008 4:38PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, Game Show, Reality-Free
CBS has ordered
six more episodes of Million Dollar Password. This is probably because the show, hosted by Regis Philbin, has become extremely popular. Over four broadcasts,
Million Dollar Password placed first in ratings in its time period. It also placed first among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54. The show is averaging 9.46 million viewers. Looks like CBS has the right idea with ordering up some more.
A few weeks ago, Joel talked about
the appeal of Password. Perhaps, it's the celebrities they secured to come play: Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Ray, Betty White, Tony Hawk and Rosie O'Donnell. But I think it's the power of
the Regis. Everything that man touches turns to gold. Remember the craze that accompanied
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I can't hear that theme music and envision the dramatic lights even now as I write this.
Million Dollar Password airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on CBS. Are you hooked enough to watch six more episodes?
Posted Jun 21st 2008 11:46AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Emmys
For the first time in a long time, something was different about the Daytime Emmys. No, it's not that they're on in primetime; that happened years ago. What was different was the 35th Daytime Emmys opted to forgo the theater setting and seat the stars at round tables. As co-host (with
All My Children's Cameron Mathison)
Sherri Shepherd told the AP days before the AP, "Usually everyone is sitting in a row. This year, it'll be like a wedding. We're also going to do something so that fans will be able to get a view of what's going on at the different tables." That would be web video created by the actors at every table - table cam. Perfect for hams. The vids are at
SOAPnet. For details about the show from the winners backstage, check out
AOL.
So did the seating arrangements make a difference? Well, it depends. Those who were there probably had a better time because there was an open bar, just like the Golden Globes. For viewers, it still looked like the Daytime Emmys, including many familiar faces winning. After a strained attempt at comedy for the opening -- blending
All My Children fictional characters with
The View's real hosts -- the show commenced.
Continue reading The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards
Posted May 30th 2008 3:22PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Game Show, Early Looks, Reality-Free
Here's the thing about game show revivals: you have to satisfy people on two levels. For fans of the old show, you have to make the gameplay of the new show familiar enough to keep them happy and coming back. And, in order to attract new fans, you have to modernize and add touches that will suck in viewers and help build drama. That's one of the reasons why most new game shows have
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-style darkened sets with swirling lights, and depend on ominous music and tight camera angles to create drama.
Million Dollar Password, premiering Sunday at 8 PM ET, has all of that. They even nabbed
Millionaire's original American host, Regis Philbin, to give it that extra bit of primetime oomph. But does it work? Well... sorta. Fans of the Allen Ludden / Tom Kennedy / Bert Convy incarnations might be dissatisfied with what they've done to their old favorite, but even an objective observer can see that the gameplay has some flaws that are going to need to be worked out for the show to succeed.
Continue reading Million Dollar Password -- An early look
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