joan rivers-related stories
Posted Jun 7th 2009 10:18AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd
You know, I have to tip my cap -- yes, I'm wearing one -- to
Bravo. It seems to me that everything NBC does wrong with their programming, the NBC Universal cable net Bravo does right. Case in point is this new innovation, if you want to call it that, the lost footage episode.
Suddenly, out of nowhere really, Bravo has been stretching their unscripted, reality shows by adding an extra show labeled
The Lost Footage.
The Real Housewives of New York City was the first I caught, but soon after there was
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Lost Footage. Coming up is one on
The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Continue reading Bravo's latest find is lost footage
Posted May 12th 2009 8:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
...the Bio channel hopes that you do. Bio is looking to
expand its programming schedule for the new TV season with a number of new shows and pilots, including
Celebrity Ghost Stories.
The show will offer eight hour-long episodes featuring celebs like Carrie Fisher, Joan Rivers and Scott Baio talking about their real-life run-ins with ghosts.
OK, this show sounds crazy, but I'm gonna watch it anyway. I'll skip the Joan Rivers ep (she's nuts, so I buy that she sees ghosts, giant purple elephants and God knows what else all day), but I'm curious to hear what Carrie Fisher has to say.
Continue reading Want to hear some celebrity ghost stories?
Posted May 11th 2009 10:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
... a woman!
I took this post over from Isabelle, who fell ill while putting it together (no worries, she's OK), but I couldn't resist keeping her joke intact. Of course, the winner of this year's
Celebrity Apprentice was going to be a woman, given that the finalists were Joan Rivers and Annie Duke.
Last week, Isabelle
polled the TV Squad readers on who they thought
should win the show and on who they thought
would win the show. As of now, 52.8% said that Annie should win while 59.1% said that Annie would win. The poll results are rather close but Annie got the lead for both questions. Were your predictions right?
Continue reading And the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice is....
Posted May 5th 2009 3:08PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Vs., TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
If you are a fan of
The Celebrity Apprentice, you should have watched Sunday's two-hour episode by now and know that Joan Rivers and Annie Duke will face off in the ultimate task.
On April 23, I asked TV Squad readers to vote in an
Annie Vs Joan poll. The question was simple "Who should win the war?" At the time I write this line, 43.3% voted for Joan, 35.4% said Annie, while 21.1% opted for Trump to fire them both. That means 21.1% of you are disappointed this week, as Trump decided to make Joan and Annie the two finalists.
No matter if you like or hate Annie and/or Joan, you have to admit that out of the four contestants that were left at the beginning of the episode, those two will offer the most entertaining finale. Now that we know it's officially Joan Vs. Annie, who do you think should be hired?
Continue reading Who should win the Celebrity Apprentice?
Posted Apr 23rd 2009 12:50PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Vs., TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
This season of
The Celebrity Apprentice may not have
Piers and Omarosa to spice things up. However, poker player Annie Duke and comedienne Joan Rivers are a close second.
In the first episodes of the season, we didn't see much of the rivalry between the two ladies but the past two or three episodes have shown them as enemies. The two of them have done and said pretty harsh things about the other. The war between the two is still ongoing so before one of them is fired, it's time we take a few minutes and make our predictions as to who will win the war: Annie or Joan?
Continue reading Celebrity Apprentice: Annie Vs. Joan
Posted Apr 13th 2009 12:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
For months, the three people who still watch NBC have seen the promos for this season of
The Celebrity Apprentice; the big climactic scene was of Joan Rivers smashing down a glass out of some sense extreme frustration. Of course, it made the three of us wonder: did she get annoyed during a particularly tough task? Did one of her fellow celebs completely throw her under the bus? Was it Joan's way to finally lash out at Donald Trump's scattered and random management of the game?
It turns out that it was none of these things. In fact, when the scene came in this week's episode, it was so anticlimactic that you might have missed it if you had turned away to get some ice cream. In fact, this week's entire two-hour episode ambled along so slowly that I thought NBC expanded it to three hours to take
Kings' vacated timeslot.
Continue reading Everything about last night's Celebrity Apprentice was boring - VIDEO
Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:03PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Times have changed in the comedy roasting business. It was only 20 years ago, in November of 1988, that women were allowed into the New York Friars Club before 4 PM, when the Club would host its roasts. Before then, Phyllis Diller once had to sneak onto the premises in drag to see a show.
Now Comedy Central has taken over the roasting business, or at least theirs are the most high-profile regular comedy roasts. And they announced today that they will be roasting one of the first seven women admitted to the Friars in 1988 - Joan Rivers. The Roast will take place July 26 and air Sunday, August 9 at 10 PM.
Continue reading Comedy Central to roast Joan Rivers - VIDEO
Posted Apr 6th 2009 4:26PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Episode Reviews
I admit it, I've been watching
The Celebrity Apprentice and I have been entertained by every minute of it. Yes, it doesn't take much to amuse me on Sunday nights, as you can see, but those of you who do watch the show must agree that this season's crop brings the drama!
The cast may not include
Omarosa and Piers,
last season's winner, but
Dennis Rodman, Clint Black, Annie Duke, Joan and Melissa Rivers stepped up to the drama plate.
Warning! If you haven't watched last night's episode yet, stop reading this post now and come back once you've watched it because I know you'll want some place to discuss the boardroom drama.
Continue reading Did Trump go off his rocker on last night's Celebrity Apprentice?
Posted Mar 30th 2009 12:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
I'll admit that
The Celebrity Apprentice is a guilty pleasure of mine. Why? Two words: Nutty celebrities! Just like any other reality show, seeing people get along and be friends just doesn't cut it. There needs to be an agitator, someone who's going to make everyone roll their eyes and bitch and moan that they have to work or live with such a loose cannon/nutjob/free spirit. The fact that those people are celebrities is a plus in my book.
It amazes me that these reality shows consistently cut their most interesting players because everyone is annoyed by them. And this year's
Celeb Apprentice just committed that cardinal sin.
Continue reading The Celebrity Apprentice made its latest cut too soon
Posted Feb 18th 2009 12:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Video, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Would you say that Arsenio Hall's show was a bomb? Yeah, neither would I.
But
The St. Peterburg Times lumps Hall's show into a group that includes Magic Johnson, Chevy Chase, Pat Sajak, and Alan Thicke. They all hosted late night talk shows that never quite made it. And when I say never quite I made it, I mean they were gone in the blink of an eye. But Hall's show lasted about 6 seasons, and if I remember correctly was quite popular with younger viewers and gave Carson, Leno and Letterman some good competition in that demographic. I also don't agree with another statement, that Jon Stewart's talk show "sucked." I kinda liked it.
So will Jimmy Fallon's show be another short-lived show that couldn't compete? Or is it a different time now? A lot of people thought that another Jimmy, Kimmel, wouldn't last that long either. But it looks like he's here for the long haul.
Continue reading Will Fallon be another Conan or another Magic Johnson? - VIDEOS
Posted Jan 12th 2009 7:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Celebrities, Documentary, Reality-Free
"B as in bandits. Who rob. And what do they rob you of? Logs. A blog is something that's contagious. It festers here and it eats away at the planet."That's Amy Sedaris, explaining what blogs are. She's part of the new, six-part PBS documentary
Make 'Em Laugh, which starts airing Wednesday night at 8pm (you can also buy the DVD in stores tomorrow). Amy not only explains the blogs, she also tells us what the internet is in general (like a big cave you drive out of). And "vlog" comes from the Latin for "head cheese."
This portion of the show is after the jump. Looks like PBS/WNET is going the VH-1 route and getting all hip with this documentary, having various experts on comedy sit off to the side of the screen, talking about comedy and making funny remarks, a la
I Love The 80s or...well, 22 other shows.This looks like a fun documentary though. Besides Sedaris we'll hear from people like Dick Van Dyke, George Carlin, Carol Burnett, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Sid Caesar, Richard Belzer, Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, Billy Crystal, Michael McKean, and others. They're also going to feature many online humor, including
College Humor,
Funny Or Die, and
zefrank.
Continue reading Amy Sedaris explains blogs - VIDEO
Posted Jan 9th 2009 1:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, The Apprentice, Celebrities, Casting
Yesterday, NBC
revealed the cast for the second edition of
Celebrity Apprentice, an announcement that
had been made in October but somehow kept under wraps by the press until now. How did that happen? Well, my guess is that the press got a look at the names of the "celebrities" on the list and determined that they weren't leak-worthy.
I mean, really ... Dennis Rodman? Dice Clay? Tom Green? Joan and Melissa Rivers? A Kardashian sister that isn't Kim? No wonder why the only people who leaked the news were Letterman and Conan; they cast is barely even worthy of late-night monologue scorn.
Continue reading Can the Celebrity Apprentice succeed when there's no writers' strike?
Posted Dec 3rd 2008 7:08PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: The Apprentice, Celebrities
What's better than one hour episodes of
Celebrity Apprentice? I would answer "zero hour episodes" but NBC is thinking a little different.
Celebrity Apprentice is now going to be
two hours long.
That's right, Mark Burnett has announced that each episode of the next edition of Donald Trump's reality show is going to be two hours long and will run on Sunday nights. No word on when the show will debut, but sources are saying that it will probably bow in February, with
cast members Joan and Melissa Rivers, Andrew Dice Clay, Clint Black, Tom Green and others vying for the top spot.
Trump must be happy to see his show expanded while
Rosie O'Donnell's show crashed in flames.
Continue reading Who wants to watch Celebrity Apprentice for two hours?
Posted Jun 17th 2008 6:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free
Can we talk ... without using curse words? Comedienne and home shopping pioneer Joan Rivers was removed from a live British talk show for swearing.
Well, OK, it's not like she was dragged off kicking and screaming during the live broadcast (like this guy), but she was asked to leave the set during a commercial break. Rivers was on the show Loose Women (ahem) and they were talking about Russell Crowe and Rivers said that he was "f***ing shit." I think she meant the phrase as an adjective, not a verb.
Rivers is actually over there doing a one woman show on the West End, Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress By A Life In Progress. She has apologized for what she said, the host of the show apologized for what she said, and ITV apologized to viewers for she said.
Just to be safe, TV Squad also apologizes for what Rivers said. Thank you.
Update: Video added after the jump.
Continue reading Joan Rivers removed from live British talk show - VIDEO
Posted Sep 16th 2007 9:01AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
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