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Posted Jul 17th 2007 9:40AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities

Now that James Brown is gone, maybe we can give William Shatner the title "the hardest-working man in show business."
I mean, he's on
Boston Legal, he does those Priceline commercials, appears in movies like
Dodgeball, he has his own
web site, he hosts game shows. Hell, he even
sold his own kidney stone! And now he has signed up for a new show titled
Shatner's Raw Nerve. It will air on the Biography Channel. Shatner will interview celebrity and political guests. The show will run for 13 episodes to start.
This could be fun, if they let Shatner be Shatner and write his own questions. This is all part of Biography Channel's change to "true stories about fascinating people." Huh. Hasn't that been their goal all along with a name like Biography Channel?
Posted Oct 6th 2006 7:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, TV Royalty, Celebrities, Game Show

William Shatner is becoming the next Regis Philbin. He's everywhere!
Besides appearing on
Boston Legal, many different commercials (Priceline, DirecTV, ads for attorneys) and writing books and having a web site, he's
just signed to host a new game show for ABC titled
Show Me The Money. The game will involve contestants answering trivia questions for a prize of $1 million.
Sigh. Hey, I like game shows, but I fear the success of
Deal Or No Deal will push out scripted shows (or, on the flip side, good game shows will be so popular the networks will run them into the ground by having them on 2, 3, 4 times a week). And if they are going to have a game show, why use an already cliche line from some movie from the 90s?