retirement-related stories
Posted Jun 30th 2008 10:22AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E04) If there's one thing about
Army Wives that bothers me, it's that life is rarely this tidy. With a few exceptions, this episode was about as neat and organized as Frank Sherwood's sock drawer. If you know that character, you know what I mean.
The really good part of the show dealt not with the wives, but with the husbands. Michael Holden, usually the Rock of Gibraltar, finally was shown to be in pain.
It was fitting that Michael wouldn't make it easy for Claudia Joy to find out what was bothering him. A general doesn't show his soft underbelly, not even to his wife.
The twist of having George's sister, Leah, appear was a good development. It was unexpected that the sister of the guy who bombed the Hump Bar would approach the Holdens, but it worked because it gave Claudia Joy a chance to counsel Michael.
Continue reading Army Wives: Leaving the Tribe
Posted May 27th 2008 12:43PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Industry, Celebrities, Reality-Free
For once the info coming from CBS News is not about whether
Katie Couric's job is in jeopardy.
Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer has decided not to retire after all; he's staying with CBS News indefinitely.
The veteran newsman, who'll be 72 this year, had announced his retirement. He was going to leave the Black Rock as of the January presidential inauguration. Now he's decided to postpone the rocking chair. According to
TV Week, the network didn't have to twist his arm; the deal was easily and simply done. All Schieffer had to do was get his wife Pat's approval and he was able to tell CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus asked him not to step down as planned with the inauguration of a new president that he would remain.
Continue reading Bob Schieffer sticking with CBS News a little bit longer
Posted Apr 16th 2008 9:20AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: TV Royalty, Daytime, Game Show, Reality-Free
If anyone thought Bob Barker was going to miss being on stage at
The Price is Right, then they'd be wrong.
At least if you listen to Bob; he not only thinks he left "at just the right time," but is keeping himself extremely busy.
Barker spoke to the Long Beach, CA
Press-Telegram recently, and he explained that "I enjoyed the show right up to the last minute of the last show. But, I don't miss it so much that I want to go back and do it again. I think I'm going to be very happy in retirement." He's currently working with various animal-rights organizations and is writing an autobiography, which he expects to be out late this year (ah, the publishing world moves quickly when they have to, know what I mean?).
Continue reading Bob Barker is enjoying his retirement, thinks Carey is doing a good job
Posted Aug 21st 2007 9:39AM by Varun Lella
Filed under: Industry, American Idol, Judges
Okay maybe the five exclamation points weren't necessary, but I thought that they would drive the point across. Yes it is true, the insulter supreme, Simon Cowell,
will be leaving America's favorite singing show (no not
The Singing Bee) ... in three years.
Cowell will be stepping away from his on-screen roles on
Idol and the UK's
X Factor to work on his music and television production companies. Obviously, there is no word yet on potential replacements. I am hoping for Gary Busey, he seems like he knows how to cut someone down real good.
Continue reading Simon Cowell quitting American Idol!!!!!
Posted Feb 20th 2007 6:34PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Industry, Commercials
The new
Chief of Marketing over at supplemental insurance company Aflac, Jeff Herbert, is planning to silence the duck. Despite the little quacker having garnered the company an 85% brand awareness rating, Herbert feels that people just don't know what Aflac actually does. So, expect to see the duck minimized in future Aflac advertisements.
Poor,duck. It probably doesn't know how to say anything other than "Aflac," which could cut the second phase of his career awfully short. Perhaps, he could go into early "fallen corporate mascot" retirement. There's got to be a pasture out there somewhere where Morris the Cat, Spuds McKenzie and the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales sit around and bitch about their agents.
UPDATE: The duck lives! The AdAge story which this post referred to was picked up by news outlets all over the country. Apparently, the piece overstated Herbert's intention of expanding beyond television ads to other media where the duck's "quack" would not be heard.
Aflac has officially announced that they have, "no intention of abandoning the duck."
Posted Nov 2nd 2006 12:39PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: CBS, OpEd, Daytime, Watercooler Talk, Game Show
As I've been reading the news stories surrounding
Bob Barker's retirement, I've been noticing that people have been confusing two elements of the
The Price is Right that have similar names. In fact, that confusion has been in place for about thirty years, perpetrated by bloggers, columnists and news anchors: the misidentification of
TPiR's final round as "the Showcase Showdown."
The confusion flummoxes the best of them, including our friends at BestWeekEver.tv, who put together
a list of ten reasons why they'll miss Bob (must be an homage to our
The Five list of reasons why we'll miss Bob). In item number 3, about Bob losing his patience, writer Michelle Collins states, "Often seen when people have difficulty coming up with a bid during the Showcase Showdown." Um, Michelle... that's not quite right.
Continue reading Nitpick of the day: the Showcase vs. the Showcase Showdown
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