There she goes...back off the air, again!
Hello, everybody. I've got lots of territory to cover as always, so on with the show!
First up...after only two years, CMT announced today they have dropped the Miss America Pageant, leaving the Super Bowl of beauty pageants without a television home -- again!
The cable outlet, which picked up the pageant where ABC left off, had those rights through 2011. But in a statement, they said they won't exercise its option in 2008 or beyond. A CMT executive said it wasn't ratings behind the decision, but its focus on original programming.
With Miss America off the air once again, the search for a new TV home is immediately underway. One group that seems to be highly interested are the Turner networks, as TBS or TNT may pick it up.
Why them? It's real simple: TBS used to have the Golden Globe Awards for years before NBC carried them in 1996 and made them the huge event we know of today. TNT's highest-rated event every year since 2003 is the NBA All-Star Game. Also, both simulcast the Screen Actors Guild Awards after its first two shows were broadcast on NBC. And TNT also serves as home to the annual "Christmas In Washington" specials after spending several years at NBC.
The only thing I watched regularly on TNT until WWE bought them in 2001 was "WCW Monday Nitro"; nowadays, we can relive it all thanks to YouTube.
Now, back to Miss America: TNT/TBS may not be the only ones on the prowl, but FX as well. Whether or not the main Fox network will be involved too, we don't know. USA and Bravo will say no, as mother network NBC already has the Miss Universe family of pageants...which used to belong to CBS for over three decades, and they'll turn down Miss America as well.
In the end, I'd like to see TNT pick up the pageant next because they want to maintain its tradition. Heck, they broke a part of it when it was moved from its longtime home in Atlantic City to Las Vegas, and that's okay. I don't want Miss America go to waste without a television home in its over 80 years. But that's not the only thing everybody's talking about now.
In 1973, White House counsel John Dean told Richard Nixon that "there was a cancer growing on the presidency" in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Well, flash forward 34 years later to 2007, and right now there is a different kind of cancer growing on us that has yet to be removed...and that cancer is Sanjaya Malakar!!!
That's right! If you've been watching (or ignoring) "American Idol" these last few weeks, we are in the middle of a mystery that even the late Robert Stack couldn't solve: Why is this no-talent hack still in?
To refresh your memory, Sanjaya is this 17-year old half-Indian, half-Italian hailing from Seattle whose awful singing combined with boyish looks is keeping him in the competition. Not even a mohawk he sported while missing a few words on Tuesday couldn't stop him.
So, who have we pointed our fingers to? One key factor is Howard Stern, who has launched a campaign for his Sirius satellite radio listeners to vote for him. Another is Votefortheworst.com, which has had some successes in the last couple of years (Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, and Jennifer Hudson among them).
But I know millions of us are already sick and tired of "American Idol" becoming "The Sanjaya Show", and have done something about it. Few have went even as far as to going on hunger strikes until Sanjaya gets the boot. However, I do have some alternatives, and I'm going to share them with you as I list my....
Hello, everybody. I've got lots of territory to cover as always, so on with the show!
First up...after only two years, CMT announced today they have dropped the Miss America Pageant, leaving the Super Bowl of beauty pageants without a television home -- again!
The cable outlet, which picked up the pageant where ABC left off, had those rights through 2011. But in a statement, they said they won't exercise its option in 2008 or beyond. A CMT executive said it wasn't ratings behind the decision, but its focus on original programming.
With Miss America off the air once again, the search for a new TV home is immediately underway. One group that seems to be highly interested are the Turner networks, as TBS or TNT may pick it up.
Why them? It's real simple: TBS used to have the Golden Globe Awards for years before NBC carried them in 1996 and made them the huge event we know of today. TNT's highest-rated event every year since 2003 is the NBA All-Star Game. Also, both simulcast the Screen Actors Guild Awards after its first two shows were broadcast on NBC. And TNT also serves as home to the annual "Christmas In Washington" specials after spending several years at NBC.
The only thing I watched regularly on TNT until WWE bought them in 2001 was "WCW Monday Nitro"; nowadays, we can relive it all thanks to YouTube.
Now, back to Miss America: TNT/TBS may not be the only ones on the prowl, but FX as well. Whether or not the main Fox network will be involved too, we don't know. USA and Bravo will say no, as mother network NBC already has the Miss Universe family of pageants...which used to belong to CBS for over three decades, and they'll turn down Miss America as well.
In the end, I'd like to see TNT pick up the pageant next because they want to maintain its tradition. Heck, they broke a part of it when it was moved from its longtime home in Atlantic City to Las Vegas, and that's okay. I don't want Miss America go to waste without a television home in its over 80 years. But that's not the only thing everybody's talking about now.
In 1973, White House counsel John Dean told Richard Nixon that "there was a cancer growing on the presidency" in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Well, flash forward 34 years later to 2007, and right now there is a different kind of cancer growing on us that has yet to be removed...and that cancer is Sanjaya Malakar!!!
That's right! If you've been watching (or ignoring) "American Idol" these last few weeks, we are in the middle of a mystery that even the late Robert Stack couldn't solve: Why is this no-talent hack still in?
To refresh your memory, Sanjaya is this 17-year old half-Indian, half-Italian hailing from Seattle whose awful singing combined with boyish looks is keeping him in the competition. Not even a mohawk he sported while missing a few words on Tuesday couldn't stop him.
So, who have we pointed our fingers to? One key factor is Howard Stern, who has launched a campaign for his Sirius satellite radio listeners to vote for him. Another is Votefortheworst.com, which has had some successes in the last couple of years (Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, and Jennifer Hudson among them).
But I know millions of us are already sick and tired of "American Idol" becoming "The Sanjaya Show", and have done something about it. Few have went even as far as to going on hunger strikes until Sanjaya gets the boot. However, I do have some alternatives, and I'm going to share them with you as I list my....
TOP FIVE OTHER WAYS WE CAN DO TO HELP VOTE SANJAYA MALAKAR OFF "AMERICAN IDOL"
5.Hang an effigy of him in your frontyard
4. Dub Apu's (of "The Simpsons") voice and edit it into footage of Sanjaya singing and put the video on YouTube
3. Make him a last-minute replacement for Vince McMahon's wrestler in the Hair vs. Hair match between him and Donald Trump at this weekend's Wrestlemania 23
2. Have somebody as Sanjaya pull a Britney with paparazzi snapping him exiting his car naked from the waist down
5.Hang an effigy of him in your frontyard
4. Dub Apu's (of "The Simpsons") voice and edit it into footage of Sanjaya singing and put the video on YouTube
3. Make him a last-minute replacement for Vince McMahon's wrestler in the Hair vs. Hair match between him and Donald Trump at this weekend's Wrestlemania 23
2. Have somebody as Sanjaya pull a Britney with paparazzi snapping him exiting his car naked from the waist down
And the #1 other way we can do to help vote Sanjaya Malakar off of "American Idol"...
1. For God's sake, just don't watch the goddamn show!!!!!!!
Like I said, Sanjaya Malakar is the cancer right now, and he should be removed as soon as possible. But if he goes all the way and wins "American Idol"...then it'll be one of the saddest days in television history. Can you imagine the crowd at the Kodak Theatre throwing eggs and garbage at the stage immediately after Ryan Seacrest names him the winner? I know I would.
Tomorrow, I have another list; the "Top Ten Sexiest TV Commercials of All-Time". Who has made our sets hot and heavy every time it airs during the breaks? Find out as I count them down from #10 to #1! See you then, and good night.
Like I said, Sanjaya Malakar is the cancer right now, and he should be removed as soon as possible. But if he goes all the way and wins "American Idol"...then it'll be one of the saddest days in television history. Can you imagine the crowd at the Kodak Theatre throwing eggs and garbage at the stage immediately after Ryan Seacrest names him the winner? I know I would.
Tomorrow, I have another list; the "Top Ten Sexiest TV Commercials of All-Time". Who has made our sets hot and heavy every time it airs during the breaks? Find out as I count them down from #10 to #1! See you then, and good night.
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