This morning on Good Morning America, they announced who will be dancing this season on Dancing with the Stars. There was one name that stood out and not in a good way.
People immediately took to Twitter to declare their disgust that they asked Sean Spicer to put on his Boogie Shoes. They were not alone, host Tom Bergeron was also not happy with the decision. However, his reason is a little different than theirs.
A few months ago, during a lunch with DWTS’ new Executive Producer, I offered suggestions for Season 28. Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations. I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement.
Subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, “go in a different direction.”
It is the prerogative of the producers, in partnership with the network, to make whatever decisions they feel are in the best long term interests of the franchise. We can agree to disagree, it’s their call. I’ll leave it to them to answer any further questions about those decisions.
For me, as host, I always gaze into the camera’s lens and imagine you on the other side, looking for a two hour escape from whatever life hassles you’ve been wrestling with. That’s a connection, and a which I take very seriously, even if I occasionally season it with dad jokes.
Hopefully, when Erin Andrews and Rook into those lenses again September 16, you’ll be on the other side looking back, able to enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm exhausting political climate and free as we do now, but ultimately responsibility, on that has defined DWTS since 2005.
I side with Bergeron on this. We get way too much politics during the day, I want to escape it with primetime TV. Hopefully, this show will still be an escape.
Although, I wonder if the man, who hid in the bushes at the White House, will be brave enough to deal with all of the controversy he is bringing to the dancing competition. As in, will he quit before the show premieres on Septemeber 16th? Or go for the easy way out and claim he was injured and have to bow out like Jewel and Nancy O’Dell?
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Last week when Suits ended, Faye (Denise Crosby) fired Samantha (Katherine Heigl). Tonight at 9p on USA Network, the named partners are going to try to get her back.
The episode starts off with Faye calling Donna (Sarah Rafferty) and telling her to get the partners not to try to get Samantha back. If they do, then the firm will be lucky to last a year. Do you think Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Louis (Rick Hoffman) are going to listen to her warning? Nope. They will find something on Faye that will destroy her. Will they go through with it?
Meanwhile, Samantha is working her angles. She is determined to get her job back. How far will she go and who will she go to for help? She will have help from a friend, but is that friend enough? Will they tell her to move on? After all, it is the final season, so it is OK if she departs early and we focus on the originals.
Talking about another non-original, Katrina (Amanda Schull) has a case up against Brian (Jake Epstein). How will she react when she sees him for the first time since he left the firm because of their feelings for one another. Is that spark still there? Will he leave his wife for her? Will she ask him to do that?
You just have to tune in to find out what happens on another great episode that makes me so sad that Suits is ending. Why does have to end? Why?
For the last few days, people have been debating who has the better chicken sandwich, Popeyes or Chick-fil-A? Personally, I am a fan of neither, so I cannot answer the question.
While I cannot do it, Conan O’Brien decided to answer it for all of us. He sent someone out to both fast food restaurants, that are within walking distance of the Warner Bros, to pick up the choice menu item. Once they were in his studio, he had a real food connoisseur sample both delicacies. Which one did Dudley The Taste Test Dog prefer? He gobbled them both up in one bite. Thus, the answer is a tie.
Therefore, they are both equally as good (or bad) and we can move on with our lives. That is until someone brings Kentucky Fried Chicken into the mix…
Showtime just finished airing The Loudest Voice, a series about the Roger Ailes/Gretchen Carlson scandal. That was on the small screen. Coming to the big screen in December is Bombshell which is going to tell the same story.
This time Nicole Kidman plays Gretchen Carlson, the part her best friend, Naomi Watts, played on the series. Which friend will be better in the role? We will find out.
We will also see who does a better job as the head of Fox News, John Lithgow or Russell Crowe. Well, that is a given. Lithgow all the way.
I miss the days when we got three telemovies about the same story. Big screen and small screen versions are not fair.
Back in the ’60s, boys were at home watching Barbara Eden on the small screen in I Dream of Jeannie and going out to see Connie Stevens on the big screen. However, the two blondes never would share the screen together. Even though they only worked together with Bob Hope to entertain the troops, they have a friendship that has survived many decades.
One that brought them together yesterday looking as beautiful as they did 60 years ago at the start of their careers. Can you believe Eden is 87 and Steven is 81? 80 is the new 40. I am no longer afraid to get old if that is what it is going to look like.
