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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Brick in the face

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that Ryan Seacrest's show was borne out of a Fox Television need for further shameless self-promotion. Picture the TV suit saying, "Y'know, we need something like a Today Show or GMA, where we can co-op and pimp our talent and promote our shows. And it needs to be cheap, and maybe it doesn't have to be in the morning so much. And maybe I'd like it to be a little like TRL because Carson Daly wouldn't go down on me when I cornered him in the restroom stall the other day at 1515."

And then the suit next to him says, "You know, it'd be a pain in the ass to put it on the network. Why don't we just syndicate it?"

Ta da! Instant bonus job for yet another plastic-face tool. Check out a recent week's schedule courtesy Tom Heald via "This Week at the TV Barn":

ON AIR WITH RYAN SEACREST, Syndicated
Mo 5/24 "American Idol losers" R.J. Helton, Julia DeMato,
Vanessa Olivarez, Nikki McKibbin, Rickey Smith and Josh Gracin
Tu 5/25 Tamyra Gray performs / "American Idol'' update /
winner of "The Swan."
We 5/26 On the set of "American Idol" / Alanis Morissette
performs.
Th 5/27 "American Idol'' winner and runner-up / Randy Jackson.
Fr 5/28 TBA

Yes, yes, yes, I know it is after all American Idol (season 3) Finale Week. But come on. Besides the TBA on the day after sweeps (which will probably be a rerun) and Alanis Morissette, everything else is a Fox property.

While I'm on the subject is it just me or am I the only one who wants to heave a brick in the face to the following Ken dolls?:
+ Carson Daly
+ Ryan Seacrest
+ Billy Bush (on Access: Hollywood)
(more tools to be named later)

I'm sorry, I just cannot stand such polished, "with it," so obviously empty-headed individuals on television. These men just LOOK like the only thing they were born, groomed, and paid to do is read cue cards and be professional suck-ups. If I ever turn into one of these men, shoot me. If I ever turn into one of these men and I am no longer wearing glasses on a regular basis, for God's sake stab me through the heart with a wooden stake and take away my powder base compact immediately. I hesitate, for some reason, to invoke the Seinlanguage word mimbo here, but it seems appropriate.

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