It's All Talk, Talk, Talk, And More Talk

So this NBC debacle with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien is a wreck. It was a bold gamble to think that a 10pm talk show on weekdays would be a ratings draw. The deal is, we are saturated with talk shows. I personally don’t find very many talk show guests whether they be actors, athletes, authors, musicians or partridges in pear trees, fascinating, enthralling or easy on the eyes. This rumored deal for Leno is perfectly disturbing. It’s like the 15 minute “Nat King Cole Show” for white people in comparison to Conan O’Brien doing the “Tonight Show”.
I do like the “Wanda Sykes” show on Fox-TV. That’s primarily because she has vowed as executive producer and star of her show that she will not have celebrities coming on to hawk their movies, appearances and series with clips or other out of context malarkey that isn’t funny or compelling.

Oh boy, it’s a sorry state of affairs for network television when we’re hung up on whose talk show should stay or go. I miss my escapism TV shows. The soaps are getting axed and we’re forced to watch news programs, court shows and talk shows along with socially and medically informational shows that make you sick and possibly encourage you to put your husband in a headlock for working too hard trying to make a decent living. It’s preposterous what our fellow John and Joan Q. Public think are healthy habits as we slog through life.

Hey, I’m not adverse to all the dramas on TV, but Entertainment—yes with a capital “E” is gone. Most dramas are tutorials on how to outwit the system and outfox the fuzz (or so it seems).

Happy New Year—and as they said on the “Dr. Phil” show, “Don’t Do It Again In 2010.”