WeekEnder: October 29-November 4
Saturday, November 04, 2006
ANNA NICOLE SMITH EXCLUSIVE
"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" managed to score the first interview with Anna Nicole Smith and are screwing it up big time. The sister shows share a big story every sweeps month. Ealier this year, it was Tanya Harding and the Buttafuocos. For November sweeps, ET's Mark Steines and THE INSIDER's Lara Spencer flew to the Bahamas to talk to Anna Nicole for the first time since her son died unexpectedly.
Instead of devoting entire shows to what could have been a very interesting interview, they're exploiting Anna Nicole's pain by stretching the interview out over several days and teasing it endlessly. This super-saturation is as tasteless as it is boring. Each show is calling their interview an "exclusive." If more than one show has it, it can't be an exclusive. Looks like Anna Nicole made out best on this one. Rumor has it she was paid as much as $1 million for the semi-exclusive.
The interview itself is just plain depressing. Anna Nicole constantly breaks down as she leans on Howard K. Stern. She says if not for Stern and her new baby, she would not want to be alive. Smith also says that she worries about whether or not her son is lost without her on the other side.
QUICK HITS
- YouTube has removed all Comedy Central clips at the cable channel's request.
- Martha Stewart's daytime show has already been renewed for a third season.
- Neil Patrick Harris, who we all know as Doogie Howser, tells People magaizne that he is gay.
- Whitney Houston was out on the town for the first time this week since she and Bobby broke up. For the first time in a while, she was all cleaned up, looking like the star that she is.
- Flavor Flav's girlfriend, whoever she is, is pregnant with Flav's seventh child.
- Good news for Peanuts fans. ABC will be broadcasting classic holiday episodes of Charlie Brown later this month. "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" airs on Monday, Nov. 20 at 8pm/EST and "Charlie Brown Christmas" airs Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 8 p.m./ET
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"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." -- John Kerry's "joke" gone wrong
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