Category: Television

We’ll Miss Ya, Bill!
FYI- The last episode of Politically Incorrect airs this Friday!

Did You Know That She Is Married To Maury Povich?
CNN debuts Connie Chung tonight.

It Was On March 4, 2001, To Be Exact
The Lone Gunmen Made a 9/11 Prediction.

The Cos disses Oz
Bill Cosby says Ozzy Osbourne and his bizarre clan are giving TV families a bad name.
“This is a sad, sad family,” Cosby tells Access Hollywood on tonight’s show. “The children are sad and the parents are sad. And this is not entertainment.”
The dean of TV dads went on to say that watching the burnt-out goth rocker shuffling about his L.A,. mansion was “like laughing at Tiny Tim. It’s the kind of entertainment that you look at, but you wouldn’t want it in your home.”
The Osbournes currently airs on the digital network MTV Canada Tuesday and Friday nights. CTV has bought the U.S. cable hit and plans to air it this fall.

A FRIENDS writer speaks out a bit about the direction of the last season of the show.
The “Friends” writers return to work this week to map out the adventures in which the sextet of characters will be involved during the show’s final season.
One thing is for sure, insists the series’ co-creator/executive producer/writer David Crane: Fall will definitely mark the swan song season of the landmark show.
“We’re all approaching this as our last, the studio and network included. We all want it to go out on top. We all feel that very strongly.”
He’d also, most naturally, like to see the oft-imitated show receive the one thing that has thus far eluded it: an Emmy.
Crane says he’s trying not even to think of the odds that the show will be Emmy-honored as it approaches its final season, just focusing on pre-production of season No. 9.
Will the six friends leave the air as three couples?
“I don’t see that happening,” says Crane. “That would be a little too tidy.”
Will Monica and Chandler join Rachel and Ross as parents?
The latter is possible, says Crane, “But at this point, we sincerely don’t know which way we’re going. It’s all just an exciting question mark.”

Radio Ga Ga, Radio Go Go
ABC goes ga- ga over Go- Go’s.

BLAME CANADA
Actors Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox, game-show host Alex Trebek and ABC newsman Peter Jennings heading a new list of the “Top 10 Canadians in U.S. Television” compiled for this year’s Banff Television Festival in Alberta.

If It’s On During Letterman, I’ll Miss It
Bill Maher is planning a low profile exit from POLITICALLY INCORRECT.

Back In Brown
Alf is back!

‘Playboy After Dark’ to Groove Again
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner will host a revival of “Playboy After Dark,” the 1969 latenight variety series that showcased jazz musicians, comics and soul singers in a fake penthouse apartment.
The series, which would contemporize the laid-back cocktail partylike atmosphere of the original, is being shopped to cable networks by Fox-based Prometheus Entertainment. The project is being developed as a weekly hourlong series or as a series of backdoor specials. Initial production will take place at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills.
“‘Playboy After Dark’ is one of the jewels in Playboy’s crown and was considered an important cornerstone in Hugh Hefner’s legacy,” producer Kevin Burns told Daily Variety. “It was groundbreaking, in terms of being interracial, intergenerational and in terms of its format.”