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Mock Draft: SEC - May 08,2009

Fri, 08 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT

On May 7 at 9pm EDT on the College Fantasy Football Show on the Fantasy Sports Channel we'll be conducting our SEC Mock Draft. The draft will be conducted live with special guest, Michael Hurcomb from CBS.com. Along with the draft we'll have our Q&A session on all the happenings around the SEC. Be sure to listen live at 9pm EDT!

college fantasy football | fantasy football | college football | SEC | mock drafts

Nancy Lenehan, "WORST WEEK" CBS TV sitcom star: Mr. Media Interview - Feb 09,2009

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT

‘Worst Week’ actress Nancy Lenehan cracks up Mr. Media Interviews It takes a certain kind of woman to play Angela, Sam's mother-in-law on the hysterical new CBS sitcom, "Worst Week." Nancy Lenehan is that woman. One week, she and her husband are getting busy under his desk. Another week, she rides a cello down a flight of stairs. Oh, and did you see the one where Sam walks in on her in the gynecologist's office and sees her you-know-what? And then writes a magazine column about it?

Worst Week | Nancy Lenehan | Kyle Bornheimer | Kurtwood Smith | CBS sitcom

Show notes from Monday - Dec 30,2008

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:34:58 GMT

Russian Prediction

WSJ article on Russian

How the predictions relate to Time Traveler John Titor

What this may mean to us? Jericho on CBS

Our Guest, Brandon Scott

Joan Ocean and Sasquatch thanks to caller Thomas.

Danichi | time travel | UFOs

Kyle Bornheimer, WORST WEEK CBS TV comedy star: Mr. Media Interview - Nov 25,2008

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT

As the star of "WORST WEEK," the 2008-09 TV season's funniest (and sometimes most painful!) new sitcom, Kyle Bornheimer plays Sam Briggs, an entertainment editor who endures some of the worst luck and circumstances (usually of his own making) in pursuit of marriage to his beloved, pregnant fiancee, Melanie (Errin Hayes). Standing in his way is Melanie's father, played by Kurtwood Smith ("That '70s Show") and Melanie's Neidermeyer-like brother-in-law. Them—and the laws of physics and Murphy. T

Kyle Bornheimer | Worst Week of My Life | Kurtwood Smith | sitcoms | CBS BBC America

CBS.com takes down the Jericho message board discuss it on TV Talk - Nov 19,2008

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:26:01 GMT

TV TALK: Jonathan Prince "Novel Adventures" on CBS.com - Nov 11,2008

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

BuddyTV's John Kubicek was on in the first hour..in the second hour Trey Farley host of Chase premiering tonight on Scifi will be on with us, as will Jonathan Prince from CBS.com's Novel Adventures and A&E's The Cleaner.

Novel Adventures | CBS.com | The Cleaner | fringe | eleventh hour

Jonathan Prince EP of The Cleaner on A&E and Novel Adventures on CBS.com will be on today - Nov 11,2008

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:34:37 GMT

TV TALK: Paola Turbay frm Novel Adventures on CBS.com - Nov 05,2008

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Hosted by Shaun Daily, who has won awards for broadcast excellence. With a main focus on prime time TV, Shaun is the "Rush" of television talk. A real alternative to the blathering of the political shows..

CRASH | starz | sons of anarchy | fringe | eleventh hour

AOLTVSquad's Bob Sassone and Paola Turbay from Novel Aventures on TVTalk today - Nov 05,2008

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:34:04 GMT

Paola Turbay frm Novel Adventures on CBS.com on TVTalk today - Nov 05,2008

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:25:46 GMT

Paola Turbay frm Novel Adventures the new online web series on CBS.com will be on with us today..

She was most recently on Cane on CBS last fall...

Join us as we talk about this great new online series that CBS is bringing to us !!

novel adventures | cbs.com | cbs | paola turbay | jonathan prince | web series | cbs interactive

Skinhead plot to assassinate Obama - Oct 28,2008

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:35:14 GMT

Authorities scuttle skinhead plot to assassinate Obama.

Two neo-Nazi skinheads are in jail today after law-enforcement officials broke up their plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or behead 99 Black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said Monday. Authorities disrupted the plans of the two would-be assassins to rob a gun store and target a predominately African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee, federal officials said, in court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn. All together, the two men planned to kill 88 people, including 14 African Americans by beheading, said Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF’s Nashville field office. Read the rest here, and watch the video below.

Will this ever End the time has come for a Change in 2009 (spititout1@yahoo.com) Essie Rerun Berry

Obama/vote/Plot to kill OBAMA

"Bring Back The Smooth Jazz Music" Campaign - Jun 15,2008

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:06:48 GMT

In an unprecedented display of passion in support of a prime time television series, "Jericho" fans sent CBS over 20 tons of peanuts to get the show back on the air. It work! Smooth jazz music fans, we are just as passionate about the music. So, I have come up with a campaign to bring smooth jazz music back to the stations that have gone off the air.

Listed below are the corporation's that own and/or operate the radio stations along with addresses, phone numbers and/or email addresses. The idea is to let these corporations know that there is an listening audience for smooth jazz music and we want our voices heard!

So, here's how the campaign works and you can do all three or pick one:

1.    Go to Walmart, Target or K-Mart and buy the bulk blank CD’s and send them to the corporations with a letter requesting they bring back the smooth jazz station and why? Also, let them know how you feel about the format that replaced smooth jazz; or

2.    Call and express yourself; or

3.    Send a fax and/or email

CD101.9 in New York
WQCD-FM/CD101.9

395 Hudson Street, 7^th Floor

New York, NY 10014

Phone: (212) 352-1019

Email: cd1019@cd1019.com

ABC-Citadel WJZW 105.9, Washington, DC.

New York Office:
Citadel Broadcasting Group

142 West 57^th Street, 11th Floor

New York, NY 10019

Tel: (212) 887-1670

Fax: (212) 887-1668
www.petitiononline.com/keepwjzw

go to this website to sign the petition

Las Vegas Office:
7201 W. Lake Mead Blvd, Suite 400
Las Vegas, NV 89128
Tel: (702) 804-5200
Fax: (702) 804-8250

KJCD - Denver, CO.

Lincoln Financial Media
P.O. Box 21008
100 N. Green Street

Greensboro, NC 27420

Tel: (336) 691-3000
Fax: (704) 691-3938

KHJZ 95.7 - Houston, TX

CBS Radio

1515 Broadway

New York, NY 10036

Tel: (212) 846-3939

programming: jlgarrison@cbs.com

Smooth Jazz 105.3 - Jacksonville, FL

Tama Broadcasting, Inc.
5207 Washington Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33619
Tel: (813) 620-1300
Fax: (813) 628-0713
programming@tamabroadcasting.com

campaign | smooth jazz music | talking smooth jazz | jazz queen

Bill Prady, THE BIG BANG THEORY, writer and executive producer: Mr. Media Interview - Apr 08,2008

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Bill Prady is a writer and executive producer of this year's break out sitcom hit, THE BIG BANG THEORY. But you've also seen his work on GILMORE GIRLS, DHARMA & GREG, TWO AND A HALF MEN, and DREAM ON. www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/

Bill Prady | CBS Television | Chuck Lorre | comedy | Dharma & Greg

Look Who's Coming to Mr. Media This Week! (April 7-9) - Apr 07,2008

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:21:06 GMT

April 7 1 p.m.

Jon Provost and Laurie Jacobson Provost, TIMMY'S IN THE WELL, Lassie star and co-authors: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour TIMMY'S IN THE WELL is the story of Jon Provost, television's first child superstar, and the low-down on LASSIE, one of television's most enduring shows. It is filled with celebrity anecdotes, rare photos, and memorabilia. Since his original seven-year run on the show, Provost has become a household name in 125 countries. His episodes continue to air in more than 50 countries, the checked shirt and jeans he wore as Timmy hang in the Smithsonian, & he has his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

April 8 1:00 p.m.

Bill Prady, THE BIG BANG THEORY, writer and executive producer: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour Bill Prady is a writer and executive producer of this year's break out sitcom hit, THE BIG BANG THEORY. But you've also seen his work on GILMORE GIRLS, DHARMA & GREG, TWO AND A HALF MEN, and DREAM ON. www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/

April 9 1 p.m.

Arie Kaplan, SPEED RACER comic book writer: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour Arie Kaplan is a MAD Magazine writer, comedy writer, animation writer, screenwriter, lecturer, pop culture expert, playwright, cartoonist, stand-up comic, member of the Friars Club, and he is writing the new Speed Racer comic book mini-series for IDW Publishing. www.ariekaplan.com

April 16 1 p.m.

Bill Adair, POLITIFACT.com editor and writer: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers analyze the candidates' speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate. Bill Adair is the Washington Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg Times. He's worked in Washington since 1997 and is the author of "The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation" www.politifact.com

April 24 1 p.m.

Daniel Pink, THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO, FREE AGENT NATION, author: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour Daniel H. Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of A WHOLE NEW MIND and FREE AGENT NATION. He lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the changing world of work. In 2007, he won a Japan Society Media Fellowship that took him to Tokyo to study the manga industry. The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is America’s first business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga – and the last career guide you’ll ever need. www.danpink.com

April DATE TBA 1 p.m.

Bob Delaney and Dave Scheiber, COVERT: MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB, authors: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour COVERT:MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB by NBA Referee Bob Delaney (with Dave Scheiber) is the must-read true crime book of 2008! Covert is the never-before-told story of how in 1975, after less than two years as a NJ State Trooper, Bob Delaney left the life he knew behind and started a new one as Bobby Covert, president of Alamo Trucking, and principal undercover agent in what would become the landmark mob-busting investigation, Project-Alpha.

Look Who's Coming to Mr. Media This Week! - Apr 01,2008

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:31:07 GMT

April 2 1 p.m.

James Sheehan, THE LAW OF SECOND CHANCES, novelist and lawyer: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour James Sheehan was born and raised in New York City and grew up in a four-room railroad apartment with his five brothers and sisters. He started working at the age of 12, shining shoes at a local shoe repair shop. At 14, he had a newspaper route. He is currently a trial attorney in Tampa, where he's practiced law for many years. His experience of growing up in New York has shaped his life. His first novel was THE MAYOR OF LEXINGTON AVENUE; both books follow the adventures of attorney Jack Tobin.

April 3 1:30 p.m.

Bill Prady, THE BIG BANG THEORY, writer and executive producer: Mr. Media Interview

April 4 3 p.m.

Robert Schimmel Returns! CANCER ON $5 A DAY, author and comedian: Mr. Media Interview

1 Hour 30 Minutes Comedian Robert Schimmel makes his second visit to Mr. Media to talk about his new book, standup life, and take your phone calls! www.robertschimmel.com

April 7 1 p.m.

Jon Provost and Laurie Jacobson Provost, TIMMY'S IN THE WELL, Lassie star and co-authors: Mr. Media Interview

April 9 1 p.m.

Arie Kaplan, SPEED RACER comic book writer: Mr. Media Interview

April 16 1 p.m.

Bill Adair, POLITIFACT.com editor and writer: Mr. Media Interview

April 24 1 p.m.

Daniel Pink, THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO, FREE AGENT NATION, author: Mr. Media Interview

April DATE TBA 1 p.m.

Bob Delaney and Dave Scheiber, COVERT: MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB, authors: Mr. Media Interview

Bob Horowitz, SUPER BOWL'S GREATESTEST COMMERCIALS, THE SINGING BEE: Mr. Media Interview - Mar 04,2008

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:08:39 GMT

Here’s something you probably don’t know about Mr. Media. The second of my nine books was actually about football -- Why Men Watch Football, in fact. So when the opportunity to interview Bob Horowitz came about, how could I resist? Bob is the creator and producer of the annual special, “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials.” You may also know one of Bob’s other creations, “The Singing Bee,” hosted by Joey Fatone, which was a summer hit for NBC in 2007 and will return soon, or the CBS interactive golf special, “Rules of the Game.” BOB HOROWITZ AUDIO! Click to open separate window

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BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I’m fascinated by your show. As a football fan and someone who’s done a little writing about why men watch football, I actually find it kind of hard to believe anyone still scoffs at the notion that half the fun of Super Bowl is the commercials, but I’m guessing there must be a few. BOB HOROWITZ: The people that scoff at it, I think that’s a major reason for the mega numbers that are associated with the event. It’s funny because, in television, you often hear the season finale of XYZ TV show is going to be brought to you without commercial interruption courtesy of General Motors, Ford, whomever, alright? And that’s done as a media stunt, and they believe that that will help the ratings. Commercials in primetime are limited in terms of breaks, say, versus the sports day part, because they feel that that will help ratings, right? Less commercial interruptions. You have this whole thing about TiVo and fast-forwarding through commercials, and what do you do about that? All of it is 180 degrees different with respect to the Super Bowl. If you took the commercials out of the Super Bowl, ratings would go down. Super Bowl is the only thing that people will TiVo and fast-forward to watch the commercials. ANDELMAN: And of course, there have been many, many years where the commercials have been vastly more interesting than the game itself. HOROWITZ: Right, right. But I think that very much like watching, and this is my personal opinion, like watching a “Saturday Night Live.” Some “Saturday Night Live” skits are funnier than other weeks’ “Saturday Night Live” skits, and that’s really what Super Bowl commercials are. They’re these clever thirty-sixty second skits that are entertaining and the viewers like to watch. So that when we on “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials” string them all together as a one-hour show, that’s why it does so well because people love to be entertained watching them.

ANDELMAN: I was just thinking of another analogy with “Saturday Night Live,” actually. When that show begins, just like the Super Bowl, everybody is on their edge of the seat. What’s it gonna be this week? How’s it gonna go? And usually, just after “Weekend Update” or in the case of the Super Bowl at halftime, interest starts to peter out so you need something to keep it going. And in the Super Bowl case, you’ve got the commercials. HOROWITZ: Right. And the genesis of the idea was not created on a mountaintop. It was just an observation of watching people at a Super Bowl party eight years ago in New York City that I was attending that they’re watching the game, and there’s that buffet table with the sandwiches and the chili and all that. During the game, there are people mulling around there talking. “Hey, how ya doing?” “Haven’t seen you in a while.” “Great, great, da da da da da.” All of a sudden, it went to a commercial time-out. Game goes to commercial. People rushed back from the buffet table to watch the commercials. I kind of said, “Commercials? I think they deserve their own show.” ANDELMAN: Did you ever imagine you’d be doing this for what I guess is eight years now? HOROWITZ: Yes. No, no, no, although every year, it’s funny. We sit there before the show, Steve Mayer, myself, the other executive producer, and we go, “What should we do differently?” And we both have this -- call it a governor -- where we’re just careful that if we go too far, one pitches the other one and says, “Just remember, people just want to watch the old commercials. We don’t have to be so creative.” The creativity was already done when the commercials were made. ANDELMAN: Tell me about the show. It’s a countdown format, right? HOROWITZ: It’s a countdown format in the show where we have selected, over the years of doing the Super Bowl commercials show, we mulled through all the various commercials. We’ve had fans vote on them. The producers of the show come up with the Top 10 commercials. They’ve been parked on cbs.com, so over the course of January, viewers and online users have been able to go to cbs.com to view those commercials. They’ve voted on their favorite. And in the show, we start with number 10 and count them down. Jim Nantz and Daisy Fuentes go from 10 to 9 to 8 to 7 to 6 to 5 to 4, and when we get to 4, and we stop, and we announce the final three, the top three commercials as voted on over the past month on cbs.com. And then we open it live to viewers across America on CBS to vote on one of those three spots as their favorite commercial of all time. And what was at stake was a Super Bowl game where we had New England going for the first perfect, perfect, perfect 19-0 season, and we had Mean Joe Greene going for a perfect 7-0. So we’ll see whether he gets unseated this year. ANDELMAN: So are you saying that Mean Joe, that Coke commercial, is in the top three? HOROWITZ: I would say there’s a good chance of that. ANDELMAN: What have been some of your own favorites over the years? HOROWITZ: I love the Budweiser spots, but I love clever commercials. I love those commercials that have you asking, “Where’s this going?” I know there are some big moments here at the end. Funny, funny, right? I love clever, funny spots so I love the Budweiser commercials. I love the ones with the Clydesdales and the dogs where they also tug at that emotional part of you. But then again, I also love those commercials that do not cost a lot of money but that are clever because there’s this misnomer that says, “Oh, Super Bowl commercials that cost now upwards of $3 million dollars to buy, they should cost the most amount of money to produce” isn’t the case. So one of my favorites to make that point would be the FedEx spot. I don’t know if you remember that one where all of a sudden, the commercial comes up, and it’s just bars and that annoying tone, right? And then a crawl comes below the bars and tone that says, “Our ad agency bought this commercial for $2 million dollars. Unfortunately, they didn’t use FedEx to get the spot to the network, and it never made it there.” ANDELMAN: Right, right, right. HOROWITZ: “We have fired our ad agency, and we’re out two million dollars.” How much did that cost? Ten dollars to make, right? And yet, it made the point of what FedEx is all about. It’s not always about the gazillion dollars and the special effects even though some of those are very, very clever. Anyway, those are some of my favorites. ANDELMAN: Bob, how important is, and maybe we can kind of balance these, humor in these commercials versus talking animals versus celebrities? Is there a hierarchy of what works and what doesn’t? HOROWITZ: No, I really don’t think so. The P-Diddy stuff was great. The Cindy Crawford/Pepsi stuff has been great. Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, all those celebrity spots, the nothing-but-net, all great. ANDELMAN: Right. HOROWITZ: Celebrity at the right moment, celebrity meets clever -- great. I love that. I think the animals tug at your emotions. I think those are the other group of great spots. Either the emotion or the celebrity clever. ANDELMAN: Bob, am I wrong in thinking that the humorous commercials are usually the most successful? HOROWITZ: No, I think you’re probably right. I would say the most successful, as in the water cooler conversation. Most successful now, now you have the USA Today ad meters like the ratings in the morning. They come afterwards, and it’s not necessarily all about the funny, the humorous. I think, though, if you’re talking about water cooler voting, you’ve gotta be funny. You’ve gotta be funny. ANDELMAN: Now, of course, there are exceptions: the Macintosh ad, of course, the “1984” ad, and of course, the one you mentioned, Mean Joe Greene, which recurs every year. But I know when I think about Super Bowl ads, I want to laugh and particularly if the game sucks, I want to laugh in between because I know the football announcers are not going to make me laugh. I know if Janet Jackson’s going to come in at halftime and flash me… HOROWITZ: And have her wardrobe malfunction, yeah. ANDELMAN: Yeah. I’m also thinking about Kevin Federline’s spot last year… HOROWITZ: Right. ANDELMAN: I can’t say we thought it at the time, but in retrospect, that spot did as much for turning around his public image as Britney Spears publicly crashing and burning since then did for him. HOROWITZ: Exactly, exactly. And again, I find that Kevin Federline and his management team was quite clever to do that spot of him flipping burgers because it was self-deprecating. He made fun of himself, and I think that got people to maybe think just a little bit nicer of Kevin Federline. We actually have him in the show. I can’t give away what we’re doing, but we will show that spot again, and then we did a very much “Saturday Night” take-off skit with Kevin in this year’s show that he cooperated and leads us through some commercials. ANDELMAN: I would have never guessed that a year later, I would actually think more of him than of her. It’s interesting. HOROWITZ: Pretty unbelievable. ANDELMAN: Long term, do you have any thoughts on which brands have benefited the most from their Super Bowl spots? HOROWITZ: That’s a good question. Probably Budweiser. I would say Budweiser and Pepsi. Coke has had great ads, but I think the Pepsi ads have been very funny and have done a lot for Pepsi and the same, obviously, for Budweiser. But there, you’re talking about two either brand leaders or number one, twos that don’t necessarily need the Super Bowl. Budweiser has eight spots in the game. They’re going to be number one no matter what, but as old man Wrigley said in advertising to some reporter that was asking him, “Why do you advertise when you have 100 percent market share with Wrigley’s gum?” And they were flying in a propeller plane, and he said to the reporter, “Look outside. Just because we’re flying along fine doesn’t mean you cut the engines.” So I think if you’re Budweiser, you do it because you’re the market leader and people expect you to do it. And I do believe deep down inside why it gets the big rating is people are looking for Budweiser to do that. They’re the creative. So Budweiser and Pepsi would be my answer. ANDELMAN: And what is the mark of an unsuccessful commercial that debuts on Super Bowl Sunday? HOROWITZ: I’m not going to say any by name. Part of the unsuccessful is that I don’t remember who they are. But I think a lot of the dotcoms were unsuccessful where they got to be too cute. They tried to play like FedEx, and it fell flat. Look at the godaddy spots, godaddy.com. That’s pretty unbelievable. The ads might be a little disgusting, but they definitely are clever. There’s one that maybe does something to push the needle and be a little affecting, and they’re successful for a different reason. ANDELMAN: I’m thinking back to last year, and I remember that at the end of the game, we looked at it and were talking about the commercials, and it just seemed like there were a lot of people that had spent a ton of money on commercials that they thought would dazzle us, and they weren’t funny. They didn’t really get the point of their product across, and they weren’t memorable. And I can’t even think of those brands now, but I remember at the time thinking man, what a waste.

HOROWITZ: Right, right. Think about it. That’s a godaddy.com. Where do you see godaddy spots? Really nowhere other than the Super Bowl. And so they’re ones that you’d say I guess they’re successful because look at every year, eleven months, three weeks later, we’re still talking about them versus those that you say I can’t remember, but I know there were some there that weren’t good. And therein lies the point of they just weren’t good cause you don’t remember them. ANDELMAN: And, Bob, have you ever done commercials? Have you ever worked in that medium? HOROWITZ: No, no. As an avocation, yes. I’m involved in the marketing of our TV shows, and I’d like to think that my fascination with Super Bowl spots is I like to be creative with promo spots or if I were to be dabbling as a producer, but I have not done it as a profession, no. Click Here to Keep Reading! © 2008 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.

Bob Horowitz | Britney Spears | Budweiser | FedEx | General Motors | Gerald Ford | GoDaddy.com | Jim Nantz | Joey Fatone | Kevin Federline | Pepsi | Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials | The Singing Bee

Big Brother: After Dark-Time for a New ChenBot? - Feb 26,2008

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:11:32 GMT

Summer after summer, one of our guilty pleasures is watching "Big Brother" on CBS. And when the show added "Big Brother: After Dark" on Showtime last year, it added more depth - if you can call it that - to the reality show. Adult themes and adult language made the show more real and it became the guiltiest pleasure. But watching the three-hour raunch fest last night -- on a one-day delay and thanks to 4x fast-forwarding -- I was less shocked by the topless and bottomless bubble bath pool party than I was that Julie Chen is still technically the host of the show, albeit in prerecorded spots. For a certain demographic, "Big Brother After Dark" on Showtime is a fun viewing; I have no problem with adult themes and situations for adult viewers. But isn't it time for the co-host of "The Early Show" -- produced by CBS News -- to step aside in favor of a more appropriate host? Like maybe Artie Lange from "The Howard Stern Show" or "Mr. Skin" from www.MrSkin.com?

Artie Lange | Big Brother 9 | CBS News | Julie Chen | Mr. Skin | Showtime After Dark | The Early Show | The Howard Stern Show