No, that title doesn’t mean anything dramatic.
I should say that I’m on Jeopardy, well, in the audience at least. That’s right, the shows that Greg, Chris and I attended are airing this Thursday and Friday night, check your local listings. They took an audience shot at the end of the Thursday show, so maybe you’ll see us there with Chris.
Set your VCRs/DVRs/whatever now!
Well, as some of you know, today is Bob Barker’s last day on “The Price is Right”, and on television as he is now retiring.
I now offer my thoughts about today in TV history.
Bob has proven himself to be a good host over the course of his career, recognized by his peers with awards and accolades too numerous to count. You have to respect a tad bit a man who has been famous for only two game shows in 50 years. He knew how to get the reactions out of contestants to make the show interesting.
That being said, I can only give good words to his character in front of the camera. Based on what has been said about how he is off-camera, I would have to say that he is very unprofessional and very uncourteous to the people who have tried to work with him. If I were host, I would be nothing but a friend to each and every person who worked hard on the show. I would never show the level of attitude that he has shown to certain individuals, and I never will. It would violate my principles as not only a producer/director but as a human being. It’s just my human nature to enjoy each and every person’s unique talents and what they have to contribute, not to find petty reasons to try to get them off the show or be jealous of someone grabbing the spotlight.
That’s about all I have to say on this matter. All I can say is, have a good retirement, Bob, you’ve been ready for it for a long time.
You know, I always have been a fan of the original Star Trek series, never liked stuff past Next Gen. I have searched high and low for many years for just one thing that you think would be easy to find, but seems impossible at the same time.
At the christmas party every year, the cast and crew of Star Trek viewed a gag reel full of bloopers. These were meant for the cast and crew as souvenirs, but was shown to the public at conventions over the years. What I’ve been looking for is the complete copies from all three seasons. I was first exposed to the bloopers with a tape I bought at a convention in 1997, but this was far from complete. Most people see fit to edit and move stuff around to their own leisure. I think this is an atrocity to the original reel. I prefer to see it as is, uncut and uncensored.
So, the question remains, does anyone know of anyone or anywhere where I can find the UNEDITED versions?
Not expecting a response, but it’s a shot in the dark.
Recent Price is Right contestants/audience members…
OK, these people who have been out in line for ridiculous amounts of time get on stage and make complete fools of themselves.
Case in point on today’s show, an old lady who had no clue at all. She played “Stack the Deck”. After she got the right price on the last set of products, she was then asked it she’d like to be told the first, second, third or fourth number in the car. She asked for the first, and it was given to her. Then she had the nerve to say she meant the third number. They actually let her change her mind! I think that S&P would have a nightmare over that. She ended up losing anyway. But, win or lose, that still should not have happened.
There were some other weird characters on the show.
And don’t get me started on the ridiculous t-shirts that have gone from bad to worse as of late.
I think I speak right here in saying that sleep deprived individuals do not make great contestants on this show. It seems lately as if everyone is a “hey, I’m on this show with Bob, not on The Price is Right” attitude. (If that doesn’t make too much sense, I understand).
I know I sat out in this line back on March 4th/5th, but it’s getting way too ridiculous as we approach Bob’s last show. They need to find a different way of ticketing and bad to eliminate the ridiculous wait.
So I’m sitting outside of a McDonalds in the shade, and picked up a Wi-Fi on my laptop. Sweetness.
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Working on episode one of a new drama serial. It’s tough. Having to map out the plot, write scenes and make sure that there is plenty of expository all at the same time.
I’m shooting for five or six shows out of this to be done live to tape in the studio next year. I hope I’m not asking for too much, because TV executives these days would just balk at this idea. They’d say “it’s too dated”.
Reason #1 why drama serials (mainly soaps) suck on TV today: Meddling Executives. They think they know what works. I can say with a resounding tone that THEY DO NOT. Just watch any soap for ten minutes, and you’ll barf.
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Must… get… over… writer’s… block.
A thread on a message board got me to thinking about what I’ve been thinking about for a while, abandoning the news game and going into production, which I know I’ve always wanted to do. I would think that people have done this before, so I am fairly confident that I can do so. The problem is, I don’t want to do it right now, but I don’t want to continue being an intern coming up on a critical time in my education… the final three semesters.
Does everyone think a year worth of internship experience is about right, combined with my college projects (which I will share with you guys soon)?
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The plan right now is to work until Mid-July, call it a year, and go back out to LA for a couple of weeks in late July/early August. I plan to go back to Price, even if there is a new host there (and CBS had better choose wisely). Also, plan on seeing a lot of other TV-related stuff while out there… mainly going back to Jeopardy and/or Wheel, other audiences, etc.
More to come on that.
Ciao for now…
Well, this is the last week of the spring semester. Looking back, it’s hard to believe how much crap that I managed to get done.
Radio/TV Lab- Clue Me In… 3 episodes, coming back in the fall
Adv. Radio Production- Aircheck, Did a show all semester on Wed. night, Rockumentary of 1977
Adv. TV Production- Directed an acting scene for the Broadcast Performance class, Marketing Video for Good Samaritan Ministries, one episode of Appalachian Diary on Southwest Virginia Economy.
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Greg and I are looking ahead to working on our next series idea this summer… all I can say is two words: live drama. What’s that, are we crazy? We may be, but we love to do challenging stuff that has never been done.
More on that in the months to come.
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BTW, if you missed “How I Met Your Mother” earlier tonight, it was hilarious! Neil Patrick Harris’ character, Barney, went to The Price is Right. I hear it’ll be up on innertube on cbs.com tomorrow, so I won’t spoil it if you haven’t seen it.
Not much more to say, looking forward to some relaxation after this week is over.
Well, not much to talk about lately in this old life.
Work has been the usual stress, I really am growing weary of news photography, all the more clinching that I would rather be in the production side of things… but there aren’t any positions open over on that side so, oh well.
I guess I’m just stuck with the destiny of doing what I don’t want to do in life.
“Clue Me In” is churning, we got one show on tape last weekend and I was under so much rush and stress that I committed mistakes. There’s that damn job causing problems again, having to come straight over from working a 9-4:30 to do “Clue Me In”, it is almost too much… maybe it is too much… but I don’t want to just up and leave my job. I am however planning on leaving the news internship anyway in July. California calls again.
And, btw, be sure to watch Price is Right next Wednesday, front row baby! 🙂
Well, we are going to rehearse again tomorrow, and I have a feeling it will go a lot better than last time.
It has to get better than that maylay of a first rehearsal.
At least we have contestants and prizes to give to them, that’s a start. We may be a cheap show, but something is better than nothing.
Wish me luck everybody!