The writers of Sesame Street still have a hold on the Tuesday TV Touchbase
Today's Touchbase is brought to you by the letter "C".
"C" is for Call Me Kat which I did not watch but I'm bringing it up here because the show impacts another show that I do watch, Jeopardy.
The idea of Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik sharing the hosting duties of Jeopardy went a little lopsided over the course of the current season. Instead of a 50-50 split, we got something closer to an 80-20 split with Jennings doing the majority of time behind the lectern. A lot of this was due to changes in the production schedule for Call Me Kat in the wake of co-star Leslie Jordan's death.
Well, Mayim might have more time in her schedule for Jeopardy now that Fox has decided not to renew Call Me Kat for a 4th season. Which is not a good thing.
Look, I'm not one of those Mayim haters. I find that she is a perfectly good host. BUT... Ken Jennings feels so right as the host of Jeopardy and quite frankly the gig should be his and his alone.
And we are getting more Ken as the current season wraps up. Mayim was supposed to host the show through the end of the season but with about 2 weeks of shows left to shoot, she will be bowing out to join the Writer's Guild strike picket line.
I respect Mayim's choice here but I think it just underscores Ken's value as the host Jeopardy.
"C" is for CNN which pissed off a lot people last week by hosting a town hall in New Hampshire ahead of the Republican primary there later this year. A town hall that featured Donald Trump in front of a mostly Trump friendly audience who cheered and applauded Trump's gusher of lies.
Basically, CNN hosted a god damn Trump rally.
The moderator of the town hall could barely keep up with fact checking Li'l Donnie's litany of lies and she got called out by Trump for being "nasty" (his favorite insult for women) when she tried.
Despite all the criticism of having this lying, grifting, sexually assaulting, cheating, traitorous insurrectionist piece of shit on their network, be prepared for more of this fuckery on CNN. Current network owners Warner Brothers Discovery has a handful of conservative Trump supporting old dudes on the board now who have said out loud that they want CNN to be more "conservative friendly".
"C" is for Community, the comedy series that aired on NBC a few years back. I missed it back in the day but over the years I have seen lots of clips of the show on You Tube and Tik Tok which I found incredibly funny. So I recently began catching up on the series proper on Netflix.
Yes, Community is as funny as the clips suggest but what caught me off guard was how sincere and sweet the show could be. A group of community college students with absolutely nothing in common somehow form a bond of friendship despite their worst attributes.
"C" is for Cunk On Earth, a Netflix mockumentary series I finished a few weeks back. The series features Philomena Cunk (Diana Morgan), a "journalist" with an open mind and lots of really, really stupid questions. Cunk is doing the full David Attenborough as she covers the history of planet Earth, our species, and our culture. But while Attenborough seems to be intelligent and thoughtful, we wonder how did Cunk get here and will she be able to find her way out when she's done.
Cunk does seem to make her way around this great big old planet of ours although unsurprisingly revealed in the 5th episode's last scene, Cunk was in one place the whole time being green screened into these locations around the world.
Cunk wearing the same damn outfit for the entire series was a giveaway. Also the show likely did not have that kind of travel budget.
OK, that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase and enough of this "Sesame Street" style "letter is for something" shit.
Next week...
"S is for season finale."
What the hell?
Next week, we'll look at the season finales of Young Sheldon and Night Court.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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