In the aftermath of the egregious and morally questionable cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, some significant employees of Paramount come out swinging.
Colbert himself (who told Donald Trump to "go fuck yourself"), Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (leading a choir singing "Go fuck yourself!" to corporate entities who supplicate to Donald Trump) and Trey Parker and Matt Stone (whose season premier of South Park features Donald Trump with a really tiny penis and sleeping with Satan who does not want to have sex with him because he heard Trump was in the Epstein files because Satan, unlike Trump, has standards.)
Yes, Li'l Donnie! Go fuck yourself!
Now... on with the Touchbase!
USA Network has elected not to renew the show for a 5th season.
This is a sad but not totally unexpected development. While Resident Alien has a devoted fan base, it is not a particularly large one and narrowly avoided cancellation after it's 3rd season.
Showrunner Chris Sheridan said he figured the 4th season would be their last and has been guiding the show's storylines towards a resolution.
Ben and Kate are reunited with their baby who had been stolen by the Grey aliens.
Darcy hit rock bottom and contemplated suicide before Harry Vanderspiegel (of all people) talked her out of it. Darcy's in AA and getting help now.
Forced to remain a human and deprived of his "alien energy", Harry grew a soul, something previously unheard of in his species.
Resident Alien has been a lot of fun to watch and Andrea and I will miss Harry and the gang in Patience, CO. Season 4 has been an especially strong one and does seem to be heading towards what I hope will be a solid landing.
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The season finale of Jeopardy aired last Friday. Finally! Look, I l like Jeopardy but it does seem like it goes on too long into the summer.
But admittedly this summer has provided viewers with someone we haven't seen in awhile: a long running Jeopardy champion.
A few weeks back, it seemed the show was "cursed" or something with a string of dozen or more 1 day champions.
Couldn't anyone last more than a day?
Well, finally, yes!
Scott Riccardi an engineer from Somerville NJ and 2021 Rutgers graduate, began a winning streak on July 3 winning up to $455,000. He is tied for 10th for the most consecutive wins and is No. 8 on the regular-season earnings list.
Scott Riccardi was a slim, handsome young man who favored lavender sweaters in his wardrobe and I dubbed him as "ambiguously gay". My son's own "gaydar" told him that only Scott's parents still think he's straight.
Anyway, Scott was fast on the buzzer and knew a lot shit, winning most games mostly out of reach of his competitors.
I felt very good about his chances of winning game 17 which would be the season finale.
At the Final Jeopardy question, Scott was slightly within striking range of the 2nd place contestant. But when I saw the clue, well, Scott should get this.
"According to one obituary, in 1935 he owned 13 magazines, eight radio stations, two movie companies and $56 million in real estate."
Well, duh? The answer is.... "Who is William Randolph Hearst?"
3rd place finisher Charlotte Cooper answered "Who is William Randolph Hearst?" And she was right!
In 2nd place, Jonathan Hugendubler answered "Who is William Randolph Hearst?" and moved ahead of Scott by one dollar. Come on! This is too easy? How can Scott lose?
By answering "Who is Howard Hughes?"
What?
What the what?!?
I mean, what the unholy fuck WHAT?!??!
HOW could he possibly think it was Howard Hughes? In 1935, he had 1 movie studio and a fledgling aviation company! Come on!
(Side note: I finally watched ALL of The Aviator this past weekend and that will be covered on a forthcoming Movie Time Post.)
The only thing about the clue that threw me off was not mentioning the vast network of newspapers that Hearst owned that was the real crux of his power back in 1935.
Anyway, that's that for this season of Jeopardy and Scott Riccardi.
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Do we need more Ken Jennings?
Well, we're gonna get him on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
This summer the show is pairing up celebrities to play for charity. Except Ken Jennings came out alone. He admitted some nervousness about appearing on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? On Jeopardy, you miss a clue, there's another chance.
(Unless the clue is "According to one obituary, in 1935 he owned 13 magazines, eight radio stations, two movie companies and $56 million in real estate" and you're dumb enough to answer "Who is Howard Hughes?" Boy, I can't seem to let that go!)
On Millionaire, you miss just ONE and you're done.
And Ken wasn't alone.
Then out saunters Jimmy Kimmel's arch nemesis, Matt Damon.
Damon proved to be a considerable asset to Jennings, actually narrowing down choices as the pair breezed to through the game. The show ran out of time so Ken and Matt will be back on Wednesday to face the last remaining clues and potentially get $1 million for their charity, water.org that provides clean water resources for people in need around the world.
That is that for this week's Touchbase.
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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