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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
7/15: Neal Boortz in the U.K., Star 94’s latest promotion kind of lonely, “Closer” ratings
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WSB’s Neal Boortz is in London doing a seminar on the role of talk show hosts on the American Presidential election at the U.S. Embassy. He said the ambassador to the embassy, who he has never spoken to, requested Boortz and the State Department contacted him and he thought, “Why not?”
(American Express, not the government, is paying Boortz an honorarium and per diem.)
He decided to turn it into a vacation with his wife. He also recommended a liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller to join him for balance. She is on the same syndicated network as Boortz.
He will be doing his show live from London tomorrow.
-Someone was kind enough to tape Willard’s farewell from radio last Friday.
-Star 94’s “Live in it and Win it” promotion is two weeks old and of the eight original contestants, only one person is left. Yet Neva has to stay another two weeks to win the vehicle, a 2008 Mercury Milan. In fact, Neva has been alone since day 11 after some contestants failed to get back in the car in time from breaks, others quit and one person accidentally got out of the car in the middle of the night. You can read the details here. Kind of sucks the tension out of the “ultimate reality show,” eh? It’s as if CBS watched everybody leave the “Big Brother” house early except one and forced that soul to live by himself for weeks. How exciting!
-Fans of FX’s “Nip/Tuck” should be thrilled to know the show is guaranteed a final season, 19 episodes through 2011.
Michael J. Fox guests for four episodes on FX’s “Rescue Me,” which doesn’t come back until next spring.
-Ratings for TNT’s “The Closer” were comparable to last year: 7.8 million people caught the debut last night, down from 8.2 million a year ago. For a scripted basic cable network show, that’s still a huge number.
“Saving Grace” opened to virtually the same numbers as a year ago, with 5.2 million this year, 5.1 million a year ago.
