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7/16: Bye Bye William Petersen, is Katharine Heigl next? Steve Craig’s last day on 99x.com
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With William Petersen announcing his departure from “CSI” next season, do you think that would be considered a fatal blow to the still hugely popular drama?
And would Katharine Heigl be the next one out after publicly dissing the writers for not giving her a juicy enough part to deserve an Emmy nomination? ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson insists she’s fine.
“She won an Emmy last year, she’s a fantastically talented actress,” McPherson says. “I think it’s unfortunate when there’s any kind of turmoil on that show. There’s so many people who work so incredibly hard to make that show the No. 1 show in the country. I never like to see when any of them take it lightly. She’s absolutely staying with the show. There’s an unbelievable story line for her next season. Shonda Rhimes is excited about that, she actually crafted it.”
-Jimmy Kimmel crashed the television critics shindig I’m not at to ask ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson questions about Jay Leno possibly going to ABC and his own status. He pretended to be “just” a reporter and then snuck out just as quickly, probably to avoid break-up questions about him and Sarah Silverman. “Are you at all afraid that if you do replace Jimmy Kimmel he might do something crazy to you or your car?” Kimmel asked.
-WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate, lost its news director Cal Callaway. He will be staying at the station but not in that capacity. He had held the job since 2003.
-Laura Ingraham, who had Fox News test out a show starring her three weeks, is back on radio (locally on WGKA-AM) but not on Fox. Here is some amusing video from Harry Shearer’s Web site of her prepping for her show and it appears she had zip support from the staff.
-Dale Cardwell, former WSB-TV investigative reporter, came in third for the Democratic Senate seat with 16 percent of the vote. The top two vote getters Vernon Jones and Jim Martin will have a runoff.
-Steve Craig is doing his final show for 99X.com tomorrow from 10 to 3 p.m. He’ll do a special two hour retroplex from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Check it out before he goes off to New York to do mid-days at WRXP-FM.
-NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” has stretched auditions to a fifth week - even longer than “American Idol.” (Sure, “Idol” aired two a week for four weeks but still…)
This is the third week the producers have set aside time for Atlanta. There is a pitiful singer who tries to do “All By Myself,” then a dude who came back from last year to lie down on nails. David Hasselhoff even tries it. I don’t think either contestant is from Atlanta.
But oddly, they moved on to other cities after that. So that’s all from Cobb Energy Centre! Hopefully next week, they’ll finally get to Las Vegas and start culling the talent down.
Comments
By Joyce
July 17, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this
ET said that Katharine Heigl will have a brain tumor during next season. So, that will make her a candidate for the brain virus cure that McDreamy and Meredith have been testing. If she doesn’t get too mouthy during the year, she may be cured, but if her mouth starts talking before thinking again…Oops!
By qwerty
July 17, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
Rodney, please at least double-check the spelling of the names you mention in your wonderfully informative articles. Specifically, in this case, William Petersen.
This is why you’re not taken seriously as a journalist.
By qwerty
July 17, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this
Rodney, please at least double-check the spelling of the names you mention in your wonderfully informative articles. Specifically, in this case, William Petersen and Katherine Heigl.
This is why you’re not taken seriously as a journalist.
By AJ
July 17, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
MEOW qwerty! Should we not take you seriously since you don’t know how to post a message 1 time?
By qwerty
July 17, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
Hey AJ…after I hit “post” the first time, I noticed that he also misspelled Katherine Heigl’s name. Way to go!