Daily ‘Gasm

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By B-Side | Monday, August 1, 2005 | 1:19 pm | 8 Comments

designing24New feature alert! Starting today, we’ll be providing links to various television news stories from around the web. In a spate of writer’s block and uncreativity (“uncreativity”? It isn’t even a word! Man, this will be a long day), I’ve named this feature the “Daily ‘Gasm,” but I’m open to more clever suggestions. In the meantime…

  • Jean Smart joins the cast of 24. Might this be the first sign of a Designing Women crossover? I can see it now: Delta Burke is the villain, Dixie Carter is the CTU bureaucrat, Annie Potts is Jack’s girlfriend (natch), and Meshach Taylor, well, he can just continue to be the ambiguously gay guy who pops in to roll his eyes. I think we got a winning season! [Variety]
  • Katie Couric mulls leaving the Today Show. Crossing fingers for another Debra Norville disaster. [AP]
  • Anyone catch Stephen A. Smith’s new show, Quite Frankly? If you didn’t, ESPN will be airing it 35 times in the next two hours. Yeah, even I don’t know how they do it. [New York Times]
  • Fox announces that it will podcast recaps of its television shows. Pretty smart idea. TVgasm is still funnier. [Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo]
  • Our friend Mark Lisanti at Defamer was profiled in the Los Angeles Times this weekend. And hey, we even got a shout out. [Los Angeles Times]

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8 Comments

  1. 1
    Eddiebosox
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 1:58 pm

    Anyone who can refer to Meshach Taylor as “ambiguously gay” has got one messed up gaydar.

  2. 2
    B-Side
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    Well, his *character* was ambiguously gay. Unlike his sterling performance in the seminal film, “Mannequin”.

  3. 3
    museglet
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 2:28 pm

    Jean Smart as First Lady Logan…..hmmmm, I see a new Sherry Palmer, particularly since Logan is already an unambiguously ball-less character.

  4. 4
    jayneatomic
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm

    Jean Smart on 24? AHhhh! Don’t do this to me! Maybe she dies right away in one of the first episodes a bloody evil death. Yes, that would be okay then, and I could still watch. Ah, at least it isn’t Delta Burke. Love the photoshop’d pic by the way. hysterical

  5. 5
    Eddiebosox
    Posted August 1, 2005 at 9:00 pm

    He was better in Mannequin 2: On the Move.

  6. 6
    protegefox
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 6:18 am

    I love this new feature. Thanks, you guys. Great addition.

  7. 7
    The Dogg Pound
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 6:28 am

    In a shocking plot twist on the upcoming season of 24, we learn that Delta Burke ate poor Behrooz.

  8. 8
    Eddiebosox
    Posted August 2, 2005 at 9:30 am

    Take the gaydar test.

    http://www.okcupid.com/gaydar

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