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Tampa Bay's 10 News will be interviewing host Meredith Vieira soon about the new changes to the show, but wanted to know if fans had any questions for her. If you'd like to ask Meredith a question, add it to the comment section below.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's a promo piece for the new season of SyndieBAM.

http://www.tampabays10.com/life/people/ ... 1&catid=10

Tampa Bay's 10 News will be interviewing host Meredith Vieira soon about the new changes to the show, but wanted to know if fans had any questions for her. If you'd like to ask Meredith a question, add it to the comment section below.

Rexer25 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's a promo piece for the new season of SyndieBAM.

http://www.tampabays10.com/life/people/ ... 1&catid=10

Tampa Bay's 10 News will be interviewing host Meredith Vieira soon about the new changes to the show, but wanted to know if fans had any questions for her. If you'd like to ask Meredith a question, add it to the comment section below.

I'm tempted to login and ask why they don't let Marley on the show.

christie1111 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's a promo piece for the new season of SyndieBAM.

http://www.tampabays10.com/life/people/ ... 1&catid=10

I'm tempted to login and ask why they don't let Marley on the show.

We should all do that!

How many BBs can we get to send the same email?

christie1111 wrote:I mean, if Marley want's us to.

I think it is a fun idea and new and different. I bet now one has gotten on the show by launching a write in campaign.

We're starting a new week off with an early Rant of the Week.


Sportscaster Tim Brando has for nearly six years been issuing a daily countdown, The BCS:
The World in Crisis, on his daily "Tim Brando Show" on Sporting News Radio.


Timmy B's goal is to completely blow up the Bowl Championship Series in college football
because of its failure to give us a legitimate elimination for a national champion. Every day,
you'll hear Brando say: "It's Day _______ of THE BCS: THE WORLD IN CRISIS, which will
continue until the Neanderthals who govern college football do something about their pathetic
post-season."


THE FIX is going to pick up on this in a different arena. For nearly 40 years, network television
and the advertising industry has thumbed its nose at the over-50 audience as if the day of one's
50th birthday, we are walking obituaries. Part of networks' and many local station managers'
continued reluctance to treat game shows with any degree of respect is because they typically
skew older than their precious 18-49s over whom advertisers have steroid rage.


We may get a Cloris Leachman here, a Susan Lucci there, or maybe a Regis or a Bill Shatner
in a pocket. But tell the truth: "The Golden Girls" could not get arrested on a network schedule
today. "Barnaby Jones" and "Cannon" would be told to apply for Social Security. Aunt Bee
would have been rendered irrelevant.


Two of the highest-rated made-for-TV movies in the early 1970s were "The Over-the-Hill Gang"
and "The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again," starring Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, Andy Devine
and a host of cowboy stars mostly over the age of 70. Try getting one of those on today. TV
Land would probably deny access to either one in its precious quest to "go younger."


The A.C. Nielsen Co. released a study we reported on three weeks ago in which it determined
the fastest-growing age demographic is 55-64 and said people control the most disposable
income in America, not the 25-year-old couples on "House Hunters" who are running up
mortgages they can't afford (I'd love to see HGTV go back and visit those homeowners three to
four years later and find out how many of them still own those $500,000-plus homes).


AARP has had enough. The United Seniors Association has had enough. Doris Roberts
has had enough. I'm sure Pat Carroll and Betsy Palmer have had enough.


Accordingly, effective today and every day thereafter until network television, advertisers and
local station managers wake up and realize we aren't dead and we aren't all set in our ways
at 55, we're going to have our own countdown. So, here's the first:


DAY 1: TELEVISION vs. THE OVER-50 GANG----THE WORLD IN CRISIS. We may be over 50 but
we don't all buy Geritol, Poli-Grip, Metamucil and Icy Hot. We don't all eat Cream of Wheat or
drink Boost. We don't all buy Hoverounds (although it's perfectly fine if someone does) or go to
The Scooter Store. But we do buy enough products in enough numbers that we're entitled to see
more people on television, either as fictional characters or playing themselves, who look like us.


This countdown will continue until the co-conspirators of the television and advertising industries
do something about their discriminatory and narrow-minded attitudes toward senior citizens.

peacock2121 wrote:

christie1111 wrote:I mean, if Marley want's us to.

I think it is a fun idea and new and different. I bet now one has gotten on the show by launching a write in campaign.

I am gonna go do it.

No kidding.

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

christie1111 wrote:I mean, if Marley want's us to.

I think it is a fun idea and new and different. I bet now one has gotten on the show by launching a write in campaign.

I am gonna go do it.

No kidding.

I think he's ignoring us.

peacock2121 wrote:

christie1111 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote: I'm tempted to login and ask why they don't let Marley on the show.

We should all do that!

How many BBs can we get to send the same email?

I will do it!

Should I call him Marley or his real name?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

christie1111 wrote: We should all do that!

How many BBs can we get to send the same email?

I will do it!

Should I call him Marley or his real name?

Please do not use either my real name or my Bored name.

If you like, you can post a generic question regarding how people who'd make good game show contestants but not entertaining talk show guests might have a chance.

I'd do so myself, but I'd probaby sound negative and confrontational.

And pea wouldn't want me to do that.

Rexer25 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's a promo piece for the new season of SyndieBAM.

http://www.tampabays10.com/life/people/ ... 1&catid=10

Tampa Bay's 10 News will be interviewing host Meredith Vieira soon about the new changes to the show, but wanted to know if fans had any questions for her. If you'd like to ask Meredith a question, add it to the comment section below.

I'm tempted to login and ask why they don't let Marley on the show.

peacock2121 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

peacock2121 wrote: I will do it!

Should I call him Marley or his real name?

Please do not use either my real name or my Bored name.

If you like, you can post a generic question regarding how people who'd make good game show contestants but not entertaining talk show guests might have a chance.

I'd do so myself, but I'd probaby sound negative and confrontational.

And pea wouldn't want me to do that.

I won't be doing the alternative.

Nor will I use your real name.

I think you have given up another opportunity to make it into the hot seat. I think you are playing safe and small.

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote: I am gonna go do it.

No kidding.

I think he's ignoring us.

I am not one to be ignored.

He can't hide from me!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Please do not use either my real name or my Bored name.

If you like, you can post a generic question regarding how people who'd make good game show contestants but not entertaining talk show guests might have a chance.

I'd do so myself, but I'd probaby sound negative and confrontational.

And pea wouldn't want me to do that.

I won't be doing the alternative.

Nor will I use your real name.

I think you have given up another opportunity to make it into the hot seat. I think you are playing safe and small.

Spamming a TV station in Tampa about someone in Upstate NY who've they've seen and rejected many times is gonna work, huh?

I think it would more likely fall into the "no direct contact with the producers" rule.

silvercamaro wrote:I'm with Marley on this. I don't think it would be helpful, and it might be harmful to his quest.

I may be wrong, but that's my gut feeling.

What I think we should do is kidnap Marley and put him through Audition Boot Camp. I know that Marley is funny, bright, and charming, but those qualities may not be coming through fully in his interviews, possibly because he is shy or reserved during the interview portion. With intense coaching, I have faith that we could help him bring out his Inner Extrovert in a most appealing way.

Marley, please forgive me for talking about you as if you weren't here. The simple fact is that we want you to be on the show as much (or almost as much) as you want it.

Rexer25 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's a promo piece for the new season of SyndieBAM.

http://www.tampabays10.com/life/people/ ... 1&catid=10

Tampa Bay's 10 News will be interviewing host Meredith Vieira soon about the new changes to the show, but wanted to know if fans had any questions for her. If you'd like to ask Meredith a question, add it to the comment section below.

I'm tempted to login and ask why they don't let Marley on the show.

peacock2121 wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:I'm with Marley on this. I don't think it would be helpful, and it might be harmful to his quest.

I may be wrong, but that's my gut feeling.

What I think we should do is kidnap Marley and put him through Audition Boot Camp. I know that Marley is funny, bright, and charming, but those qualities may not be coming through fully in his interviews, possibly because he is shy or reserved during the interview portion. With intense coaching, I have faith that we could help him bring out his Inner Extrovert in a most appealing way.

Marley, please forgive me for talking about you as if you weren't here. The simple fact is that we want you to be on the show as much (or almost as much) as you want it.

That could work too.

He needs to make a splash - a statement - be memorable and wake them up!

christie1111 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's a promo piece for the new season of SyndieBAM.

http://www.tampabays10.com/life/people/ ... 1&catid=10

I'm tempted to login and ask why they don't let Marley on the show.

See, this is all Rexer's fault!

peacock2121 wrote:
He needs to make a splash - a statement - be memorable and wake them up!