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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
This just in … Big Foot
You know news is in short supply when “Austin’s news station” (that would be the self-proclaimed title of KVUE) features a big story on Big Foot. It happened Tuesday night at 10. I am NOT making this up.
I thought I was having some kind of horrible hallucination when anchor Tyler Sieswerda introduced the story, dubbed “the history of Big Foot in Texas.”
The piece appeared to come from Dallas (the reporter was not a recognizable staffer of KVUE), where a sad-looking fellow named Craig claimed to have seen Big Foot — the mythological creature believed by some to roam various woods and swamps in America.
Also interviewed were a couple of guys making a film about Big Foot in Texas.
As if to add authenticity, the report showed a clay mold of what was claimed to be a footprint of Big Foot. It was a big foot, alright.
To his credit, KVUE’s Sieswerda chuckled at the end of the report, but what the heck was it doing on the 10 p.m. news to begin with?
‘The King’ is back … do you care?
What does it say about the current state of sitcoms that CBS’ “The King of Queens”, which landed an Emmy nomination for star Kevin James last time around, is only now having its season premiere?
Not that I’m complaining about the show’s late arrival tonight (at 7 p.m.).
This is one of those lackluster shows, heading into its ninth — yes ninth season — that has always escaped me. The scripts are pedestrian at best and James is, well, NOT FUNNY. He tries hard but accomplishes nothing. Leah Remini, who plays his wife, is to be pitied. She is talented and deserves better.
The fact that “The King of Queens” is arriving at all is surprising. When CBS announced its fall schedule last spring, the show was nowhere to be seen. Execs vaguely hinted that it would return midseason. But after the Emmy nominations came out in July, the hurry-up-and-get-it-back plan was established.
We’ll see if anyone cares. Maybe it will help that most shows are in reruns this month, so competition won’t be terribly stiff.
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