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Today is Save The Eagles day. Unfortunately, the Seattle Seahawks couldn't save the eagles much to the chagrin of Carson Wentz getting his beak clipped. But we're here to fly like an eagle and soar to gretaer heights. Now, let's get wired!
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BALTIMORE — From one Wink to the other, the Baltimore Ravens have invited entertainer Wink Martindale to its game after he spoke to TMZ Sports about wanting tickets due to the name he shares with the team's defensive coordinator.
Don "Wink" Martindale has been the Ravens defensive coordinator since 2018 and has been a coach with the Baltimore since 2012.
In his interview with TMZ Sports, Martindale joked that he would sue for the rights to his name. But seemed in general to find the coincidence humorous.
While the two may not know each other, the elder Martindale has heard his name mentioned a few times on Ravens broadcast, because he shares it with the Baltimore coach.
Well, the Real Wink Martindale responded with:
Hollywood's Martindale does not have any affiliation with the Ravens, nor did he grow up close to Baltimore. But the gesture by the Ravens and its staff is certainly a humorous one.
The 86-year-old is best known for his role as a game show host throughout the previous decades for shows like Tic-Tac Dough, Gambit, High Rollers and Debt.
“We offered. We sent an email to his people,” Ravens coordinator Martindale said Thursday. “It’s up to him if he wants to go. I think it would be great.”
The Ravens will play the Tennessee Titans on Saturday at 8:15 p.m. It will be broadcasted on WUSA9.
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Tom Bergeron recently shared a retro photo from his days as host of the television game show Hollywood Squares to Instagram. In the post, he honored his long friendship with Ellen DeGeneres, just days after she won an honorary Golden Globe award for her contributions to the world of comedy.
Tom — who currently hosts ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and just recently wrapped his 28th season of hosting the reality dance competition series — has had a long career in television hosting. Before joining as co-host of Dancing with the Stars, he hosted Hollywood Squares — a version of tic tac toe where contestants score cash prizes by agreeing or disagreeing with the answer given by celebrities who were positioned on the game board. The contestants’ goal was to try to win tic tac toe by getting three Xs or Os in a row.
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Fox has put in development a single-camera Gordon Ramsay-inspired chef comedy. The project hails from Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, creators of the 2016 Uncle Buck series reboot; Ramsay and his Studio Ramsay; and SideCar Content Accelerator, headed by Gail Berman. It is a co-production between SideCar and Fox Entertainment.
Written by Cragg and Bradley, in the Untitled Steven Cragg/Brian Bradley/Gordon Ramsay comedy, after a huge blow up with her perfectionist, demanding, Gordon Ramsay-like mentor, young chef Lena decides to strike out on her own. Thinking there’s got to be a better way to run a kitchen, she opens her own restaurant. But after a twist of fate throws them back together, she finds herself stuck with her opinionated, foul-mouthed former boss, not only in her kitchen but in her personal life too.
Cragg and Bradley executive produce with Ramsay via Studio Ramsay and Gail Berman for Sidecar. There are no plans for Ramsay to act in the series.
The comedy reunites Ramsay and Berman, who was Fox Entertainment president when the network teamed with the British chef for his first U.S. reality series, Hell’s Kitchen.
The comedy stems from a commitment Emmy-nominated Ramsay, who has four primetime shows on Fox, has at the network. SideCar was brought in as a creative partner, generating the idea for the series.
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Ink Master judge Oliver Peck has apologized for wearing blackface in photos apparently cribbed from his old MySpace account that recently were recirculated.
TMZ. was credited with discovering the photos from the online social media dinosaur. Peck, the former husband of Kat Von D, is shown in the photos wearing brown face and dressed as a basketball player and a superhero, albeit one with a racist component to his name. The photos were taken of him at Halloween, according to TMZ, which also showed him applying the makeup.
Peck also wore blackface when he dressed up as a Playboy bunny, TMZ reported.
“I want to profusely apologize for my completely inappropriate, insensitive, and immature behavior,” Peck said in an Instagram post, shortly after the photos began circulating on social media. “I hope that I’ve matured a great deal since then and I’m deeply sorry for everyone I’ve offended.”
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It used to be RET Worldwide.........now we're in REW Retro as of last year. But once it became a safe haven for all your retro goodness.......they've decided to go beyond the box. Here's why.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, REW is going into a new direction. One of the shows you'll be seeing is Stuck on the Telly. Here's a preview.
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A memorial for actor Rip Torn, who died last July, is set for family, friends, colleagues, and stars on Saturday, January 18, at Paramount Studios Theatre. The celebration ceremony will be hosted by Torn’s daughter, Angelica Page and produced by Carla Pennington.
Among those expected to speak are actors Sissy Spacek, Sally Kirkland, Estelle Parsons, Jeffrey Tambor, Sandra Bernhard and journalist Michael Riedel.
Torn, whose many credits included a co-starring role on HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, movies and Broadway productions, died on July 9, 2019, at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut. He was 88.
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Cult British comedy The Mighty Boosh could be coming back after co-creator Noel Fielding teased a return.
The show, which starred The Great British Bake Off host Fielding and Julian Barratt, who also starred in Mindhorn and Flowers, originally aired on the BBC between 2004 and 2007. The eccentric comedy aired in the U.S. on BBC America and Adult Swim.
Fielding wrote on Instagram, “There really wasn’t enough Boosh this decade! Let’s try and rectify that in the next one.”
The series, which began as a stage show and radio show, was produced by Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions and ran for three seasons with 20 episodes. Set in a surreal fantasy universe, it follows two eccentric musicians Howard Moon, played by Barratt, and Vince Noir, played by Fielding, mystic alien shaman Naboo and Bollo the gorilla. The first season is largely set in a run-down, dilapidated zoo, the second season largely in a flat in Dalston and the third season in the store below the flat called the Nabootique.
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The Masked Singer has been a huge hit for Fox in the U.S. with its third season kicking off after Super Bowl LIV in February. British broadcaster ITV will be hoping for similar success when it launches this weekend on Saturday, January 4.
However, the story of how the crazy Asian reality series made it to UK screens is not a straightforward one, involving tight deadlines and multiple calls to non-English speakers in Korea.
The British version is produced by fledging Scottish producer Bandicoot, which was set up in association with production group Argonon by former NBCUniversal entertainment chief Daniel Nettleton and Derek McLean (below), who has worked on shows such as Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe and Bravo’s The Singles Project.
The format was originally created by Korean broadcaster MBC, where it was known as The King of Mask Singer. McLean had been out in the U.S. pitching Bandicoot ideas to U.S. broadcasters when it emerged that Fox was developing an American version of the show.
He told Deadline, “I had to try and track down the format owner in Korea, I was setting my alarm for 2am in the morning to get up and call them. Fortunately, after about a week, I found an English speaker in their office and managed to get connected to the person for the format. I knew that other UK production companies were chasing this, so I wanted to do the deal. I was really pursuing it. I got a call two or three days after we did the deal [from a rival producer] saying ‘you absolute bastard’. It was honestly the most bizarre experience, thinking back it would have been so easy to give up.”
Nettleton added that the harder it was to track down the rights, the more desire the pair had to land it. After scoring the UK rights, he headed out to the U.S. to watch the final of the first season and speak to exec producer Craig Plestiss.
It was a tough decision for the young company. “We are still a start-up and the money that the option cost was a real dilemma for us because it was money that we could have used to pay a development researcher rather than option a crazy Asian show that might not even go. It was a big decision for us that it might not have been for a bigger company. I’m so grateful that it’s paid off,” added McLean.
The pair subsequently took it around broadcasters in the UK, where it landed at ITV, although not after Channel 4 content chief Ian Katz reportedly considered filling it with homeless contestants. “It’s interesting how having a show that was a very successful ratings winner in the States makes people interested in the format. Had we sold the show earlier before the American was a hit, we could be making a very different, much smaller show. What comes with the success of the format internationally is the expectation. There was no way that we were going to get away with delivering something that was less than the American version. We knew that from the get go.”
The show, as in the U.S., features twelve celebrities dressed in elaborate costumes singing and their identities are kept hidden on and off stage, while a panel (right), which features pop star Rita Ora, chat show host Jonathan Ross, ex-Big Brother host Davina McCall and Ken Jeong, who is involved in the U.S. show, have to guess who the contestants are. In the first episode, hosted by comedian Joel Dommett, the first six masked singers battle it out, Queen Bee vs Duck, Unicorn vs Butterfly and Chameleon vs Hedgehog.
McLean said the make-up of the panel was essential to the success of the show. “The chemistry between the panel was great and we knew we wanted celebrity detectives and they needed in different ways to navigate the world of celebrity. Jonathan had everyone on his chat show, Rita has an amazing address book and collaborated with some many wonderful artists, Davina has been part of pop culture for so long and Ken is just part of the DNA of the show.”
Ora said that the show was “completely unique”. “It’s fresh, original and there’s no other show like it. The costumes and stage production add a big theatrical element to it. I’m very excited that we were given the opportunity to bring the show to the UK. Jeong added, “I have always wanted to do a show in the UK and the offer to be a part of the UK Masked Singer was too good to pass up. What’s remarkable about the UK Masked Singer is how similar the dynamics are than what’s obviously different.”
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It’s RuPaul‘s turn to sashay away — the drag icon’s daytime talk show will not be heading into syndication. A Warner Bros. rep declined to comment, but a source close to the project confirms to TVLine that RuPaul is not moving forward.
Originally described as a “modern take on the talk show format,” the Telepictures-produced series was given a three-week trial run on Fox networks over the summer. Drag Race favorites Michelle Visage and Ross Mathews served as Ru’s co-hosts, welcoming guests like Paula Abdul, Iggy Azalea, Cory Booker, Blac Chyna, Ciara, James Corden, Ricki Lake, Adam Lambert, Leah Remini, Lisa Vanderpump, and Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott.
That said, RuPaul is hardly disappearing from the small screen anytime soon. Not only does the first season of his Netflix comedy series AJ and the Queen drop on Friday, Jan. 10, but VH1 has also ordered additional seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 12) and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (Season 5). We’re also getting RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race, a four-part event series in which iconic queens transform household names, sometime later this year.
The Los Angeles Times was the first to report the news that RuPaul would not be moving forward.
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Our LOve Connection dating wranglers RKVC have released the first video to the start of 2020. And what you're about to see.....well..........watch.
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We can't let you get out of here without introducing somebody to the Game Show Live! news team. Meet Piper Reese, our teen entertainment correspodnet and she has interviewed countless people sinxce she was in the single digits. Before she could even take a job at either E! news or Access by the time she's over 18, here she is talking to one of the creators of the Kickstarter-funded project, "Salem."
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So what did we learn today? We learned that Jim Caldwell of the Dolphins gave tickets to next season's to.............Infomerical maven and the same guy that replaced Wink Martindale on Tic Tac Dough, but was turned down to take a job at Redbox. That's karma for you.
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