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Monday, February 4, 2008
Karl Rove joins Fox News
In case you’ve been wondering — and worrying — about whatever happened to Bush White House mastermind Karl Rove, he’s set to make his debut as a political analyst for Fox News on Super Tuesday.
A former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, Rove took a hike from D.C. last August as an investigation was launched into possibly illegal or unethical activities in the White House.
Before joining the Bush administration, Rove oversaw strategy for Bush’s Texas gubernatorial campaign and several other Republican campaigns. He also has taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
Effective Tuesday, Rove will be a prime-time cable TV star.
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Super Ads, Super Dull
Maybe it was because I hate low-scoring football games dominated by defensive play. Or maybe it was because the Perfect Patriots, whom I love so well, collapsed like a cheap cardboard box.
But I wasn’t feeling the love for all those million-dollar Super Bowl ads. None of them made me gasp in amazement or double over laughing.
There were a few that were simply OK — the lizards dancing to “Thriller,” the giant pigeon proving FedEx is a better way to ship stuff, the sleeping badger nursing its young on the front seat of an oh-so-quiet-riding Toyota.
The collective creativity of advertisers just didn’t cut it this year, but presumably those who forked over $2.7 million for a spot felt they got their money’s worth. Fox says early ratings indicate this year’s Super Bowl just might break last year’s record 93 million viewers. (Final Nielsen national ratings are expected later in the week.)
“The Captain” not so welcome
The promotional spot featuring Jeffrey Tambor hacking away at a golf ball is pretty funny, but unfortunately that’s about the only funny scene in CBS’s dreadful new sitcom “Welcome to the Captain,” which debuts tonight at 7:30 p.m.
I cut Tambor all kinds of slack because he made me laugh all those years on “The Larry Sanders Show” and then ruled the roost on “Arrested Development.” But this thing, about an allegedly iconic Hollywood apartment building crawling with wacky characters, is a major groaner.
Raquel Welch plays an over-the-hill femme fatale, Tambor plays a former “Three’s Company” writer and a new guy named Frank Kranz plays an idealistic young filmmaker who winds up in the decaying building. The dialogue and situations are simply painful.
Where’s Tonya?
For those of you still wondering what happened to former KXAN morning anchor Tonya Kerr, she’s hosting a new online show called “The Parent Code,” produced by the Austin-based ON Network, which delivers HD shows on multiple digital platforms. “The Parent Code” offers child-raising advice from a variety of experts.
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