Tonight's guests are Adam Levine on The Daily Show and Doris Kearns Goodwin on The Colbert Report.
Adam Levine is singer and songwriter and lead singer for the band Maroon 5 as well as a judge on the show The Voice. He will be on to promote Maroon 5's new album V
Every song clocks right in that radio sweet spot between three and four minutes, and nearly all of them go down like candy, but collectively the final product is an album with all the surprise and individuality of a Now That’s What I Call Music compilation.
Maroon 5 crib more pop moves on album number five
Ouch. OK, so A.V. club are not fans.
Leaving scrappier rock behind for the sunny horizons of chart-friendly pop was surely a wise commercial move for Maroon 5, but reaching for ubiquity on the singles chart often means sacrificing any hope of making a conceptually cohesive and musically sophisticated album. As far as lightweight, easy-listening charts pop goes, V doesn’t totally offend the sensibilities, and that’s surely more than can be said about some of Maroon 5’s overly pandering, less exploratory “pop-rock” peers.
popmatters.com
So it would appear that it is an album engineered and written to be a series of pop singles and it works well as that.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a biographer, historian, and political commentator. Her latest book, published in 2013, was The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Another of her books No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is being developed into a TV documentary series.
According to Deadline, Fox is developing a 10-hour limited series based on Goodwin’s work “No Ordinary Time,” which follows the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
One of the executive producers on the project is Hannah Pakula, whose husband, Alan Pakula, was slated to do a feature movie of the book before he died in 1998.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's 'No Ordinary Time' will be adapted as a limited series
I expect she is on to talk history and politics. She is usually an entertaining guest so I expect tonight will be the same.
My sources are being tight-lipped about next week's shows. :D At least one page shows a repeat on Monday again with new episodes Tuesday to Thursday. If there is a new episode Monday I will post otherwise, see you Tuesday.
7:59 PM PT: Next Week's Guests have been released
THE DAILY SHOW
Mo 9/8: Rerun
Tu 9/9: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
We 9/10: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Th 9/11: Tavis Smiley
THE COLBERT REPORT
Mo 9/8: John Lithgow
Tu 9/9: Jason Segel
We 9/10: Henry Kissinger
Th 9/11: Lonn Taylor