Unless the TV Guide fails me, scheduled to appear LIVE (unlike a certain news channel we all know and love) are actress Robin Wright (nee Penn), and chef Wolfgang Puck, with what I presume will be food.
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Before we get to highlights:
My Vent For The Night:
Make The NFL's Thanksgiving Classic Into Flex Games.
Tomorrow, as we all know, is Thanksgiving Day. And with it comes many traditions. The Macy’s Parade, Turkey, falling asleep at four in the afternoon…okay, maybe that’s my tradition…and the NFL Thanksgiving Day (and now Night) games.
For years, those games in the afternoon have featured two teams: the Detroit Lions at 12:30pm, and the Dallas Cowboys at 4:00pm. However, in the last decade there has been a movement to remove one team (Detroit) or both from the classic, and the arguments vary in range. I tend to think it’s mostly because the Lions suck, and nobody wants to watch them be blown out every year. On the other hand, some feel that it’s an unfair advantage that, out of 32 teams in the NFL, those two get a guaranteed home game every year on that date.
Therefore, I propose this solution: the NFL should just make those two games part of the “flexible scheduling” that they subject the last eight or nine games of “Sunday Night Football” to.
For those who don’t get what I’m talking about: the NFL and NBC have an option to switch out a game with dud teams for a better game for maximum ratings potential, and they can use the option of taking one of the five games they protect from Dick Ebersol and putting that on Thursday. If they can do that for max ratings on Sunday nights nine times a year, why can’t they do that for those two games? It would be much easier: CBS and Fox could pick from their preset slate of games no less than 10 days in advance of Thanksgiving, and thus get the best possible matchups. They send their “A” team announcers there anyway; why not give them a game worthy of showing up to work and missing family dinner?
Or, considering the case of Jim Nantz…I guess you’ll take what you can get. Ouch. We feel your pain, sir.
Now that I'm done ranting, how 'bout I serve up some Craig Ferguson clips?
Here's the cold open:
Titles & Monologue:
Interview with Maria Bello:
And we close with...
There. Happy now?