Katie to get 3 days
- Last Updated: 11:20 PM, July 8, 2012
- Posted: 11:19 PM, July 8, 2012
We’ve seen television favorites yanked off shows despite contractual obligations. Katie Couric’s ABC daytimer debuts September. So when will TV hotshots determine her new effort’s hot or not? Two years? Three seasons? Six episodes? Care to hear precisely exactly how long their eyes take to decide? You won’t believe it. But believe it.
Three days.
Day 1, everybody tunes in. Day 2, it’s those watching a second time plus whoever missed the first program. By Day 3, the tinkering begins, but to suits in those offices if the ratings aren’t solid gold, it’s already all over.
Three days to tell if Katie’s A-OK. And please don’t insult me by saying I don’t know what I’m talking about. I know what I’m talking about because I know what they are talking about.
AT Paris’ fashion shows, kute kouple Kanye and Kim. She, frozen Ipana smile. Should kameras katch them, his arm encircled her. After the obligatory shot fotogs centered on France’s socialites . . . More Europe: Laura Montana, from NYC’s wonderful Monkey Bar, is running London’s new restaurant. Next door to the American Embassy, “34” so far fed B. Clinton, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Jon Hamm, Penelope and Javier. Just letting you know.
OVER two years, PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi’s building from scratch her 30,000-square-foot Greenwich Connecticut mansion on Lake Avenue. Costs so much and she earns so much that better we should all switch to Sprite . . . Barbara Cook finally home. Getting rehabilitation . . . Reply to Brooklyn’s Dorchester Road residents: The hoo-ha is Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Lily Tomlin filming “Admission”. . . On Bill Boggs’ PBS show “My Generation,” Diane von Furstenberg: “My first e-mail daily is to help someone else.”
I FIRST interviewed Andy Griffith a lifetime ago. For TV Guide. Asked was he homey or hammy, I learned he’d let his hair down only when the South again marched on the North: “If ah’d say ah don’t act lak a big man, it’s admitting ah am one, which sounds stupid as hell. Saying, ‘ah never have t’guard against it’ ah’m setting up to be a very fine person. Either way, that’s trouble.
“Ah’ve some ego. Arrogant sometimes. Sure do have a purty violent temper. Once I actually tore a door down in a blindin’ rage. But ah try not t’do that anymower. It disrupts work.”
Despite my dazzling professional footwork, not on your Mason-Dixon did he tell any stories. When next Gen. Lee invades Pittsburgh would be when Griffith buddyied to an interviewer. But he was charming, a perfect Southern gent.
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