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'My Boys' lacks write stuff
Last fall I finally confronted Ray Romano at a Knicks game about the fact that the Newsday columnist he portrayed in "Everybody Loves Raymond" never seemed to work.
Last week came the turn of another key figure in an entertaining show about a sportswriter who rarely seems to attend sports events.
What about it, Betsy Thomas? (She's the creator of TBS' "My Boys," which centers on a Cubs beat writer who mostly drinks beer and plays poker with her guy friends. The season finale is Thursday.)
"Fortunately or unfortunately, it's a show about a woman who's friends with a bunch of guys; it's not really about a sportswriter," said Thomas, a fan of both the Cubs and poker in real life.
Still, Thomas said, she wishes she could spend more time on lead character P.J. Franklin's job, and considered a story line in which she is promoted to columnist.
"It ends up being a math puzzle," she said of a second season of only nine episodes. "That continues to be a world and story area we try to figure out."
Thomas said she made the character a sportswriter because as a comedy writer, she was used to working in a male-dominated environment and sought to tap another male-dominated field.
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Couldn't P.J. at least have covered something other than baseball, whose beat writers have notoriously brutal schedules?
"I've chatted with many who say, 'I don't travel all the time during the season; I don't travel to all the games,"' she said. "But I've spoken to others who say you have no life. I think it depends."
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Mike, Dog together again
Mike Francesa and Chris Russo are scheduled to reunite today at Giants camp, the first time the WFAN co-hosts have worked together since July 15.
The near future of the partnership remains uncertain. Multiple industry sources have said Russo has been in serious discussions with Sirius Satellite Radio for weeks.
In order to sign with Sirius, though, Russo would have to get out of his WFAN deal, which runs through October 2009 and has a non-compete clause.
Operations manager Mark Chernoff declined to comment.
Last fall I finally confronted Ray Romano at a Knicks game about the fact that the Newsday columnist he portrayed in "Everybody Loves Raymond" never seemed to work.
Last week came the turn of another key figure in an entertaining show about a sportswriter who rarely seems to attend sports events.
What about it, Betsy Thomas? (She's the creator of TBS' "My Boys," which centers on a Cubs beat writer who mostly drinks beer and plays poker with her guy friends. The season finale is Thursday.)
"Fortunately or unfortunately, it's a show about a woman who's friends with a bunch of guys; it's not really about a sportswriter," said Thomas, a fan of both the Cubs and poker in real life.
Still, Thomas said, she wishes she could spend more time on lead character P.J. Franklin's job, and considered a story line in which she is promoted to columnist.
"It ends up being a math puzzle," she said of a second season of only nine episodes. "That continues to be a world and story area we try to figure out."
Thomas said she made the character a sportswriter because as a comedy writer, she was used to working in a male-dominated environment and sought to tap another male-dominated field.
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Couldn't P.J. at least have covered something other than baseball, whose beat writers have notoriously brutal schedules?
"I've chatted with many who say, 'I don't travel all the time during the season; I don't travel to all the games,"' she said. "But I've spoken to others who say you have no life. I think it depends."
Digital Soapbox
Mike, Dog together again
Mike Francesa and Chris Russo are scheduled to reunite today at Giants camp, the first time the WFAN co-hosts have worked together since July 15.
The near future of the partnership remains uncertain. Multiple industry sources have said Russo has been in serious discussions with Sirius Satellite Radio for weeks.
In order to sign with Sirius, though, Russo would have to get out of his WFAN deal, which runs through October 2009 and has a non-compete clause.
Operations manager Mark Chernoff declined to comment.
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