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was channel surfing today and saw that rick the temp is moving on.....about time wasn`t it?

APPARENTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful news! It's a beautiful day for Canadian television!

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He was becoming (or already had become) the MuchMusic equivalent of Dylan on 90210.

Actually, maybe Andrea is a more apt comparison.

Here's a great bit by John Seabrook on the tricky situation faced by Rick the Temps all over the media universe...

Quote:When you hit your late twenties at MTV, a weird career anxiety begins to set in, which is the reverse of what happens in most businesses. Just at the age when people in other companies are starting to get loaded down with real responsibilities, people at MTV feel the pressure to leave, so that others who are closer to the demo can be brought up to take their places. Tom Freston told me that the average age of MTV employees was now twenty-nine-four years older than the average age in 1981, when MTV started-and that the average was rising at a rate of six months a year. A producer said, "It's like 'Logan's Run' around here--you know, everybody over thirty disappears." For people at MTV who have bungee-jumped from intern to P.A. and on to A.P. and producer--people "who don't know that this isn't what the real world is like," as one writer put it to me--the prospect of taking a job at a television network or an advertising agency is not pleasant. Glenn Ribble, a senior producer who started as a P.A. and left MTV at twenty-five to work as a freelance director of commercials and music videos, said to me, "There I was just handed the storyboards--the idea had been worked out by other people--and told, 'O.K., here's the way we want it, go shoot it.' Whereas at MTV I could do the whole thing myself." Now he is back at MTV.

At the age when most people start dressing and behaving more conservatively, people at MTV adopt even more radical attire or fill their offices with even more rock-and-roll memorabilia or start talking even more like the moronic characters in "Beavis and Butt-head," one of MTV's most popular shows. Nevertheless, I was told by one twenty-eight-year-old writer, "On some days, you'll see some kid coming down the hall and start rocking to the tune that's playing, and you realize you just don't feel like it. You know, you're busy, you're tired, you've got stuff to do--whatever. And the kid says, 'Come on!,' like it's uncool of you not to do it. That's when you know you're too old for MTV."

John Seabrook, "In the Demo: the Power of MTV", Nobrow: the Culture of Marketing - the Marketing of Culture, 2000, Knopff, New York

http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/st...index.html

Does it really make a difference? There are several annoying teenage vj's still working there.

especially that new chick...pretty but..damn...what an airhead.

o78 Wrote:Does it really make a difference? There are several annoying teenage vj's still working there.

They do have Ed the Sock however. Credit where credit is due.

Ed isn't on much anymore..

clearlyentranced Wrote:Ed isn't on much anymore..

Whaaaaaaat?

What an outrage! I didn't know this. (I only have basic cable and MM is not part of it)

Was George Strombopolopolopolis the hand/voice behind Ed?

hmmm...

"I really loved that [sock], but he's not on TV anymore"

lol, he still has his late night show on citytv, but he only goes on much for that formage thing.

Spycouple Wrote:

o78 Wrote:Does it really make a difference? There are several annoying teenage vj's still working there.

They do have Ed the Sock however. Credit where credit is due.

And that's a good thing??
Although I must admit that some parts of that fromage show can be pretty funny....it just gets old fast. It's not hard to make fun of the videos they play nowadays.

o78 Wrote:Although I must admit that some parts of that fromage show can be pretty funny....it just gets old fast. It's not hard to make fun of the videos they play nowadays.

It's not hard to make fun of Dubya either, but I'll gladly watch Jon Stewart if he's on. Same thing for that sock, if he should show up while flipping through channels. At least for a bit anyway.

Fortunately, i don't Much to surf past anymore, but I agree that Ed's shtick was getting a bit old last time I checked. The good thing about him that I remember was a point a few years back during one of his monologues where it was like "Jeez, it takes a sock puppet to get anywere close to decent social commentary on TV these days? How did a station that once had City Limits get to this point?" It was nice to have Strombopoldude providing his take on events, but you could tell that even he knew it was a matter of time before he'd have to get the hell out of there.

About time they got rid of him. He was becoming a scrape. A guy who in his 30s was dressing like a 15 year old.

Where is he going?

Spycouple Wrote:It was nice to have Strombopoldude providing his take on events, but you could tell that even he knew it was a matter of time before he'd have to get the hell out of there.

He was the only good one on there. I really enjoy his new show on CBC. Have you seen it? He covers a little bit of everything on it... very cool.

o78 Wrote:He was the only good one on there. I really enjoy his new show on CBC. Have you seen it? He covers a little bit of everything on it... very cool.

Yes, that was a nice show to have on there, like Rick Mercer's stuff and Zed. But there is that lockout issue these days. I wonder if George won't have gone somewhere else by the time it gets resolved, maybe even out of TV altogether, or on some new project with Richard Campanelli & Associates.