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As promised on Monday, the cell-phone salesman turned tenor talent traveled from England to New York City to sing on NBC's morning show Today. NBC's Rehema Ellis escorted him to the Top of the Rock, the Big Apple tourist attraction owned by corporate parent General Electric, where Paul Potts pleaded: "You will have to forgive me. I am quite shy and nervous." But NBC decided not to post its shameless self-promotion--or "continued shill" as commenter Joe C (text link) calls it--online as a videostream.
ABC's Jim Avila used the notoriety of HBO's The Sopranos to pump up his coverage of the so-called Family Secrets murder trial of five aging alleged mobsters in Chicago, charged with 18 murders over 37 years. Avila called it "the end of an era of Mafia men with funny names"--except the monickers for Joey The Clown, Frank The German, Tony The Ant and Jimmy The Man are lame.
How could CBS' Bob Orr tart up--to borrow a phrase--his feature on the FBI's Evidence Response Team, the forensic unit that collects lab samples from crime scenes? By dubbng it "the FBI's real-life version of CSI" a primetime TV drama franchise that happens to air on Orr's own network. Except, of course, the feds' time-consuming work "is not quite like television," Orr conceded. "Sometimes I wish it would be that glamorous," concurred team leader Elizabeth Rosato.
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