To Explain Those Promos on Colbert This Week...

[Mark Jeffries]

Colbert is hosting "Pickled," a celebrity pickleball tournament to air on CBS in prime time Thurs. Nov. 17.  He'll sing the national anthem with Kenny Loggins and preside over the events to be played as a benefit for Comic Relief US. Among the contestants are Will Ferrell, Aisha Tyler, Emma Watson, Tig Notaro, Phil Keoghan and Sugar Ray Leonard, and CBS Sports' Cari Champion and Bill Raftery will call the action, along with John MIchael Higgins, who better not be repeating any of his lines from "Licorice Pizza":

https://theblendnow.com/cbs-announces-16-celebrities-competing-on-sports-special-pickled/

Funny or Die is doing the actual production, with Evie listed as an executive producer along with her husband.

[Tom Wolper]

I remember when November sweeps meant exciting programming.

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[Doug Eastick]

This reminds me of Battle of the Network Stars 

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[PGage]

Me too.

I was remembering that back in the day I watched Superstars, and Celebrity Bowling, and BotNS, and Match Game. But that was when the number of viewing options was very limited, and even as a kid I would shake my head at the thought of what I was watching. This deep into the 21st century I have way too many options to watch anything like this.

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[Mark Jeffries]

But before we start getting on Colbert for doing this outside of the charity element, let us not forget that Johnny Carson--at the point in his career where he could do anything he damn pleased and NBC couldn't do a thing about it, hosted and produced a show called "The World's Greatest Practical Jokes," the basis for that segment on "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes."  This show put him in a shotgun marriage with Dick Clark, a man he did not like and vice versa.  Once again, Carson never needed to do this and could've given NBC the theoretical middle finger--but he didn't.

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[Tom Wolper]

As a teenager in the era of three networks, I knew who all the TV stars were, even if I never watched the shows. I’d go through the TV Guide and the TV column in the newspaper and I’d watch the Mike Douglas Show after school. When a show like Battle of the Network Stars came on I’d know who the contestants were even if I hadn’t seen the shows. Now I have no idea who the stars are unless I am watching their show. It’s a problem watching them on late night talk shows and it’s certainly a deterrent to watching them on prime time stunt shows.

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[Diner]

Yes, except that I doubt we're going to see Emma Watson or Aisha Tyler going into the dunk tank like Lynda Carter or Catherine Bach did.

(Although frankly that would be the only way they would to get me to watch.)