Today and Oprah Phone It In

Friday’s Leap Day some how altered the space-time continuum and somehow prevented me from posting, but I appear to not be the only one having issues. Both the Today Show and Oprah seemed to be phoning it in last week with their series on classic TV. The Today Show featured the least sought after casts in television history, including Knots Landing , Murphy Brown , and One Day at a Time. Valerie Bertinelli, on her tour-de-“I’m not fat anymore,” pulled double-duty by also appearing on Oprah, along with Rick Springfield (Dr. Noah Drake on GH) and William Shatner. Did the producers of both shows sense they had a trend with Bertinelli’s booking and decide to go all in with the TV tour? Or is the writer’s strike still having far reaching implications? The worst-case scenario is that we’ve simply come to the end of entertainment as we know it and we’re cycling back to the beginning. Next on Oprah, seeing what the cast of Car 54 are up to . . .Oh, they’re all dead? Nevermind. Is Fonzie still available?