`Anchorwoman' canceled after one airing

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'll spank to that.

Get in line...or form a circle.

[*julez* 124]

she had too...after bob barker quit, she lost her sugardaddy..

she was a wrestler too..and got spank allot..

I wonder if Drew Carey would want to be the next sugar daddy for her? While he's not as suave as ol' Bob, I'm sure he has a few bucks.

sadly, well noted Bob Barker was hung like a Shetland pony...Drew..like a hamster..Drew going to have to dig deep for that gold digger...

So Drew is no better than a Persian shoe?

[MissStacey 1]

You guys are absolutely heartless.

This poor woman is probably out of a job!

Now who is she going to f##k for her next meal?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You guys are absolutely heartless.

This poor woman is probably out of a job!

Now who is she going to f##k for her next meal?

:lol: She could always become a housewife...then she gets to choose between the milkman or the poolboy.

[natty bumppo 289]

she had too...after bob barker quit, she lost her sugardaddy..

she was a wrestler too..and got spank allot..

I wonder if Drew Carey would want to be the next sugar daddy for her? While he's not as suave as ol' Bob, I'm sure he has a few bucks.

sadly, well noted Bob Barker was hung like a Shetland pony...Drew..like a hamster..Drew going to have to dig deep for that gold digger...

you know this .... from personal knowledge ?

Edited August 24, 2007 by Natty Bumppo

[Fandango 1,439]

Why is it that other women will tear a pretty woman down by saying things that they have no clue whether to be true or not?

Not really trying to start a sh!t fling really....I just find it curious....

[Sand 5]

wow...that was quick

...maybe it was her looks.

she looks like she is needing a spanking

She looks like she is in need of brain cells.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Airhead 'Anchorwoman' is a cheap shot

Mary McNamara

Los Angeles Times

HOLLYWOOD - If you hate women, men, Texas, Los Angeles, television news and any of the social progress made by Americans in the 20th century, then "Anchorwoman" is the show for you.

On the new Fox reality series premiering Wednesday night, Phil Hurley, owner of struggling KYTX in Tyler, Texas, has hired Lauren Jones, Los Angeles model, World Wrestling Entertainment spokeswoman and general bombshell, to anchor the news, despite the fact (or because of it) that she has no previous news experience. Let the catfighting and dumb-blonde jokes begin!

Tricked out in pole-dancer heels and porn-star eyebrows, Jones is to models what Pamela Anderson was to lifeguards -- the product of the hack's guide to Los Angeles, where every waiter is an actor and women with large breasts are, by definition, sexually accessible (see also "Californication"). She blows into Tyler looking like an X-rated inflatable doll, having, presumably, never seen a television newscast (or else she would realize no one wears tank tops while delivering the news) or given thought to what the job entails. "I always wanted to be an anchor," she confided earlier to her friends at the gym with the requisite breathless giggle. All she knows is that Tyler, Texas, seems pretty darn dull compared with Los Angeles. "You have bars here?" she asks at one point.

The other members of the KYTX news team are, of course, horrified. The current anchor, Annalisa Petralia, can barely be civil to Jones, as she coldly tells Hurley how the blonde's presence on the news undermines the station's credibility and her own personal reputation. The news director, Dan Delgado, is just as incensed. Hurley remains doggedly determined, patronizing to one and all like some minor character in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

"Why don't you go get your jacket?" he asks Jones when she arrives, decolletage firmly on display.

Jones doesn't help matters; although she figures out a more appropriate dress code and "practices" whenever she has the chance, she never seems to understand either the nature of the storm clouds around her or the definition of journalism.

"Anchorwoman" was created and produced by Brian Gadinsky ("American Idol," "America's Most Wanted"), and I'm sure he thought this would be a funny way of exploring the nature of television news, of how thin the line between journalism and entertainment can be, of how desperate so many news outlets have become, using outrageousness to sell all sorts of things these days. "Sex sells," says one potential viewer when asked if she will watch Jones, "I guess now it sells the news."

But the dumb blonde who maybe ain't so dumb was cliche when Judy Holliday did it in the 1940s, and Jones ain't no Judy Holliday. Jones is not part of the joke, she is the joke, because she is blond, busty and wears short skirts. Which is somehow supposed to be funny. If Gadinsky had any courage at all, he would have made her a drag queen -- that at least would have been interesting -- because that is what she is: a female drag queen, her femininity exaggerated, her intelligence diminished. Who, when thrust into a high-pressure occupation with no training, would not look stupid?

For the women surrounding her, Petraglia and the other reporters, there is no winning -- either they must smile and surrender to watching an unqualified hire waste valuable time and resources being "trained" or risk being seen as somehow jealous, or worse, unsisterly. Presumably, we are all supposed to be rooting for simple-minded Jones to emerge, a la Marilyn Monroe, as the brains behind her scattered character. I just wanted everyone, including Jones, to rise up as one and throw the cameras and the whole "Anchorwoman" concept out of the newsroom and back to whatever airport strip bar provided its genesis.

That's what Judy Holliday would have done.

[tmma 467]

You guys are absolutely heartless.

This poor woman is probably out of a job!

Now who is she going to f##k for her next meal?

Wow-harsh.

I am not going to be biznatchy about her looks- she is very pretty-no problems with that from me.

However; I have been in broadcasting, and I know some of the Fox news folks there in Tyler; I can understand the resentment felt by her co-workers/anchors.

Inspired by the notion that " sex sells" the station's move to import a new hire that has NO experience in journalism or broadcasting- and create a televised dog and pony show a la " The Simple Life" is astonishing considering the market here and detracts from the perceived integrity of the other news staff, the news they are reporting..... and begs the question ' just what is the standard for new hires for on-air programming'? Most of the staff hold at least 2 degrees and many years experience- yet they cannot say anything for fear of the label of " jealous" ,"bitchy" " not team player..." blah blah blah..

This has done nothing for the station, Lauren Jones, the established staff or the ratings.

Edited August 24, 2007 by tmma

[SteveLaura 0]

wow...that was quick

Maybe they just realised it was $hit.

[almaty 19]

she had too...after bob barker quit, she lost her sugardaddy..

she was a wrestler too..and got spank allot..

I wonder if Drew Carey would want to be the next sugar daddy for her? While he's not as suave as ol' Bob, I'm sure he has a few bucks.

sadly, well noted Bob Barker was hung like a Shetland pony...Drew..like a hamster..Drew going to have to dig deep for that gold digger...

you know this .... from personal knowledge ?

read it on the internet..must be true...

[zuni 0]

You guys are absolutely heartless.

This poor woman is probably out of a job!

Now who is she going to f##k for her next meal?

hey, that is my sister

[natty bumppo 289]

she had too...after bob barker quit, she lost her sugardaddy..

she was a wrestler too..and got spank allot..

I wonder if Drew Carey would want to be the next sugar daddy for her? While he's not as suave as ol' Bob, I'm sure he has a few bucks.

sadly, well noted Bob Barker was hung like a Shetland pony...Drew..like a hamster..Drew going to have to dig deep for that gold digger...

you know this .... from personal knowledge ?

read it on the internet..must be true...

and I know where there is a bridge for sale too ... interested ?

[MissStacey 1]

You guys are absolutely heartless.

This poor woman is probably out of a job!

Now who is she going to f##k for her next meal?

hey, that is my sister

Cool. Your sister is hot.