Making "Good" TV

Steve Anthony - Episode4

The best TV is one in which someone dies or is seriously injured. I've been saying that for years (I have a little self-indulgent footnote at the end of this blog). And, boy, did that

almost happen. Frank and Erik almost got into it. We were deliberating when we heard about the donneybrook (isn't that the term that Don Cherry uses? And did you know that that guy just turned 72? Freakin' unbelievable). We were actually laying odds about who could take whom. In lieu of actual bloodletting, my proposed compromise would be Frank and Erik having a good ol' fashioned indian leg wrestle. But, no one listens to me in this regard.

I truly think that Nathalie's greater strength is behind the camera. That position takes the skills she has shown, and are, oftentimes, more important than the face in front of the camera.

I hope that she takes this as an opportunity, not a failure.

It is going to be really interesting to see how things play out in the penthouse now. Erik was called out, told that he "set up" Larissa for a fall, pissed her off, pissed off Frank. I can anticipate alliances happening now, and Erik better watch his back.

So, what did you think about Robin's little hissyfit, with his note cards being thrown at the VJs? Sometimes I think Robin was raised by wolves.

Footnote: Something I used to really like to do when I was on air at Much was to, unannounced, run at the front window and slam myself against it to freak out people that were outside looking in. Slam! I used to do it a lot. Kind of became something I was known for doing. I would even get up in the middle of an interview and do it. Then I heard this story. It may or may not be true, but it certainly is the stuff of urban legend. Seems there was this guy who worked in one of the bank plaza towers downtown that used to watch me and would do that same thing; running and slamming himself against a window in his office on the, like 40th floor, which was funny to his colleagues until the window, one time, didn't hold, and he went through, falling to his death.

Great story, huh? But it was never on TV. And, as we say, if it isn't on tape or wasn't on TV, it never happened.

Who knows?