Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...interesting sidelights of the TV press tour is the nuanced, and often puzzling, tinkering with the names of new series. Every year, through some alchemy, network execs swap one misguided name for an equally misguided one or, more puzzlingly, one bland name for an equally bland, and in fact almost identical, one. Last year, one quickly canceled Fox cop show - "Ryan Caulfield," a.k.a. "The Badland," a.k.a. "Ryan Caulfield: Year One" - had almost as many names as it did airings. And already this year, a good half-dozen new network series have undergone title surgery...
...with much glee Thursday night that the press was able to glom onto reports emerging from behind the Republican firewall: that Pennsylvania governor (and Dubya pal) Tom Ridge had spoken with none other than John McCain, who issued an uncharacteristically equivocal response to the enduring question, "Would you run as a vice-presidential candidate...
...course, that speculation may be just what GOP strategists are hoping for; they know full well the erstwhile candidate's effect on the press corps - many members of which are rendered goo-goo-eyed in the senator's presence. And they know that the longer the guessing game continues - and the more interesting they can make it - the less time and space they have for Al Gore...
...have said from the beginning, CBS won't confirm or deny any inquiries or reports about the results of 'Survivor,' and we will allow the press to run inaccurate information." -CBS spokesman Colleen Sullivan...
...THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES EXISTING THEORIES ABOUT WHO HAS ALREADY WON THE $1 MILLION PRIZE ON "SURVIVOR." THEY ARE BASED ON RUMORS, PRESS REPORTS AND READER CONTRIBUTIONS, AND ARE THUS UNSUBSTANTIATED BY ANY JOURNALISTIC STANDARD. THE CORRECT ANSWER MAY INDEED APPEAR SOMEWHERE IN THIS SPACE, BUT ANY VERISIMILITUDE IS, REST ASSURED, PURELY COINCIDENTAL. THIS IS A PARLOR GAME, PEOPLE. THE DETERMINEDLY INCURIOUS, HOWEVER, MAY WANT TO STOP READING, BECAUSE WE MIGHT JUST GET IT RIGHT...