Today’s question is about two of network television’s hottest, um, babes. If I can say “babes.” (Oh well, my wife Gwen the Beautiful undoubtedly will set me straight after she reads this.)
Where were we? Oh, right. Today’s question is about two of the most popular female stars in TV – in the ’70s, that is. Lynda Carter, AKA Wonder Woman, and Loni Anderson, AKA Jennifer Marlowe.
But – alas! – they don’t look exactly the way we expected them to (or even just a little bit):
We were going to tell you all about this problem, but you know how it is. First we had to make some coffee. Then we had to drink it and clean the pot and…
Yeah, we know. Easy joke. Our bad for putting off coming up with a better one.
Like most writers, I am an inveterate procrastinator. In the course of writing this one article, I have checked my e-mail approximately 3,000 times, made and discarded multiple grocery lists, conducted a lengthy Twitter battle over whether the gold standard is actually the worst economic policy ever proposed, written Facebook messages to schoolmates I haven’t seen in at least a decade, invented a delicious new recipe for chocolate berry protein smoothies, and googled my own name several times to make sure that I have at least once written something that someone would actually want to read.
I had a pitch meeting last week with a cable network that’s now vying for position in the drama space. The network is steadily making moves to develop and air content that its existing massive audience will gravitate towards without flipping the remote control.
Consider this: 12 or 15 years ago USA Network was a fledgling network trying to find its place in the growing number of cable channels and networks. Now, USA has been top network, with a distinctive style for over a decade.
Wouldn’t you have liked to be there on the ground floor, pitching ideas to the network?