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Reality TV's Stale Bounty Hunting Genre Gets Estrogen Injection It So Desperately Needed

Mark — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:49:43 EDT

Every time we attempted to watch more than 30 seconds of Dog the Bounty Hunter, we always found ourselves wishing that someone would replace the pro-wrestler-looking guy with the ass-length mullet with a bunch of
chicks who would occasionally type on laptops, roundhouse-kick heavy bags, and say things like, "We're gonna have to Tazer this guy!" or "I'm gonna bring him out with my big, sexy, luuurrring ways." A thank you, then, is owed to Court TV for so thoroughly meeting all our bounty hunting show needs, as demonstrated in this Today clip. We might finally have something else to check out on the network after we're done watching freakishly thin Star Jones learn to live with the decreased capacity of her walnut-sized stomach.

Today [MSNBC.com]

Star Jones Committed To Bringing Some Decorum Back To Daytime Talk TV

Seth — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:49:21 EDT

From the first moment we laid eyes upon a Lilliputian, love-advice-dispensing Star Jones, we knew in our hearts that the stifling format of The View wasn't doing nearly enough to showcase everything this wise former D.A. had to offer her viewers. Kudos, then, to Court TV, who has scooped up the deposed daytime monarch to host her very own entertainment/law show. Sporting a brand new makeover (short hair + glasses + pantsuit + a face you can trust = instant credibility!), Jones offers TVGuide.com some thoughts on her journey away from The View's hysterics and back into our hearts:

TVGuide.com: Have you spoken to Barbara Walters or anyone else from The View since you left?
Reynolds: I have not. I haven't spoken to anyone from the show. I sometimes get e-mails from Elisabeth Hasselbeck, but that's because we had a very personal relationship. [...]

TVGuide.com: But are you surprised at the direction it's taken?
Reynolds: If that's what their viewers want, then that's where they needed to go. It's not where I would want it to go. That's why I'm doing [Court TV]. I wanted to return to something that allows me to be back where I'm at home. I'm at home talking about the law. I'm at home talking about issues. There's enough mishegas out there that I don't need to add to it.

There you have it, America: You either have an appetite for inverted lesbians and other assorted mishegas, or you belong to the highly coveted Real Engager psychographic, and your talk show viewing time is worthy of the kind of intellectually challenging and socially responsible topics Jones is sure to cover on her as-yet-untitled new show, on a soon-to-be-rebranded basic cable network near you.

A New View for Star Jones Reynolds [TV Guide]

Star Jones Comes Full Circle

Seth — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:24:47 EST

Fret not, Star Jones's legions of fans: The Daytime Talk Show Gods have heard your hungry cries for a return to a time when we could all rely on a regular dose of Starry-eyed wisdom to help get us through the day. The former Brooklyn D.A. has been hired back by the very network that helped launch her now-legendary famewhoring career:

The former district attorney-turned-television personality will serve as host and executive editor of a new daytime talk show on Court TV, the cable channel announced Wednesday.
According to MARLENE DANN, executive vice president of Court TV, Star will host a one-hour, live, daily show that will offer a fresh perspective to the day's most talked-about crime and justice stories from the news and pop culture arenas.

"My goal is to inform, empower, educate and entertain viewers. And Court TV is the perfect place to accomplish that mission," said Star in a statement.

There's something that feels almost too right about the return of Court TV's prodigal, legal-analyst daughter to wrest control of the cable network from the clutches of their currently reigning evil queen, Nancy Grace. And while on the surface Star appears virtually unrecognizable from Starlet Jones, that buttoned-down crusader for truth, justice, and the American Way we came to know and love in the early 90s, she now returns to us arguably stronger than ever, having since successfuly triumphed over an elusive search for love, a near-death experience on a plastic surgeon's operating table, and, most impressively, a Barbara Walters-led coup against her livelihood and reputation that would ultimately escalate into a battle for our very souls.

Star Jones Reynolds Joins Court TV [ET Online]