This New CBS Show, “Person to Person”
CBS has a new show on at 8 PM on Wednesdays called “Person to Person” and I watched it last night, and it’s so weird: Charlie Rose and Lara Logan sit in a New York studio and look at a huge screen, which displays a celebrity walking around his or her house with a remote camera crew, showing them their stuff. It’s basically “Cribs,” but the celebrities (last night they were George Clooney, Warren Buffet, and Jon Bon Jovi) just stand there and take direction from Charlie and Lara, who point at stuff in the celeb’s house and ask about it. So it’s like:
Charlie to George Clooney: “What’s that behind you? Is that a picture of a dog?”
George: “Oh, that? Yeah, that’s my dog.” (Basically.)
This sequence (“What’s that on the wall?,” etc) is repeated over and over, with deeper stuff about the person’s art thrown in to make it seem like an actual news program. In fact, “What’s That On Your Wall?” would work as a title for this show, which HAS TO BE the cheapest show, adjusted for inflation, ever to air on CBS in prime time.
Basically this show is EXACTLY like Skyping with your parents. (Here’s the Clooney segment in full, though it’s much more of a show to watch on your couch when you’re exhausted than exciting fast-paced internet video entertainment.) Anyway, I might be hooked.
(Also, there was a tiny framed picture in Clooney’s house of a blond woman wearing a bathing suit, and I paused on it, and I’m pretty sure it’s his girlfriend Stacy Keibler, and I was yelling at the screen to Lara and Charlie “Ask about that picture!” but I think that they were contractually obligated not to. But I also think Stacy Keibler sneaked that picture onto that table right before the film crew got there. We will probably never know.)
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