Media Industry
Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMagic set to tip off show.(Magic Johnson)
Broadcasting & Cable, June, 1998 by Schlosser, Joe
Magic Johnson takes to the court once again today (June 8), with the launch of his late-night syndicated talk/variety show from Twentieth Television, The Magic Hour.
Johnson, who will tape the show at the same Paramount studio in Hollywood where his friend Arsenic Hall did his late-night show, last week added a sidekick, comedian Craig Shoemaker. Shoemaker will sit by Johnson's side throughout the hour program and will handle comedy chores for the former NBA star. Shoemaker was voted top comedian at last year's American Comedy Awards and has hosted VH1 's My Generation.
"His job is to make me, the audience and the people at home laugh," Johnson says. "I don't think we ever envisioned me doing comedy. I'm not going to try and do a monologue, that's...
Brought to you by CBS MoneyWatch.com
- Best- and Worst-Paid College Degrees
- 6 Things You Should Never Do on Twitter or Facebook
- How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
- 6 Big Myths about Gas Mileage
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
