By Damian Holbrook
Cheers to Mike Richards
for buzzing into Jeopardy! at the right time. When a COVID outbreak in Los Angeles derailed the celebrity guest host lineup, the game show’s camera-ready exec producer (pictured) stepped in, filling the shoes of the late Alex Trebek perfectly. We’ll take Richards for 1,000 more episodes, please.
Jeers to Hell’s Kitchen’s
terrible taste in casting. How is it that every edition of Gordon Ramsay’s cook-off seems to feature a slew of trashy, foul-mouthed wannabes with minimal skills when shows like Top Chef and Chopped do just fine with contestants who don’t need to be bleeped every five seconds and know how to make a good risotto?
Jeers to Country Comfort
for causing us such distress. Ever since American Idol, we have loved Katharine McPhee. So it pains us to see her talents going to waste on Netflix’s screechy musical sitcom about a country singer roped into nannying for a hot widower (Eddie Cibrian) and his five kids. Kat deserves another Smash, not this trash.
Cheers to FBI
for investigating unconscious bias within its ranks. In the tense and timely March 9th episode, Egyptian-born Special Agent Omar “OA” Zidan (Zeeko Zaki) boldly took his superiors to task—and put the very real problem of racial profiling under the spotlight—after they wrongfully assumed a car-bombing case was tied to the Muslim community.
