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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 121038" data-attributes="member: 27">I fully expect the show to be topical, since the setting lends itself to that.&nbsp; I just hope they can poke fun at everyone (all sides) equally and thus invite everyone to join in on the fun.&nbsp; Being stridently one-sided in your jokes/criticisms gets tiresome after a while and drives away 50% of the potential audience almost immediately.&nbsp; From what I&#039;ve read, Murphy is now the host of a morning show (one reads between the lines to assume it&#039;s on CBS), and grown-up Avery hosts a competing program on another network in the vein of Fox News Channel.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how the others fit in (one would assume Miles is her producer?).&nbsp; They&#039;ve cast Tyne Daly to play Phyllis, the widow (?) of Phil, who ran the bar they all hung out in (Phil died in the original series), though this is something of a ret-con of events in the original (when Dena Dietrich played Phyllis and wanted nothing to do with running the bar).&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit of a stretch to think grouchy Murphy could be hosting a morning show* (where everyone has to be all chipper and bantering about silly stuff), but I guess they couldn&#039;t keep FYI without Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough), whom I assume is not going to be in this version since he&#039;s not been mentioned.* One memorable episode of original MB had Murphy and Corky drafted by the network to co-host the morning show for a ratings stunt.&nbsp; Murphy was predictably horrible at morning-show banter and fluff, while Corky took to it like a duck to water and ended up having to bail Murphy out of numerous gaffes on-air.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 121038, member: 27"] I fully expect the show to be topical, since the setting lends itself to that. I just hope they can poke fun at everyone (all sides) equally and thus invite everyone to join in on the fun. Being stridently one-sided in your jokes/criticisms gets tiresome after a while and drives away 50% of the potential audience almost immediately. From what I've read, Murphy is now the host of a morning show (one reads between the lines to assume it's on CBS), and grown-up Avery hosts a competing program on another network in the vein of Fox News Channel. I'm not sure how the others fit in (one would assume Miles is her producer?). They've cast Tyne Daly to play Phyllis, the widow (?) of Phil, who ran the bar they all hung out in (Phil died in the original series), though this is something of a ret-con of events in the original (when Dena Dietrich played Phyllis and wanted nothing to do with running the bar). It's a bit of a stretch to think grouchy Murphy could be hosting a morning show* (where everyone has to be all chipper and bantering about silly stuff), but I guess they couldn't keep FYI without Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough), whom I assume is not going to be in this version since he's not been mentioned. * One memorable episode of original MB had Murphy and Corky drafted by the network to co-host the morning show for a ratings stunt. Murphy was predictably horrible at morning-show banter and fluff, while Corky took to it like a duck to water and ended up having to bail Murphy out of numerous gaffes on-air. [/QUOTE]

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