June 16, 2004
Early Show Does a "Wedding In a Week"
The Early Show, CBS's morning show and the laggard in morning show ratings, has apparently come up with a brilliant plan to win viewers, Wedding In a Week. "Brilliant," say CBS executives. "Retarded," says I. What's so special about a wedding in a week? Sure there is the sappy story of how the couple wants to get married, but that's the formula for every wedding that's made for TV, be it Tristan and Ryan's wedding or a wedding on the Today show or GMA. They all have sappy love stories and reasons they need "the wedding of a lifetime."
Don't these wedding in a week people just get to jump to the front of the line in their preparations? It's really no more "special" than the other televised weddings, is it? You're just skipping all the other people that were planning on getting married. You need your dress altered? Front of the line!! And if it were really a wedding in a week, you wouldn't be able to book the Ritz-Carlton, but would end up doing the wedding in a backyard. Now, I'm no wedding planner or a person that's even thinking about marriage, but from what I hear, if you're looking to get married at a nice place, you've got to reserve way in advance.
Wedding in a week my ass.
Posted by tien mao in TV at 9:02 AM
take it from me--you can have a wedding in a half an hour for about $150--if you really wanted it
Posted by: jocelyn at June 16, 2004 2:30 PM
I actually look forward to Today Throws a Wedding. I get teary when I watch it.
Posted by: Jen at June 16, 2004 3:47 PM
I think they're scraping the bottom of the barrel...
Posted by: corie at June 16, 2004 7:01 PM
"Brilliant," say CBS executives. "Stolen from the Today Show," says Rion. --- i agree with Jen... it's never bad when Katie, Matt, Al and Ann get into the mix!
Posted by: rion at June 16, 2004 10:05 PM
i guess i thought that cbs was going from planning to wedding in one week, where the ones on today and gma are planned through several weeks.
Posted by: tien at June 17, 2004 9:02 AM
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