Q&A: July 28
28/07/09 11:56
Question: Any news on (WFAA8 anchor) Gloria Campos' sabbatical? Voluntary or forced by management? Would love to see an update.
Matt Kiesel
Answer: Campos currently is on a short vacation and is scheduled to return to the Dallas-based ABC station in early August, according to WFAA8 management. Last week's on-air reference to her four-month sabbatical to take a world cruise turned out to be a "joke" by sports anchor Dale Hansen. But enough viewers took him seriously for Hansen to clarify matters on the following night's newscast.
Addendum: Hansen says it in fact was weathercaster Pete Delkus who initiated the joke about Campos' four-month sabbatical during their nightly banter. And that it was Delkus who later clarified matters. As of today's writing (Aug. 11th), Campos has been off the air for more than two weeks, dating back to July 24th.
Question: Any chance The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder will make it onto DVD? You can find snippets on YouTube, but I'd like to be able to watch all four seasons.
Christopher Skorz
Answer: There are no current plans to offer the late Snyder's Late Late Show on DVD. The best you probably can hope for is a "Best Of" collection of some sort. I don't know of any long-running talk show where all the episodes are available. You can, however, see Snyder's old NBC Tomorrow show interviews with John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. They're available in a Shout Factory set titled The Tomorrow Show: John, Paul, Tom and Ringo.
Question: Recently I watched the 8 episodes of Wonderland that were produced in 2000 (for ABC) and were recently available on DirecTV. My question is about the theme song -- at least it plays during the opening and closing credits. The song has a kind of a "new age, cool jazz" vibe and begins with "Lay me down . . . like water falls upon the desert . . . " and then I can't make out the rest.
I am normally a fairly resourceful guy researching things like this on the Internet, but I have come up empty.
Dave Reynolds
Answer: So far I can't find the answer either. I do know that the original Wonderland theme music literally was hummed by Madonna. But that was supplanted in the DirecTV version, and there seems to be no information anywhere on who the new artist is.
Wonderland, which I really liked at the time, also had guest appearances by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Piven. Its executive producer, Peter Berg, went on to helm NBC's Friday Night Lights, which likewise has been rescued by DirecTV. In both series, there's a character named Lyla Garrity. That's intentional, Berg says, in this interesting interview about Wonderland and some of his other projects.
Matt Kiesel
Answer: Campos currently is on a short vacation and is scheduled to return to the Dallas-based ABC station in early August, according to WFAA8 management. Last week's on-air reference to her four-month sabbatical to take a world cruise turned out to be a "joke" by sports anchor Dale Hansen. But enough viewers took him seriously for Hansen to clarify matters on the following night's newscast.
Addendum: Hansen says it in fact was weathercaster Pete Delkus who initiated the joke about Campos' four-month sabbatical during their nightly banter. And that it was Delkus who later clarified matters. As of today's writing (Aug. 11th), Campos has been off the air for more than two weeks, dating back to July 24th.
Question: Any chance The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder will make it onto DVD? You can find snippets on YouTube, but I'd like to be able to watch all four seasons.
Christopher Skorz
Answer: There are no current plans to offer the late Snyder's Late Late Show on DVD. The best you probably can hope for is a "Best Of" collection of some sort. I don't know of any long-running talk show where all the episodes are available. You can, however, see Snyder's old NBC Tomorrow show interviews with John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. They're available in a Shout Factory set titled The Tomorrow Show: John, Paul, Tom and Ringo.
Question: Recently I watched the 8 episodes of Wonderland that were produced in 2000 (for ABC) and were recently available on DirecTV. My question is about the theme song -- at least it plays during the opening and closing credits. The song has a kind of a "new age, cool jazz" vibe and begins with "Lay me down . . . like water falls upon the desert . . . " and then I can't make out the rest.
I am normally a fairly resourceful guy researching things like this on the Internet, but I have come up empty.
Dave Reynolds
Answer: So far I can't find the answer either. I do know that the original Wonderland theme music literally was hummed by Madonna. But that was supplanted in the DirecTV version, and there seems to be no information anywhere on who the new artist is.
Wonderland, which I really liked at the time, also had guest appearances by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Piven. Its executive producer, Peter Berg, went on to helm NBC's Friday Night Lights, which likewise has been rescued by DirecTV. In both series, there's a character named Lyla Garrity. That's intentional, Berg says, in this interesting interview about Wonderland and some of his other projects.