"Nascar Nation Gone Hollywood!"
Speed Channel's "Nascar Nation" that airs Monday - Thursday at 7pm has now morphed into "Entertainment Tonight" and "Access Hollywood" with a Nascar theme.
Ralph Sheehan is gone, replaced by LeeAnn Tweeden. Joining the former pin-up model is Vicky Johnson, and Craig Reynolds. The show has been cut back to 1/2 hour, with a new set, and a totally new format.
Every segment seems to use the same camera angles you would get from an in-car shot of a Nextel Cup car flipping down the front chute...it's all over the place. The opening segment features LeeAnn with some hard hitting Nascar News...like the premier of "Herbie -The Love Bug" or "The Hooters Pageant" (note to NN - if you're going to promote the fact you are live at the Hooters Swim Suit Compitition, how about showing us some Hooters!...instead of a bunch of bored waitresses hanging around an empty stage...looking like a chicken watching a card trick!)
The other segments, all of which last anywhere's from 15 seconds to a minute in length, are just re-hashed stories from the former "Nascar Nation". David Stremme (who throws like a girl) at a Country Western Celebrity Softball game, the kind of wheels Larry MacReynolds has on his "Pimp my ride" golf cart, what kind of music Casey Mears listens to, or how Jeremy Mayfield's clothes look in his motorcoach closet.
I realize that the show is trying to show us a different perspective of life outside of racing, and that 'peek behind the curtain mentality' into driver's life's, but, so far, it's been very weak...It's not even strong enough to be weak...it's lame. There, I said it...it's freaking lame!
The host's are still a little stiff and you can tell they are trying way to hard. They have a long way to go before they break out of that "PM Magazine" mold that comes off like a bad "Morning Zoo" radio show. I should know, I'm just as guilty of trying to pull off the same crap on my morning radio shows in DC and Houston.
But, then again, this new version of "Nascar Nation" isn't going after a 47 year old die-hard Nascar race fan, who put's up a chain link fence in front of his tv, put's on a pair of adult diapers, hangs a "show me your tits" banner above his couch, and uses 200 mile an hour tape to make damn sure his koozie nevers leaves his hand for flag to flag coverage anytime the Cup cars are running on the boob tube!
So, good luck to the new "Nascar Nation!" I gotta run, there's a "She's The Sheriff" marathon on TBS and I miss Suzanne Summers more and more everyday, ever since my old lady sold her Thigh Master on Ebay!
Mark
Ralph Sheehan is gone, replaced by LeeAnn Tweeden. Joining the former pin-up model is Vicky Johnson, and Craig Reynolds. The show has been cut back to 1/2 hour, with a new set, and a totally new format.
Every segment seems to use the same camera angles you would get from an in-car shot of a Nextel Cup car flipping down the front chute...it's all over the place. The opening segment features LeeAnn with some hard hitting Nascar News...like the premier of "Herbie -The Love Bug" or "The Hooters Pageant" (note to NN - if you're going to promote the fact you are live at the Hooters Swim Suit Compitition, how about showing us some Hooters!...instead of a bunch of bored waitresses hanging around an empty stage...looking like a chicken watching a card trick!)
The other segments, all of which last anywhere's from 15 seconds to a minute in length, are just re-hashed stories from the former "Nascar Nation". David Stremme (who throws like a girl) at a Country Western Celebrity Softball game, the kind of wheels Larry MacReynolds has on his "Pimp my ride" golf cart, what kind of music Casey Mears listens to, or how Jeremy Mayfield's clothes look in his motorcoach closet.
I realize that the show is trying to show us a different perspective of life outside of racing, and that 'peek behind the curtain mentality' into driver's life's, but, so far, it's been very weak...It's not even strong enough to be weak...it's lame. There, I said it...it's freaking lame!
The host's are still a little stiff and you can tell they are trying way to hard. They have a long way to go before they break out of that "PM Magazine" mold that comes off like a bad "Morning Zoo" radio show. I should know, I'm just as guilty of trying to pull off the same crap on my morning radio shows in DC and Houston.
But, then again, this new version of "Nascar Nation" isn't going after a 47 year old die-hard Nascar race fan, who put's up a chain link fence in front of his tv, put's on a pair of adult diapers, hangs a "show me your tits" banner above his couch, and uses 200 mile an hour tape to make damn sure his koozie nevers leaves his hand for flag to flag coverage anytime the Cup cars are running on the boob tube!
So, good luck to the new "Nascar Nation!" I gotta run, there's a "She's The Sheriff" marathon on TBS and I miss Suzanne Summers more and more everyday, ever since my old lady sold her Thigh Master on Ebay!
Mark
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