The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
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{{Infobox television
| image = morningshowfox.png
| genre = Talk show
| runtime = 60 minutes
| presenter = {{unbulleted list|Mike Jerrick|Juliet Huddy}}
| country = United States
| company = 20th Television
| network = Syndicated
| first_aired = {{Start date|2007|1|22}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2009|6|12}}
}}
The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet is an American syndicated morning talk show. Produced by Fox, the show first aired on January 22, 2007, to a number of markets originally through Fox and MyNetworkTV, most in the Fox Television Stations Group. Hosted by Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy, the program consisted of celebrity interviews, audience participation, and segments relating to viewers. The last live show aired on June 12, 2009, with reruns continuing through until September 2009.
Overview
Jerrick and Huddy had hosted other news shows in the past, notably DaySide and Fox & Friends Weekend, a weekend morning show, both on the Fox News Channel.
In February 2007, the show was syndicated to many ABC, NBC, CBS and The CW affiliates where a MyNetworkTV or Fox station didn't carry it.{{cite web|url=http://www.mandjshow.com/where-to-watch/ |title=Official Website : Where To Watch?|url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210185334/http://mandjshow.com/where-to-watch |archive-date=2009-02-10 }}
Ratings and cancellation
On January 8, 2009, Bob Cook, president and CEO of 20th Television, announced The Morning Show was cancelled, with new episodes continuing to air until June and reruns following until September.{{cite news |date=January 8, 2009 |title=Twentieth TV Cancels 'Morning Show' |work=TVNewsCheck |url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/28492/twentieth-tv-cancels-morning-show |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606140731/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/28492/twentieth-tv-cancels-morning-show?nocookies |archive-date=June 6, 2012}}{{cite web |last=Albiniak |first=Paige |date=January 8, 2009 |title='Morning Show With Mike and Juliet' to End in Fall |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/161775-_Morning_Show_With_Mike_and_Juliet_to_End_in_Fall.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704062348/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/161775-_Morning_Show_With_Mike_and_Juliet_to_End_in_Fall.php |archive-date=July 4, 2011 |website=Broadcasting & Cable}}
Social critiques of hosts
Television critics have noted that the program was unique in having two single hosts, who openly play up their marital status, seemingly abandoning traditional dictates that television morning hours be limited to "family values and sanctimony."[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/arts/television/08heff.html Virginia Heffernan, ‘We’re Not Dating’: A Morning Show With Sex on the Brain, New York Times, February 8, 2007]
"Spaghetti Cat" incident
In August 2008, The Morning Show became known for a seemingly bizarre variation of the bleep censor, censoring dialogue in a segment on binge drinking by cutting to a photograph of a cat eating spaghetti.{{Cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/spaghetti-cat-mystery-solved/21595|title="Spaghetti Cat" Mystery Solved|date=August 19, 2008|publisher=TVNewser|access-date=2008-12-24|url-access=subscription}} The occurrence was pointed out on an episode of The Soup on August 15, where even host Joel McHale acknowledged the absurdity of the image, proclaiming the occurrence "for lack of a better word, art", and pointed out that it was not an edited clip (as the show has often done for comedic intent).{{cite episode |title=The Soup - August 15, 2008 |series=The Soup |series-link=The Soup |network=E! Entertainment Television |airdate=2008-08-12}} A spokesperson dubbed it a "bleep photo", stating that "you're gonna see a lot more of those in the future."{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/idiot_box/welcome_to_the_new_black_bar_the_bleep_photo_91903.asp |title=Welcome To The New Black Bar: The Bleep Photo |date=August 19, 2008|publisher=FishbowlLA|access-date=2008-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606174434/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/welcome-to-the-new-black-bar-the-bleep-photo_b6949|archive-date=2011-06-06|url-status=dead}} The Spaghetti Cat (impersonated by a crude puppet) made several cameo appearances in later episodes of The Soup.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwMuxmT9nE&feature=fvw |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226092011/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwMuxmT9nE&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=2013-02-26 |url-status=dead|title= The Soup: A Visit from Spaghetti Cat |date=August 29, 2008 |publisher=E!|access-date=2010-09-10}}
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070121153012/http://mandjshow.com/ Official website]}}
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Category:2007 American television series debuts
Category:2009 American television series endings
Category:2000s American television talk shows
Category:American English-language television shows
Category:First-run syndicated television programs in the United States