When you open your Peacock mobile app this summer, you might see the AI likeness of TV host Andy Cohen pop up on your homepage. In an announcement on Friday, NBCUniversal said Cohen's avatar will serve as a guide through Peacock's 'infinitely swipeable' feed of clips from Bravo shows, like Love Island, The Real Housewives series, and Below Deck.
Scott Rogowsky is a comedian - he knows how to make fun of himself. That's how he ended up roaming New York City Comic Con with his own photo printed out like a "Wanted" poster, filming himself asking strangers, "Have you seen this man?" These passersby showed a flicker of recognition, looking at the tall, bearded man like someone they had known in a past life, but couldn't quite place.
Over the last year or so, I have had a recurring dream in which I am a player on Survivor. It's not always the same dream, exactly, but the format generally holds: I have made it to the final seven or so, and I am fighting for my life. I don't think I would be good at Survivor, and that's how I always know it's a dream; I wouldn't sniff final seven.
Fresh from his victory as the last traitor standing in The Celebrity Traitors, and elevation to national treasure status, the Chatty Man is co-presenting Secret Genius with Countdown's dictionary-botherer, the lexicographer and author Susie Dent. On second thoughts, given the lead times for these things, this is probably better billed as What Alan Carr was contracted to do next but no matter. We are here to have fun and fun we shall!
These are very good tickets. You're in the camera block, near the red contestant's friends and family. So there's something I need to know. If the camera is on you, are you going to duck and hide and get all embarrassed? Or are you going to go absolutely flipping mental? I've been up until the early hours painting portraits of my favourite Gladiators with the precise hope of making it on to the telly.