KTVU Trifecta 'Mishegoss' at 10 O'Clock

Frank Somerville (left) Julie Haener and Mark Ibanez

FIRST OFF, If you don't know the term about mishegoss, it's a Yiddish term for craziness. KTVU trifecta supreme: Frank Somerville, Julie Haener and Mark Ibanez, are in a state of real world craziness with enough pent-up anger, frustration, deep-seated gossip and innuendo they could quit Channel 2 and start a new show on their Fox mantle; Frank is sort of pissed off at Mark for fostering rumors of...(take a guess); Julie doesn't trust either of 'em because she is loyal to weatherman, Bill Martin, still leaving the station after pm night shifts to have dinner at home in CoCo; and Mark is getting cat calls because he just signed an extension and isn't Ken Wayne--among other things, what a WILD and CRAZY guy!

To be sure, what you see now on KTVU is really not the warm and fuzzy surroundings the anchors try to portray; it's more an act than reality; but only a reality show would be fit for this nightly display of uneasiness that permeates the building. It makes for spectacular thought and envy only the real players are the reality stars themselves! Even Claud Mann would be impressed!

Granted, it's a circus at 10 PM but in a way, I'm impressed that the wily veterans has managed to put aside internal strife and still maintain a pretty damn good newscast in spite of things like...

Jana Katsuyama; the senior reporter who does the first studio report with all the serenity of a Bakersfield 7-11; how and why Katsuyama is the chosen one is beyond me; maybe it's case of PC-demo nirvana run amok.

Bill Martin: weatherman el mumbler; Bill, used to love you but your forecasts are becoming the visual equivalent of a double colonoscopy --painful and troublesome. You're beginning to look and sound like a depressed, drunken, sullen blogger on his last legs; for heaven's sake leave the building and go have a couple of hoists with Ibanez just make sure it's not on his workout night.

Newsroom: Beware of a nebbish who likes to write anonymous letters that he/she thinks possess influence and great wisdom; in fact they elicit nurturing laughter and comedy of errors.

One, said correspondent of newsroom's chief troll isn't interested in office politics or that of GM Gregg Kelley's daily workout regimen; he/she should be more interested in the upcoming Kelley/Chris Nohr Fox matinee about a fictional TV News station beset with conflict and drama. And that's the good news.

But...

Thanks for Trusting Us.