It was unusual to see two men on a news anchor desk, and Senior, for the most part, made it work. Somerville was LOST IN SPACE. Good lord, what a total TRAIN WRECK!
Somerville seemed and LOOKED out of sight, out of mind. He appeared to resemble a "deer-in-headlights" --several times, and I do say, several, Somerville was LATE to taking a toss from Senior. At one point, Senior, after reading a story, reacted to DEAD AIR, "Frank?", he said with surprise. To which Somerville was seen fidgeting with his computer and looking and sounding utterly LOOPY!
TOTAL CALAMITY.
Frankly, I felt sorry for Frank. It was an awful sight. He not only looked old, out of whack and totally disjointed, he made Senior look bad and that's a cardinal sin in TV. He couldn't handle a toss from traffic anchor, Sal Castaneda, (they were ad-libbing a traffic jam near the Caldecott, a result of a shooting) Somerville seemed out of the loop and flustered when Sal offered alternative routes to get around the mess.
It was a total mess and disturbing twenty or so minutes on Bay Area TV news and another KTVU DISASTER, courtesy Frank Somerville.
> Julie Haener was away (for a change)
ReplyDeleteWhat??? Have you been WATCHING KTVU at all? She's been off half of his shifts. It's been Frank and Heather as much as Frank and Julie. I get the distinct impression she doesn't want to be in the same building as he.
Julie H. has a son who's a 1st string quarterback at Fresno State. Having a son being college athlete and Julie being a parent at this time is a very short window in life. I commend her for doing whatever necessary to attend these football games as that time just can't be gotten back. I suspect she has negotiated the time off with KTVU and has the financial health to afford the travel which goes along with attending these football games. Just an fyi.
DeleteFrank just needs a trip to Men's Wearhouse. A new suit would fix him right up.
ReplyDeleteand a lobotomy
Deletebut instead he opted to get his grey hair colored - so now the top of his head looks like a hairpiece. Bad.
DeleteAnd better fitting shirts with collars that aren't so tight...and dump the collar pins. This is just the news, nothing that fancy.
ReplyDeleteFrank is unraveling and it isn't pretty. Life is short. Fix yourself and leave the Firm. Go be a farmer or whatever you can find happiness in. Just sad.
ReplyDeleteWhat Frank needs is a trip to Las Vegas. You know the spiel; what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas! I for one have found this to be true.
ReplyDeleteThe end of an era may happen sooner than we think, even by The Firm's standards. And it may be the right thing to do.
ReplyDeleteFrank is a big baby. All he has to do is read the TelePrompter. He was never a "newsman"; he's a fucking READER. It's easy, but he's falling apart trying to do the easiest job in the world for a shitload of money. Fuck him if he's going to self-destruct. I'm sure there are plenty of others readers out there who will be happy to make half-a-million dollars for a few hours work in a climate-controlled studio.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Every word.
DeleteFrank seems to have had a redirection in delivering the news. Being off? Oh hell no he’s a grumpy old man that’s lost his sense of what he’s there for. Certainly not a team player. As far as Julie and Heather, they know they don’t want to around that!
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