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THE TV COLUMN
Lisa de Moraes
A Twitter celebrity,
Letterman’s backstage antics haven’t sunk his onstage numbers
thanks to Conan
D
avid Letterman’s job at a rate of 150 per minute. Then
security continues to be Associated Press came the calls: family, friends
buoyed by developing (current and long-lost) and in-
news about his shagging of conway township, mich. terview requests from Web sites,
interns/staffers on his show — a — Last week, Sarah Killen had TV shows and radio stations.
lesson to all those TV industry three Twitter followers. She says she has fallen woe-
navel-lint pickers who predicted This week, she has almost fully behind on her schoolwork
the story would hobble 22,000 — as well as a new iMac and day-to-day activities. “It’s
Letterman’s TV career because and offers to help pay for a dress totally nuts,” she said.
the American public, and and drinks for her wedding. Until O’Brien plucked Killen
advertisers, would not stand for The unsuspecting rural from obscurity and turned her
such brazen behavior on the part Michigan woman has one out- into an overnight Web celeb, she
of its on-air talent. of-work late-night talk show and fiance John Slowik Jr., 21,
About 4 million people tuned host to thank for her new online lived a quiet life, residing in the
in to see what Letterman would popularity: Conan O’Brien. basement of a house in Conway
have to say about the guilty plea The deposed “Tonight Show” Township, more than an hour’s
entered Tuesday by a former TV star — whose exit deal with NBC drive west of Detroit.
news producer who admitted barred him from TV appear- It’s hard to say exactly what
he’d tried to shake down the ances for several months — has O’Brien’s motivation was; his
late-night host to the tune of taken to Twitter to reach the spokesman Beau Benton had no
$2 million by exposing masses during his exile. He has comment Wednesday. But as a
Letterman’s taste in interns/ quickly garnered more than half result of the exposure: A Florida
staffers. That’s up noticeably, by a million followers. businessman bought Killen an
late-night standards, from the But until Friday, O’Brien did iMac; a New York designer is do-
3.7 million he averaged the not follow the feeds of anybody nating a wedding dress; and a
previous Tuesday. else. third party is sending wine for
Robert “Joe” Halderman Enter Killen, 19, who is finish- her nuptials.
pleaded guilty to attempted ing up her high school require- Not bad for a couple who had
grand larceny, admitting he tried
CHARLES DHARAPAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ments, preparing to make the saved $30 for the wedding,
to blackmail Letterman by RATINGS BONANZA: President Obama, other celebrity “gets” and David Letterman’s own sex jump to college and getting mar- hadn’t reserved a location and
threatening to make public the scandal can be counted on to boost the number of viewers for the talk show host. ried in September. faced the prospect of not being
comic’s sexual activities with “I’ve decided to follow some- able to afford a dress.
people working for his as big a crowd: 5.7 million mentioned in the network’s one at random,” O’Brien’s post- “People are saying that I’m
Worldwide Pants production viewers. upfront announcement, then ing read Friday. “She likes pea- asking for gifts and stuff, and
company.
No D.C. ‘Housewives’?
finally settled on saying: “No nut butter and gummy dino- I’m not,” Killen said. What she is
Halderman’s guilty plea robs announcement was made saurs. Sarah Killen, your life is asking of her new army of Twit-
Letterman of a potential ratings “Real Housewives of regarding ‘Real Housewives of about to change.” ter followers is to contribute to
bonanza during a trial that was, D.C.”-obsessed reporters who D.C.’ ” Boy, did it ever. charity, including the Susan G.
according to The Ladies of River were expecting Bravo to unveil Okey dokey. Immediately after O’Brien Komen Race for the Cure.
City Who Cover Television, sure the cast during the network’s started following her, Killen — But Slowik says he’d love one
to get ugly. so-called “upfront” (a.k.a. “new
Ticking clock for ‘24’
whose Twitter handle is “Love- more thing from O’Brien: to be
Some small consolation: schedule”) announcement Trade paper Variety is lyButton” — picked up followers his best man at the wedding.
Halderman’s sentencing is set for Wednesday were taken aback reporting that this season will be
May 4, during the May sweeps. when the NBC Universal cable “24’s” last on Fox. The network is
Letterman is sure to have network instead announced it not commenting. The silence is
something to say about the had greenlighted a new “Real deafening.
sentencing, which may goose his Housewives of Beverly Hills” and Through last week, the
ratings one last time and during made absolutely no mention of serialized improbable romp was
that important ratings period. “RHoDC.” averaging 11.7 million viewers —
In fairness, the 4 million-ish Some assumed the worst and down more than a million
who appear to have tuned in took their grief to Twitter:
KELSEY MCNEAL/FOX BROADCASTING
compared with last season at the
Tuesday are nowhere near the “Coming soon to Bravo: The BYE-BYE? Kiefer Sutherland, same time. More damning, it’s
nearly 6 million who watched on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. right, and “24” may go off-air. finishing third in its time slot
Thursday, Oct. 1, when But no word on the DC behind CBS’s comedies and
Letterman first revealed what installment,” tweeted one. traditionally unveils its “Real ABC’s “The Bachelor,” both
most Reporters Who Cover “Hmm, [the first reporter] Housewives” casts about six to among viewers of all ages and
Television had been hearing for raises a good point: it’s March, eight weeks before the show’s also among the 18-to-49-year-old
ages: He had shagged interns/ and we haven’t heard anything launch. So, last year was just viewers who are Fox’s target
staffers on his show over the about The Real Housewives of kismet? We’re dubious. audience. The most recent four
years. That night, Letterman told DC yet. What’s going on?” But, anyway, we think we can episodes suffered the smallest
his national audience he was tweeted another. safely write off a “Real ratings in that age bracket in the
revealing this information At last year’s upfront, Bravo Housewives of D.C.” debut in the series’s history.
because a guy was trying to had unveiled the cast of “Real next six to eight weeks, right? On a happier note, Fox’s film
shake him down with Housewives of New Jersey.” But, But will we ever see a “Real division has hired a screenwriter
information about his dalliances. a Bravo insider points out to the Housewives of D.C.” on Bravo’s to pen that “24” movie they’ve
Halderman was arrested that TV Column, that year the lineup? And whither goeth the been threatening to make for
same day. “upfront” orgy of advertiser Salahis? years — so Jack Bauer will live on
The following Monday, when schmoozing happened about six A Bravo rep began to and Kiefer Sutherland’s movie
Letterman apologized on air to weeks before “Real Housewives tap-dance when we called to find career may be raised from the
AL GOLDIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
his wife-and-mother-of-his-child, of New Jersey” was going to out what was up with “Real dead. Ironic, huh? ‘TOTALLY NUTS’: Sarah Killen, 19, now has the prospect of a
Regina Lasko, he clocked nearly debut — and the network Housewives of D.C.” not being
demoraesl@washpost.com wedding dress for her marriage to John Slowik Jr.
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“American Idol” (Fox at 8), as the
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Season 5 runner-up Katharine
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McPhee guest-stars on
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Pierce’s stepdaughter, who
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Network at 8), John Stossel
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Justice’s Chip Mellor and Whole
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Foods’ Jennifer Carlson. LIKE REAL LIFE? Jack
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Discovery
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Disney
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ESPN
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Andy and Erin, the two most (Discovery at 10) tells the story of
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Still struggling with being in are featured in “Silver Spring:
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Lifetime
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MASN
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Owen on “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC history of the town in Maryland.
MSNBC
Hardball Countdown-Olbermann Maddow Show Countdown-Olbermann Th e Rachel Maddow Show
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Th e Real World 16 and Pregnant America’s Best Dance Crew America’s Best Dance a78 Taking Dance Crew
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