'LIVE' Television Gets Responsible

'LIVE' Television Gets Responsible
'ON AIR w/RYAN SEACREST' Proves That Viewers Come First (Transcripts Attached
Below) 


LOS ANGELES, March 24  /PRNewswire/ -- In this day of heightened sensitivity
towards indecency, Ryan Seacrest proves that LIVE television can and should be
responsible.

On yesterday's "ON AIR w/ RYAN SEACREST" (syndicated-check local listings),
Seacrest invited "America's Next Top Model" judge Janice Dickinson to appear,
only to have the interview slant immediately to the obscene. Touted as the
"first" supermodel, Dickinson took this LIVE television appearance to the
extreme with unbecoming language and sexual gestures, not fit for Seacrest's
audience.

"We are not afraid to walk the line ....but we don't want to cross it," Seacrest
said.  "I want a show that's suitable for the entire family to watch, which is
why I made the conscious decision to cut to commercial and not continue Ms.
Dickinson's interview."

"ON AIR" has been on a seven-second delay since the show launched on January 12,
04, but had never been instituted before yesterday's show.  The show's website
was inundated with thousands of e-mails in support from the public on the show's
decision to cut the interview short.

"ON AIR" is produced at The Hollywood & Highland Entertainment Complex in
Hollywood, CA by Larchmont Productions, in association with Twentieth
Television.

   (3/23/04 - Janice Dickinson Segment)

   12:35:43

   (after jumping into Ryan's lap) Janice sitting on Ryan's lap

   Janice - Give it up for Ryan

   Ryan - Welcome back, ok here we go, gotta couple things I'm just gonna
   rattle off

   Janice - Excuse me I feel something rising

   Janice moves off Ryan's lap

   Ryan - Janice Dickinson

   Janice - I didn't say that

   Ryan - Ok now that's my career, um, alright Janet Jackson comin' April
   second Janice allright

   Janice - Let's talk about her nnn, her breast

   Ryan - no no no no no, ok this is going to be live folks, I can't, I
   don't know what is exactly going to happen, alot more show this half
   hour, let me break it down for one second

   Janice - hit it, hit it hard babe

   Ryan - One second

   Janice - hit it hard

   Ryan - They paved the way for Destiny's Child and TLC, En Vogue
   performing in just a few, plus Nelly Furtado fans in the house, anybody,
   Nelly Furtado

   Crowd - screams

   Ryan - We'll take you on the set of Nelly's new video and why this new
   mom has strong opinions

   12:36:23

   cut to video

   Ryan - as to why sex appeal is definitely not the way to go.  She says
   she doesn't need to show sex to sell records.  So, we'll talk about that.

   12:36:34

   Cut back to Ryan and Janice

   Now this young lady um called herself the world's first supermodel.

   Janice - No,I coined the term back in 1979

   Ryan - And she gotta come out of her shell.  Anyway

   Janice - My clam

   Ryan - She's on America's Next Top Model, Janice its good to see you ,
   you doing allright?

   Janice - Are you kidding me, I'm on Ryan Seacrest show

   Ryan - Well thank you

   Janice - First of all, I want to ask you something

   Ryan - Yes Janice Dickinson

   Janice - Where, what do they call you, Sea, or Ry, or Crest I mean whats
   your nickname

   Ryan - They, they call me, uh, they call me Ry

   Janice - Ry?

   Ryan - You wanna call me Ry?

   Janice - No, but what does your girlfriend call you.  The metrosexual
   man.  What does your girlfriend call you.

   12:37:05

   Ryan - She calls me metro

   Janice - In bed? What does she call you in bed?

   Ryan - Sometimes she calls me a girl

   Janice - She call you a girl?

   Ryan - No, I'm just kidding

   Janice - No, but in bed just she call you oh Ry, Ry, or does she call you
   toast

   Ryan - No, she doesn't call me toast.  Hey, do you wanna see a clip of
   your show?

   Janice - I do

   Ryan - Allright, let's take a look, America's Next Top Model on UPN, here
   we go roll the clip

   12:37:24

   America's Next Top Model clip

   12:37:39

   Ryan - Ok, America's Next Top Model.  Ok, now we have the finale coming
   up tonight

   Janice - Finale is coming up tonight.  Thank you to Miss Tyra Banks, my
   boss

   Ryan - Yes

   Janice - Who enabled these girls an opportunity to become model wannabees

Ryan - Right, now let me ask you a question.  I heard that the winner has
   been leaked.  That the winner is Yoanna.  Is that true or false?  Use
   this.

   Janice - I am not at liberty to say who the winner is.

   Ryan - Oh come on

   Janice - One of the three will win

   Ryan - Is it Yoanna?

   Janice - One of the three will win

   Ryan - Look me in the eye

   (Janice puts her head between Ryan's legs - Cut to PLEASE STAND BY slate)

   Ryan - Oh my gosh

   Janice - One of the three will win

   Ryan - We're going to take a break and we'll come back On Air.  Don't
   miss it, the finale, America's Next Top Model, tonight.  Be right back.


DATASOURCE: Twentieth Television



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