Rene Syler, Barack Obama Inauguration BET co-host: Mr. Media Interview

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If your name is Rene Syler, this is probably a pretty good week.

In the midst of preparing to co-host B-E-T’s live coverage of the Jan. 20th inauguration of Barack Obama, it was announced that Syler—a former co-host of the CBS “Early Show”—would be returning to regularly scheduled television programming as host of a new show, “Live Large, Spend Small.”

But that can’t be any more entertaining than the show she does now on her Facebook video log. She comes to us directly from Good Enough Mother World Headquarters in New York.

You can LISTEN to this interview with RENE SYLER by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

Big Brother: After Dark-Time for a New ChenBot?

Summer after summer, one of our guilty pleasures is watching "Big Brother" on CBS. And when the show added "Big Brother: After Dark" on Showtime last year, it added more depth - if you can call it that - to the reality show. Adult themes and adult language made the show more real and it became the guiltiest pleasure. But watching the three-hour raunch fest last night -- on a one-day delay and thanks to 4x fast-forwarding -- I was less shocked by the topless and bottomless bubble bath pool party than I was that Julie Chen is still technically the host of the show, albeit in prerecorded spots.

For a certain demographic, "Big Brother After Dark" on Showtime is a fun viewing; I have no problem with adult themes and situations for adult viewers. But isn't it time for the co-host of "The Early Show" -- produced by CBS News -- to step aside in favor of a more appropriate host? Like maybe Artie Lange from "The Howard Stern Show" or "Mr. Skin" from www.MrSkin.com?