Cuban Misses the Mark on Dancing
October 25, 2007 on 1:27 pm | In Dance, Entertainment, Money, Personal Thoughts, Pictures, TV Show, Television | No Comments
On a night that saw an inordinate amount of thrills and spills, Mark Cuban should have concentrated harder on his three wishes. Showmanship and an entertaining “I Dream of Jeannie”-inspired samba couldn’t keep the 49-year-old billionaire on Dancing with the Stars any longer. We paid $200 a pop to sit in prime seats at the Christian Dove awards in Nashville - we thought we were going to get to see a lot. We sat there 4 hours just to watch most of the event pretaped on a television screen. The only things live on TV were the top categories being read and the people coming up to accept the awards. There was also musical entertainment however, most of it had been pretaped during the week elsewhere and shown on a TV screen to the live studio audience. The people who watched it on TV at home thought they were getting the real deal and that it was happening live. It’s the way the television is - they trick viewers at home into thinking it’s a live show when in fact it’s all been pretaped.