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Replacing Craig Kilborn: Part II

Published Saturday, August 28, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

Why don't the series finales for TV shows have the same pizzazz and panache that we get to see when talk shows bow out? Does anyone really care how Friends or Frasier turned out in the end? Really? It doesn't take six-figure screenwriters to figure out that it'll be somewhat sappy and sentimental, does it? Nope. But when Craig Kilborn called it quits late Friday night/early Saturday morning with The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, he went out having as much fun as he could on network television. But if you read my previous post, you'd have read between the lines when finale guest Vince Vaughn said this to Craiggers: "Perhaps we'll get to do this again sometime soon." Perhaps indeed. After three weeks of reruns, stay tuned to see if Vaughn gets the gig.