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Undercover Boss: Biggest Thing Since Dolly?

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | February 8, 2010 | +

Somewhere in the CBS press release about Undercover Boss’s boffo debut ratings was the claim that this was the biggest debut for any new TV series since the Dolly show in 1987. If you’re like me, you’re thinking, Wow! And also: What the hell was the Dolly show?

I was not watching a lot of TV at that juncture in my life, but Dolly (as distinguished from the 1970s Dolly! show) was ABC’s attempt to revive the variety show, starring Dolly Parton. It ran until the following spring. Which is to say: don’t assume Undercover Boss is an unstoppable hit just yet.

None of this, by the way, is to take away from Parton, who is awesome in any vehicle, however doomed. In the above clip from Dolly, she absolutely kills House of the Rising Sun, despite the cheesy setting and the synth-heavy ’80s backing arrangement.

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  • jarnoldok

    You are correct Sir, you was not watching much TV in your life during them times because you was just a kid just barely close to what 11th grade?.

    This is where you fail to see what “Good” was in tv and what “Good” is in the present media. Very rarely does a program come along that does not contain some made up BS, violence or other crap people begin to be influenced on.

    Then you have the critics like yourself who twist and manipulate what good is left in anything and try to turn it into crap with your BA in English. You spent all your time in school learning from books and did what other people told you to do just like a robot society America is becoming.
    You are not going to fool me Sir with your lack of human morals and compassion.

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