Ghost Host

Scott Marinoff, who sends me a lot of great things I post here, just sent this photo of an on-screen listing on his DVR, which is part of AT&T U-Verse. It was for today's episode of The Price is Right but for some reason, the U-Verse folks thought it would be hosted by Bill Cullen. Mr. Cullen was indeed the host of an earlier version of The Price is Right from 1956 to 1965 but he's not involved with the current show by that name. In fact, he hasn't hosted much of anything since he passed away in 1990.

I'm always curious about how these mistakes occur. There was a woman named Frances Kee Teller who appeared in one film in her lifetime — a 1952 documentary called Navajo. For some reason, the folks who compile the program listings on my TiVo used to put her name in many places where they mean to reference Teller, partner of Penn. Obviously, it's a computer error but it took them a long time to catch it.