Producer Chuck Lorre paid tribute to former Warner Bros. TV Group chief Peter Roth as “our happy hugging hero” in a message featured on his custom vanity card that aired tonight at the end of the four Lorre-produced comedies on CBS’ Thursday lineup.
For vanity card No. 669, the prolific producer penned a cheeky poem that he dubbed “Peter at the Hug (With apologies to ‘Casey at the Bat’).”
Roth led Warner Bros.’ mighty TV group for 21 years before leaving early this year amid the massive shakeups on the Burbank lot that have followed AT&T’s 2018 acquisition of Time Warner. Channing Dungey, an alumnus of Disney/ABC and Netflix, was named Roth’s successor as Wbtv leader in October.
Lorre’s salute to the ex-chief makes mention of Roth’s penchant for hugging (“So many years he cheered us on/our happy hugging hero”) and pulls no punches against “the gentiles” at AT&T.
For vanity card No. 669, the prolific producer penned a cheeky poem that he dubbed “Peter at the Hug (With apologies to ‘Casey at the Bat’).”
Roth led Warner Bros.’ mighty TV group for 21 years before leaving early this year amid the massive shakeups on the Burbank lot that have followed AT&T’s 2018 acquisition of Time Warner. Channing Dungey, an alumnus of Disney/ABC and Netflix, was named Roth’s successor as Wbtv leader in October.
Lorre’s salute to the ex-chief makes mention of Roth’s penchant for hugging (“So many years he cheered us on/our happy hugging hero”) and pulls no punches against “the gentiles” at AT&T.
- 4/23/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
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