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Ricky Gervais is back with a Netflix show many are saying is his best work ever (and yes, better than ‘The Office!’ Steve Carell even said so in a Tweet!).

In the dark comedy ‘Afterlife,’ Ricky plays Tony, a small-town journalist whose wife of many years has died of cancer.

He decides to turn around his grief and do whatever he wants and tell everyone what he thinks! And of course, when you act like you have nothing to lose and you are a character created by Ricky Gervais, hilarity ensues!

Brad Blanks caught up with Ricky and talked to him candidly about the show and it’s immediate success.

‘Afterlife’ is out now on Netflix.

We had a special on air reunion on the big show, Ross Brittain and his wife Rasa Kaye were together on air for the first time i decades!

Ross & Rasa worked together from 1981-1983 at WABC and they had the chance to tell stories from back then and all other phases of their life while working for Scott & Patty on the big show March 14th & 15th 2019.

You can hear Rasa at Entercom station WPHT in Philadelphia and and she does features for KYW-AM. Of course when he's not filling in for the big show you can hear Ross on the weekends at CBS-FM.

Listen back to the entire 5 year show live from the radio.com theater in Hudson Square! With special guests Taylor Dayne, Kevin Nealon, Bob Saget, Maury Povich, Stew Leonard and more! We say goodbye to Kermit the Wonderfrog and blast off to the next 5 years on CBS-FM!

Shelly Goldstein is a producer, writer & comedian who’s been our go-to the past few years for an insiders preview of the Oscars! She's giving us the scoop on who's going to win and who SHOULD win!

The 91st Academy Awards airs Sunday night on ABC-7, hosted by… nobody!

Shelly’s comedy videos on YouTube have over 3 million views & you can follow her on Twitter @GroovyShelly!

Friend of the 'Big Show' Rob Thomas has officially announced the release of his highly anticipated fourth solo album Chip Tooth Smile which is set to arrive in stores and on streaming services April 26th. His brand new single "One Less Day (Dying Young)" was just released today, February 20th, and to celebrate, Rob dropped by to talk with Scott Shannon and Patty Steele about the exciting news. MORE HERE.

9-time Emmy award winning co-anchor of “CBS-2 News This Morning” & the first lady of Yonkers Mary Calvi stopped by the big show to talk about her debut novel “Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love.”

It explores the ill-fated romance between Yonkers Colonial-era heiress Mary Philipse & 24-year-old George Washington.

Mary told us a little about herself before anchoring at CBS-2, she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in broadcast journalism from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and worked at News 12 Westchester before making it to NYC.

Mary spent years as a child wondering about the heiress who once lived in the grand manor in her hometown of Yonkers. She heard in passing that the heiress was courted by George Washington. Curiosity compelled Mary to do her own research and what she uncovered stunned her!

“Just being able to really get in there and learn about history” Mary boasts about the process of making the book, “Which I’ve always been interested in but not to this extent, I almost became quite obsessive about it.”

Mary will be signing copies of the book February 19th from 6:30-8:30 at the Barnes & Noble on Central Park Ave in Yonkers, February 20th at the Fraunces Tavern Museum in lower Manhattan & the 92nd Street Y on Lexington Ave February 21st!

Get the full list of book signings at www.marycalvi.com

“Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love” is out today via St Martin’s Press at Amazon.com & all book stores.

Heather McDonald wrote, produced & appeared on E!’s Chelsea Lately for the entire 7 year run and now she’s discovered great success in the podcast world!

After Chelsea’s run came to an end she had a couple of shows that didn’t pan out so she proclaimed “well, I guess it’s time for a podcast! I thought it was like over with… I guess I’ll be like everybody else!”

It turns out “Juicy Scoop” was a good idea, the podcast is available twice a week on iTunes, Android or Stitcher, it has 300 episodes and over 29 million downloads!

She thanks her husband for turning the podcast into a success, “let’s give him some credit….he pursued all the things, I don’t like reading contracts” she says, “I just want to perform and I just want to work, so it’s kind of a nice combo.”

Heather uses her 3 kids as material for her podcast and her shows, “he wrote a whole report in school about Jo Koy” Heather says about her 16 year old son after he went to go see mom’s comedy show.

“To humiliate my son we wrapped his car with my face and the ‘Juicy Scoop’ logo” she jokes, “it’s not as profitable to have boys and exploit them….Kris Jenner she put them all in bikinis and look at them now!”  

Heather gets the juiciest stories from her guests & talks about everything from the Real Housewives, celebrity scandals to true crime! “it’s almost like I’m doing a variety show, it’s different.”

Heather does standup at Caroline’s on Broadway February 7th – 9th with a few tickets available at www.Carolines.com.   

While discussing an episode of 'The Bachelor' where a contestant admitted their first kiss was during the competition, Brad's young daughter Matilda says she wants to go on the show! This leads to the big show sharing their own first kiss stories (well, most of them)!

Patty corrects the room when we assume she had her first kiss on a tractor at 12 years old: "What do you think she's Tom Brady kissing everybody?" Scott says.

Sue admits to being 14 for her first kiss, "billy down the block" and Scott says he was "13 or 14."

"I met a girl...all the kids used to go to the theater and i sat next to her" he says. "I got a taste of that and said 'ah this is pretty good!'"

Deborah Norville checked in this morning to talk about what's coming up on Inside Edition, and one story she had to get in was a shocking admission by Liam Neeson!

Liam admitted in a recent interview he had violent thoughts about killing a black person after learning that someone close to him had been raped. 

He shared the story while promoting his latest movie "Cold Pursuit" and called his reaction “horrible,” saying it taught him a lesson about the primal need for revenge.

Deborah says of Liam's remarks "if you just repeat it in your head it will generally prevent you from doing something stupid and maybe Mr. Neeson needed to know this...'first thing you do before you get in trouble, use your head on the double," something she taught her three kids when they were young.

“Inside Edition” airs weeknights at 7pm on CBS-2 & is TV's longest-running, top-rated and most-honored syndicated news magazine!

Brad Blanks reported live from radio row in Atlanta this week as we get ready for Super Bowl LIII between the Patriots & Rams Sunday night at Mercedes Benz Stadium. He spoke to some well-known superstars and some interesting Atlanta locals during his trip.

PRISSY THICK - Brad interviewed super bowl media influencer & Atlanta native “Prissy Thick” about her plans for the big game.

RUSSELL WILSON – Brad talked to Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson about his “Double Dare” competition.

MARC SUMMERS – Brad talks to the host of “Double Dare” Marc Summers on radio row.

ANTHONY MUNOZ – Brad talks to Cincinnati Bengals hall of fame offensive tackle Anthony Munoz about his former teammate & our Entercom NY co-worker Boomer Esiason.

ERIC DECKER – Brad talks to former Jets wide receiver Eric Decker about watching Netflix with his wife Jessie James Decker & betting on the length of Gladys Knight’s super bowl national anthem.