TALK ABOUT MURDER - a Murder Mystery

 

By Lee Mueller
The Nickie and Ricky Rivers Show is broadcasting live from the road, and it’s a bumpy ride. The D list guests include Vegas lounge singers Shecky Scagnetti and Edie Buffet, New Age guru Celeste Ethereal, home economist Phoebe St. Self, and gossip columnist Polly Pettegolo. Everyone is on the show to plug their own cable TV shows, and what starts out as a yawn fest quickly heats up when egos and personalities clash. It sounds like every other talk show until one of the featured guests is murdered off stage. Can this mystery be solved? Will it help the ratings? Must the show go on? Might as well, there’s nothing else on…