Jeff Zucker, Not-So-Golden Boy?

The NY Post wonders if some of the shine on Lilliputian NBC head Jeff Zucker (pictured at left, standing on Matt LeBlanc's shoulder) golden-boy status might be tarnishing. ABC's been resurrected by Desperate Housewives and Lost, while Zucker's network is committing the cardinal sin of ratings, hemorrhaging viewers in the key 18-49 demographic. Right about now he's got to be feeling the heat; he's probably holed up in his office, desperately trying to sell his lieutenants on a very special episode of Father of the Pride where the regular CGI antics are intercut with actual footage of Roy Horn's tiger-mauling. If CBS mastermind Les Moonves had the flopping Pride, he'd personally show up at Siegfried and Roy's mansion with a camcorder and a truck full of tigers that hadn't eaten in a week.
