BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Getting your hopes up

I have some bad news for those fans of The Crazy Ones who were looking forward to next Thursday’s episode. You may have heard that Pam Dawber, who was Robin Williams’ co-star on Mork and Mindy, would be featuring in the episode Love Sucks, scheduled to air on CBS in the States and Citytv in Canada at 9:30pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 10 (1:30pm the following afternoon New Zealand Standard Time). That turned out to be a cruel April Fool’s joke, and the role of Lily will actually be played in that episode by Justin Bieber, who was heavily made up to look like a 62-year-old woman. I hope the cowards who were behind such a heartless bait-and-switch die a slow and painful death before that episode airs. Maybe it was just Robin Williams’ then-ongoing coke addiction, but Mork and Mindy is one of the funniest shows from before my time and I was looking forward to seeing the two main stars reuniting.