A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

LIKE WARREN HARDING, I PROMISE A RETURN TO (RELATIVE) NORMALCY: To ease us back into normal programming today, a couple of items that bridge the gap between Bee coverage and our normal topics in these parts (and new visitors, welcome and hang around!):

• Bob Barker's final TPIR airs 2 weeks from today. Thus, it is entirely possible that Spelling Bee has been played for the last time under Bob's command. (You can assume that 3 of the games in his finale will be Golden Road, Hole in One...Or Two, and Plinko, right?)
• Darrell Hammond (SNL's longest serving cast member ever, with 231 episodes under his belt, putting him almost 2 full seasons ahead of former champ Tim Meadows), will make his Broadway debut playing one of the judges in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.