Review: Undercover Boss

Yesterday, the COO of Churchill Downs Incorperated (CDI) Bill Carstangen, was on the CBS show Undercover Boss. Based on a show in England, Undercover Boss lets CEO's go undercover in their companies.

Carstangen, tried several jobs including:
Working for a trainer at Calder
Bugler at Arlington
Cleaning at Arlington
Helping the Press Box cordinator at Arlington
Valet at Arlington (Inez Karlsson's valet was who Carstangen was shadowing)

The show itself is somewhat contraversial, because there only a few people working with the boss, and it's really not focusing on the entire company. However, keep in mind that they shoot for hours and have to cram it into a 60 minute program. I don't know for sure if Carstangen did anything else other than the jobs that I posted. Shows are not going to please everybody all time.

I wanted to do a review of this because it this gives CDI good PR. Will it bring people out to the track? In most likelyhood not, because horse racing is not a popular sport. However, I think this put Arlington and Calder in a good light. It will be very interesting what the ratings are for this episode, and how everyone else feels about this.

As for the show itself: I most likely won't watch the show again, except maybe once a blue moon On Demand. If I do watch it again, I'll have to make sure to watch a show I live (i.e. NCIS) afterwards. Nice show, but really not my cup of tea.
As for the rest of this week, we really start to get down to crunch time. A new top 10 list will be coming out next week, and more is to come soon.