I Want My CEO TV!
By Alynda Wheat

(FORTUNE Magazine) – It was weird enough when Jeff Bezos popped up in ads for Taco Bell. But when Bill Gates recently made a special guest appearance on Frasier, it kept us up at night. What's to stop all of corporate America from making cameos on television? Steve Jobs as Chandler's new boss on Friends? Larry Ellison and Lara Flynn Boyle steaming up The Practice? (Well, that actually has some promise.) It's a notion so bizarre, we thought we'd take a shot at it before these executives do.

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2 Welch & Grace (CC)--Comedy When Will jets off to Brazil for Carnival, the former GE CEO steps in to help Grace through her relationship woes and shopping snafus. Tensions arise when Welch tries to hog the spotlight as cabaret star "Just Jack."

4 20 Lost (CC)--Game Enron CEO Ken Lay and AT&T chief Mike Armstrong battle hostility and disapproval--and Moody's--to win back shareholder confidence. The clock is ticking on these contestants as they search for a path out of the woods.

7 65 Jorma and Greg (CC)--Comedy Greg's friendship with Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila is tested during a manufacturing plant tour in Scranton when Greg reveals he's been using a Motorola cell phone for years. Jorma issues an ultimatum: Ditch the phone or find your own way home.

12 44 PBS Antiques Roadshow Viacom secretary Janet Goodson is delighted to hear that the relic she discovered upstairs while scrounging for toner is actually media mogul Sumner Redstone. Although frayed and a little worn, the piece is still in relatively good condition and should do nicely on the market.

13 Weakest Link (CC)--Game Whose career is separating at the treads? Whose authority has gone flat, run out of gas, and blown a gasket? Embattled Ford top executive Jacques Nasser survives initial rounds only to be voted off by fellow board members. Jac, you are the weakest link! Goodbye!

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5 35 Grounded for Life (CC)--Comedy Life is totally unfair for Henry Blodgett. His best friends have stopped talking to him, and he was voted Most Likely to Recede (into the background). Worst of all, he's the only cheerleader who still thinks the team can come back from 2-12.