Welcome Back, Bob!

New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick , who served as a TCM Guest Programmer in 2010, has just posted this piece on Osborne’s return to TCM. Thanks, Lou! (Follow Lou on Twitter @LouLumenick)

Hooray! Tonight on TCM, Robert Osborne makes his very welcome returning to hosting at 8 p.m. Eastern after a very well-deserved five month vacation. It’s the first time he’s been off the air since the network’s founding in 1995.

“Honestly, it was no big deal,” he tells Atlanta Magazine in his first interview since returning to work in October (TCM tapes segments at least a couple of months in advance, and he has already shot an new entire season of “The Essentials” with Drew Barrymore). “Essentially, I had worked 17 years straight without a vacation. I wanted a lump of time just to relax and unwind. I wanted to go get an MRI and a CATscan. I wanted to get a facial and get some crowns put on my teeth. I wanted to start going to a gym regularly. I wanted to pamper myself a little. I feel really good and very well rested.” (read full article here)