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Don Fertman wins the award for being the Undercover Boss with the most colorful background yet. The one-time rock musician hooked up with Subway nearly 30 years ago, when the sandwich chain needed some help writing a jingle and rose to director of development.

Don Fertman, director of development at the Subway sandwich chain, tries his hand at making sandwiches, baking bread and many of the other jobs that keep a Subway franchise humming -- all under the supervision of a stern and much younger trainer who takes her job very seriously.

Steven Foster, CEO of upscale bowling chain Lucky Strike Entertainment, was hands down the most easy-going Undercover Boss yet. The hit CBS reality show is still as phony as the toupee he had to wear, but at least the episode was fun.

On Sunday, Lucky Strike Lanes CEO Steven Foster will get a chance to show America how he rolls. The latest guest on CBS' hit show Undercover Boss, Foster will try his hand at the day-to-day tasks of running the bowling alley chain he created.

One pervasive theme of CBS's Undercover Boss is that, under the surface, there isn't that much difference between executives and drones. This Sunday, however, promises an interesting confrontation as an American aristocrat meets the workers who keep his family business -- the Chicago Cubs -- afloat.

Why did News Corp. bury the earnings of its book publishing unit HarperCollins? Does the media giant view the publisher as merely an afterthought -- or could Rupert Murdoch be contemplating a sale?

Despite Charlie Sheen's latest offscreen misbehavior, advertisers are sticking with his show, Two and a Half Men. It may be that the show's numbers -- it draws 15.2 million viewers -- are just too good to walk away from.

A NASCAR executive will see exactly where the rubber meets the road on the next Undercover Boss Sunday night. But unlike past execs featured on the hit series, the honcho learning lessons at the bottom this time won't be the CEO sitting at the top.

As other undercover CEOs did, when Bryan Bedford revealed himself at the show's end, he turned into a CEO genie, granting wishes to his underlings. But in this case, the airline's entire workforce got a gift: a rollback of an earlier pay cut.

On Sunday, Frontier Airlines CEO Bryan Bedford will take his turn on the CBS show Undercover Boss, going incognito to attempt the dull and nasty jobs required to get an plane in the air and keep its passengers happy. No surprise, he'll discover how different the view is from the bottom.