Michael Pascua

It's that time of year again, where new celebrities are announced on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I wouldn't be surprised this season if someone injured themselves days before the premiere on September 20th, especially after seeing the high bar that Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek set last season. Or, on the positive side, maybe the contestants were influenced by the marvelous transformation of ...

[Project Runway - You Can Totally Wear That Again] Without the hindrance of 'Models of the Runway' we can have a challenge on 'Project Runway' that has nothing to do with the models. This week Heidi announced that the contestants would have to transform a bridesmaid's dress into something fashionable and hip, but not anything wedding related. Everyone was still reeling from the drama of last ...

(S08E05) This was the first season of 'Project Runway' in which the contestants were broken into only two teams. This episode allowed the editors to have "The Gretchen Show" slowly implode during the judging, as she spent the whole time defending her clothes, then trying her best to distance herself from the whole collection. There is an editor out there who hates Gretchen and loved watching her ...

(S08E04) We continue this episode of 'Project Runway' right where we left off the last episode. Ivy is on the floor and is sent to the hospital. After all the hoopla, Ivy claims it was just dehydration. I'm sure that the combination of cigarettes, diet coke, stress and hours of sniffing hot glue was probably the culprit. The designers are given a very interesting challenge to design a dress to ...

(S08E03) My favorite episodes of 'Project Runway' are the ones with unconventional, strange materials, and this week delivered. We did get a taste of party supplies back in season 1, when Wendy Pepper made that horrible balloon "dress" (I use that term lightly). To my surprise, most of the contestants strayed away from multiple colors and stuck with black, white and gray. Where's the innovation in ...

(S07E23) Cat welcomes America to the final episode of this season's 'So You Think You Can Dance' and continues to pimp the idea of a "Genuine Dance Superstar" to perform. Sadly, she was lying because I know that Fox doesn't have the technology to revive Fred Astaire or Michael Jackson. The finale could have been fit into a half-hour, but why would Fox do something silly like that? They probably ...

(S07E22) It's only been nine weeks of competition on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' but it felt like it went by faster with three weeks of injuries. Our first and youngest final three dance us into the programming. I miss Cat exclaiming "These are the girls and here are the guys" with the cheesy walk and look at the opposite sex. It's been weeks of having Lauren in the middle pose around men. ...

(S08E02) Though 'Project Runway''s new 90-minute format is slowly growing on me, it almost feels like the only stuff that's been added in the extra 30 minutes are small sentences here and there. What's odd is that even with more time, we still didn't see model castings or even learn much about the models. I understand 'Models of the Runway' didn't really work, but that doesn't mean that they ...

(S08E01) With 17 contestants wandering around New York City, it's pretty difficult to get names with faces on 'Project Runway' unless the people are stand-out caricatures. I already know that I will grow tired of Ivy Higa's interviews, especially if they end with silence and her saying "word" or "period" to emphasize the end. The only other characters I could even recall from the beginning swoop ...

(S07E19) 'So You Think You Can Dance' finally has it's first double elimination, which is the only season that it would have worked. Nigel announces that the winner this season will also gain fame as the first Gatorade dance representative and be part of their fall campaign. As long as it wasn't Jose as the cover-boy of all dancers, I'll be fine. Group Performance - Mia finally gets to ...