FlavaFlav-related stories
Posted Oct 1st 2009 3:30PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
Flavor of Love, quite possibly the trashiest celebrity hook-up show of all time, is still off the air. However, its star Flavor Flav is returning to television in order to
go back to high school.
If Flavor Flav really wanted to get his high school diploma, why does he need cameras on him to do it? Can't he just study and take the G.E.D.? What type of high school will he attend, public or private?
If he went to a public school, he'd be mobbed between every class due to his celebrity. Having him go to a private school might be better and would admittedly be funnier, but somehow I question if he could handle the coursework (of course, he has enough money to pay other people to go to class for him).
Somehow I see Flav being more like one of those students that smokes out back and tries to make it with one of the cheerleaders. After
Flavor of Love, would you want your daughter to go to the same high school as Flav?
Posted May 23rd 2008 9:55AM by Jay Black
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Awards, TV Squad Awards
I'm in Los Angeles right now. From my observations: everyone is perfect looking, the weather is always beautiful, and everyone drives everywhere despite the fact that gas is approximately eleventy billion dollars a gallon and it doesn't appear that anyone is actually, you know,
working. LA doesn't exist in any kind of recognizable reality. Let's put it this way: if the guys in
Plato's cave were to figure out that the figures being cast onto their walls came from the Sunset Strip, they'd probably opt to stay chained up.
It stands to reason, then, that any genre springing to life in such an environment would bear no resemblance to what the rest of the world calls "reality". TV Squad therefore presents its first annual The Reality Shows Have Writers!? Award, recognizing those shows that in no way reflect a life that any human being on the planet is actually living but, for some reason, call themselves "reality shows."
Continue reading The Reality Shows Have Writers!? Award: Call for Considerations
Posted Feb 20th 2008 2:00PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Episode Reviews, Super Skank Wednesday
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
Rock of Love,
Flavor of Love,
I Love New York (or whatever show Tiffany Pollard is making next),
The Surreal Life, and
Charm School. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
After the jump I have a look at my favorite quotations from this week's episodes of
Flavor of Love 3 and
Rock of Love 2. I call it
Epigrams, A Discussion. Enjoy Skank-lovers!
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: Epigrams, a discussion
Posted Feb 13th 2008 12:07PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Super Skank Wednesday
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
Rock of Love,
Flavor of Love,
I Love New York (or whatever show Tiffany Pollard is making next),
The Surreal Life, and
Charm School. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
After the jump...
Best Practices: How to Win Rock of Love 2,
The Logic of Flav, a
video on Flav's philosophies for you perusal, and some of my
favorite quotations from the skanks this week.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: Best practices on Rock of Love 2 & Flav logic - VIDEO
Posted Feb 6th 2008 11:35AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, TV Squad Polls, TV Squad Lists, Super Skank Wednesday
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
Rock of Love,
Flavor of Love,
I Love New York (or whatever show Tiffany Pollard is making next),
The Surreal Life and
Charm School. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
After the jump I have the following:
Every Rose Has its Thorn: The Thorny Roses from Rock of Love 2, Flavor of Love 3 Casting Special, and
Life Lessons from the Bad Girls Club. (At the suggestion of a reader, I checked it out and...Oh...My...God.)
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: Thorny roses and the return of Flavor of Love - VIDEO
Posted Oct 1st 2007 11:02AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother (US), Alumni, TV Squad Lists
Here are seven people who used their reality TV notoriety to their advantage. They have found success in other TV genres, film, or entrepreneurial pursuits. Some just found more fame in the genre that put them on thee map.
7. Colleen Haskell (Survivor): Colleen was in the first season of
Survivor (Borneo) and while she didn't outwit, outplay and outlast the other cast members, she did make a good run of her fifteen minutes. She finished sixth in her season but was such a genuine and fair player that when her torch was extinguished Richard Hatch called her a "wonderful person." Using her American-apple-pie-pretty-girl-next-door appearance and attitude, she parlayed her reality TV fame into more roles in both television and film. She did a Blistex commercial and had a guest spot on
That 70's Show. Most notably, however, she starred alongside Rob Schneider in
The Animal (2001). Pretty good for a Catholic school girl from a small town in Maryland.
Continue reading Top seven extenders of reality TV fame
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