Julie Chen-related stories
Posted Mar 16th 2008 11:30PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E15) "The last one remaining above their disco ball will be the new Head of House." - Julie Chen
That's right. Before we can even think about getting to the nominations,
Big Brother 9 has to finish up the head of household endurance competition which started at the end of the live show on Wednesday night. We last left the houseguests suspended on tiny platforms over disco balls hanging by chains. Now, they should have been playing "Stayin' Alive" but they must not have paid for the song. So there was silence ... and Natalie's never-ending voice.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Nomination Ceremony #5
Posted Mar 12th 2008 12:03AM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E13) Take a look at this face ladies and gentlemen, because it was the catalyst for all the madness that went down in the house tonight.
The funny thing is, she didn't plan
any of it. She has no real strategy in this game. She doesn't think more than ten minutes into the future as far posturing goes. And she thinks there are 27 letters in the alphabet. Enough said. Natalie is playing this game with love goggles on and, for better or worse, her undying obsession with Mattie has caused the biggest commotion in the
Big Brother 9 house all season and I'm elated.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: PoV Competition #4
Posted Mar 9th 2008 11:00PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E12) "We can only come out of this stronger." - James
I think he meant "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." While
Big Brother 9 probably won't be responsible for the physical deaths of any of the houseguests, it just might ruin whatever social lives they may have once had. I'm continually amazed by this group, usually not so much in a good way. I think I'm more amazed along the lines of
Dumb and Dumber.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Nomination Ceremony #4
Posted Mar 7th 2008 8:13PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
As it's been so far this season, the last couple of days since the
Big Brother 9 live eviction show have been jam-packed with action. Of course, they'll go into a lull from now until the next live show. On Sunday, the television show audience will find out who Ryan nominated for eviction and watch the food competition. On Tuesday, the TV show will air the Power of Veto comp.
But I know the results of all of those events now from the live feeds within the house. Read on past the jump for show spoilers -- keep in mind the shows spoiled will be both Sunday and Tuesday. You've been warned.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Live feeds report - March 7
Posted Mar 5th 2008 7:31PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
Ah, they're promising some changes tonight on the
Big Brother 9 live eviction show. Have you seen the latest promos? It's really not a spoiler as CBS has continuously been airing the commercials since last night's show -- a couple will get evicted, but may not be allowed to leave? Well, anything which shakes up this season to turn it into a more cerebral game would be welcome to me!
We have an inking of changes to come, but what about the houseguests? They have to be doing the math and know that a couple can't get evicted each week or it will be a short season, right? For show spoilers and the latest from inside the house, read on past the jump.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Live feeds report - March 5
Posted Mar 5th 2008 12:30AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E10) "I'm between a Josh and a hard place." - Allison
When I was young, there was a show called
Peyton Place -- a soap opera which, at the time, seemed to be the epitome of all soap operas past, present, and future. It worked its way into the daily vocabulary for any sort of high drama situation.
Why am I talking about
Peyton Place in an episode review of
Big Brother 9? I mention it because it has dawned on me that
Big Brother 9 is
Peyton Place zapped to the present day while on meth filled with exaggerated whacko characters and all the drama you can stand (or not). Those
Peyton Place people had it easy!
Continue reading Big Brother 9: PoV Competition #3
Posted Mar 2nd 2008 11:40PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E09) Will the soulmates inside the
Big Brother 9 house find true love? In watching this group, the only couple with any real possibility of even speaking to each other after the season ends would be James and Chelsia. Leading into tonight's show the commercials first focused on romantic possibilities between Ryan and Allison. Over the past few days, the commercials switched to a Joshuah and Allison blow-up.
Tonight was the nominations episode. Who's on the block and what else happened? Read on past the jump!
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Nomination Ceremony #3
Posted Feb 26th 2008 11:21PM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E07) Alex is pissed and rightfully so. He hasn't done a single thing that would cause the other house guests to put him up for eviction, but due to the fact that he's tied to Amanda, he finds himself up for eviction.
How fair is that? Not remotely fair if you ask me, and this is coming from a guy who thinks Alex is a bigger toolbag than you could find at your local Sears and Roebuck.
For the first time I'm starting to thing this whole "soulmates" thing is incredibly unfair. I kind of felt this way in the beginning when Sharon got the boot thanks to her idiot ex-beau Jacob, but I feel much stronger about it this week.
Continue reading Big Brother: PoV Competition #2
Posted Feb 20th 2008 11:55PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E05) Have you been watching any of the commercials for
Big Brother 9 lately? My goodness, they're all about sex and the hotness of the hamsters. Now, I know that sex tends to be a big draw, but tonight's episode (unlike last night's episode) really didn't have much sex to it all. Oh, lots of controversy, but little sex. I'm not saying it's not happening in the house -- just not happening tonight on the show.
But if you're not here just for the sex and how marvelously hot looking the houseguests are, read on past the jump.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Eviction #2 and HOH #2
Posted Feb 20th 2008 1:23AM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(
S09E04) It's another night in the
Big Brother 9 house and the house is full of people in various states of unhappiness and discontent. Most prominently, Parker was extremely upset with Jen's antics so he decided to list out the "three steps of destruction by Jen."
A. She held the secret that her and Ryan were dating (then subsequently revealed it to the house).
B. She's cocky to a fault.
C. She's an idiot and he's the one who has to suffer because of her ignorance.
I can't really say that I disagree with any of his points. In fact, I'd probably add a few more items to the list.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: PoV Competition #1
Posted Feb 18th 2008 4:19PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Industry, Daytime, Big Brother (US)
This is no laughing
matter. John Gilmore, executive director of Autism United, said today that CBS must apologize for an insensitive remark made on the Julie Chen-hosted reality show
Big Brother during last week's episode. One of the contestants, a man named Adam, said that if he was the show's big winner, he would use the money to start a hair salon for people with developmental disabilities. Adam went on to say he wanted a beauty shop "so retards can get it together and get their hair done." When Sheila, another contestant, protested, "Don't call them that," Adam declared that, "Disabled kids. I can call them whatever I want. I work with them all day, okay?"
According to CBS's
Big Brother web site, Adam is a public relations manager for an unnamed foundation. The 29-year-old is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, but is now living in Delray Beach, Florida.
Continue reading CBS owes an apology for Big Brother faux pas
Posted Feb 17th 2008 11:30PM by JJ Hawkins
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S09E03) Well, I didn't write up the reviewcap for the
last episode, but I still find it mandatory to say that Jacob is an idiot. There's nothing worse than thinking your being cool and "stirring up the house" only to find that you're actually a moron and stirring yourself out of the house.I thought that Jacob and his "snake" fiasco was the stupidest thing a person has done thus far in the
Big Brother 9 house.
I was wrong. The stupidest thing was actually done by Jen when she decided to let Parker know that she was dating Ryan. A review of tonight's
Big Brother after the jump...
Continue reading Big Brother 9: Nomination Ceremony #1
Posted Feb 16th 2008 10:02AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
Of course, I'm writing this live feeds report on the happenings in the
Big Brother 9 house from my quiet peaceful non-camera-filled home. I know all about the "judge not lest ye be judged" bit. But there's a difference here, a big one. I would never choose to go into that house surrounded by strange (and I mean strange) people with cameras recording my my every move, and strangers reaming me on the internet. I'm smarter than that.
However, they're there and they're fair game. They do something incredibly stupid and I'll call them out on it. I call 'em as I see 'em.
Read beyond the jump for show spoilers including the nominations, Power of Veto, and stupid hamster tricks.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: live feeds report - Feb. 16
Posted Feb 15th 2008 9:00AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
Fans of
Big Brother 9 have a rough time of it this year. The schedule of this rather impromptu season is all kerflooey -- two nights in a row, then almost four days go by before the Sunday show airs in the evening. Plus, we're getting bombarded with all the Cupid, soulmates, and walking down the aisle "Til Death Do You Part" funky business.
Have the houseguests found true love? What's the buzz from inside the Big Brother House of Mismatched Misfits? Who's on the block for eviction? Has Power of Veto been played yet?
Show spoilers are just beyond the jump, beware!
Continue reading Big Brother 9: live feeds report - Feb. 15
Posted Feb 14th 2008 10:23AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
It's Valentine's Day in the
Big Brother 9 House o' Love! Aw, isn't that just so darn sweet, kind of like a fluffy kitten or something? Oh, but this report actually covers the events leading into the day, so the houseguests haven't really been struck by Cupid yet. Oh ... and there isn't a heck of a lot of love going around in the house either.
But besides that, it's Valentine's Day in the House o' Love!
There have been some unusual changes in the house since my last report. Beware --
there will be show spoilers after the jump! However, there are no spoilers in the photo gallery below, just some candid moments from the feeds.
Continue reading Big Brother 9: live feeds report - Feb.14
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