exercise-related stories
Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:35AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
There is nothing inherently wrong with turning a TV series into a video game spinoff. It can fill in the gaps between seasons to quell the viewers' hunger, let audiences explore characters from new perspectives and even give the more hardcore couch potatoes some much needed exercise even if they only burned 1/100ths of a calorie solely through their thumbs.
The problem is video game developers pick TV shows that should never even become a travel sized board game. Developers have given the greenlight to games based on shows like
American Idol,
Desperate Housewives and even ...
Grey's Anatomy?!? I hope that last one was a first-person shooter.
There are far better shows that offer far more entertaining elements for a kick-ass video game. These are the shows that should be next in line for a pixelated re-treatment.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Shows that deserve to have their own video game
Posted Apr 30th 2009 1:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming
As many of you know, when I'm not writing for TV Squad I'm a cover model for
Men's Health magazine. Bending over to type these blog posts has given me sculpted abs.
However, I probably won't be part of this new reality show, if
this report is true. It says that
Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko is creating a new health/exercise-based reality show with the people who do
The Biggest Loser. It's described as being a show that will "offer human drama while teaching viewers how they can eat their favorite foods and still lose weight." That makes it sound like it's going to be some serious health and medical show. I'm sure it will be more
Biggest Loser than a Sanjay Gupta-hosted CNN special.
If it's based on the
Eat This, Not That books, my fear is that, since it's a reality show, one of the "Not That" things will be bugs.
Posted Feb 27th 2009 5:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows
Last week we had the
did she or did she not swear semi-controversy on
The Biggest Loser, and this week we have a
blue team falling apart. We also have a controversy that might actually damage the show: the contestant shown finishing a marathon the other night
didn't really finish it.
At the end of the episode, they showed contestant Dane crossing the finish line after completing a 26-mile marathon in Arizona. This was supposed to be an uplifting moment, where one of the players lost weight and actually struggled to finish the marathon with his family and friends around him, cheering him on. The problem? He actually didn't finish the race himself. Along the route somewhere, a van picked him up and drove him to the finish line, and he crossed the line with his wife and kid.
Continue reading Biggest Loser contestant takes van, crosses marathon finish line
Posted Apr 29th 2007 9:16PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: OpEd, King of the Hill, Episode Reviews
(S11E08)
Peggy: There's a brown spot on the lawn, and there is a brown spot on your son.
Wow, a whole hour of King of the Hill. I must say I thought this one had more yucks than the other episode.
Continue reading King of the Hill: Grand Theft Arlen
Posted Feb 26th 2007 5:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars
HarperCollins, ABC, and BBC Worldwide are getting together to create a book you've all been waiting for: a fitness guide based on the hit show Dancing with the Stars.
According to the press release, the book "will reveal for the first time how some of the stars and dancers got into the best shape of their lives. Included will be healthy recipes and simple dance moves as well as never before seen pictures and quotes from the stars and their partners."
Yeah, because I've always wondered how Tucker Carlson stays in such great shape.
Continue reading Are you ready for a Dancing With The Stars fitness book?
Posted Oct 1st 2006 9:00PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Industry, Programming, Children
Yesterday while I was looking around the Web for links to add to
this post, I noticed that Nickelodeon's Nick.com site had a scroll on it telling kids to go outside and play in honor of the Worldwide Day of Play. The network also went off the air for a few hours, replacing programming with a similar scroll. That's sound advice, of course, but I pretty much had the same reaction I did when TV Land
did the same thing recently in honor of Family Day. Won't people just change the channel? I don't fault Nickelodeon for trying, but people are conditioned to automatically hit the clicker when something appears on screen they don't like, whether it's a show they hate, and annoying commercial, or words on the screen telling them to go outside.
Posted Apr 19th 2006 3:58PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Video, Celebrities
According to Gene Simmons, the reason women work out is because they
want to look sexy. I think if the famous rocker thought about it a bit longer he'd realize that's not always the
case, but then you wouldn't want to purchase his new "Sexercise" video. The man likes money, who are we to
keep it from him? Simmons was on EXTRA recently trying out women for his new video, which is supposed to
combine real exercise with sexy moves. I'm not sure what's more interesting to me: the idea of someone like Gene
Simmons coaching women on the best way to shake their money makers, or the fact that he brought along his thirteen year
old daughter to watch as her father tells strange women how to bounce their booty in time with the music.
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