figure skating-related stories
Posted Mar 28th 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
USA has a Law and Order: SVU marathon all night.- At 5, AMC has Airport, followed by Airport '75 and Airport '77.
- At 8, FOX has two new episodes of Cops, then a new America's Most Wanted.
- Nickelodeon has the Kid's Choice Awards at 8.
- At 9, NBC has the ISU World Figure Skating Championships.
- CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
- Lifetime has the movie Nora Roberts Midnight Bayou at 9.
- Also at 9: Sci-Fi has the movie Polar Storm.
- At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
- At 11, FOX has a new Mad TV, then a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten.
- At 1am, Cartoon Network has a new Bleach.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Jan 24th 2009 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, CBS has two new episodes of Game Show In My Head.- FOX has a new Cops at 8.
- NBC has a new Crusoe at 8, then U.S. Championship Figure Skating.
- Also at 8: TLC has The Miss America Pageant.
- At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
- CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
- Lifetime has the movie Prayers For Bobby at 9.
- ESPN has more Winter X Games at 9.
- At 9:30, Cartoon Network has a new Naruto.
- At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
- ESPN2 has more Australian Open coverage at 10.
- At 11, FOX has a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Feb 28th 2006 3:12PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX
Part 6 of 7? You know what that means... we aren't
going to find out who the winner is until Thursday
next week.This episode was really a
drag. And when I say "drag", I mean that they really dragged this one out to fill an entire hour without
actually announcing the winners. The episode began with a recap of who got voted off when, and then all the skaters
returned for encore performances. Todd Bridges is awkward and mechanical on the ice, reminding everybody why he was the
first one to be booted off this competition. Kurt Browning is sporting a bald head? In the middle of the show all the
teams resurrected previous routines that they skated, an element otherwise known as a time suck.
Continue reading Skating with Celebrities: Part 6 of 7
Posted Feb 24th 2006 10:53AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
Whatever will we do now that the
figure skating competition is over? Oh, nevermind. There's the Champions Gala tonight where nobody is expected to fall
(or win).
Actual competition continues on NBC in the form of speed skating, a six-mile marathon race that
features American Chad Hedrick. Also, the women compete in the alpine giant slalom and four men climb into a bobsled
and race down an icy track at break-neck speeds. Plus, more curling!
Check it out:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 15
Posted Feb 23rd 2006 10:53AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
Tonight is the night that NBC has been waiting for: the gold
medal showdown in ladies' figure skating. American Sasha Cohen enters tonight's free skate on top, but by only .06 of a
point over Russian Irinia Slutskaya. Expect to stay up until midnight for the outcome of that competition (or you can
get the results from any news website).
Also tonight, to fill the time between figure skating competitors,
the women snowboarders compete in the parallel giant slalom. Curling, hockey, bobsledding and marathon speed skating
are also on the schedule:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 14
Posted Feb 22nd 2006 9:49AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, OpEd
Do you know what song I'm talking about? It's called
Gabriel's Oboe
from
The Mission movie soundtrack. It's a very beautiful piece of music that was originally composed by Ennio
Morricone, but none of the skaters have used the original version. I think I heard a version featuring Yo Yo Ma during
the pairs skate. In any case, I think I've heard it more this week than I have heard NBC's Olympics theme song.
Think I'm exaggerating? American
Matt
Savoie used it for his free skate. American pairs skaters
Marcy Hinzmann and
Aaron Parchem skated to it in their short program.
And, Italian
Carolina Kostner used it for her
short program last night.
None of these skaters performed very well so I think it's fair to say, while
beautiful, the song may be cursed.
Posted Feb 21st 2006 12:11PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
The event that usually garners the most talk is women's figure
skating, and it begins tonight with the short program. With Michelle Kwan out of the competition due to injuries,
American skater Sasha Cohen gets the spotlight. And, Emily Hughes, the younger sister of 2002 Olympic gold medal figure
skater Sarah Hughes, will also hit the ice. No pressure, Emily. Despite all the excitement over Sasha's modeling
contracts and Emily's famous sister, Russian skater Irina Slutskaya is still favored for gold.
Also on the
ice tonight, speed skaters Chad Hedrick, Shani Davis, Joey Cheek and Derek Parra race each other in the 1500m. Hedrick,
Davis, and Cheek have all won gold medals so far in these games.
Here's the schedule on all of NBC's
networks:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 12
Posted Feb 19th 2006 8:01AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
Ice skating returns to NBC primetime tonight with the
finals in the ice dancing competition where an American team is in contention for a medal. But, the real interesting
action on the ice is over at the speed skating track. Americans Chris Witty and Jennifer Rodriguez are both going for
the gold in the 1000m. Expect to see and hear a lot about Witty from NBC tonight. She has overcome some pretty intense
personal problems since winning gold in Salt Lake City.
Also tonight, the women's freestyle aerials
competition, and the two-man bobsled. Here is the schedule for all of NBC's stations:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 10
Posted Feb 18th 2006 4:11PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, Celebrities
Michelle Kwan, you just gave up your Olympic dream.
What are you going to do next? After Michelle dropped out of the Olympics this week (because of strained muscles), she
turned down NBC's offer to stick around
as a commentator, but
she
accepted Disney's multi-year offer to be its spokesperson. 25-year-old Michelle will appear in Disney television and
print ads and will even be included in some original programming, though it's not clear what that entails. I didn't
realize this, but Michelle Kwan has a history with Disney which includes a series of fictional books called,
Michelle Kwan Presents Skating Dreams.
Posted Feb 17th 2006 10:23AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
Oh joy. Ice dancing
begins tonight on NBC. That's one event that I just can't watch because it looks too much like
high-school-drama-club-on-ice to me. They can't jump or do lifts, so they wear weird costumes and look longingly into
each other's eyes. This is much more of an artistic event than a sport. Why is this still in the Olympics?
If you can stomach the ice dancing, there are some other interesting events on television tonight, including the
premiere of women's snowboardcross. I saw the men's race last night and it was pretty darn cool. It's like motorcross
on snow. Once again, the American women are the favorites.
As usual, there is plenty of hockey and curling
on NBC's other stations:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 8
Posted Feb 17th 2006 8:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, Celebrities
This could explain a lot. Star Magazine and the gals on
The View are reporting that
Skating with Celebrities pair Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler are now an
item. On Monday's episode, these two really sizzled. Kristy seemed a lot more comfortable with Lloyd than she had in
the past episodes. She almost kissed him on the lips at the end of their routine, but he turned and she got his neck
instead. I know she's an actress, but she looked totally smitten with him during that whole routine. Whatever it was,
something changed for those two between the fourth and fifth competition. If it is true, it's not all happy. Lloyd's
wife is eight months pregnant with their second child.
Posted Feb 16th 2006 9:35AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
Hmmm.
CSI or Men's Figure Skating gold medal finals? Russian favorite, and Tom Jones fan, Yevgeny Plushenko
is the leader after the short program and he goes into tonight's competition with the expectation that he will win.
A lot of people will probably put up with the figure skating in order to watch a new event in this year's
Olympic games, the Snowboarding Cross. Think of it as Freestyle Skiing, but on a snowboard. Snowboarders will have to
navigate a course against a clock, but also pull some nifty maneuvers out to impress the judges. American men and women
are favored in these races.
If none of that interests you, MSNBC has hockey all day long:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 7
Posted Feb 14th 2006 12:16PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC
That's right, sports fans. We're
already on day five of the Olympics. Tonight on NBC, the men take to the ice. You've got to check out Russian skater
Yevgeny Plushenko just for his inflated ego. With
his quadruple jump combinations, the guy comes in as a top contender for a gold medal. He is also the star of the
Sex Bomb exhibition where he skates in a flesh-colored costume and dances to Tom
Jones. I kid you not.
Also tonight, overexposed American skier
Bode Miller is back on the slopes in the men's
combined downhill and slalom. Hopefully he got to bed early last night.
Here's the schedule on all NBC
stations:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 5
Posted Feb 14th 2006 8:56AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX
We're down to three teams: Kristy Swanson and Lloyd
Eisler, Jillian Barberie and John Zimmerman, and Bruce Jenner and Tai Babilonia. I think it's pretty obvious who the
weak skaters are here, but we'll see what happens on the ice.
Just a quick recap: last week we bid farewell
to the not-very-graceful Dave Coulier and Nancy Kerrigan. Before that, Deborah Gibson and Kurt Browning were out, and
the first team eliminated was Todd Bridges and Jenni Meno.
Continue reading Skating with Celebrities: Part 5 of 7
Posted Feb 13th 2006 12:05PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming
The Russians are well on their way to winning a gold medal
in pairs figure skating tonight. After a
flawless
short program, Totmiyanina and Marinin enter tonight's long program almost four full points ahead of the next team.
Also tonight is the women's halfpipe snowboarding competition. The U.S. men already claimed a gold last night, thanks
to an
awesome run by
Shaun White. Tonight, Americans
Gretchen Bleiler,
Hannah Teter and 2002 gold medalist
Kelly Clark all have a good chance at getting on the
podium. Also tonight, more speed skating as American
Casey FitzRandolph races in the 500m, for which he
won gold in Salt Lake City. And the American women and men each take on Norway in
curling.
Here's tonight's schedule on all of NBC's
networks:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 4
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