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Posted Mar 12th 2007 12:40AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Amazing Race
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S11E04) We're already down to eight teams after last week's elimination of David & Mary from Kentucky. Now the race gets real serious because the weak teams have been weeded out. Plus, the field isn't so cluttered so we get to spend a little more time with each time. I loved how the teams went from saying they didn't care about Rob and Amber last week, to calling them "the team to beat" this week.
This week, the Racers flew from Chile to Argentina. The challenges weren't terribly impressive this week. One of the Detour options was super lame and the other was bad for poor spellers. Even though it wasn't very exciting to watch, it did change the entire race, putting the first placers (Rob & Amber) way back at the end of the pack.
My thoughts on the teams (AND
SPOILERS) are after the jump:
Continue reading The Amazing Race All-Stars: No Babies on the Race
Posted Mar 5th 2007 7:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Amazing Race
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S11E03) This episode really had my heartrate going! When it came down to the end, there was a certain team that I wanted to be eliminated but they remain. Sigh.
The teams remained in Chile this week. Things went from tense (thanks to Mirna) to hilarious (thanks to Rob) throughout the episode. I think my favorite team so far is Rob & Amber just because they're so laid back. Everyone else is taking this waaay too seriously.
Spoilers after the jump:
Continue reading The Amazing Race All-Stars: "I'm Sorry I'm Wearing a Bathing Suit. It is Very Weird, I know."
Posted Feb 26th 2007 1:07AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Amazing Race
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S11E02) This show has to be considered an aerobic exercise. Sure, I'm sitting on the couch, but my heartrate is always up when I'm watching
The Amazing Race. This week the teams are off to Santiago, Chile (they ended last week in Ecuador). We don't get to learn much about the country or any Chilean traditions. I like that part of
The Amazing Race, so hopefully that tradition will return.
Warning: Spoilers after the jump! Continue reading The Amazing Race All-Stars: Beauty is Sometimes Skin Deep
Posted Feb 19th 2007 12:58AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: CBS, OpEd, The Amazing Race
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S11E01) I couldn't believe how much of this episode was spent just on the intial drive to the Miami airport. It wasn't really that stressful, nor was it a turning point in the race. It was just gratuitous video of Mercedes station wagons driving on different Miami freeways. Bo-ring. I think the editors had to do that because the Detour ended up being too easy. The farmers wrangled the horses for the teams and tied them down. The shears must've been pretty sharp because everybody seemed to get the hooves and hair off with no problem- in fact, we only saw one or two teams actually do the challenge because it was so lame.
This week our racers only went to one country: Ecuador.
[SPOILERS BELOW]Continue reading The Amazing Race All-Stars: I told you less martinis and more cardio
Posted Jan 4th 2007 10:15AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Celebrities
(S01E01) The Knights of Prosperity is a show with all the right ingredients, and yet, the result feels more than a little half-baked.
Donal Logue plays Eugene Gurkin, a janitor who decides he wants a change when a co-worker falls over dead on the job. Gurkin doesn't want to die never having made something of himself, so after a failed attempt at securing a loan to open his own bar, he decides to rob Mick Jagger. All of this happens in about the first ten minutes of the episode, so you either buy into the concept right away or you don't. This is a sitcom after all, and not a feature film, so they have to get into it right away. Still, a little more set up would have been nice.
Continue reading The Knights of Prosperity: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Nov 28th 2006 11:01AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Smith
All unaired episodes of
Smith are now up on CBS' broadband channel, Innertube. The heist drama was canceled in early October, after only three episodes made air. The remaining four episodes are available
on Innertube, but there is also a
synopsis of how the story arc would have played out and what would have become of the characters had the show remained on the air. After episode 13, it would've been a hell of a cliffhanger.
I've read the synopses and I'll
spoil it for you... after the jump:
Continue reading How Smith would have ended
Posted Oct 9th 2006 6:26PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Amazing Race
A quick promo/contest/text message type thing appeared near the end of
The Amazing Race last night, asking viewers to vote for 'Most Annoying Couple' on
The Amazing Race. I found this funny because the show always tended toward positive votes, like 'VIP' for the episode. But not last night. I thought it was a great question that was worth more than just a text message... it's worth an all-out discussion, people!
The three candidates for 'Most Annoying Couple' were David and Mary, Sarah and Peter, and Rob and Kimberly. They all definitely lead the pack for 'Most Annoying'. (I'd show pictures of them, but CBS' website doesn't have any!)
Let's break it down after the jump, and you'll see who I find most annoying. Feel free to chime in down in comments.
Continue reading Which couple is most annoying on The Amazing Race?
Posted Oct 5th 2006 9:03PM by Adam Finley
Back in the merry month
of May I told you guys that Comedy Central had picked up the pilot for a new series called
American Body Shop. Well, that has now expanded to ten episodes which are set to air in the summer of 2007. The mostly-improvised show is reported to be in the same vein as
Reno 911!, focusing on a repair shop run by Sam, a man whose employees include a receptionist named Denise; Rob, a mechanic; a phony thug named Johnny; and a mysterious Peruvian by the name of Luis. Based on the press release, the show might have more in common with
Reno 911! than just being improvised. The character descriptions and their quirks sound an awful lot like the deputies of
Reno: one says inappropriate things, one is a kind of ringleader who is always ignored, one always makes racist comments, etc. Hopefully it only sounds similar on paper. I like the concept, I just want it to be unique.
Posted Apr 21st 2006 9:32AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Celebrities
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger may be
playing a key role in a new comedy for ABC about a group of guys in New York who decide to rob a celebrity. That
celebrity may be Mick Jagger, if negotiations pan out.
Originally, the title of the sitcom was
I Want to
Rob Jeff Goldblum, but Jeff is working on his own pilot project for NBC and was never attached to the project
(although, I totally like the idea of him in that role). The creators turned to Mick Jagger, but his name won't be in
the title and he will only appear in a few scenes.
I totally dig this idea for a show. I think they could
keep it going by picking different celebrities to rob. I'd like to see them try to rob Patrick Swayze, Carol Channing,
and Frankie Muniz. Who would you like to see robbed?
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