Posts with tag summer reality
Posted Aug 24th 2008 10:50PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(
S10E19) Let's start with the April aftermath...
With April gone, Ollie feels it's do or die now in the
Big Brother 10 house. He's played the game "sub-par" up until now. Renny feels great about her successful HOH reign. Her target left. Mission accomplished. Keesha is worried about how Ollie will react. And Dan, the swing vote, had some parting words for April who tried to buy him off: "Guess what, April? I'm not here for $5,000. I'm here for $500,000." So, Dan is there to win.
One thing we found out for sure tonight: Dan may or may not win
Big Brother, but he is certainly there to play. A recap of last night's
Big Brother is after the jump ...
Continue reading Big Brother 10: Nominations #7
Posted Aug 13th 2008 12:02PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
Today I have some life lessons from celebreality. You readers know how grateful I am to VH1 for the many cautionary tales and moral exemplars it has provided me. I'll give you a few things I learned from
I Love Money and
New York Goes to Hollywood after the jump.
(And by the way, I think
I Want To Work for Diddy might be the sleeper hit of the summer. I included some life lessons from that show, too.)
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: More life lessons from celebreality
Posted Aug 8th 2008 8:25AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(
S10E12) "Game on." -- Michelle
And it was game on tonight. The one thing I love about
Big Brother is that just when things are settled, they get turned upside down again. Maybe it's the hamsters backdooring someone who thought himself/herself safe. Maybe it's the underdog winning a big competition. Or maybe it's a once strong alliance getting destroyed. The game is never gradual. It's always extreme. And it's on three nights a week.
Let's get to what happened last night...
Continue reading Big Brother: Eviction #4 & HOH #5
Posted Aug 3rd 2008 1:09PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality
VH1 posted an interview they did with
Tiffany "New York" Pollard a few days ago and, get this, she wants to do Lifetime original movies. God help us all. When asked whether she would rather pursue comedy or drama for her blossoming acting career, she said emphatically, "Drama!" New York wants to play some "cracked out mom" and loves Lifetime originals. She added that she hopes to be a part of one of their movies in the near future.
Continue reading VH1's reality queen New York wants to do Lifetime movies
Posted Jul 30th 2008 12:23PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
After Sunday night's episode, I am reminded of the classic line from Steinbeck's novel, "The best laid plans of mice and men are often effed up by blondes with huge fake boobs and nasal voices." Or something like that. Or maybe it was from the Robert Burns' poem. But enough of this talk about low brow things like famous novels or poems. Let's get to
I Love Money.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: 12 Pack's master plan, a quaint children's tale
Posted Jul 28th 2008 8:43AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(
S10E06) So we went into last night's episode of
Big Brother 10 with Keesha, the Hooters waitress from L.A., as head of household. The plan for the alliance of eight (which started the first week and included Ollie, Libra, April, Keesha, Jessie, Memphis, Michelle, and Angie) was to put up Brian's remaining alliance member, Dan, and one of the floaters -- in this case Jerry.
But will Keesha, who has been a bit of a loose canon from the start, listen to her alliance? And if she doesn't, how will the hamsters regroup? I think we heard at least three hamsters say, "the lines are going to be drawn in the sand" tonight. And indeed they were.
Continue reading Big Brother 10: Nominations #2
Posted Jul 16th 2008 9:16AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Video, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality
Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
After the jump, I've got some of my favorite
I Love Money moments from this weekend and my first impressions of
Brooke Knows Best. And I have a special video.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: Brooke Knows Best & I Love Money - VIDEOS
Posted Jul 14th 2008 9:30AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(
S10E01) We were spoiled this year with
Big Brother. The winter season of
BB was arguably the only good thing to come out of the WGA strike (if you're a sucker for low-brow television like me). And now it's back again in its regular summer schedule.
Speaking of schedules,
Jackie and I will be covering the show this summer. I'll be doing Sunday episodes with Jackie covering Tuesday and Wednesday. You can also count of TV Squad for Jackie's Live Feed Reports and I might post a few updates from
Big Brother After Dark which airs on ShoToo (I knew there was a reason I added Showtime to my cable bill. And I thought I was just getting
The Tudors and
Secret Diary of a Call Girl.)
Okay, let's get to what happened last night.
Continue reading Big Brother 10: HOH competition #1 (season premiere)
Posted Jul 9th 2008 9:23PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
TV Land announced today that they will follow ex-boxing champion George Foreman for their new reality series,
Family Foreman. The show will consist of six half-hour episodes that feature George balancing his many business endeavors with his family life.
I think this show will be entertaining but I also think that MTV beat TV Land to the punch with
Run's House. The shows sound very similar. An immensely successful and famous dad who is also a loving father and husband. A stay-at-home mom who is everyone's rock. And a load of children with different personalities and pursuits. Thankfully, all of George's sons (who are incidentally all named George) have been given nickames: Monk, Big Wheel, Red, and Joe. I feel bad for the one that got "Joe." They couldn't come up with something more creative or more bad ass (like Big Wheel).
Family Foreman will premiere on Wednesday July 16th at 10 p.m. on TV Land.
Posted Jul 9th 2008 9:02PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Documentary
MTV's documentary series
Made and True Life are back with all new episodes next weekend. The network will air two new episodes of
True Life and four new episodes of
Made. The episodes will air in an afternoon programming block on July 20th from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET.
I think I'm mostly likely to watch
Made: Model, airing at 3 p.m. ET. The show will turn Adam Stewart, a hippie kid with long hair, into a male model. He'll work with experts on his appearance for five weeks leading up to a senior class fashion show. There he'll compete with the other So-Cal hotties for a modeling contract. But here's why I'm interested.
Russell Simmons and Pete Wentz will guest star on the episode and give Adam some advice. Why them? I guess Russell Simmons is okay; that guy could give advice on how to be successful in any industry. And he does own Phat Farm. But Pete Wentz? Did I miss something?
I put a full description of the new shows after the jump.
Continue reading Made and True Life are back
Posted Jul 8th 2008 10:42AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality
What do you do if you're dad is a wrestling icon, your mom is a cougar dating a man the same age as you, and
your little brother is in jail for reckless driving? You get
your own reality show, of course. And who's reality is more messed up than Brooke Hogan's right now? She's surprisingly the most normal of that bunch.
Her new show,
Brooke Knows Best, premieres this Sunday July 13th at 10 p.m. ET / PT. That's right after
I Love Money!
I've got a sneak peek at the first episode after the jump...
Continue reading Brooke Knows Best ... not Hulkster - VIDEO
Posted Jul 4th 2008 9:46AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, So You Think You Can Dance
(S04E13) It was a
long night on Wednesday getting through fourteen routines, most of which were lackluster. When do you think the judges will start admitting that season four is just not up to snuff? Now it's time to see who was able to snag enough votes to stay one more week on
So You Think You Can Dance.
The Opening Performance The top fourteen dancers performed a Broadway routine to "Money Money" from
Cabaret (Original Cast Recording) choreographed by Tyce DiOrio. The performance started off slow for me, but at the part of the song where the company starts whispering "money, money, money, money," I thought the dance picked up as well. I think that's testament to Tyce's ability to pace a number.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Top 12 Revealed
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 7:08PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Documentary
TLC has a new docu-series (that's a fancy name for "reality show") called
Must Love Kids. On this show, TLC will follow three moms as they enter the daunting world of dating as a single mother. The three mothers who currently balance their careers and raising their children will step out of their comfort zones to date and maybe even find a lifelong partner.
Not so sure about this show. According to the press release, "With an estimated 10.4 million single mothers in the U.S., these three single moms will undoubtedly inspire others to take the initiative and focus on their own happiness." I don't like the assumption here. All single moms are miserable and don't focus on their own happiness? Therefore, all single moms need to learn to be happy so they can secure another mate? Maybe I'm being too harsh though. I generally like TLC's programming. (I changed dinner reservations once while vacationing in Hawaii with my husband because
American Choppers wasn't over yet.)
What do you think? Would you watch this show?
Must Love Kids premieres July 15th at 9:00 p.m. ET / PT on TLC.
Posted Jul 2nd 2008 6:28PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting
Comedy Central is presenting it's first unscripted series this summer called
Reality Bites Back. Ten comedians will compete by making parodies of the most infamous reality shows. Whoever makes it to the end will win $50,000 in cash and the title "Lord of All Reality." And guess who's hosting? Michael. Ian. Black. The former
State cast member will get to explain the absurd challenges and kick someone off the show each week.
Comedian contestants include Kyle Cease, Chris Fairbanks, Jeff Garcia, Red Grant, Tiffany Haddish, Bert Kreischer, Mo Mandel, Donnell Rawlings, Amy Schumer, and Theo Von. The series will satirize shows like
American Idol,
Survivor,
The Amazing Race,
The Biggest Loser,
American Gladiators,
Dancing with the Stars, and
So You Think You Can Dance.
Continue reading Comedy Central gets real
Posted Jul 1st 2008 6:06PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Programming, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting
MTV has a new reality series called
Buzzin'. The show will follow unlikely pair Shwayze, self-described as the "only black kid in Malibu," and his best friend Cisco Adler, producer / singer / tabloid bad boy.
Buzzin' will chronicle the pair (and their crew) as they hit different bumps and twists on the path to stardom. Sounds like
The Ashlee Simpson Show meets
Rob and Big. I'm unimpressed. But at least now I know why they were on the red carpet at
The Hills season finale. Their publicist came up and announced, "I have Shwayze and Cisco." I thought, "Where's Heidi and Spencer?! And who are these guys?"
Let's skip to something I'm actually excited about. The fifth season of
Run's House is starting this summer. We'll get to see Rev Run go on tour with Kid Rock while Justine has to hold down the fort back in Jersey. We also get to meet new edition to the Run family, Miley.
The new season of
Run's House premieres July 16th at 10 p.m. ET and the new series
Buzzin' premieres on July 23rd at 10:30 p.m. ET.
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