Monday, June 25, 2007

It's a bee!

Nope, not a spelling bee, but a Singing Bee! Yes indeed, a modern day version of Name That Tune - ingenious! It's basically humiliation in the making for the contestants who are played a snippet of a popular song and then when the music stops, they have to sing the lyrics. No points for good voices - it basically comes down to nailing the lyrics or getting eliminated. Pure entertainment.

By the way, I've been watching this really ad reality show called Age of Love where a 3 year old bachelor (in the form of an Australian tennis player) dates women in their 40's and then girls in their 20's join the competition. As expected, the women in their 40's are smart, witty and well rounded, while the 20-year-olds are so useless they can't even carry on a conversation, either with the bachelor or even with each other - they just sit there and stare at each other. But they are hot - smokin' bodies and cute faces. Poor guy doesn't even know what to do with himself. Hilarious!

Thursday, June 14, 2007

creature comforts

I discovered a new show on CBS created by the same guys that did Wallace & Gromit. If you've never seen Wallace & Gromit, you're missing out so you should go rent the DVDs. So this new show is called Creature Comforts and it is hiLARious. They basically interviewed everyday people across the country about everyday topics, but instead of showing those people, they have claymation animals talking about the topics, and it absolutely brilliant.

My favorite was a segment where two guys are discussing wine and it's portrayed by two dogs having the conversation while sniffing another dog's butt. "It smells...pretty ripe." HAHA!

Monday, June 11, 2007

really really bad

It's an off night for the Yankees and so I flipped through some random tv to kill time and I must say - summer reality tv i quite the train wreck!

I happened to flip by America's Got Talent and there was a nine year old year girl with blue eyeshadow and crimped pigtails in rainbow colors doing a faux cheer leading act. It wasn't very good, but she's NINE for cryin' out loud and it resulted in some of the judges being a smidge too mean and Sharon Osbourne storming off stage completely outraged at the other judges' behavior. Bizarre is the only way I think to describe the whole thing.

I also watched Hell's Kitchen and things are not much better over on NBC. All of the contestants kind of suck and there's this one guy on the blue team who does nothing but CRY. Granted, Gordon Ramsey is a bit on the scary side, but GET A GRIP!

Oh, and then there was On the Lot -- wasn't terrible but just kind of boring all around though I did enjoy the three minute bakery musical that one of the contestants put together.

In a nutshell, summer tv sucks. Thank goodness for baseball.

Monday, June 04, 2007

it's a reality tv summer

So all the good shows have ended for the summer, and that means we're moving into a summer season of random reality tv...and I'm not kidding about random. So from what I can tell (I haven't actually watched any of these yet so I can't really vouch for any of them), here are your options (they're not good ones, I'll warn you now):

So You Think You Can Dance: Season three just started a week or so ago and it's basically the American Idol version of a dancing competition complete with around the country city auditions full of really bad dancers.

America's Got Talent: Season two of yet another really bad American Idolesque talent show. Really random and really not very good. The judges are Jerry Springer, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff. I think that pretty much says it all. David Hasselhoff should go on Dancing With the Stars.

American Inventor: I started wtching the first season of this last year religiously got crazy bored of it after the initial audition rounds and then started watching again the final two weeks or so just to see who won. This premieres Wednesday, June 6 and I'm sure will be just as mind numbing as season one.

Pirate Masters: Premiered last week and consists of contestants acting like...pirates? Or are they actual pirates? I don't know but they're basically pirates competing against each other in search of treasure or somthing... it's like Survivor, but on a big boat!

Hell's Kitchen: Season three premieres tonight and I actually will admit I rather enjoyed the first season of this... missed the second season for some reason but will likely watch the third due to lack of anything much better on Monday nights this summer.

Top Chef Miami: Season three and similar to Hell's Kitchen, I'll be watching because I'm somewhat of a sucker of reality cooking competitions.

Age of Love: Premieres on Monday June 18 and honestly I think this is just NBC's version of The Bachelor, except half the ladies are in their 20's and half are in their 40's. I hope the producers realize that this show will do absolutely nothing to dispel the "age ain't nothin' but a number" myth.

So there you have it, plenty of really bad reality tv to watch this summer... or not.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Not a flashback!

So I FINALLY watched the season finale of Lost this weekend, and it did not disappoint!

Jack leads the troops up to the radio tower while Sayid, Jin and Bernard stay behind at the beach to blow up Ben's troops, but there's a little mishap in the plans and the three of them get taken captive instead. Ben tries to have the three killed but that didn't work out so well for Ben since his troops are basically finally beginning to realize he's crazy and don't actually shoot them and then Hurley shows up out of nohere with his magic bus and saves them all. Seriously.

Charlie drowns... or does he? Never can tell with this show -- though before he does get submerged in water, manages to enter the code that for some random reason is... the tune to the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations? Walt reappears out of nowhere and helps Locke out of the ditch where he was about to put himself out of his misery. Neither Locke nor Ben however can stop Jack from making the call for rescue.

Splattered throughout the episode are flashbacks of a grizzly bearded ack being drunk and suicidal... but they turn out to NOT BE FLASHBACKS!! They are actually flashFORWARDS! So they do eventually escape off the island, but apparently life is not so good off the island and Jack wants to go back to Lost world. Kate is no so amused with this and abandons him to go back home to who I bet anyting is Sawyer.

And that's a wrap for now...but is Charlie really dead? Can Desmond get back to the troops in time to warn them? Do they really get off the island? Is next season full of flashforwards instead of flashbacks? Who knows.

And so my DVR is now officially depleted aside from some random movies to be watched. Damn summer tv *sigh*