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Big Brother Roundtable Tonight 7-11-06

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In all the excitement to talk about the Live Blog of Rockstar, I almost forgot to mention that we also have an episode of Big Brother on tonight. While we won't have a Live Blog of the even. B-side and...

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MeeVee Exclusive: Hell's Kitchen Interview

post from TV With MeeVee on 11 July 2006 07:52:00 PM. © TV With MeeVee

Meet Rachel--the latest cast off of Hell's Kitchen who, at 39, has her own nutritional company in Texas and swears she had no what Hell's Kitchen was before audtioning. Oh, and um, she's mighty polite, ya'll......

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Last Comic Standing: A roast and an ejection

post from TV Squad on 11 July 2006 07:31:00 PM. © TV Squad

Filed under: Comedy, Reality, NBC, OpEd, Last Comic Standing

(S04E06) One thing you can say about Season Four of Last Comic Standing is that it's full of surprises. The comics may not be all that funny, the editing may be choppy, the preliminary selections of comics may have been suspicious, and Anthony Clark may look like he's embalmed. But you can't deny that the comics being eliminated aren't the ones anyone expected to go so early. Unfortunately, the by-product of these surprises is a set of finalists (the set of comics that will perform live and have the viewing audience vote by phone, text, and web) that is a pretty uncompelling set of personalities and, for the most part, not very funny.

It's good that the LCS producers are moving out of the "house" and on to the live challenge rounds after only three weeks; the group that was selected isn't generating any drama, alliances, or funny situations. It would have been death to see them in the house for five weeks, which was the pattern in Season Two.

The challenges haven't been all that inspiring, either. This week's challenge, a roast, was done in Season Two; the only added twist is that there was no immunity available for this challenge, so the winner only got a Friar's Club membership and an opening slot in a Louie Anderson show (Wow. Opening for Louie Anderson. What, The Unknown Comic wasn't available?). So there was actually no point to the challenge but to show something in this episode. And it showed in the comics' performances.

About the roast: It was good to see Jimmy Norton be the roastmaster, even though they didn't really show him saying anything funny. I guess it was a little payback for being unfairly booted before the finals of Season Two. Alonzo Bodden, Phyllis Diller, and Gilbert Gottfried (who's as annoying as Kathy Griffin, but is much funnier) were the judges.

The selected roastee was Gabriel Iglesias, and mostly everyone told fat jokes. Rebecca Corry's jokes pretty much ended with the words "'Cause he's fat!" Kristen Key bombed. Ty Barnett was bland. Josh Blue's jokes almost made sense, but didn't ("They say you are what you eat. That poor Korean family." Wha? Did he miss a couple of words there, like "then you must be a poor Korean family"?). Roz yelled a lot. Chris Porter was the only one who pulled off good lines, spreading the wealth like a good roaster should. He said to Diller, "I remember reading about you in the encyclopedia," and he said about Norton, "He lives in my neighborhood; I know this because the cops made him go around and tell us." It was pretty obvious he was going to win this, even though there was no real prize to win.

So, the comics were going to the head-to-head in order to narrow things to the final five. What's that you say? You thought they were supposed to whittle down to six tonight? Well, they were, until the roastee, Gabriel, got caught trying to contact with cell phones and Blackberries and got kicked out. You see, to prevent leaks and to prevent the comics from getting jokes on the outside, they're only supposed to call the outside world at designated times. But Gabriel missed his girlfriend so much that he snuck calls to her on more than one occasion. So the producers had to kick him out. They didn't play up this drama at all; there was a scene where he gets caught with a Blackberry, one where he talks to the executive producers, and all of a sudden, he's gone. They could have played this up a little more, especially considering Gabriel was the last "big white whale" -- a nationally-known and well-respected comic -- left. But, oh well. The show must go on, as Clark read to the remaining seven comics.

The head-to-head had Ty, Kristen, and Rebecca squaring off. Ty was again bland. Kristen was OK, but not as funny as she was in the earlier rounds. Rebecca, of course, was terrible, shaking her ass and kicking as she talked. As distracting as she was, it didn't prevent me from seeing how painfully unfunny she was. So, the fact that Ty made it to the final five didn't really phase me too much. All three pretty much sucked tonight. Ty just sucked less.

So, we're down to Chris, Josh, Ty, Michele, and Roz (how Roz hasn't been challenged to this point is beyond me). I don't see how anyone's going to beat out Chris and Josh, but, again, this season has held quite a number of surprises so far. Including the next surprise: Gabriel's spot is likely to be filled in by whomever wins the online vote amongst the comics eliminated in the preliminary stage. I'm hoping it's Doug Benson, because this contest desperately needs some more funny.

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The Office (BBC): Episode 7

post from TV Squad on 11 July 2006 06:55:00 PM. © TV Squad

Filed under: Comedy, OpEd, BBC, Retro Squad, The Office (BBC)

(S02E01) First of all, everyone that loves Mackenzie Crook (Gareth) needs to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It is a tremendously fun film, with loads of face-time for Mackenzie Crook (he plays the guy with the wooden eye). Seriously, go see it. Okay, okay. On to the episode!

The second season started with a really strange/adorable moment. Gareth, David, and another employee enthusiastically hummed the Mah Nà Mah Nà song rom The Muppet Show (watch the Muppet version here, the Office version here) as Tim silently looked on, completely confused. The way that David pops out of his office and starts chiming in gets me every time.

A great example of subtlety in acting is the way that Ricky Gervais portrayed David as he tried to show off his picture in the paper industry's trade magazine. The way that he tried to collect himself after failing to impress the employee is exactly how I act once I realize I've said something embarrassingly stupid. Beautifully (or is it "painfully"?) realistic.

Neil Godwin (formerly David's equivalent over in Swindon, presently David's boss) made his first appearance in the series. He seemed like a really nice guy, but, of course, David visibly seethed with jealousy. After all, this was the guy that took his promotion, his raise, his opportunity to become something better.

Gareth was thoroughly angering Tim all morning, so he finally got a little talking to. I loved this bit of dialogue and the stunned silence that followed...

Tim: Team Leader don't mean anything, mate.
Gareth: It means I'm leader of a team!
Tim: It's a title someone's given you to get you to do things they don't want to do for free. Alright? It's like making the div kid at school milk monitor. No one respects it.
Gareth: Uh, I think they do.
Tim: No, they don't, Gareth.
Gareth: Uh, yes. They do. 'Cause if people were rude to me, I used to give them their milk last... so that it was warm.

Also, to Tim's annoyance, Gareth got a new cookie jar for his desk. It was one of those horribly obnoxious ones that shout whenever someone tries to open it (in this case, it kept yelling, "Stop! Move away from the cookie jar!"). After showing it off to David, Gareth suggested a joke for him to do during his welcoming speech to the new Swindon employees.

Gareth: Alright, it's Christmas dinner. Royal family... having a Christmas dinner. Camilla Parker-Bowles says, "Okay, we'll play 20 Questions. I'll think of something and you have to ask me questions and guess what it is." And what she's thinking of is a black man's cock.
David: Ha! Trust Camilla! -- It's not racist, is it?
Gareth: No, no. Um... So, Prince Philip goes, "Is it bigger than the bread bin?" and she goes, "Yeah." Charles goes, "Is it something I can put in my mouth?", she goes, "Yeah." The Queen goes, "Is it a black man's cock?"

David found this absolutely hysterical, so he pocketed it for later. During the little welcoming meeting, Neil gave a very brief and funny speech to introduce David. Everyone had a bit of a laugh because all of Neil's jokes were light, relevant, and harmless. However, David's routine was fucking painful. I cringed so much when I watched him. He turned the whole thing into a comedy routine, not a welcoming speech. His impressions were poor and his attitude was even worse (however, I liked his high-kicking Basil Fawlty bit). Sensing that he was bombing like hell, he brought out what he thought was a gem. Apparently, he did an awesome job of impersonating a coordinator at a conference he once attended, so he did it again. Totally random. He prided himself on the fact that he didn't make fun of the coordinator's withered little hand. After the Swindon lot didn't laugh at that either, David looked to Gareth for help, only to hear, "I prefer the stuff you do about his little hand... The wanking claw." Ahhh. So painful to watch. Damn.

Desperate to recover from that horrible session, David tried to tell the royal family joke to a small group of Swindon workers. But, he immediately stopped after the new black guy (Oliver) casually walked up to try and hear the joke. "It's not the black man's cock one, is it?" he asked. Haha, David looked so damn nervous, playing with his tie. He was relieved when Oliver said that he wasn't offended. However, someone tattled on David and Jennifer called him (accompanied by Gareth) in to have a talk about appropriate jokes. After Jennifer said the joke was not one for the workplace and that it was racist to assume that all black men have a large penis. "It's a myth!" she said. Then, Gareth offered to show her a few magazines which say otherwise. Haha, brilliant.

David went up to a group of the Swindon guys and jokingly said that Jennifer needed to seriously chill out, maybe smoke some of the ol' ganja. The scene then immediately cut back to Jennifer and Neil facing David, shouting, "I was not advocating the use of drugs!" Haha, nice. Meanwhile, Tim briefly flirted with a blond Swindon girl named Rachel. Gareth also wanted a piece of the action but his attempts at flirtation fell rather flat. As for Dawn, Tim was still being rather cold towards her. She tried to get Tim to mock Gareth for a bit, but he scolded her, saying that Gareth was quite busy at the moment and so should she be. Ouch. A few minutes (and several awkward looks back and forth) later, Tim finally went up to Dawn's desk and told her that he had an open 20-minute window in his diary marked as "wind up Gareth with Dawn". Awww. Her face immediately broke into a smile and they went to the next room to piss off Gareth. I adored the fact that it was their equivalent to a proper date.

After brooding in his office for a bit, David came out to speak to a group of the new intake. He didn't apologize, but rather confronted everyone and demanded to know why they felt the need to snitch him out to Jennifer. He tried to turn it into a lesson about being part of a "melting pot", heh. I loved that when Oliver said that he was mixed race, David immediately blurted, "That's my favorite!"

Dawn relayed Brent's "melting pot" speech to Tim and they both started laughing over it. Tim jokingly embraced Dawn and started dancing with her. Suddenly, Lee stormed in, slammed Tim against the wall, and stalked out again. Holy crap. The first time I saw that, my heart almost jumped out of my chest. I thought Lee was going to start furiously beating Tim to a bloody pulp. God.

Oh, I didn't know where to put this, but I had to throw it in somewhere... I really loved this line:

Gareth: My dad, for example. He's not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and... it can be embarrassing! He doesn't understand all the new, trendy words. Like, he'll say "poofs" instead of "gays", "birds" instead of "women", "darkies" instead of "coloreds"...

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E! renews Simple Life for a fifth season

post from reality blurred on 11 July 2006 06:11:56 PM. © reality blurred

The Simple Life's new network, E!, has just renewed the show for a fifth season, although it'll only be the second season to air on the cable channel. (FOX dumped it last fall.)

The Simple Life 5 "will debut sometime in 2007, a person familiar with the production" told Variety. No word yet what format the show will take.

Variety says this "is a major victory for producers Bunim-Murray Prods. and 20th Century Fox TV." Of course, it's a loss for the rest of us, who stopped being amused by Paris and Nicole's fake antics about four seasons ago.

New lease on 'Life' [Variety]

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Taylor Hicks Hawks Ford (Son of Beep Beep)

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QuickTime link to the :30 spot, which will pop in a new window.2.5 MB. Sing-a Ding-a Doo! Just when television watchers couldn’t take the endless “Beep Beep” Ford ad deluge anymore, they decided to relent on their advertising schedule. Unfortunately it seems to have been replaced with another non-stop sing-a-thon, with American Idol winner Taylor [...]

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Tim Gunn knows what he's talking about

post from TV Squad on 11 July 2006 04:48:00 PM. © TV Squad

Filed under: Reality, Cable, TV Royalty, Talent, Programming, Celebrities

With the third season of Project Runway just looming over the horizon (it premieres tomorrow at 9 PM EST!), the web is shaking with Runway buzz all over again. The Chicago Tribune's "The Watcher" has a great interview with Tim Gunn, full of insider goodies. I swear, this guy knows exactly what he's talking about! And I'm not just saying that because he shares just about all of my opinions -- Okay, maybe I am.

Here are some points that I found extremely interesting:

The winner was originally going to be Daniel Vosovic, but Nina Garcia turned the whole thing around after she went into a huge speech about how wonderful Chloe Dao was. Snarl, snarl. We members of Team Vosovic are furious.
Daniel's turned into a bit of a diva? Wow.
Tim thinks that Santino Rice's impression of him was spot-on. "There would be times when I would be watching Season 2 shows and I would hear my voice offscreen and I would think, is that me or Santino?"
Tim liked Kara Janx's "decoy" collection more than those of the actual three finalists.

I really hope Season Three's contestants listen to Tim. Take that man's word as gospel if you know what's good for you!

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Rockstar: Supernova Live Blog Tonight 7-11-06

As you all know, Rockstar: Supernova started last week and it looks like it is going to be a great season. For that reason, we are going to be bringing out the big guns for the Live Blog tonight with...

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The real Supernova sues the new one

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It turns out somebody already came up with the super-lame Supernova name for their own band. According to MTV News, the Orange County-based punk band, Supernova, has filed a trademark infringement suit against producer Mark Burnett for this summer's Rock Star: Supernova. The original Supernova formed in 1989 and released four albums, the most recent in 2000. The band is still alive and kicking: recording a new album and performing gigs next month. The lawsuit names Burnett, his production company, and the three members of the new Supernova band: Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted and Gilby Clarke. The band wants Burnett to make it clear that the television show is not associated with them, wants to prevent Burnett from trademarking the Supernova name, and claims the producers of Rock Star knew the band existed and was still together. Didn't anyone check out iTunes before naming the new band?

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