Big Brother 10: Live feeds report - August 16

post from TV Squad on 16 August 2008 10:39:00 PM. © TV Squad

Michelle looks pensive in the Big Brother 10 house.

I'm just bustin' with big news about the happenings inside the Big Brother 10 house. Bustin', I tell you. I'm talking bustin' as if I've eaten a whole box of Freihofer's chocolate chip cookies, I am. My seams just might burst! But I can't spill the cookies here, not right here on the main page of TV Squad. Nope, no can do. The anti-spoilers crowd would deliver my head to the powers that be. I kind of like my head right where it sits, thank you.

But, I'll tell you what I can do. If you join me after the jump, I'll tell you all I know. Beware -- extreme show spoilers just beyond the bend.

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Sat, Aug 16, 08 - Curb Your Enthusiasm, Greg The
Bunny, Good Morning Miami, Veronica Mars

post from A Briefing With Michael on 16 August 2008 10:18:00 PM. © A Briefing With Michael

04:30 Curb Your Enthusiasm
08:00 Greg The Bunny
08:30 Good Morning Miami
10:30 Veronica Mars
11:30 Veronica Mars

Curb Your Enthusiasm. Episode 1. "The Pants Tent" It's amazing how quickly things go wrong from poor Larry. Only a few minutes into this first episode (three scenes or so) and he's annoyed his best friend's new girlfriend, been offensive to his manager's parents and made his wife's friend think she caused him to have an erection. And from there it all spirals out of control. Much as I love the show, and love watching the show, I also love thinking about how the show is made (improvised dialogue from detailed scene outlines). It's clever. And it means we get a plot-driven show every week. There is always something happening in every scene. Every scene advances a plot, or allows it to collide into another plot, or something. Whatever. There is always something new happening. Often very funny.

Greg The Bunny. Episode 9. "Greg Gets Puppish" Another so-so episode. When this show is funny, it's very funny. And when it's not funny, it delivers episodes like this one: in which Greg embraces his puppet heritage. There are few gags floating around, yes, but a lot of the dialogue is just to drive the (boring) story and it leaves you unsure what to make of it all. Is it meant to be comedy with a message? Or are they just bad are doing satire? The ending is another one of those soft and fuzzy they sometimes do on this show: where friendship wins out over differences. An odd episode. I don't watch Greg The Bunny for touchy-feely crap.

Good Morning Miami. Episode 5. "Swan Jake" Pretty good episode. Important one for the characters: Jake finds out that Gavin isn't so bad and starts to feel guilty about wanting to steal Dylan away, Lucia tells Dylan that Jake likes her and suggests a little test. All of this advances the storyline and helps make Jake more likable than he was in earlier episodes. The supplot, meanwhile, is hilarious. Frank thinks that Penny has a crush on him, and acts accordingly. This being a sit-com "acts accordingly" means he drapes himself across her desk and invites her to feel his over-developed thigh. Lots of laughs.

Veronica Mars. Episode 1. "Pilot" I don't think I've ever seen a pilot with so much backstory, so skillfully delivered. Veronica is quite an interesting lady and - prior to this first episode - she has led quite an interesting life. Rob Thomas weaves her history into this first episode, and still manages to deliver a clever case-of-the-week which shows Veronica at her best: clever, gutsy, framing people, switching police evidence and derailing trials as she sees fit. It's fun to watch her in action. We like her because she is clever and good (and the best TV Heroes are clever and good) but we like her, too, because she is sad and full of pain. In rapid succession we see what happened to Veronica to make her this way: her mother leaving, her friend being murdered, her own rape and her boyfriend dumping her. All of this, plus her status as an outcast in Neptune society, makes Veronica who she is on the day we first meet her.

She reminds me of Harry O. Battered by life, but not beaten.

Veronica Mars. Episode 2. "Credit Where Credit's Due" This time out the case-of-the-week takes up many more scenes, and the backstory barely appears at all. The case (credit card fraud) is interesting, clever and it involves one of the regular characters. It serves to strengthen the bond between them, which was forged in the final scene of the pilot. Lots of other character stuff is carried over from the pilot. The animosity between Logan and Weevil is a perfect example. And it's not just the character stuff. We get to understand the world of Neptune a bit better. It's a vicious place. And justice in Neptune is rough. We saw that in the pilot, where Veronica played fast and loose with the law to get Weevil's guys off the hook for a crime they committed, as a means towards getting a better quality of life for Wallace. This time out we see the story come to an end when Weevil and his club have punished the person who committed the crime. That's how the story ends: with frontier justice.

Highlight? Veronica Mars (pilot)
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A Thought on Michael Phelps

post from Cheese Says on 16 August 2008 10:17:39 PM. © Cheese Says

I know many of you are going to think I'm crazy, but I think it would be better if Michale Phelps did not participate in tonight's race (in about an hour) but here me out. (...)

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BB10: Checking In

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That review thing

post from Obsessed with Bones on 16 August 2008 07:25:00 PM. © Obsessed with Bones

Husband didn't help. Turns out I should have asked him to hide the current book as well as the remote. I have DVR and Dish network now and I'm a HUGE Modern Marvels geek. But, yeah...

I got the review more than half finished. I just have to do the Booth/Brennan stuff. I feel completely discomfited though. It's been too long!

PS I did finish the book.

PPS He didn't hide the next one.

PPPS
Hodgins: I demand another beetle. Jeff's got a groin pull.
Zack: Arthropods do not posses groins. Pay up.

Awwww!

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What's On Tonight: Little League World Series,
Elvis, Unwrapped

post from TV Squad on 16 August 2008 05:04:00 PM. © TV Squad

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NBC has more Olympics coverage all night.
TCM has Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies all night.
At 8, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News has the Saddleback Church Presidential Forum.
ESPN has Little League World Series coverage at 8.
Disney Channel has a new Disney Channel Games at 8, then a new Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
Food Network has Ice Cream Unwrapped at 8.
CMTV has Elvis: Viva Las Vegas at 8, with Toby Keith, Chris Isaak, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, 50 Cent, and others doing Elvis songs. It's followed by Jailhouse Rock.
At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
Lifetime has the movie Confessions of a Go-Go Dancer at 9.
Cartoon Network has two new episodes of Naruto at 9.
At 9:30, HGTV has a new Divine Design.

Check your local TV listings for more.

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Number Crunching: This Week's TV Ratings

post from BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly. on 16 August 2008 04:00:49 PM. © BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.

All Olympics, all the time. That's pretty much the story for this week, as the 2008 Olympics dominated the ratings every night ? and that's even with some of the major events airing after 11 p.m., when primetime ratings typically cut off. The "weakest" night was Wednesday, when the network averaged 27.2 million viewers.
Dogging it. Maybe it's just the Olympics talking, but Greatest American Dog has been struggling of late. This Wednesday's episode brought in 5.2 million viewers; its highest-rated episode earlier this Summer drew 9.5 million people.
Late-night lift. The Olympics are helping at least one other segment of programming: NBC's late-night shows. For example, the episodes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien that aired after the Olympics' opening ceremonies were the highest-rated those shows had been in months.
Still flashing. One of the impressive notes for CBS this week: Flashpoint held up well even with the Olympics on, drawing 6.3 million viewers on Thursday.

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Texas Town Responds To Stephen Colbert's Slam

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CANTON, Texas (AP) - Stephen Colbert's one-man campaign against towns named Canton has its latest target firing back.[...] Read more!

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I'm a Progressive Libertarian

People often ask me how I would describe myself politically - actually, not so much people these days, as places such as Facebook, etc. I don't like labels. But I've recently begun to list myself, when I can write in rather than a choose from a group[...]

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