This Week on TV (8/2-8/8)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, HBO, The CW, TNT-HD, Entourage, Video,

• The Bachelorette (ABC, 8pm):  Season finale. “Ali arrives in Bora Bora with two guys (Chris L. and Roberto) and one rose. Her family are also there—-and they do her no favor by liking both bachelors equally.” Her family said it was so hard to choose in this loser-loser situation.
• The Good Guys (FOX, 9pm):  “A crime family dispatches an assassin to kill a man in the Witness Protection Program after Dan accidentally exposes the man’s identity.” He forgot to adjust his Facebook privacy settings to “Friends Only.”
• The Closer (TNT, 9pm):  “Provenza stumbles into a compromising situation, as is his habit, when he romances a flight attendant on company time—-then discovers a dead body in her condominium.” It was too big to stuff into the overhead compartment.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (2/11)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Cable, NBC, Renewals,

Here’s an update on the shows you will and won’t be seeing in the months to come:

• Dating in the Dark (ABC) - Season 2
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndicated) - Renewed through 2013-14.
• Gene Simmons Family Jewels (A&E) - Season 5
• One Big Happy Family (TLC) - Season 2
• Shaq Vs. (ABC) - Season 2

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2009 Summer Television Schedule

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Amazing Race, The, American Idol, Apprentice, The - Donald, Dancing With The Stars, Desperate Housewives, ER, Everybody Hates Chris, Family Guy, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, Lost, Medium, My Name Is Earl, Prison Break, Scrubs, Saturday Night Live, Survivor, The Bachelor, The Office,

Okay - so most of our favorite shows are gone now. But that doesn’t mean our summer has to completely suck.

Never got a chance to watch Lie to Me during the regular season? Here’s your chance to catch up! Like to see people embarrass themselves? Then Wipeout might be the perfect summer treat! Missing both American Idol and Dancing with the Stars? Then So You Think You Can Dance is just the ticket for you!

Hopefully our detailed guide can assist you in the weeks to come.  We have compiled information from the five major networks and included the days, times and premiere dates for this season’s programs.

(NOTE: This schedule has been updated as of August 19. Don’t be surprised to see changes in the weeks to come.)

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Summer Reality Thoughts: Part Four

Posted by David L. Williams Categories: Music, Reality, ABC, Cable, So You Think You Can Dance, Editorial, Features,

Wherein I ask the tough questions, like, “Why on Earth would I begin a blog entry with the word ‘wherein?’’

All right, it’s been a little while since I posted, so here are the reality TV questions that have haunted me lately:

1. What did Shaq just say?  No, it’s not that I can’t understand the words that he’s saying; I’m just having trouble figuring out what he means or, more often, why he said it in the first place.  I’ve begun watching “Shaq’s Big Challenge”, wherein (damn it, I’ve really got to cut that out) basketball great and star of Kazaam Shaquille O’Neal conquers the problem of childhood obesity by helping a half dozen kids lose weight.  “Helping” may be too strong a term since Shaq always seems to have other obligations when it comes to the day-to-day assisting of the kids with their programs, but I’m not going to quibble with that.  Any kind of help is a good step; also, Shaq is huge and can easily crush me.

In the first episode, Shaq argues with one of the kids about what kind of donut is the best kind.  Shaq thinks Boston Crème, while one of the kids says crullers are better than the B.C.  Shaq’s response?  “No they’re not!”  Seriously, he starts a debate on donuts and takes a firm stand against crullers.  But, memo to ABC, I’d totally watch “Donut Debate with Shaquille O’Neal.”  Like, every night.

Also, Shaq is show footage of one of the kids eating four slices of pizza during a meal (and dipping each piece in garlic butter as he does), and the dietician asks Shaq how many pieces he eats when he has pizza.  Shaq just smiles guiltily because he doesn’t feel like saying, “I’m the Big Aristotle.  I eat all the pizza I want!” and then instead of, say, talking to the kid about changing his eating habits or, I don’t know, doing … anything, Shaq just says something like, “You’ve got a lot of work to do.”  Thanks for the help, Mr. O’Neal.  Whose name is on this show, by the way?

Really, though, the best example of Shaq quote confusion was when he spoke of one of the kids no longer participating, and said, “If Kit drops out, I’ve failed the system.”  What “system?”  No idea.  Why has Shaq failed this supposed system if one of the kids drops out?  Not a clue.

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