Saturday, June 16, 2007
How My TV Season Shook Out
Funny how back in September I was going crazy trying to keep up on the shows (new and returning) that were flooding my TiVo night after night. Some were sacrificed, some made it through, some may not return to my TiVo lineup next fall and some should have been added the first time around.
Monday - I killed all of the sit-coms (How I Met Your Mother, Classmates). Again I stand by my opinion that the traditional sitcom no longer carries relevance in this post Will and Grace world. That was the last s'com to deliver anything of relevance in the standard three-camera format. NO MORE CANNED LAUGHTER!
Tuesday - Six Degrees was preempted after October, returned to Fridays in March (the kill-me now 9pm slot) and quickly was off again. This was the one new show that deserved a shot as it was begining to live up to its premise, albeit thirteen episodes in.
Real World/Road Rules Challenges - will always be a staple long after anyone who was actually on their original shows that I actually watched stop playing.
Wednesday - LOST started off slow, left us hanging for a LONG time, and came back with a series of episodes that made me scratch my head but still enjoy the ride up to the last mind-blowing minute of the finale. The critics need to also just enjoy the ride and not worry about the destination until 2010.
Killed Jericho, and CBS followed suit.
Killed The Nine and ABS did so the next day
Thursday - Survivor: Fiji WORST SEASON EVER. Stop with the hidden Immunity Idols, stop with Exile Island, stop with the tropical locales, stop mixing tribes three or four times throughout and stop allowing three to get to the Final Council. Maybe China will put it back on track....but I may be watching
Ugly Betty instead (as I should have this past season.)
Friday - (not a TV night)
Saturday - (not a TV night)
Sunday - Desperate Housewives - A+, once again.
Monday - I killed all of the sit-coms (How I Met Your Mother, Classmates). Again I stand by my opinion that the traditional sitcom no longer carries relevance in this post Will and Grace world. That was the last s'com to deliver anything of relevance in the standard three-camera format. NO MORE CANNED LAUGHTER!
Tuesday - Six Degrees was preempted after October, returned to Fridays in March (the kill-me now 9pm slot) and quickly was off again. This was the one new show that deserved a shot as it was begining to live up to its premise, albeit thirteen episodes in.
Real World/Road Rules Challenges - will always be a staple long after anyone who was actually on their original shows that I actually watched stop playing.
Wednesday - LOST started off slow, left us hanging for a LONG time, and came back with a series of episodes that made me scratch my head but still enjoy the ride up to the last mind-blowing minute of the finale. The critics need to also just enjoy the ride and not worry about the destination until 2010.
Killed Jericho, and CBS followed suit.
Killed The Nine and ABS did so the next day
Thursday - Survivor: Fiji WORST SEASON EVER. Stop with the hidden Immunity Idols, stop with Exile Island, stop with the tropical locales, stop mixing tribes three or four times throughout and stop allowing three to get to the Final Council. Maybe China will put it back on track....but I may be watching
Ugly Betty instead (as I should have this past season.)
Friday - (not a TV night)
Saturday - (not a TV night)
Sunday - Desperate Housewives - A+, once again.
Just Because You Yell Doesn't Make It a Hot Topic
A certain two-word title for a day-time estrogen chat fest caused more CNN stories, celebrity feuds and gave a mostly female audiance a place to feel like their political views, no matter what side, and no matter HOW redundantly day after day. THE VIEW.
In a country still full of "red states," gay-marriage bans, adoption bans and taxation on same-sex partner benefits, I still find it mildly ironic that Rosie O'Donnell, Lesbian Second In Charge (to Ellen, she who opens the door first gets the true crown) And Most Vocal, found not only acceptance, but GREW the audience for the already long-in-the-tooth show. Kelly Rippa, Asians, Elisabeth Hasselback, Donald Trump, Paula Abdul, American Idol, and most of the conservative Christian-right felt her on air wrath every week day for nine months. And then quickly exited due to a minor but firey (and understood) on-air argument with Fourth-Place-In-The-Outback.
Rosie turned down a longer contract term for less money (for a wide variety of rumors.) to end her run in June - but decided to leave earlier due to probably forseen fall out from the split screen.....off to yell on another soap box until challenged again....
The Daytime Emmy's were last night. Joy Behar said it best, "we will never win because there is always at least one of us to hate." And this held true again last night. In the hands of Ellen went Best Talk Show and Best Talk Show Host. Why? For being original and FRESH every day. Where The View went wrong this year is that for some reason they don't have enough interesting topics to talk about a different one every day. Iraq War Iraq War Impeach Bush Impeach Bush Showtunes Showtunes Confetti....I share Rosie and Joy's political views, but found their arguments becoming tiresome and indistinguishable from Hot Topics of previous weeks.
Whoppi - PLEASE take over for season eleven. 'Nuff said.
In a country still full of "red states," gay-marriage bans, adoption bans and taxation on same-sex partner benefits, I still find it mildly ironic that Rosie O'Donnell, Lesbian Second In Charge (to Ellen, she who opens the door first gets the true crown) And Most Vocal, found not only acceptance, but GREW the audience for the already long-in-the-tooth show. Kelly Rippa, Asians, Elisabeth Hasselback, Donald Trump, Paula Abdul, American Idol, and most of the conservative Christian-right felt her on air wrath every week day for nine months. And then quickly exited due to a minor but firey (and understood) on-air argument with Fourth-Place-In-The-Outback.
Rosie turned down a longer contract term for less money (for a wide variety of rumors.) to end her run in June - but decided to leave earlier due to probably forseen fall out from the split screen.....off to yell on another soap box until challenged again....
The Daytime Emmy's were last night. Joy Behar said it best, "we will never win because there is always at least one of us to hate." And this held true again last night. In the hands of Ellen went Best Talk Show and Best Talk Show Host. Why? For being original and FRESH every day. Where The View went wrong this year is that for some reason they don't have enough interesting topics to talk about a different one every day. Iraq War Iraq War Impeach Bush Impeach Bush Showtunes Showtunes Confetti....I share Rosie and Joy's political views, but found their arguments becoming tiresome and indistinguishable from Hot Topics of previous weeks.
Whoppi - PLEASE take over for season eleven. 'Nuff said.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
The Long and Winding Road Back to Bloggerville
So let's just recap what's gone on in the world of pop-culture since I took hiatus (in no particular order)
Paris went back to jail
Paris was let out of jail
Paris was sentenced to jail
Lohan played with knives
Brit got extensions (now that her hair's long enough - MY RUMOR TO START: She plays NYC Gay Pride this year, COME BACK GIRL, COME BACK!)
I found solace in Miss Cleo
I ballooned back up to a healthy beefy 220#
Red hanky to the right (let's see how many of you get that one)
Janet finished a movie
Janet stopped tour production
Janet changed labels to Interscope
Janet started a new album again (maybe third time's a charm)
Madonna's working with JT and Timberland (talk about changing directions)
Rosie left The View
Someone won the most boring season of Survivor yet
LOST flashed forward
Edie Brit hung herself
Oh and the list could go on and on and on (especially with me)
I feel ready to contribute now, especially with a digital camera now in tow...look for pictures from the 'bucks float for Pride (and subsequent pictures of Alegria before and after...) but for now here's the tattoo pic I've promised for over a year now: (and now that I'm itchin for a new one...)
Paris went back to jail
Paris was let out of jail
Paris was sentenced to jail
Lohan played with knives
Brit got extensions (now that her hair's long enough - MY RUMOR TO START: She plays NYC Gay Pride this year, COME BACK GIRL, COME BACK!)
I found solace in Miss Cleo
I ballooned back up to a healthy beefy 220#
Red hanky to the right (let's see how many of you get that one)
Janet finished a movie
Janet stopped tour production
Janet changed labels to Interscope
Janet started a new album again (maybe third time's a charm)
Madonna's working with JT and Timberland (talk about changing directions)
Rosie left The View
Someone won the most boring season of Survivor yet
LOST flashed forward
Edie Brit hung herself
Oh and the list could go on and on and on (especially with me)
I feel ready to contribute now, especially with a digital camera now in tow...look for pictures from the 'bucks float for Pride (and subsequent pictures of Alegria before and after...) but for now here's the tattoo pic I've promised for over a year now: (and now that I'm itchin for a new one...)
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