This week on Courtney’s show, The Bachelor on ABC, they’re in Panama City… and this is THE night that someone gets caught in her own scandal.
Round One:
The first date, Ben takes Casey B to their own tiny island. They’re all alone as the chopper leaves… well, as alone as two pelople can be, with a film crew shadowing their every move. They’re cutting down lime-green coconuts… dudes, those aren’t even ripe. It’s like Survivor on The Bachelor. Later they seem to have awkward dinner conversation. (He looks so bored on this date.) She fesses to her teenage eating disorder. She gets the rose.
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Round two!
The group date! Everyone shows up in their shorty shorts and fat-lip (Courtney) says she’s over the group dating thing. They toured the raind forest by boat. It’s rainging on them, and that’s an important note. Then they happen upon a village where ABC gets to show us many more bras and bikini tops.
Courtney needs to play her only card, and that’s going top-sort-of-less, underneath and Ben shows his true calling and says he appreciated her going topless, in more than one way.
During the evening, while Ben is talking to Jamie, Courtney is prancing around behind Jamie in her bikini, scoring eye-candy points with the highly distracted Ben. Emily stepped up and apologized to Courtney for bashing her earlier. Then Courtney goes on and says she doesn’t forgive and forget and they’ll never be friends. Class act fat-lip!!!
Ben gives the rose (Round two goes) to Lindzi.
But then Courtney said she tossed an invite out to Ben to come visit her in her room later. Ben never showed up because, well, it’s not a show about her, its his show girl.
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Though I rally against most of the reality TV programming out there, I have to speak towards one of Syfy channel’s unscripted series, called Face Off.
Face Off is a reality competition for special-effects make-up artists who compete in various challenges against each other, testing their skills, in both detail, quality and expediently created products.
The contestants go through challenges that are not just for show, but give the viewers an incredible insight towards what goes into the details of creating the monsters and fairies of fantasy that grace our movie and TV screens. Like it’s been said, the devil is in the details. And sometimes, we even get to see the devil.
And many of their creations are amazing to behold when all is said and done.
And the judging of the challenges comes from talented artists at the top of their game today.
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So this last week, we saw previews for next week’s episode of ABC’s The Bachelor, and in those previews we saw some tragic event that is going to take place. But what, oh what could it be???
I caught a piece of news on the web about next week’s episode of The Bachelor about this little new drama/escapade…
Turns out the Casey S. has a boyfriend and Chris Harrison has a chat with her. That’s the preview scene we see… or part of it.
The press release next week says:
“On rose ceremony day, Chris pays a surprise visit to the women, pulling Casey S. from the group. In another of ‘The Bachelor’s’ most dramatic moments, he confronts her about a situation she has kept secret from everyone. A shocked Casey S. then must admit the truth to Ben. How will he take the news?”
Crazy, huh? Or, it’s just nothing new from what seems to be the usual, seasonal set of staged “dramatic” events we get every season. But hey, it will be the most exciting rose ceremony to date, right?
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This week, The Bachelor headed to Park City, Utah with his 13 women in tow.
The first one-on-one date for The Bachelor, Ben Flajnik, involved Rachel, who is worried that she has to actually communicate, that being one of weaknesses.
(Have you noticed that almost every girl he talks about, he could see himself being with her?)
The date starts and the conversation GOES NOWHERE! ( Chris Harrison warned them to not talk about the weather)… and that’s exactly what they did… weather and beaver damns.
LOL… #FAIL!
And dinner went no better. She needs to drink more to help open up!
Ben still gave her a rose… but not sure that’s going to help, her sticking around.
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On to the group date, and I’m avoiding, or trying to avoid mentioning the caddy fights. Meanwhile, Kacie B. is getting screen time whining and crying about sharing Ben.
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If you were hanging out here around Cinema Static on Brusimm.com Monday night or Tuesday morning, you might have caught my not-so-rosy season premiere review of Syfy’s Lost Girl. But like many others, we all tuned in to see what the show was all about.
The TV ratings for Lost Girl showed that 1.47 million viewers tuned in to catch the series premiere episode of this Canadian sci-fi hit, pulling in a 1.2 HH rating.
Airing before Lost Girl was the 2nd season premiere of Being Human, which pulled in 1.8M viewers, with a 1.3 HH.
For Syfy, those look like good numbers, especially in the market of VoD and online streaming… I fully expect Being Human to pull in solid numbers but I am going to wait and see what numbers we see for subsequent episodes of Lost Girl before committing, though I would not be surprised if the numbers take a dive.
Did you know that the executive producers of Being Human are Michael Prupas (The Kennedys), Jeremy Carver (Supernatural) and Anna Fricke (Men in Trees, Everwood) who are both writers/showrunners, Adam Kane (The Mentalist, Heroes), and Rob Pursey and Toby Whithouse.
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The Bachelor (This is a TV Recap of this adventure) takes place in San Francisco and the fun is as eclectic as the city is engaging. And on the first date, Ben takes Emily O’Brien out on a one-on-one… and takes her out to scale the Bay Bridge. This is where we find out that Emily is terrified of heights, and we hear Ben say
“Relationships are all about trust.”
And they’re all about not forcing people to do things they don’t want to either Ben!
But Ben takes her to the top of the Bay Bridge anyway in this episode of The Bachelor. Then again, doesn’t the studio do an in-depth psych profile on everyone? And then they set Emily up for this super tall climb? Niiice. But then again Emily is confusing… she is a pursuing a PHd and yet she’s on this show.
Of course, while they’re out on their date, the ever so talented and intelligent batch of women back at the hotel somehow manage to just come across the two of them with a telescope. Right. Reality TV… oh, the concept.
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Later, the girls pile out of the hotel room for the group date… and there’s one heck of a visual.. an awful lot of ho, I mean high heels climbing the streets of San Francisco. And what the f*! is a leap list? Is this the new bucket list? I’ve never heard of a “leap list” before this. Is this an ABC coined term?
Of course, this group date is an excellent opportunity for ABC to show women in bikinis skiing down the street. There was a lot of butt, long legs, teeny bikinis and but cracks. Nice ABC… nice.
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The Comcast/NBC owned network, the Syfy channel, looks like it’s going to continue veering away from its roots of classic science fiction TV and continue to take the dive into the realm of reality TV. Or at least that’s my take on the matter.
Syfy channel was up 11% in viewers last year, making 2011 its most watched year ever. And if they’re taking this new data and extrapolating out, then they can attribute this rise in viewers to the addition of all the reality TV programming they’ve added to the net. (And yes, the so un-sci-fi like programming of wrestling.)
Driving home this premise of mine that they’re continuing down this reality TV programming path is the TV news that they’ve hired several key folks for alternative programming and a few key folks were added to the unscripted department.
Sigh.
Then they cement my fears with the following statement:
“On the heels of Syfy’s most watched year in history, we will be launching a record number of unscripted series in 2012.”
Saying that they will be focused on the continued growth of the Syfy brand. Syfy Brand.
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The Fox reality TV dancing series, So You Think You Can Dance, will have a slightly different format this year, it’s ninth season on the network. After the break, are audition dates for the ninth season.
This year, Fox renewed the series, but with a twist… No results show.
With no results show for So You Think You Can Dance, that means that Nigel Lythgoe, the co-creator and exec producer of SYTYCD, will need to reformat the show to accomodate the new one-day format.
Word on the street was that the first season of SYTYCD was a single-night event, so it can be done.
Plus, even though it could be entertaining, sometimes it just felt like a drawn out time-killer. I did a lot of FF’ing when I watched my DVR’s 2nd episode each week.
And sometimes, the musical or dance guests were interesting. But more often than not, I only tuned in to catch the results.
So one night a week telecast schedule seems fine by me.
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The Biggest Loser started its 13th season, with brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters, a father and son and even a Santa and his wife. The theme this season is “No Excuses.”
These people are ready to change their lives for the better, as they learn to eat better and make exercise a lifestyle after they spend some quality time on The Biggest Loser.
The preview of the season was intense…
Alison Sweeney greeted the new contestants outside the gates of the ranch… man, those gates looked like the gates to Jurassic Park. Didn’t it???
Alison then asked everyone what their excuses were… time, single mother, 13 kids, busy on the farm, an accident, emotional eater… the excuses were all there, ready to go, but Alison said that tonight, the excuses end here. Oh boy… when Alison starts sounding tough, well, it’s going to be a tough season!
And they get their first challenge before they go through the gates, and the last place team won’t be getting on the ranch. That’s harsh!!!
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Another season of The Bachelor 16 kicks it in gear and here we go again. This is going to be a super terse recap/review of the season premiere of the reality dating show from ABC. The one that has a worse track record than The Biggest Loser and other reality shows.
So here are my first impressions, as I watched them show up and introduce themselves on The Bachelor…
“you are guilty of being sexy.” Seriously??? Yes, that was an intro line that proves women can have just as dorky a line as guys do. That from a lawyer girl or what not.
Amanda Bacon seems nuts.
Elyse seems… focused.
Jenna (the blogger) seems, well crazy. Like most bloggers. Seems like an awkward first meet.
(And cut away to the girls already tanking it up inside.)
The 2nd limo pulls up…
The model, Courtney, pops out of the limo. I’m not feeling this one.
Emily… with a goal to getting her PHD… but she had to sanitize them both before kissing him.
Ben seems happy about what he’s seeing.
Samantha, Miss Pacific Palisades, had to wear her winning sash.
Casey S…. Wow, seems grounded and normal.
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