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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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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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Ben, The BachelorThis 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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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

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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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Brusimm Cinema Static TV NewsThough it may take six months to actually come to a conclusion, the U.S. Supreme Court is actually pondering the idea if censoring, to some degree, is even worth the effort in this day and age of cable TV and time-shifted viewing.

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The FCC is a powerful entity whose biggest, arch nemesis, Howard Stern, has been on Sirius XM satellite radio for the last few years… though Howard Stern is coming to America’s Got Talent.

But all joking aside, the FCC is becoming an antiquated entity with the rules it is enforcing and maybe the money spent there can be placed like say, into education programs so more teachers don’t lose their jobs?

Look, if the Nielsen Ratings org can adapt to streaming entertainment in their metrics, sooner or later the advertisers will embrace it more… seeing as how adverstisers spend nearly $10 billion per season on ads!

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Everyone behind the TV industry has been rather slow to adapt to what is evolving as far as watching TV goes, but if you think about it, TV is no longer about sitting down at 8pm to catch a TV show.  Today, “TV” is about when you’ll pull up your favorite show or on what device you might watch it.

Advertisers still base their funding decisions on live+7 TV ratings.  That’s counting who watches a TV show live, then they also take into account viewership for the next 7 days.  But like I noted, TV is no longer just, well, on TV any more.  It’s all over the place.   It’s on our phones, our computers, in our cars, it’s at the gas stations, at sporting venues and what not.

So when the Supreme Court starts pondering the idea of why worry about censoring time-shifted TV viewing, you know we’re starting to take a step in the modern era.

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Ben, The BachelorI’m not sure what to say about this episode of The Bachelor, when Ben Flajnik takes the ladies to his hometown of Sonoma, Ca.

It is as pretty as it looks there.  I’ve been out in that region to cover sporting events, so yes, what you saw is what you get out there.  It’s a diverse territory of farming, vineyards and redwoods.

But Ben kept reminding us that this is his hometown.  (Seriously, ABC, your viewers of The Bachelor are not morons.  I think they got that the first few times.)  So Ben was brave enough to take the crazy ladies to your hometown, good luck buddy!

Ben’s first date is with Kacie B., and they head out to a small cafe, then dinner.  Later, they hit up a movie theater and on the big screen, images and home-video of both their pasts are shown.

Ben gets the limelight here as you can see he starts to break down a tiny bit watching imagery of his father.

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The group date takes Brittney, Rachel, Jennifer, Blakely, Emily, Jenna, Shawn, Monica, Samantha, Jamie, Nicki and Jaclyn to a mock play that is put together by local junior talent.  The ladies are forced to audition various roles and then they perform later in a theater in front of friends that Ben has collected.

Surprisingly, it’s Ben that strips down and surprises everyone with his well-honed build.

Ben ends up giving the overtly-aggressive Blakely the rose.  And it doesn’t help that she is pretty snide about it with the girls.

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Remember when the former Miss Sprint Cup team member, Paige Duke, was booted from the sprint cup girl squad because of some older “personal” images that popped up on the web?

Well, she seems to be rebounding nicely from that slight dip in her professional career.

Though she should know better*, Paige Duke can be seen on the CMT reality dating series called Sweet Home Alabama which is premiering this Friday at 9 p.m., ET..

The 26-year-old will be approached and drooled over by 22 new bachelors for the new season.

Paige Duke only has 10 episodes to decide who and what she wants out of life.  The city boy or the country boy, if any of them!

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Ben, The BachelorAnother 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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The Bachelor Pad

We’ve suffered through the summer edition of The Bachelor Pad 2.  I’ve mocked and scoffed at the house guests and their singular vision of monetary or physical conquests!  So who finally won this battle of the single wits?  There will be spoilers about!

The Bachelor Pad house of rampant singles are headed off to Las Vegas for their final challenge of this wonderfully caustic series that Kasey and Vienna have some how managed to survive.

They are going to compete on a Cirque du Soleil stage set.  The gang is trying to practice.  Kasey and Vienna don’t get it.  Michelle is getting ill to her tummy.

Kasey says Vienna can’t win this competition without him because he’s her rock.  I wonder if he’s ever believed in letting another person be themselves rather than his willy-nilly, co-dependent?  We watch Holly tell Michael how she knows it’s been up and down with them.  Really?

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Bachelor Pad 2:  If you can’t marry them off in The Bachelor, get them !!!! in The Bachelor Pad!  What ever works!  And for the second go around on The Bachelor Pad, the first few contestants have been announced.

LOL… check out this list, all WINNING, I’m sure, to go from desperately single to being paid to be single…

Vienna Girardi, who everyone loves…  Not!

Kasey Kahl.  (I wonder if he got rid of that tatoo yet?)

Justin ‘Rated R’ Rego, who had a girlfriend while on The Bachelorette.  And had it out for Kasey Kahl.  Ah, installed trauma and drama before the show even starts!

Rozlyn Papa…  who allegedly become involved with an on-set production staffer.  Roz & Justin… they’d be perfect for each other!

And the final of the first five…

Erica Rose.  I don’t recall this one!

That’s that.  This seemed way to funny to let pass.  I can’t wait to see who else they jam in this messy little show of singles, The Bachelor Pad.

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