What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Go Home with American Idol

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Go Ho...

The final three get to go home to a hero's welcomes this week on American Idol. That means we're headed home to Georgia, Louisiana, and California. What would Idol be ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Night Two of America’s Got Talent

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Night...

The talent was great on America's Got Talent last night, but let's be real. WE weren't really watching that as much as we were watching Howard Stern. He seemed to ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Survivor: One World Season Finale

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Survi...

It's the first time ever there's been an all-female final five on Survivor. I do wonder if it would have been different had Colton been able to stay in the ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Notes from the Heart Healer

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Notes...

Just in time for Mother's Day, Hallmark presents another installment of The Note movie series. Genie Francis again portrays the journalist and this time comes to terms with one of ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Who Does Jason Sudeikis Think He Is?

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Who D...

Tonight on Who Do You Think You Are? Jason Sudeikis' search for his roots takes him here to Chicago to follow the life and death of his paternal grandfather, and ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – J-Lo and David Cook Perform on Idol

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American Idol is once again pulling out the stops for their musical guests tonight, what with a past winner and one of the current judges performing. But will people care ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Idol Final 4 Go California Dreamin’

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I feel like I say this every week, that I'm still shocking someone is gone from American Idol, but I am somewhat shocked still that we lost Skylar Laine last ...

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Top Chef: Just Desserts 2 – Ep 10 – Stop! Hammer Time!

By jnt13 on 29 Oct 2011

Steph continues to stand alone. Another Top Chef season, another male winner. Although, Macho did come very close this time – I honestly think that she barely missed out and wound up in second place, based on the judges’ comments. However, it was not enough and the decision seemed to come down to a simple question – is it better to have received too much help or to have done it yourself but with flaws? Hammer gets the win, and to be honest, he pretty [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts 2 – Ep 9 – And Then There Were Three

By jnt13 on 23 Oct 2011

Before I get into this penultimate episode of the second season of Top Chef: Just Desserts, a moment about the first season. This happened. Last season, I reluctantly found myself rooting for Morgan. I couldn’t stand the Go Diva team, and that left Morgan and Danielle as the only options. Danielle was not really worthy of a win – talent-wise – so that left Morgan. However, it was very difficult doing so because he acted like such a dick so often. And now…well…this is disturbing. [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts 2 – Ep 8 – Macaroon-i and Fake Cheese

By jnt13 on 18 Oct 2011

We are down to the Final Five, or the Fantastic Five, as the end nears for the second season of Just Desserts. I will say that despite some missteps, it has been an uptick over last season. I think that has a lot to do with some good challenges and a much better overall cast this time around. As these five barrel down to the Finish, I can see any one of them winning. Clearly, the eliminated chef this week won’t win, so I guess [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts – Ep 7 – Death By Chocolate…and Donuts

By jnt13 on 9 Oct 2011

What’s with the shows I watch this week doing random, nonsensical double eliminations? First, the Amazing Race breaks with form and eliminates a team for not finishing in last. Now, Top Chef takes out a chef near the end of the competition during a Quickfire. Not that there isn’t precedent for a Quickfire elimination, but to have to take place near the end is unfair. This is not how the show is built. Sure, it is dramatic, and unexpected, but that doesn’t make it good. [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts – Ep 6 – Fight For Your Right To Gravy Foam

By jnt13 on 2 Oct 2011

In a sentence I never thought I would say – this week we get to have a Beastie Boys themed cooking competition show. And if that wasn’t weird enough, both challenges involved non-dessert foods. Because nothing sounds more delicious than desserts made out of baked beans and ravioli. Heck, you wouldn’t even eat those things together normally! I will admit, I like these wacky Top Chef challenges – sure, it doesn’t prove anything about a chef’s marketability or talents to do what they will eventually [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts – Ep 5 – How Can You Go Wrong With Funnel Cake?

By jnt13 on 26 Sep 2011

Damn. Just Desserts is just working over my television viewing emotions this season. They send a Real Housewife our way. Boo! Then a Willy Wonka themed episode. Yay!! And now, oh man, it’s just too hard to talk about. Don’t they know who they’re dealing with here? I don’t ask for much in my reality shows, but one thing I want is for the best looking woman to last all the way to the end. I am a simple man, with simple needs; I am [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts – Ep 4 – The Best Just Desserts Episode Ever!

By jnt13 on 19 Sep 2011

Wow! Following what may have been my least favorite Top Chef episode, Just Desserts follows up with not only the absolute best episode in its short history, but one that would rank up there with the best of the original show. Hats off, Just Desserts. This one rocked. So shines a good deed in a weary world. Yeah, there’s going to be a lot of Willy Wonka lines like that, so, try and find them. It’ll be a game you can play at home while [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts – Ep 3 – By The Way, Which One is Pink?

By jnt13 on 14 Sep 2011

I have to level with you guys, I really didn’t want to watch this week’s episode. And I certainly didn’t want to write about it. It’s not because there were bad dishes prepared, it’s not even because Baby Hands is still on the show. No, seriously, it is much more serious than this. There was a Real Housewife on the show. I have lived a very satisfying life having never, ever watched a single episode of any of the Real Housewives shows. Not a minute. [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts 2 – Ep 2 – This One’s A Lemon

By jnt13 on 5 Sep 2011

Zzzzzzzzz….er…sorry, I’ve been asleep since Wednesday when this episode aired. Goodness gracious, Just Dessserts seems to have lost its mojo rather quickly. It was as if the show’s casting directors decided to cast a chefs who were either bland, unlikable or a cartoon character. My wife had bailed midway through this episode, and the next morning asked me who won. And I had to go back and check. It was that memorable. And I got Vanarin’s name wrong, called him Tamarin. At least I kept [...]

Top Chef: Just Desserts 2 – Ep 1 – Have Fun Storming the Castle

By jnt13 on 29 Aug 2011

Well, there was about a month reprieve from Bravo’s non-stop Top Chef programming. But here we are with Season 2 of the third series of the franchise, and with Masters’ successful reboot for Season 3; Just Desserts needs to step up its game to avoid falling deeply behind its two cousins. Season 1 showed great potential as it mimicked the Top Chef format but only focused on the last course. Baking is very different than cooking meals – desserts require specific and strict adherence to [...]

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