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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 ...

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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 – 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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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American Idol - Will the Real

By LauraBelle 20 Comments

I go back and forth with my opinions of Adam Lambert. Sometimes I think I understand who he is, and sometimes I don't think we'll ever know who the real Adam really is. The more and more I see, I keep thinking it'll clear it all up for me, but ...

American Idol - The Importance

By LauraBelle 14 Comments

After having the following conversation with some friends after the American Idol results show tonight, I decided to turn it into a post. There are two necessary ingredients to being a winner, whether it's the winner of a reality show, the winner of a poker game, or the winner of ...

Win a Who Wants to Be a Millio

By LauraBelle 11 Comments

This is the final chance to win a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire giveaway. Reality Shack has been excited to offer you three gift pack giveaways to coincide with Sweeps Month promotions. The celebrities seem to be having a lot of fun, and Millionaire is making sure the fans ...

What's so Great About Andy

By Aurora 10 Comments

ABC's latest Bachelor appears almost perfect on paper. He's cute enough. He's a Navy Lieutenant, he's a doctor, a humanitarian, a former Sunday school teacher, and he's an Iron Man triathelete. He's also sensitive. This past week we saw him attend to an injured Bevin, even accompanying her to the ...

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By jnt13 on 9 Mar 2012

Because we just needed another hour of programming of Top Chef: Texas, we get the obligatory one-hour reunion show, hosted by Andy Cohen. Awesome. This means that if you wanted to, you could sit down and watch the full season of Top Chef: Texas (with commercials), or you could watch the full extended edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, along with one of the two Star Wars trilogies. Hmmm… Anyway, there was no plot, no challenges, so I’ll do this column mostly in [...]

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By jnt13 on 4 Mar 2012

Season Nine is in the books, after over 17 hours of television. And the reunion still to come! I would rank the season somewhere in the middle of the pantheon of Top Chef seasons – it was a bit too long, and had far too many non-descript contestants. There were too many cook outs, and too many challenges that were just too physical and complicated rather than focused on the cooking. However, it was enjoyable, and produced some of the more memorable characters in show [...]

Top Chef: Texas/Vancouver – Ep 16 – Quang Dang, the Anti-Gridle and a Whole Lot of Eggs

By jnt13 on 25 Feb 2012

Like the Republican Presidential Primary season, the endless Top Chef season just keeps going and going and going. This week, the Final Three do battle in order to survive the final elimination. It featured a very fun Quickfire Challenge and a fairly mediocre Elimination Challenge, but I am going to give a spoiler right off the bat because that is really what I took from this episode. Sarah has chosen to bring her A game to the finals, and as one of the Final Two, [...]

Worst Cooks in America, Feb. 19 – Help Me, My Two-Foo Isn’t Melting

By SusanF on 22 Feb 2012

Welcome back to week two of Bobby Flay, I mean Worst Cooks in America. Last week we saw two people go home because pancakes and eggs were just too much of a challenge. Contestants were given fair warning that it is only going to get harder. Well here is a question; could it get easier from there? I guess they could have a boiling water challenge; just seemed like a silly statement to me. Only one way to find out and that is to hit [...]

Top Chef: Texas/Vancouver – Ep15 – Top Chef Laff-a-Lympics

By jnt13 on 20 Feb 2012

Seriously, what’s going on with Top Chef? This week’s challenge made the Pee Wee bike race seem like a normal day in the kitchen. In fact, the Pee Wee challenge actually had a kitchen. This week, the chefs barely even saw a kitchen – two of them never did. If the challenges were taking on an Amazing Race feel before, it is full on physical challenge now. In addition, is it me or has the Texas season lasted for about six years now? I mean [...]

Worst Cooks in America, Feb. 12 – “It’s Like The Exxon Valdez in My Mouth”

By SusanF on 15 Feb 2012

How does the Food Network improve on one of the most entertaining food challenge shows on television? The answer is easy, add Bobby Flay to the mix! As someone who really enjoys cooking shows, this one is always fun to watch. They aren’t learning how to cook some weird dish with ingredients you will never find in the store. Instead, they are learning some of the basics and you can always pick up a tip or two. This season I don’t have to listen to [...]

Top Chef: Texas – Ep. 14 – So Much For Pork Casings

By jnt13 on 13 Feb 2012

In the last episode of Top Chef: Texas before the finale, the show delivered a fun Quickfire, a stellar Elimination challenge, and a really unfortunate side effect to the RILCK twist. Next week, the Final Four take to the snowy streets of Vancouver. In the immortal words of Canadian comedy gods (yeah, i said it) The Frantics – Vancouver? Beeeeauuutifull! I’ve never been there. But I’ve seen it, on the “Beachcombers” with Bruno Gerussi, and it’s beautiful. One think you gotta remember about Vancouver…it’s on [...]

Top Chef: Texas – Ep 13 – The Best Pancake I Ever Had

By jnt13 on 7 Feb 2012

Between the Super Bowl, some busy work moments, and a nice visit from an old friend, I am a bit behind this week with the column. Also, I did not care for this episode. Not remotely. Reason #1 for not liking it – Pee Wee Herman. Perhaps it is my age, but I never grew up watching the Playhouse, and for my generation Pee Wee was fodder for screwy stoner material. I don’t consider him to be nostalgia, and I really don’t find him very [...]

Top Chef: Texas – Ep 12 – You Mean, Like A Meatball?!?

By jnt13 on 27 Jan 2012

It was bound to happen this season – a season filled with really good challenges – that they would have a stinker at some point. Perhaps it was just coming off back-to-back episodes of Restaurant Wars and the Charlize Theron evil challenge, but I was underwhelmed with the cook-off this week. Conceptually, I get it. And it was a nice, traditional Top Chef twist to have the teammates from the Quickfire turn into competitors in the Elimination. However, it was not a lot of fun [...]

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By jnt13 on 22 Jan 2012

This was a great episode of Top Chef. I always like the episodes where the chefs all do very well, and where both the chefs and judges seem to be enjoying themselves. There were two excellent challenges, a very game guest star, some unbelievable creativity, and the image of Eric Ripert trying to hand a chicken foot from the chandelier. However, a digression first before we go into the episode. What’s with the Snow White resurgence? I mean, by the time 2012 is over, we [...]

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