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I'm starting to think Fox is just spinning a wheel each night to decide what to air. First So You Think You Can Dance premiered before the end of American ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Season Finales

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It looks like we're wrapping up the season finales for this night of the week. We've been doing it throughout the month, but we're finishing them off on CBS, NBC, ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Mirror Ball Trophy Awarded

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There aren't that many points separating the final four couples on Dancing with the Stars, despite Jacoby Jones and Karina Smirnoff not getting perfect 10s. They probably won't win, but ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Dancing with the Stars

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There are four very strong couples left on Dancing with the Stars. It could easily be any one of them winning the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy tomorrow night. First, they ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Celebrity Apprentice Season Finale

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[caption id="" width="383" align="alignleft" caption="Red Carpet Event at Trump Tower -- Pictured: (l-r) Penn Jillette, Trace Adkins -- (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)"][/caption]It's definitely been a good All-Star season of Celebrity ...

What’s Hot on TV Friday and Saturday – Ben Affleck on SNL

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It's the season finale of Saturday Night Life, and it looks to be a good one with Ben Affleck as guest host and Kanye West as musical guest. It's another ...

What’s Hot on TV Tonight – Goodbye to The Office

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Big TV night tonight. It's season finale time, and for The Office, it's series finale. One year without Steve Carell is apparently all it was meant for. And of course, ...

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Look, it’s just never going to be on time this season, is it? Let’s just level with each other, loyal readers, I can’t get Top Chef posted promptly. If it were a Quickfire, I would have failed to plate several times in a row. So, let’s just face facts – I won’t be winning any Quickfire competitions, but I hope the finished product is worth it, and so I avoid elimination each week. This week presents an odd twist on the usual format. The chefs [...]

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By jnt13 on 4 Sep 2012

Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah. Once again, sorry for being tardy this week. This time, I actually have a culinary excuse. I have decided to reboot P90X this week, and this time, do the Tony Horton suggested meal plan. The only problem – I am one of the world’s worst cooks. Yeah, I know, the irony of this column is overwhelming at times, but that’s the case. I spent this week basically trying my wife’s patience as we made about four recipes per night [...]

Top Chef Masters 4 – Episode 5 – Textural Violations and Other Stories

By jnt13 on 28 Aug 2012

Sorry for the delay this week – family vacation to South Carolina takes precedent over watching famous chefs cook for Playboy playmates and their friends. And the 15-year-old me just punched me in the stomach for saying that. This week’s episode featured many different kinds of women – from the E! reality show variety, to the Lilith Fair variety. From jiggle and fake boobs to earnestness and flannel. We had Holly Madison and her blonde buxom body which at one point in time regularly allowed [...]

Top Chef Masters 4 – Episode 4 – I’ve Got Me A Canyon, It Seats About 20…

By jnt13 on 17 Aug 2012

Of course, this week Top Chef featured the B-52s, because when I think about fine dining, I instantly think about the B-52s. And what better casting for a show airing in 2012 than a band that last hit it big during the first Bush Administration. People born the week that “Love Shack” was released are now old enough to drink. The entire U.S. Olympic gymnastics team was not even born yet. Derek Jeter was in middle school. Padma was a teenage model. Tom was working [...]

Top Chef Masters 4 – Episode 3 – In Case You Didn’t Know, Bravo Is An NBC Channel

By jnt13 on 12 Aug 2012

Using some patented NBC/Bravo synergy, Masters put together an Olympic based Quickfire challenge – one that had nothing to do with Ryan Lochte peeing in the pool, Gabby Douglas’ hair, McKayla Maroney’s sour face, Usain Bolt’s ego or cheating badminton players. Yes, I am officially Olympic obsessed and am currently carrying massive crushes on Lolo Jones and Hope Solo. And yes, I want to combine their names to make Lolo Solo. But that’s just me. Anyway, instead of asking what Brian Boitano would do, we [...]

Top Chef Masters 4 – Episode 2 – Lady Gaga’s Sad Pineapple Cake

By jnt13 on 6 Aug 2012

Looks like I am back in midseason form – with a column woefully late. Blame the talented Olympic athletes from around the world, along with the need to work and do some quality parenting. Oh, and Tony Horton has played a part in my tardiness. Anyway, we have Episode 2 of Masters to talk about, so let’s get started with the Quickfire. What’s that? No Quickfire? Well, that sure makes that section easy to write about. And it likely means a grueling elimination challenge is [...]

Top Chef Masters 4 – Episode 1 – Excuse Me, I’m The Queen of Lemons

By jnt13 on 27 Jul 2012

I have been gone from writing about cooking for so long, I forgot that the show actually returned! That’s right – this week marked the return of the Top Chef franchise after a virtually unheard of two month absence since Paul took the gold in Top Chef. We return with the franchise’s middle child – Masters. To sum up its past – first two seasons had a goofy preliminary round format and a wooden model host. Season 3 replace her with the hunky Curtis Stone, [...]

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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, [...]

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