On The Air

For the next two weeks I’ll be watching TV from hotel rooms and not writing about it. Should be nice.
See you in mid April!

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Oh, I am so glad to see Rocky gone. It’s not often you get reality show contestants that are just vile through and through. Usually there’s a good side somewhere, even in the most hardcore villains. In fact, what makes a good villain is that they have a human side too, so you can actually [...]

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Airlines and ferry boats conspire to split the Race up into three mini-races of two teams each, each about six hours apart, with Eric and Danielle stuffed in the middle all by themselves. Very early on it’s obvious that it will be a race between Teri and Ian and the Guidos for elimination. Read it [...]

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Do you see what Sanjaya’s doing to America? Do you?

These are weird times.

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So Chris Sligh is gone. Eh. Won’t miss him. That’s not something I would have thought I’d ever hear myself saying even a month ago, but it’s true now. He started out pretty fantastic, in fact his first audition was the best out of all of them. But then he started slipping by degrees, each [...]

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I have made my peace with Sanjaya. There is plenty of outrage and confusion over his continued reign on American Idol. People are blaming Vote For The Worst and Howard Stern, although previous Vote For The Worst picks were Sundance and Antonella, and you see how well the site help them stick around. And Howard? [...]

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The teams finally leave South America and head to Africa, where they have to deal with giant rats and bags of coal. Charla and Mirna end up in first place, signaling the end of civilization, and Uchenna and Joyce come in last but are non-eliminated.
Read it all.
Episode links:
Miss Alli’s recaplet
TV Guide review
TV Squad review
Download the [...]

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The Top 10 bad TV spin-offs, compiled by Celebrity Hack. Listed on there are AfterMASH, Joanie Loves Cachi, and That 80’s Show. Most of the shows are from the 70s and 80s, I guess just because there was a lot of bad TV floating around back then. And also because the spin-off is mostly dead [...]

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Surya finally loses a task and gets fired, although it’s just because he’s a dink. And Trump starts to come into the 1920s when he realizes that women really can golf. Hey, at this rate they’ll be voting soon, too. Read it all.
Episode links:
Jacob’s recap
TV Guide review
Download the episode with BitTorrent

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A race through sunny South America finds many anti-bunching points, the signpost that no one can solve, and bitterness carried over from seasons past. And all of those things add up to a Rob and Amber elimination. Read it all.
Episode links:
Miss Alli’s recaplet
TV Guide review
TV Squad review
Download the episode with BitTorrent

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