Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on Nov 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
The Amazing Race has started again, back with its 12th season. I probably won’t be doing any recaps this year, unless I decide to pick it up midseason, but you’ll be able to download the episodes, as usual, on my Amazing Race BitTorrent page.
Posted in American Idol, On The Air, The Amazing Race on Jun 13th, 2007 No Comments »
At Variety: Will ‘Idol’ be upstaged again at the Emmys? The Amazing Race has beat out American Idol for an Emmy award for four years in a row now, even though AI stomps TAR in the ratings. This article looks at that phenomenon, and at the likelihood of that changing this year.
Posted in CBS, Moonlight, On The Air, Survivor, The Amazing Race, upfronts on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Okay, it’s Wednesday, so here we go with the CBS upfronts and fall schedule. As usual, look to Zap2it and TV Squad for more in-depth coverage. The Amazing Race is of course the news I’m looking at here. The All-Stars season didn’t completely kill the show, but it didn’t do it any favors either. The [...]
Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on May 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
So why have I stopped writing my Amazing Race recaps? Well, a lot of reasons, but the big one is the show just stopped being fun. Read on.
Posted in On The Air, Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Apprentice on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m back, and I’m trying to catch up on all the shows I missed while I was gone. Some of them I managed to watch from the hotel while I was on vacation. I got to see Sanjaya butchering another song on American Idol, and I also got the see the horrible injustice of Gina [...]
Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on Mar 29th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on Mar 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on Mar 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
In one of the most awesomely off-the-rails episodes of this show so far, Rob completely loses the ability to function. First he spends fifteen hours dicking around with a handmade signpost, exploring every possible spelling of the word “Philippines”. Then he follows that up with a string of rookie mistakes that make it look like [...]
Posted in On The Air, The Amazing Race on Mar 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
David and Mary are scared of fish and scared of river rafting, but they face both those fears. They’re still horrible at navigating, though, so they get eliminated. Read it all. Episode links: Miss Alli’s recaplet TV Guide review TV Squad review Download the episode with BitTorrent
Subscribe
On The Air