I said before that we were coming into an television
wasteland after my favorite shows wrapped up and
nothing new was on the imemdiate horizen. Well, I
lived through it, and now have an abundance of trashy
shows to watch and I LOVE IT!
Project Runway - One of the best shows on TV, I just
started watching last year in season 2. This show is
so awesome. It pits fashion designer against fashion
designer and gives them terribly inadequate supplies
or crazy projects to make their creations from and
then they have to sell them on the runway and in front
of a panel of judges. Heidi Klum is the host, Tim
Gunn is the father-figure/hand holder during
production, and the judges and guest judges are
diverse and quick. Love this show! I am constantly
amazed by what these designers can whip up out of
nothing and make into fashion. So far,
season 3 has had one episode. Here's how it went: We
were introduced to 14 (?) designers; they went to
their (shared) apartments/hotel rooms to throw their
suitcases down; got a note from Heidi and Tim to go to
the roof for a champagne celebration; then were told
they had 15 minutes to find stuff in their room to
make a "dress that reflects your creative vision" -
meaning what followed was a mad melee of "grab what I
can" - sheets, duvet covers, rubber mats, curtains, lamps, sofa
covers, rugs, towels, curtain rods, kitchen items,
anything that wasn't nailed down went into their bags.
They then had 8 hours or so to create their "vision",
meet their model, go to hair and makeup and be ready
to present. Some of these creations are totally
awesome - it's amazing what can be done with rugs and
chandeliers and bedsheets. I'm sure they have pics on
the Project Runway website - my favs in this challenge
were Keith (who won with his lovely, lovely halter
dress made from a bedsheet) and Robert, who made an
absolutely beautiful short dress from a duvet cover
and sheets and chandelier chains- it was awesome and
looked totally viable and wearable. Check it out.
Anyway, enough about that except to say that Project
Runway is a thoroughly awesome show. It's the highest
watched Bravo channel show by far, one of the highest
ranked cable shows of all the channels, and is
repeated on NBC on Monday nights, I think.
Big Brother - All Stars: What can I say? I love this
show, I hate this show and it's on too many times a
week but I watch it all three times. Big Brother is
one-of-a-kind and (for me anyway) it's totally
addictive (or maybe I just like watching train
wrecks). It's fun out-analyzing the contestants and
telling them how stupid their decisions are (Kaysar,
I'm talking to you!) and just vicariously living the
experience through them.
Solitary: I don't know if people have caught onto
this Fox Reality Original show or not but man,oh, man,
it is so good in a brainwashing, "I couldn't do that"
kind of way. We're down to the final 3, soon to be 2
after the next show, so it's almost over, but it's
been a show that deserves wider viewing.
Rockstar Supernova: Excellent - there are some great
singers and some good singers but there are no
mediocre singers like on American Idol. My vote is
for Storm (home town girl), Magni (from Iceland), or
the way-outside overly-theatrical Danela (that's not
even close - I'll have to look her up). And maybe
Phil.
Last night was also the premier of The One, another
singing show and I caught the last hour after Rockstar
went off - it was OK, but more in the American Idol
line, so a comedown from Rockstar.
I've also been enjoying VH1's "World Series of Pop
Culture" - fun, exciting show. It's in the
semi-finals now. It's amazing what I don't know
because I feel like my brain is full of useless pop
trivia. I'm happy when I know an answer.
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