Week of Rest

Hello folks! I'm going to take the week off and rest up for the upcoming premieres. Part of my vacation from blogging is to rest and the other part is that I have family in town unexpectedly and I won't be home to watch anything this week. I'll be back on Tuesday the 2nd to write about the premiere of Gossip Girl. Matt and I will be drinking champagne and eating chocolates to celebrate it's return. I hope the first episodes of the gang in the Hamptons turn out to be cracktastic. They've got to be I'm dying to watch them. So much so that this afternoon I went out and bought the first season on DVD. It truly made me happy and if anyone wants to send me the first season of Chuck just let me know. I can't buy everything I love, maybe someone will surprise me. Anyone?

Fall 2008 TV Schedule: Sunday

I'm not quite sure what the CW is thinking with Bob Saget in their new comedy Surviving Suburbia but I'll tune in once to find out. Fox has it's animated comedies back again and I'll watch them all except for King of the Hill. I used to watch it and I find it funny in reruns but I don't watch it anymore and there's no one reason for that. I'll leave it at that and move on now. The housewives will be back and will be keeping the five year flash forward they introduced in the finale last year and I can't wait to see what they're going to do with it. My friend Nancy loves the Amazing Race and has tried to get me to watch but I still haven't listened. Cold Case is okay in reruns but I won't watch it every week. I don't watch sports so I don't have to worry about the football. Not a terrible exciting night but at least it's not dead end Saturday.

Fall 2008 TV Schedule: Friday

Kind of a throwaway night for the networks and I bet I will be catching up on all of my shows from throughout the week. I did actually enjoy Life last season and I'm happy it's returning. Everybody Hates Chris always makes me laugh so I will also be watching that. I love cheesy dramas so I will wander over to CBS to catch The Ex List. I do not want to watch Crusoe but I bet I'll end up watching the premiere episode but mainly because I like to give everything a shot. This may be my downfall. Who knows how many new shows I'm going to give this "shot" to. Can I really add another 5 or 6 shows to my already full dance card? Probably not but if anyone could make it happen it's me.

Seriously? NO!

Fall 200 TV Schedule: Thursday

I like my NBC comedies on Thursday and as much as I don't want to watch Kath and Kim I know I'm going to watch it. It's sandwiched between Earl and The office and I watch both of those. I watch Earl but I have to admit it's not my favorite show but I still tune in and grow to love it by the end of each episode. 30 Rock is coming back and will surely have me in stitches as usual. I'll also be tuned in to ABC all night, I'm looking forward to seeing if Life on Mars is worth watching, as long as it doesn't get cancelled too soon after it premieres. The same things goes for Eleventh Hour. My piece Rufus Sewell is in this show and I'm looking forward to having a date with him once a week. It's crazy to have two beloved pieces on TV like this. They're in shows that probably have a narrow chance of survival but maybe if I can get the word out they'll make it. A girl can dream.

Fall 2008 TV Schedule: Wednesday

Yay! Pushing Daisies is coming back on. I loved that show last year. So whimsical and I loved Lee Pace. He's nominated for an Emmy and if I could I would vote for him. I'm happy CBS has a designated time for The New Adventures of Old Christine and I hope they keep it. No more moving it around. Seriously, I don't want to have to watch Knight Rider. Top Model is rerunning on Friday nights so I won't be watching it on Wednesday. I will however watch all of ABC's programming on this night. As much as I'm not in love with Private Practice I found myself watching every episode last season. It's because I had to watch my piece Taye diggs. A piece will get me watching every time. I really can't stress that enough. I think Til Death sshould have had the plug pulled on it right after it came don. I watched an episode and to be completely honest I don't really care much for Joelly Fischer. She doesn't really do anything for me. Lindsay Price on the other hand does and I will be watching Lipstick Jungle because ABC cancelled Cashmere Mafia which I liked much better. Whatever, LG has a hot piece on it so I will watch. Another show set in NYC that was good soapy fun was Dirty Sexy Money. Give it a shot, I did and loved it.

Fall 2008 TV Schedule: Tuesday

Tuesday will be a fun day of television. I'm excited for Fringe to come on, who wouldn't be thrilled that Pacey Witter is coming back to television? There's not that much competition for my attention except at 9pm. I will definitely be watching Fringe and it would be a toss up between The Mentalist and Privileged but my piece Simon Baker is on the former and I always pick pieces over cheesy teen dramas. This isn't to say that I won't be catching Privileged online each week. My computer is going to go into overdrive with all these shows I'll be catching up on. What will my DVR do if it gets too full? I will just have to watch everything quickly, no leaving things for the end of the week, it'll be too late and it will cannibalize itself and eat shows that I haven't watched yet. I hate when that happens. I used to watch Without a Trace for about two seasons and now only watch it in reruns so there won't be an overlap with Eli Stone and SVU. I enjoyed Eil Stone immensely this Spring and I'm happy that it's returning next month. I'm not sure how good 90210 is going to be but regardless I'll be tuning in. Lucille Bluth is back!

Fall 2008 TV Schedule: Monday

This week I'm going to share with you what I'll be watching starting this fall. Of all the days where shows will be competing for my attention Monday is the busiest. How on earth will I be able to watch four shows at 8pm? It's just not possible so I'm going to have to cut two out. Terminator and Dancing with the Stars will be out and Chuck and Gossip Girl will be in. Not out for good but out until Friday or Saturday when I can watch them online. I don't know where I'd be if TV weren't available the next day online. I"m going to miss watching Samantha Who? on Monday but it will just have to wait for the end of the week as well. I used to watch Boston Legal back when it was The Practice but I didn't even last until the end of the series. There's a new show on at ten starring Christian Slater and I'm surprised that I'm not completely turned off by the prospect. It's weird to me that he's going to be on TV but I'm going to suck it up and give it a shot. It looks a little odd but I'm all about the strange so only time will tell. Hell, will it even survive four episodes? Maybe if the rest of the country decides to watch him it will. This gives me five hours of TV on Monday...wow. There's so much TV coming back on and I'm just wondering when I'm actually going to have time to watch it. For sure I'm going to go ahead and do it someone has to be here to share all of the randomness with you.

Idiocy

So I'm an idiot. I freely admit this because I have made a mistake. Apparently gymnastics has been airing live this week and I was misinformed. Misinformed by myself. So here's what happened...I've been thinking NBC has tape delayed the gymnastics finals but I was wrong. They've been airing live this whole time and I've been complaining for no reason. Well, not entirely no reason, I've still been staying up late to watch I just thought I was staying up because NBC had me by the balls. I apologize for my lack of insight. I guess I could just delete the previous post and my idiocy would be erased but I think I'd rather have it out there forever. I'm not ashamed of being wrong. This is not the first time and so very far from being the last.

NBC Olypmic Programmers Should Be Shot

I'm tired. It's almost midnight and NBC just started showing women's gymnastics after over three and half hours of Olympics coverage. Seriously? I sat through loads of swimming semifinals and women's beach volleyball and I must have watched something else as well. I understand you leave the event that people really want to watch until the end so you can have them tuned in all night. It's Thursday night though and people have to wake up in the morning and go to work. If it was Friday or Saturday I'd be totally fine with it but it's not. I went to bed at 1:30 am this morning waiting for the men's gymnastic all around finals to finish. It's true I have a DVR but watching the Olympics the next day just doesn't work for me. I'm either watching it live or it's not going to happen. There's nothing that little old me can do about this but it feels good to vent. I doubt I'm going to stay up all night to finish the women's all around. Someone watch it and let me know how it went tomorrow. I gotta go to bed.

Kath and Kim

Ugh. Watching commercials blows. I mentioned yesterday how annoyed I was with them but today took the cake. NBC has decided to remake a famous Australian sitcom called Kath and Kim and they're probably thinking they're going to hit a home run like they did with the remake of The Office. I think I can say definitively right now before the pilot has even aired that they're not. Totally judging by the commercials alone this show is going to bomb. They're pairing it up with the rest of the Thursday night comedy block but this is the weak link. Its stars Molly Shannon and Selma Blair and while they're entertaining on their own I don't know if they will be together. Plus I don't know if I'm going to believe them as a mother/daughter pair. Maybe it's because in real life they're only 8 years apart or maybe not. All I know is that I watched the commercials for this show at least 3 times tonight and countless times before and I have never once cracked a smile. This is all just to say that even though it looks like crap I will still tune in for the first episode. Everything deserves at least one viewing. At least that's what I tell myself. I'll be back in September with my review of this cancelled before Christmas sitcom.

Commercial Hatred

I like the rest of the country have been watching the Olympics since Friday and there's one thing I'm annoyed with. All the commercials. Usually I'll tape a show and watch it later on during the evening so I won't have to watch the commercials but it's different with the Olympics. All the events I want to watch air late at night. They really need to be watched live and I've bitten the bullet and done it. What I've seen a lot of during the past few days is a lot of commercials from companies like The Home Depot, Coke and Visa all showing how they've supported the Olympic athletes. I'm happy for them but what's with the depressing music they're all choosing? If I hear Sia's Breathe Me again and it's not accompanying the finale of Six Feet Under I might scream. It's like hearing music from a movie like Requiem for a Dream over a movie trailer for a much less deserving film. I just don't like it. Something must be done about this. Can't they copyright the music and forbid anyone else to use it? What if you heard the theme from Jaws over another movie? It just wouldn't be right. I know I know, Six Feet Under's finale is not Jaws but when I hear Sia's song I'm always reminded of the Fisher family meeting their deaths. It's only two weeks though and then soon after the fall TV season will be here and I'll be able to fast forward through this mess again. It's sooner than I think.

Chuck

The fall TV season will soon be here and one show that I'm very happy to see return is Chuck. I love Chuck. After the writer's strike it didn't come back on but this September 29th at 8pm he'll be back. You may have heard or read recently that Nicole Ritchie will be guest starring on the show. I'm sure I've mentioned this before but I HATE spoilers. Can't stand them and upon hearing she was going to be on I immediately stopped reading whatever it was I was reading. Some people like to know what's going to happen before it does but I like to be surprised. I will be surprised when Chuck comes back on. I also won't be upset that Nicole Ritchie will be spoiling one of my favorite shows from last season. It will be wasting waaay too much energy worrying about that. Who knows, she may end up being awesome, I'm not holding my breath.

He Did It!

I'm so proud of my spark plug. He won, he really won. Cat said over 60 million votes were counted and I'd like to think my 29 had something to do with it. The finale didn't drag quite as much as I thought it would and I even sat through the Jonas Brothers performance. I watched them on Leno the other night and as hard as I've tried to pretend I don't I actually kind of like their new song. It's catchy in a way Miley C. has never been for me. But really we're here to talk about Joshua. Winner of $250,000 and a featured part in Step-Up 3D. I love both Step Up movies because I love to watch people dance and now my favorite SYTYCD'er will be in the new one! Hooray!

Let's not forget about the $50,000 they awarded to Katee for coming in first for the girls. Now that was a surprise. I wonder if that's something new they've added and will it still be a prize next year. Will Adam Shankman have another movie role to hand out next summer as well? Who knows, it'll be another 9 months until we get to watch again. I'm going to handle it pretty well, mainly because all of my shows are coming on in a month.

All in all it was a good finale and pretty entertaining. Nigel tap danced with the kids from Debbie Allen's studio and Mary hoofed it with Dimitri. They were both pretty good and the judges decided that all the people on the panel should have to dance. I think that's a great idea and would love to see that. Things we can leave to next season and worry about later. Again, I'm just so ecstatic that Joshua won and now I can go to sleep in peace.

My Spark Plug

I am so in love with Joshua. I can't help it I just am. He's spectacular and entertaining and I truly want him to win. Not to take anything away from the other three. They all have their strengths but I want Joshua to win. did you see how high he jumped...three times in a row? I don't want this to turn into one big fawning post about Joshua but I feel it might. I can't even count how many times I voted for him last night. Too many to count. Okay I counted and it was 29 times. I'm not even sure I want to write anything else...he should just win. I'll be tuning in tonight to see if my prediction/hopes are correct. My fingers are firmly crossed.

Donna Martin 2008

My sister called me yesterday afternoon for no other reason really than to say hello and see what I was doing. Then she asked if I'd ever watched Tori & Dean's show on the Oxygen network. I said I hadn't and then I couldn't hear her anymore just Tori's voice in the background. She was into the show and wanted to get off the phone with me because it was back on and she told me to go watch. For once I listened and I actually watched. I ended up watching and episode and a half. WTF?! Maybe I was bored or perhaps I just got comfortable on the couch and just didn't feel like moving. I still can't believe I spent 45 minutes watching. I saw Tori & Dean throw their kid a b'day party and guess who was a guest...D. Richards! I'm surprised Tori wasn't a guest star on D's reality show. Can so-called stars even do that? Guest star on each others reality shows? I guess you can do whatever you want, it's your reality. I'm not even sure D had any guest stars. Who knows she might have I just let every memory of her show fall out of my head when it was over. No use storing that useless information when I can store other crap in there.

The other episode I saw was Tori going on her book tour and trying to sell her jewelry line on QVC or HSN or some shit like that. I'm pretty sure it was HSN. This reminds me of this book I totally love called Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs. Go buy it now it's fab. Anywho, Tori was seven months pregnant and having contractions or something along those lines and the doctor said she couldn't fly. She was so upset. Boo hoo. Her solution was to call in to the show and there was the drama of the episode. She couldn't get through! Eventually of course she did and the drama was over. I can't believe I've laid out the entire episode here...so boring. I won't be catching this show again. I'm going to continue ignoring my sister, it's the right thing to do.

Yo Anderson

I taped Anderson Cooper on Regis and Kelly this morning because I love Anderson Cooper. I don't watch his CNN show very much but whenever he co-hosts with Kelly when Regis is out I always watch. He called Ali Lohan out for looking 60 this morning and admitted to watching Living Lohan, Project Runway and Flipping Out. He name checked the entire Bravo network. I'm just going to go with the idea that Anderson is just incredibly Metro. What else could be the reason for him constantly watching the gayest network on television? I don't blame him though because it sounds like we watch the same things. Kelly said that Anderson watches shows like this to unwind after all the hard work he does reporting in far off places and such. Whatever makes him happy. I just love his banter with Kelly, it's like watching two girlfriends chit chat during their lunch break. Super cute.

Teen Choice Awards

I said I would give it a shot and here I am about to live blog the Teen Choice Awards...I'm kind of excited, kind of weirded out but also totally committed to making this work. This could be awesome or this could be utterly fantastic...I'm leaving it up to you to decide.

Premiere Tonight

We're just a few months away from the earth imploding. I believe life as we know it is over because Pamela Anderson now has a reality show. Now I shouldn't judge because I've only seen clips and not the whole show. To be completely honest it has to be more entertaining than Denise Richard's show. That woman never did anything and her boring ass show reflected that. Pammy is spending her first episode having a rummage sale of her personal belongings. Definitely more interesting than Denise's premiere about her pigs. So maybe Pammy's show isn't a sign of the apocalypse, Denise's was and the earth will stand still 7 weeks from now. This is starting to scare me. Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead and avoid Pammy and her idea of reality. I kid, I kid. I will so be watching this show, if I endured 6 eps of Denise I can sure enough endure Pam. Let the reality commence!

Robin Thicke on Leno

This is a pretty good looking guy. Robin Thicke sings and the ladies swoon. He appeared on Leno the other night and did something tragic. He did the white boy shuffle. I call it that because that's exactly what it is. It was embarrassing for me to watch but maybe I'm just super sensitive. I don't think he needs to work that hard to sell himself. He's cute and he can sing. You don't need to do much more than that. He was dancing with a cane for goodness sakes. So unnecessary. The cheesy dance moves should have been left to the Star Search contestants from 1992. I'm including a clip so you can judge for yourself but I bet you'll agree with me.

Live Blogging the Teen Choice Awards

Just a heads up for everyone. I will be live blogging the Teen Choice Awards this Monday night. I'm not quite sure why but for some reason it sounds like a good idea. Miley Cyrus the resident teen dream will be hosting and I will be glued to the set. This could end up being a total disaster. We'll just all have to wait and see. The only thing that could go awry is me getting crazy annoyed by the commercials and end up 30 minutes late with each post. All I can do is try. There's nothing wrong with giving it a shot. Who knows if it goes well I can do it again with the Emmy's. So excited for the Emmy's. My vote is for Tina Fey. She should just win in every category. Anyone who can make me laugh consistently like she does deserves every kind of award imaginable. Wait, we're supposed to be talking Teen Choice Awards. What's their best category...choice movie chick flick? I can't speak for the categories but maybe Channing Tatum will show up...he's nominated and he's hot...nothing wrong with that.

Joelle says Dance!

For shame. I got one right at least. It was probably time for Mark to hit the road anyway. Courtney was saved and Chelsie was sent packing. Susan said that Courtney started to grow on her and while I never disliked her I felt Chelsie was a little more dynamic. It doesn't matter what I think though, America voted and she's gone. It's tragic that my dance bf is gone. Not that Twitch isn't cute but Mark was quirky and I guess I just kind of liked that. The finale is next week and I'm finally going to vote. Even before seeing the performances my vote is going to Joshua. I love him. Him and his spark plug thighs. I'll be disappointed if he doesn't win. I feel he always has the crowd behind him and damn if the judges don't love him too. Mary gave him a standing O the other day and I cheered from my couch. I did. I've been wrong before so there's always the chance he'll come in second or third or fourth. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.