Jeopardy Exhibition Ends, Ken Jennings Welcomes New Overlord
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In this week’s three-day exhibition, Jeopardy pit two of its finest minds -- champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter -- against the newest artificial mind designed by IBM. The supercomputer Watson took on the two champs in a two-game session that left the human contestants battling for a moment just to buzz in as each question was fired out by Alex Trebek.
At the end of the two-game, three-day session, Watson dominated. The computer scored a sum of $77,147 (the total comes from Watson’s odd penchant for betting off dollar amounts in Double and Final Jeopardy rounds), with Jennings scoring $24,000 and Rutter $21,600 at the end of two Final Jeopardy rounds. For his Final Jeopardy answer (which he got correct), Jennings added a personal message: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
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Glee: Coming Back with Divas and Biebers
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Tuesday’s Glee was appropriately titled “Comeback,” hinting that characters are moving on from last week’s heartaches. The episode started off on a strong note, with Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) ready to take on the world. As he put it, “Glee club’s going to Regionals, we’ve got all of Sue’s Cheerios money. I’m past Terri. I’m over Emma.”
And that’s when Emma (Jayma Mays) rushed into the classroom, right on cue and cute as ever. She ran to Will in an effort to save Cheerios coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), who tried to OD on gummy vitamins. Will wasn’t having it, however, and he stalked out of Sue’s trophy-covered home. Sue eventually convinced Emma that she is truly in a deep depression following her loss at the national cheerleading competition, and in this way managed to infiltrate New Directions as a member of the club.
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Survivor’s Redemption Island: Rob vs. Russell, Ver. 2
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The 22nd season of Survivor will reunite two of the show’s most infamous villains -- “Boston Rob” Mariano and Russell Hantz. The two will be pitted against each other on opposing teams populated with 16 Survivor newbies.
Survivor: Redemption Island is set in Nicaragua and brings a brand-new twist to the well-known reality game: eliminated players get a second chance. Players who are voted off will not leave in this version of the game. Instead, they'll be exiled to Redemption Island. On the island, they'll have to survive until another contestant has been voted off to join them. The two will engage in a duel for supremacy, with the winner returning to the game.
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Man vs. Machine: Jeopardy-Style
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IBM is taking computer gaming to an epic level.
Monday marked the debut of the supercomputer Watson, a machine so smart it’s capable of playing a game of Jeopardy . . . and maybe, winning it. The three-day game pits the computer against the show’s two greatest champions, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, and at the end of Round 1 Watson is tied for first place.
Watson ruled categories like “Beatles People” and “Literary Characters APB,” though it struggled and offered wrong answers to other categories, including “Name the Decade.”
Still, the computer’s prowess was such that at the end of the episode, it’s tied with Rutter with $5,000 in the Jeopardy game bank . . . and champion Ken Jennings trails behind the machine with only $2,000 in the till. Check out the video above to get a look at Watson in action.
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American Idol 10: Hollywood, Round 1
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Ryan Seacrest promised that this year’s Hollywood Week will be twice as hard . . . because this year, American Idol has double the usual amount of contestants. It felt more like triple the amount through the long audition rounds, but it’s finally time to start whittling them down.
Maybe the new panel will begin to develop its killer instinct as the week progresses.
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American Idol 10: San Francisco Auditions
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The final audition episode of American Idol’s tenth season began with tears. Many Idol auditions end this way; well, actually that isn’t true. We have to admit, when the pretty blonde girl looked at the camera and cried, “Just because somebody farts, let ‘em finish singing, okay?” we were a little surprised.
Season 8 runner-up Adam Lambert came from San Francisco, so expectations for the city ran high.
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Glee: Love and Music in the Air for Valentine’s Day
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It’s hard to believe that a Glee episode without Jane Lynch could be anything but dismal, but somehow the show managed to pull it off. The absence of Sue Sylvester was filled with several great moments with the Dalton Academy Warblers, and the new, rather unexpected, Glee couple. It’s Valentine’s on FOX, and anything’s possible on Tuesday nights.
The show opened with Puck (Mark Salling), reminiscing and revealing his feelings for Lauren Zizes (Ashley Fink). She’s the somewhat heavyset wrestling champ whose previous appearances on the show have consisted mainly of funny one-liners (“Bug the choir room? I’m almost offended by the simplicity of the request”). Because she’s immune to Puck’s many charms, and every bit as tough as he is (heck, she’s tougher), he’s got it bad for her.
Poor Puck spent the rest of the episode trying to woo Lauren. First, she rejected his candy. Then, she didn’t like his performance of Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” (we loved it). And then . . . she stood him up. Zizes really is a badass. But after she threw Santana (Naya Rivera) around the halls of William McKinley like a rag doll, she can do no wrong in Puck’s eyes. At the end of it all, they ended up at Breadsticks together. But Puck and Lauren are just about the only happy couple on the show.
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Glee’s Super Bowl Episode Kicks Off New Drama
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Few events have been as highly-anticipated as the Glee Super Bowl episode, titled “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle.”
Jane Lynch, who plays Sue, featured heavily on the show -- and that would make any episode a success. But since Glee also gave us an epic musical number, a big guest star and an eye-popping twist, we’re glad to say the wait for the next new episode won’t be quite as long as the last one.
The show opened with the original audio of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” set to a new Cheerios routine featuring pyrotechnics, blue wigs . . . and an angry Sue Sylvester. Unhappy with the routine, Coach Sue made some of the girls hit themselves with chicken cutlets to try and cheer herself up. Sue’s problem is not that the routine is bad -- it’s that she has to find a way to top herself, as Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) pointed out.
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Top 5 Super Bowl XLV Commercials
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Specials, Sports, FOX, Commercials, House, Video,
The 2011 Super Bowl was enjoyed by millions and hyped for many weeks on end -- and, it didn’t disappoint. The game was exciting (even if the cheerleaders were lacking), and FOX’s coverage was extremely thorough.
But let’s face it: the sports wasn’t the best part. Super Bowl XLV was jam-packed with advertising, and some spots managed to shine above the rest. We found videos for the top 5 commercials of the Super Bowl to make it easier to watch them again and again. You can, too, after the jump. . .
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American Idol 10: Los Angeles Auditions
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American Idol opened with a recap of the singers we’ve seen so far this season, hyping them as “some of the best talent” the show has seen. After a decade, they still can’t come up with a new line. The city on Thursday’s episode was Los Angeles, and Randy Jackson wore his gold shoes to celebrate.
The online auditioners were sent to Los Angeles this year as well. As we reported, the show teamed with MySpace (because that’s not old and tired at all) to become more accessible than ever. Did it make a bit of difference?
Not with the first audition. The show started off on a rough note, with Steven Tyler predicting the first singer would go to Siberia.
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