This Week on TV (7/14-7/20)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, BBC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, MTV, NBC, TNT-HD, Degrassi,
(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)
MONDAY (7/14)
- Top Gear (BBC, 8pm): Season premiere. “A game of car soccer is played.” No wonder kids are too fat these days. They can’t even get out of their car to actually kick a ball!
- American Gladiators (NBC, 8pm): “In the ladies tilt, a student tries to make the grade against a future figure skater.” As we’ve learned from Dancing with the Stars, figure skaters come with an unfair advantage.
- The Closer (TNT, 9pm): Season 4 premiere. “Fritz and Brenda’s new duplex forbids the presence of pets, but that doesn’t stop Brenda from keeping Kitty on the premises.” If Kitty is the pet, what’s Fritz?
- Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm): Season 2 premiere. “Grace gets busy on her day off: She works to unlock the secrets of her her haunted past, but instead ends up apprehending a criminal on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.” And I’ll bet she doesn’t get paid for doing all that work on her own time.
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Real Housewives Takes on Atlanta
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, News,
Apparently ‘real housewives’ exist everywhere…
An announcement made by Bravo today had me intrigued yet thoroughly confused at the same time. Just two months after teasing us with news about The Real Housewives of New Jersey, the cable channel has already made plans to dissect the ladies of another city: Atlanta. Does this mean Jersey is no longer a go?
According to the network’s press release, the series will follow “five women from Atlanta’s social elite from NBA and NFL wives to sassy single moms as they juggle their burgeoning careers and busy home lives with the whirl of the south’s hottest city.”
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Top Chef Appeals to Youth
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Editorial, News,
So how has Bravo chosen to fill their upcoming Project Runway void? By strangely choosing to expand into the kids’ market.
The cable network has just announced plans to develop a spinoff of its popular cooking show, Top Chef. Sometime in the future, followers of the channel will be assaulted with a fresh-faced version of the reality hit. With Top Chef Junior, Bravo aims to “teach and test the skills of younger aspiring chefs and appeal to the whole family.”
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Bravo Announces Project Runway’s Summer Return
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, News,
Bravo TV loyalists - mark this date on your calendar. Project Runway‘s last run at its original home begins in just a matter of weeks. It’s just been announced that Season 5 will begin on Wednesday, July 16th.
Come November, the hit reality show will not only make a move to Lifetime - it will split its time between Los Angeles and New York.
In other words, make sure to ‘watch what happens’ before all the changes start a-coming…
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Orange County’s Jo De La Rosa Gets New Show
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Gossip,
Even though she felt poorly perceived on her last show, Jo De La Rosa is apparently not afraid of the reality spotlight. Now the non-married ‘housewife’ of The Real Housewives of Orange County is in the process of filming her own show.
Those who watched the hit Bravo series remember Jo as the young woman who couldn’t quite get used to the idea of marriage and children. After living in the exclusive Coto community with her fiance Slade Smiley, she eventually bolted in hopes of becoming a singer. Although he was hurt by their break-up, Smiley eventually chose to manage De La Rosa’s singing career.
In Date My Ex, the former couple’s relationship takes another strange twist. While the dating series will have tones of The Bachelorette, Jo’s prospective suitors will not be living in some random mansion, they’ll be staying in Slade’s house.
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Top Chef Chicago: Andrew Gets a Raw Deal
Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Top Chef, Editorial, News,
If three previous seasons of Top Chef have taught contestants anything, it is that you always have to follow the judges’ rules for each challenge. If you don’t, you are the most likely target to be sent packing. In Top Chef, taste is subjective. So all things being equal, the rules are the deal breaker.
Andrew is the latest chef to learn that lesson the hard way. His over-confident attempt to create a healthy sushi box lunch for Chicago cops (???) fell flat with the judges, both because it didn’t taste very good and also because it was missing a food group required for the challenge.
The spastic 30-year-old New York sous chef joins Nikki who went home last week after her ineffectual role in the “Wedding Wars” episode. That leaves just six chefs left to fight it out for this season’s title.
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Top Chef Chicago: Mark Out, Antonia Back in the Game
Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Top Chef, Editorial, News,
Time now to check in on what’s cooking in the Top Chef Chicago kitchen. The last two weeks have seen pretty boy/chef Ryan and the remaining half of the lesbian couple/competitors, Jen, go home. (Girlfriend Zoi went home in episode 5.)
This week New Zealand native and resident mop head Mark got the axe but not before questioning whether head judge Tom Colicchio, likes him personally. Sadly Mark, I think it might just be your food. This week’s challenge involved cooking for kids and he made vegetable curry, you do the math.
This week also saw single-mom Antonia get back in the game in a big way (last week she nearly went home thanks to a badly improvised dish involving polish sausage). That was then, this is now. Last night, Antonia won both the Quickfire and Elimination challenges.
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Project Runway Goes LA
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, News,
Apparently supermodels really like a good change.
First, Tyra Banks decided to move her daytime talk fest from Los Angeles to New York. Now, Heidi Klum is scheduled to do the exact opposite. Though in the latter case, the switch will not be permanent.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Project Runway‘s sixth outing will be split between NYC and LA. This city-hopping move will apparently accommodate Klum’s personal and work schedules much better (but make everyone else’s a living hell). The following year, things will return back to normal in New York.
As for the reality hit’s fifth season - the last one on Bravo - that too will still be set in the Big Apple. That installment can be seen starting this July.
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This Week on TV (4/21-4/27)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, America’s Next Top Model, American Idol, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, The Bachelor, Top Chef, Editorial,
(You can view TV Envy’s Post-Strike Television Schedule here.)
MONDAY (4/21)
- Gossip Girl (CW, 8pm): New episode. “A dethroned Blair musters up the strength to head back to school, and Jenny tries to keep up with the financial demands of the in-crowd.” Mondays are always better when other people are miserable.
- Deal or No Deal (NBC, 8pm): George Bush provides support to a war vet going for the million. After three tours in Iraq, the President figured it was the least he could do.
- How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8:30): If you can’t handle the thought of humming a tune about sandcastles over and over again, this might not be the episode for you.
- The Bachelor: London (ABC, 10pm): “Matt accompanies Amanda, Chelsea, Noelle and Shayne to their hometowns.” Being allowed to live in the U.S. takes more than just a sham marriage. It means faking it with her family too.
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A Testy Reunion for The Real Housewives of New York City
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If you’re anything like me, the season finale of The Real Housewives of New York City left you gagging. There’s no way those five women would have ever posed for a group photo in real life…let alone agree to be at the same party.
Well according to the New York Post, next Tuesday’s reunion special will be a lot less friendly and potentially more bitchy. Awesome.
Bravo spies claim there were several arguments at this pre-taping between entrepreneur Ramona Singer…and just about everyone. When asked why she chose not to invite Jill Zarin to her cooking party, Singer opted to walk out of the taping. (In case you didn’t know, she has a thing for dramatic exits.) When Bethenny tried to defend the absent woman, Ramona then started screaming at her ‘friend’ because she dared to speak for her.
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