By Elaine B

First off, thanks to my brilliant DVR for catching this week’s episode at 2am Saturday when our local station decided to air it, since it had been cut for an NFL pregame. This is not odd. This is not indicative of the show’s future, but other things are.

What is of greater concern for fans hoping for a Season 2 is that the storylines are moving toward resolution – and quite nicely – making it unclear what would be left for next year.

And once again, the nicest and best-grounded couple on the show are Tom and Trina, whose advice to Susan and Bruce is right on. Tom notes how parents are always to put their oxygen masks on first, then help their kids. “Take care of yourself first,” he tells her. Trina never really gets a chance to say anything to Bruce, who talks about how he had such well-ordered plans that went all wrong. When she tries to get him to deal with priorities, he interrupts her to say, “God forbid life should throw you a real curve ball.” [Read more →]

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by Zhillbear

CBS has announced the 18 castaways who will be “battling extreme conditions and interacting with wildlife such as elephants and gorillas” on Survivor: Gabon — Earth’s Last Eden, premiering Sept. 25. Host Jeff Probst says, “In a strange coincidence to ‘Earth’s Last Eden,’ good vs. evil emerges as a major theme this season.” Last season’s James and his “Don’t bite the apple” catchphrase would’ve fit in beautifully.

The castaways, in alphabetical order, are:

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Tags: CBS, gabon, Preview, Survivor

Posted by johnnysweeptheleg

A week’s worth of Big Brother in one night. Also known as the little less conversation, a little more action episode. Julie doesn’t want to hear you talk, houseguests. There will be no foreplay. Get right to the activities!

The episode begins with a few flashbacks to the post Veto ceremony, with Ollie throwing his tantrum. Ollie and Michelle believe Dan is a plant. Not to be confused with the Plant Man. Thinking he’s going to drop some huge revelation on the houseguests, Ollie walks outside and begins telling everyone about the three-part deal he made with Dan. As Dan explains in the DR, when you light the fuse, you don’t hang around for the dynamite to blow. So he leaves and lets Ollie explode. Ollie’s revelation backfires on him. All he does is tell the HGs what they already knew, which further makes them trust Dan, and Ollie even admits that Keesha was supposed to go up instead of Michelle, which leads Keesha to respond that now she’s even better with Dan’s decision. Swing and a miss.

The night’s first eviction is no surprise. Michelle gets the boot, 3 to 1, and upon talking with Julie, finds out that Dan isn’t really a plant. Which, by rights, should Julie have revealed? I thought being on the jury, she should go into the final jury vote knowing only what was revealed to her while in the house. [Read more →]

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Posted by Ryan

1. Odds are good someone’s going home. Three teams have a shot at getting sent home today: Raul and Jameica, Andy and Parker and the Ashleys. If I were a betting man, I’d put money on the Ashleys to get the boot. But I think I’ll be a little disappointed if no one goes home today. I think maybe I’ve watched too many mean-spirited reality shows, and much of my enjoyment comes from teams or individuals getting kicked off. But really, there’s no one team I dislike and want to see kicked off — I just want someone to get kicked off.

2. And boom goes the dynamite. Watching these teams struggle through the Golf Central segment reminded me a little too much of this guy:

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Tags: Highway 18, Jameica

by WindUpDoll

So this week the Project Runway designers have to, as Christian Siriano once told us, “make crap out of candy.”

Only this time it’s not candy. It’s car parts. Saturn Vue car parts, to be exact. I don’t know if the parts are hybrid. Can a seat belt be hybrid? Hybrid polyester maybe? Rayon? Green rayon? We open this episode with Kenley talking about missing Daniel. So maybe the stuff Daniel is saying about how he was edited is true. Hmmm.

Love Heidi’s dress at the top of this episode. Very French.

Heidi sends them to the rooftop of another building to find out what their challenge is. Blayne is thinking they need to be ‘rooftop style’ and ‘exclusive.’ Korto also thinks celebrity when she hears rooftop.

Nope, it’s a garage kids. Awaiting the designers are many Saturn Vues and Chris Webb, Saturn’s lead color designer. Oh, the materials are recyclable. Not hybrid. I get it. [Read more →]

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Tags: Heidi Klum, Kenley Collins, Korto Momolu, Laura Bennet, Leanne Marshall, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, Project Runway, Rachel Zoe, Reality TV, Recap, Tim Gunn

Posted by Ryan

Contestants on this episode of Hurl! will try to down up to 10 pounds of hot dogs and take a whirl in the spinning Round Up.

Let’s meet the five guys who really want to date your daughter: Mike, an after-school programs assistant; Nick, who works at a computer lab at an elementary school; Sammy, a clothing designer and drummer for a punk band who delivers pizza in his “spare” time, if by spare he means 50 hours a week; Chris, an AV equipment installer; and Erik, a U.S. Marine who looks like a slightly bad-ass Neil Patrick Harris.

The guys dive into the hot dogs (They’re organic!! What? Do they even make organic hot dogs?) and they can wash it down with root beer. In a contest like this, is it just best to eat the “meat” and leave the buns? It’s all based on weight, and it’s not like these guys are competing with Kobayashi. Erik, the Marine, says he can’t eat a lot at once and has a weak stomach. Great, another poorly cast contestant. Mike’s mom is there to cheer him on (plus, she had to drive him there). Seriously, Mike looks like he’s 13. Nick gets the first Hurl Warning after only eating one hot dog, and he pretty much concedes. A loser in life, and now a loser in Hurl!

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Postedy by johnnysweeptheleg

I can’t help but chuckle at Ollie as he struts around the house all week, thinking that he’s running the show. And why shouldn’t he? So far, through 2/3 of the agreement he made with Dan, Dan has lived up to his end of the bargain. There’s no reason for Ollie to think that Dan wouldn’t continue. But Ollie has vowed to unleash hell if he’s double crossed.

California law states that you must keep your hell on a leash, as well as picking up after it. I think Ollie’s about to be ticketed, because Dan has told Memphis and the DR that he will not let Ollie pick the replacement nominee, should Memphis win and remove himself. Aw yeah, it’s about to get dirty! [Read more →]

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by Zhillbear

You now have an extra week to prepare yourself for the brilliant magnificence that is Survivor. The season premiere of CBS’ Survivor: Gabon — Earth’s Last Eden, originally scheduled for Sept. 18, will now air Sept. 25 from 8-10pm ET. The episode is the first time a season of Survivor has kicked off with a two-hour premiere, and it also marks the show’s high-definition debut.
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Photo: Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS © 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Posted by Cubicle QB

Features on the Aug. 26 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Sperm U — Kids today are competing in organized sports at younger ages and with greater intensity because parents see the rewards that come with athletic achievement (college scholarships, pro salaries), as well as the consequences for children who fall behind early (physical inactivity, obesity). As such, parents resort to extreme measures to give their kids a fighting chance. E:60 correspondent Tom Farrey exclusively reports the story about the ultimate effort to buy athletic advantage — the purchase of sperm from anonymous donors who are college athletes. He visits the world’s largest sperm bank, California Cryobank in Los Angeles, where the seed of Division I football, basketball and baseball players sells fast. Farrey also speaks with families who purchased the sperm of a former tight end, and he addresses the question: How do expectations change when parents know their child is born with the DNA of an elite athlete?

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Tags: California Cryobank, E:60, Oscar Pistorius, Steve Fossett, Tampa Bay Rays

Posted by johnnysweeptheleg

Dan’s decisions during last night’s episode will either get him eliminated on Thursday’s episode (remember, it’s a DOUBLE live eviction!) or will take him all the way to the finals.

After hanging for almost four hours, the HOH competition comes down to two people — Ollie and Dan. Ollie doesn’t want to drop, because he knows he’ll be the first to go on the block and go home. Dan doesn’t want to drop because he knows Ollie will be looking for vengeance, since Dan’s decision not to vote to keep April sealed her fate. So Dan does a Big Brother first … and after 10 seasons, in which everything from throwing every competition to shaving a very hairy Bunky’s back has happened, that’s saying a lot. If Ollie lets Dan win the HOH, Dan will let Ollie pick one of the two noms, one other person to keep safe, and if POV is played, Ollie picks the replacement nominee. And if I’m not mistaken, Ollie gets naming rights on Dan’s firstborn. [Read more →]

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Tags: Big Brother, CBS, Recap