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The Five New Shows I’m Anticipating

September’s here and Vanished may have already jumped the shark (myself, I haven’t had the chance to get my second helping yet) — I think the fall TV season is upon us.
Which means, there’s an excuse to make some of my OCD-driven lists… kinda like the ones I had fun making last year (which are [...]

Queer and Lonely in Oakdale

Here’s something that caught my attention recently.
CBS’ broadband “channel” InnerTube had an original reality series, InTurn where nine actors compete for a 13-week role on As the World Turns. The actors face off in auditions and gather on “the casting couch” afterwards to hear which of them are getting a callback to stick around for [...]

McManus and Chadwick cross the pond

Two programs from UK production company Shed Productions are being developed for stateside audiences with ABC looking to develop soaper Footballers’ Wives and fx network adapting the women-in-prison drama, Bad Girls.
Wives‘ creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus, as well as Bad Girls co-creator Eileen Gallagher, will be involved in the FW adaptation.
At the least, I’d [...]

An office mystery

It’s not uncommon to find used magazines in the breakroom at work, as it’s pretty common to find that someone left their copy of Us or Entertainment Weekly for others to read after they’re done.
However, today, there was a copy of Heat on the table, “The Official Big Brother Mag”. No, not the Big Brother [...]

Runway Tallies: Waste Not, Want Not

While some Project Runway fans feel a missing spark this season, the bidding over this season’s outfits has been pretty heated. Last week, Angela’s Audrey Hepburn-inspired dress pulled a top bid of $1,455 and this week Laura’s recycled paper dress drew a top bid of $1,705. It’ll be interesting to see if the top bid [...]

Runway bits and pieces

Over at Blogging Project Runway, a comment thread asking visitors to post their thoughts on the current Project Runway season plenty of Runway fans are expressing disappointment in the current season, with a handful of mentions of shark jumping.
Meanwhile, the show is continuing to draw huge audiences:
[August 23]’s episode was the #1 cable program on [...]

Veronica vs the shark

The first season two Veronica Mars disc arrived the other day. Watching the season premiere, I thought about Johanna’s reaction to the same episode (I’d provide a link, but the old CWR blog seems to redirect back to the new homepage… so apologies to Johanna if my poor memory misrepresents what she said) which she [...]

Monday Tidbits

I debated watching the Emmys in case there were funny moments that might make up for the boring award choices. Thankfully, I could turn to Tom the Dog’s excellent liveblogging of the event. I don’t feel like I missed a beat.

Why does Ohio Congressperson Jean Schmidt not cast a shadow?

Uh-oh. Superfrankenstein finds a teammate in [...]

Oh, the things you can learn from Wikipedia…

So. Last Monday, we were watching Life on Mars and I note that the show’s protagonist, a time traveler introduced in a 2006 BBC program, had the same name as another time traveling character who first appeared on the BBC in 2005.
Then. Today, I checked Life on Mars‘ Wikipedia page and… whaddya know — Sam [...]

The Reaction to Survivor

Sigh. It took no time for the new Survivor season with racially-segregated tribes to draw racist comments:
Now, of these four tribes, just off the top of your head, who do you think has the advantage? Who do you think here is going to win? Do you think it’s going to be the white tribe? [...]