Posted Oct 23rd 2009 8:30AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Survivor, Celebrities, Big Brother (US)
Lately, what we've been hearing about reality television has been awful. The winner of
Big Brother became a drug dealer by using his prize money to bankroll his illegal activities.
A family that appeared on Wife Swap perpetrated a hoax involving their six-year-old son and a helium balloon. Is there anything good to say about reality TV?
Here's something.
Survivor: Cook Islands winner Yul Kwon is joining the FCC. He has been named deputy chief of the consumer and governmental affairs bureau for the FCC.
That's the Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Julius Genachowski made the appointment, and it wasn't because Yul did well in challenges.
Continue reading Survivor winner appointed to FCC post
Posted Oct 20th 2009 3:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Big Brother (US)
Adam Jasinski, the guy who won CBS' reality show
Big Brother last year (
Big Brother 9), just got
arrested for using his prize money on something he shouldn't have.
He used the $500,000 to buy a bunch of oxycodone pills and was arrested Saturday in Boston for trying to resell them. Spending a half mil on pills and then reselling them? This sounds like the worst business decision
ever.
Continue reading Big Brother winner spends prize money on pills, gets arrested
Posted Sep 16th 2009 12:33AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E30) Natalie and Kevin made it scheming all the way into the final three on
Big Brother 11. But, did they make it to the final two? Did one of them win the half-million dollars? Or did Jordan blow them both out of the water? It was an unlikely final three and the first two-hour live season finale. Despite the rather lame "high school cliques" theme to the season, it definitely had its moments of
BB history.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: Finale HOH, season finale
Posted Sep 14th 2009 6:45AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E29) The
Big Brother 11 finale will be a two-hour extravaganza on Tuesday evening. It's going to be similar to the
Survivor finales with all of the houseguests, a big reunion, and love and joy abounding. Well, Chima should be missing. I'm not so sure on the love and joy either. Perhaps it will be fisticuffs and brouhahas. Hey, if Natalie wins it all, I can see the audience going into uproar mode. It will be live and should be interesting. But we had to get through the latest episode first.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: The inevitable clips episode
Posted Sep 11th 2009 12:29AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E28) They say to "expect the unexpected" on
Big Brother 11. Well, tonight showed that the viewers can expect an unexpected scheduling of events. Here I was expecting to see the hamsters dwindled down to two tonight. But that wasn't to be the case. However, I did expect Kevin to dress up all spiffy and funky. Sure enough, he did. He had matching red sneakers to complete the outfit.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: HOH #11 part one finish, HOH #11 part two
Posted Sep 9th 2009 10:25AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
If you want to discuss last night's episode of
Big Brother 11, head on over to the
TV Squad review of the show. But if you want to know who won the first part of the final head of household comp, stay right here. Perhaps if we had Jeff and Russell in the competition, they'd still be up on the log.
But think about it. We have players not as um ... enduring (or at least one is certainly not as endearing) left in the game at this point. I mean, how long can they hang in there? A half-hour? Maybe an hour? Well, I'll tell you they were up there for much longer than I thought. If you want to find out more, read on past the jump. Extreme spoilers ahead!
Continue reading Big Brother 11 HoH spoilers from the live feeds
Posted Sep 9th 2009 8:38AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E27) Yep, we're nearing the end of
Big Brother 11 as the final four gets chopped down to the final three. It's not the final three (or four) I would have imagined at the beginning of the season, but rarely does my first impression hold out. As the very pregnant Julie Chen mentioned at the top of the show, there is one representative from each original clique left in the game. I also wouldn't have predicted that she'd last the season. But she proved me wrong.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: PoV #9, Eviction #10, HoH #11 (start)
Posted Sep 7th 2009 1:12AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E26) Now, this is downright frightening. Natalie is the head of household this week in the
Big Brother 11 house. I can deal with that ... sort of, kind of. I don't care for her and I don't want her to win the half-million. But I can cope with her winning HoH once this season. What I can't abide by is the outfit. We're talking funkadelic gone horribly awry.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: Nominations #10
Posted Sep 4th 2009 1:04AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E25) It's the end of the line for the two lovebirds of the
Big Brother 11 season, Jordan and Jeff. With both of them sitting in the nomination chairs tonight, it's inevitable that one will go home. Kevin and Natalie hold the power in the house, and lone wolf Michele is but a lone vote. Kevin doesn't vote unless there's a tie.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: Eviction #9, HoH #10
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 1:04AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E24) Kevin wanted to win the head of household on
Big Brother 11. Sure, the room and the basket of goodies is always fun. But the tough part, especially this late in the game, is making the right nominations and planning ahead for the veto competition. Nakomis (
BB5) did it right. She literally invented the backdoor plan -- put two hamsters on the block, but neither of them your real target. Then, if the veto is used to save one, slap up your target with no way to escape. Did Kevin do that? Nope. He put his two targets on the block.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: PoV #8
Posted Aug 31st 2009 2:02AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E23) You don't always see them wearing them, but three out of the final five hamsters in the
Big Brother 11 house wear eyeglasses. It was four out of six wearing them before the Russell boot last week. Yes, Russell wore glasses. I recall him mentioning that they didn't want him to wear them in his diary room segments. Perhaps they didn't fit the persona of his brawny beastie-boy character the show wanted to portray.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: HoH #9 conclusion, Nominations #9
Posted Aug 28th 2009 1:10AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
Once again, the
Big Brother 11 show ended with their version of a cliffhanger -- a head of household competition started, but not completed on the live show. Yet again, they think show fans should wait until Sunday evening to see which worthy (or not) hamster won the competition.
But I say ... why wait? It isn't like they're still going to be stumbling and sliding yet on Sunday night. It's over as I write this up for you. You could know the winner, figure out the best game plays, and strategize with the best of them. Oh wait. I forgot. We don't have the "best of them" on the show this season. Read on for extreme spoilers for Sunday night's show.
Continue reading Big Brother 11: HoH #9 spoilers from the live feeds
Posted Aug 28th 2009 12:56AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E22) Well, we all knew sparks would fly tonight on
Big Brother 11. After being backdoored by Jeff in the last episode, Russell practically promised to pull a Chima. Don't you just love it when foolish moves are named after the houseguest who did them? A Marcellas, of course, is not saving yourself with the veto and getting evicted. A Chima is a complete breakdown, tossing all to the wind while wreaking havoc in the house.
Continue reading Big Brother 11 : Eviction #8, HoH #9
Posted Aug 26th 2009 12:32AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E21) My goodness, whatever could be making Natalie smile in the
Big Brother 11 house? Could she have actually won a competition for the first time this season? Perhaps she's thinking of the Lydia/Jessie reunion in the jury house -- picturing scenes of Lydia scratching Jessie's eyes out or something. Maybe she's proud to be wearing a doo-rag which clashes with her shirt instead of her neatly color-coordinated um ... urban wear. Maybe she's thinking of adopting a pit bull so they can wear matching little outfits. Or maybe ...
Continue reading Big Brother 11: PoV #7
Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:12AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews
(S11E20) After the recent excitement in the
Big Brother 11 house, I'm spoiled. I want every episode to be a Chima meltdown. I want the producer's voice to come over the intercoms of the house and yell at bad hamsters. I want brouhahas and perhaps even fisticuffs. No, I don't anyone to get hurt -- I just want my excitement fix from the episodes. What did I get tonight?
Continue reading Big Brother 11: HoH #8 conclusion, Nominations #8
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