What can I say, I think I’m right about a lot of things but it’s not too often that I have written proof!
As a self-proclaimed expert on reality television, I would like to point out that I was completely right about the end of this season’s Bachelorette, based solely on one episode.
In “A Girl’s Take on the Bachelorette,” I specifically highlighted standout cutie Chris L., who seemed like the most normal person ever to appear on reality TV. I only picked out two potential winners in my article – Chris and Roberto. And what do you know, they were the final two.
Not everyone has the time to sift through every TV preview, but I work for the government. If you find yourself wondering what good shows will be on this fall, but don’t want to bother doing the legwork, you have come to the right place.
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Better With You (ABC) – Wednesday 8:30pm – Premieres Sept. 22
The pitch: Featuring three couples – one dating for nine years, one engaged after seven weeks and one unhappily married for multiple decades. Starring the mom from That 70s Show. My take: Canned laughter and predictable comedy. If you like Big Bang Theory, tune in folks. Competition: Survivor, Lie to Me and Undercovers.
If you’ve visited The Steve Network in the past month, you know you were more likely to see tumbleweed blowing across the screen than a fresh article, but I had to come out of blogging retirement for this one.
Darren Dreger, loved by Canadians for his inability to tell us anything we don’t already know, has outdone himself yet again, making his boldest prediction yet!!!
A couple of minutes ago I was scanning ESPN.com when I noticed the article “What fans hate the most” by ESPN ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer, otherwise known as the man who fired Norm MacDonald from Saturday Night Live.
As pathetic as it is, I remember Norm’s firing like it was yesterday. January 7th, 1998. I was 17-years-old, and not surprisingly to all who read this blog, still a good six or seven months away from losing my virginity, thereby freeing me up to watch Norm on Letterman.
You’ve been murdered. Gunned down, choked to death, maybe even stabbed a couple times. You’re dead. Which kind of sucks because you had a nice little run going on there.
The only brightside is that instead of living life to the fullest you were hard at work watching television. Cop shows, mainly. You’ve seen countless murders and a seemingly limitless array of criminals brought to justice. Most importantly, you’ve come to know the men and women hunting these killers. You understand how they work and how they get results.
It’s this knowledge that’s going to help Aaron, Sara and Steve (that’s me) rest easy in the afterlife. Even though we’ve been murdered (and in Aaron’s case, raped), we know our respective killers will be put behind bars. Why? Because, in an Internet first, we’ve carefully selected the TV characters that will help put them there, each drafting an all-star team of investigators.
The ground rules: Seven picks a piece, snake draft format, each person can only select one character from a particular show.
So, who drafted the best team? Which of your favourite TV cops didn’t make the list? Read on to find out.
Yesterday, someone asked me why I wasn’t doing a live TradeCentre blog. Well, other than the 8am start time, my only excuse is that TSN has made the yearly event almost impossible to ridicule.
How’d they do it? Easy. By making fun of it themselves.
TSN knows their coverage is ridiculous. Not only do they go on-air before most general managers are out of bed, they have three separate panels with 15 different in-studio personalities. For fun, let’s count them off: James Duthie’s on the main desk with Pierre McGuire, Darren Pang and Craig MacTavish. Directly behind Duthie is Dave Hodge with Steve Simmons, Damien Cox and Michael Farber. Gord Miller, Bob McKenzie and Darren Dreger, or as their otherwise known, “The Tradebreakers,” sit behind McGuire and Pang. Then Duthie slides over to another desk (the “Deadline Panel”) with Matthew Barnaby, a scarred-up Mike Peca, and Mike Keenan, who seemingly arrived two hours late. But that’s not all, Darren Dutchyshen’s in-studio recapping all the day’s news, Ray Ferraro and Keith Jones join via satellite, and reporters like Farhan Lalji are constantly checking in with the latest from all the Canadian teams.
Is it just me or is Hugo Chavez running American sports these days?
While the Jets fining Rex Ryan $50,000 for giving some kid the finger seemed ridiculous, in the No Fun League it was almost expected. But now, just a few weeks later, comes the news that ESPN has suspended Tony Kornheiser from Pardon The Interruption for two weeks following inappropriate comments he made about ESPN anchor Hannah Storm on his local radio show.
What a day in sports! The Flames and Oilers somehow both won, Ken Hitchcock got canned, Ilya Kovalchuk was told he was getting traded and Ken Reid made his Sportscentre debut. Let’s take a look:
Well, it looks like while TSN makes its personalities shave their moustaches (Chris Schultz, Rod Black, old school Gino Reda), the network has no problem with sideburns. I’m not sure if I should describe Kenny as a young Elvis or a gay Wolverine. Did you notice his lovely purple vest?
In the same week Entertainment Weekly named The Jay Leno Show “the biggest bomb in television history,” the Chin appeared on Oprah’s couch. While I would love nothing more than to mock Leno’s shameless sympathy grab, why bother when I can just show clips of Jimmy Kimmel making fun him. Leno told Oprah he felt “sucker-punched” during Kimmel’s now infamous appearance on Leno’s 10 at 10 segment, allegations Jimmy addressed on Thursday night’s show:
Chances are if you watch sports you own a high-definition television. In fact, watching a game without one almost seems pointless. The blood, the sweat, the tears, the lovely bouncing breasts of a female tennis star, all right there in your living room. What could possibly be better? Well, I’ll tell you. Nature documentaries. Specifically, Life, the BBC’s follow-up to the award-winning Planet Earth, now airing in Canada on the Discovery Channel.
Just like Planet Earth, Life is filmed with “revolutionary high-speed cameras, taking the viewer to seemingly impossible locations while capturing rare footage of the world’s most interesting and elusive creatures.” Okay, I took that from the back of my Planet Earth DVD box. All I can tell you is it’s awesome. If you enjoy being ice-level with Sidney Crosby, imagine being on an ice floe with a polar bear. And if you think Lebron can soar, wait until you ‘witness’ a chameleon’s tongue shoot out of its mouth at 15 metres a second.
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