TV's Best (and Worst)

From:    lazlosbasement.com If you’re that one guy out on the western edge of North Dakota who hasn’t fast-forwarded through last night’s results show to announce the final two, this is your official spoiler alert. Stop reading. You didn’t do it, did you? You just went right on reading. Because who the hell cares what some obscure blog says when probably every single human being at the Starbucks/on the radio/around the water cooler today has already dumped on you a heaping helping of American Idol information you’d rather not know, like the fact that Syesha Mercado shuffled off the show last night. Which is ... Read Full Story

from Lazlo's Basement We’ve been looking forward to Celebrity Apprentice since before the writers’ strike. Now that the contestants have been officially announced, we’re glad to know the contest will be for charity, and the contestant who is selected as the “Celebrity Apprentice” is awarded a $250,000 bonus to bestow upon the charity of her or his choice. The Celebrity Apprentice official website wanders down the web search results page because in order to discern the list of characters, er, contestants, you have to match pictures to a trivia game . Right on. If the Colts weren’t serving such a beating on the Ravens ... Read Full Story

Oh no…NOT CRABS! Oh, yes… the crabs are back . The Discovery Network’s hit series The Deadliest Catch is one of the few reality shows which actually documents events that would occur even if the cameras weren’t around. Tuesday’s premier marks the 4th season of the Discovery Channel’s most popular series in years, which follows several Alaskan fishing vessels through the brief, but deadly, crab fishing season. The high-yield pursuit is also considered to be one of the highest-risk commercial fields; working with heavy machinery on the tumultuous Bering Sea in sub-zero temperatures takes a high physical and emotional toll on crews and captains ... Read Full Story

From: lazlosbasement.com Screw it, you’re getting the news in reverse order. I have two words for you: Joss. Whedon. This, ladies and gentleblogreaders, THIS is what the internet was created for. Not to boost the economy of a little “silicone” valley in central California, not to introduce anyone with electricity to a free media, not even to gamble away your hard earned dollars and sense (just ask congress). The internet was created, apparently by Al Gore, so that we could eventually share news of this magnitude within scant hours of the announcement being made. Ok here goes. The fantasmagastic news first: Joss has a ... Read Full Story

prettyontheoutside.com tackles the Millionaire Matchmaker We can thank the WGA strike for the recent upwelling of heinously unwatchable reality TV series, the king (or queen) of which just has to be the BRAVO network’s Millionaire Matchmaker . If you’ve been fortunate enough to miss this series despite its obvious trainwreck potential, please allow us to catch you up. The Ditz: Patti Stanger, former director of marketing for the formative matchmaking company Great Expectations , brings the cameras into her psycho-dramatic, elitist little business of matching surgically “enhanced” golddiggers with horny but socially inept millionaires. Patti, who will go so far as to pimp out ... Read Full Story