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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
VH1 brought us some of the most ridonculous reality TV moments of the season courtesy of Rock of Love - Poison frontman Bret Michaels’ search for true love in the form of a reality TV tartlet. To his credit, he appeared to choose the least repulsive of all the strumpets…er, contestants…er, women? Well. You know. To his detriment, he allowed the highly entertaining Heather, NOT the “winner,” to tattoo his name on the back of her neck during the taping of one episode. It’s difficult to say... Read Full Story
We’ve had a few requests for a review of K-Ville . Since we covered the show earlier , we figured why not. So here’s a little quiz from the Basement, which just happens to be located down south in New Orleans. - Truth or Hollywood - The Opening – The series follows two police officers policing New Orleans two years post-Katrina (hence, K-Ville). One of the officers was on the force during the storm, and was deserted by his partner in the middle of the storm’s mayhem. Did this really happen... Read Full Story
INTEGRITY: I broke down and watched Dr. Phil today, because it has been that kind of week. (I admit it. I’m a smugaholic. I’m not proud.) Whenever I tune in to the king of smug I’m always afraid I might hit on one of those smarmy “giveaway” episodes Oprah made so popular, but lady fortune must have taken pity on me. Today was the second episode of a Special Two Part Series, and everyone knows that when Dr. Phil can’t fit all of his copious amounts of smug into one episode, someone’s goin... Read Full Story
From: lazlosbasement.com Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert To Return From Strike Today marks two full months of the WGA strike. In continued solidarity with the writers (and completely ripped off from Best Week Ever ), we share our list: “Silver Linings Of The Writers Strike” Late Night takes pity - Or more likely Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert recognize that even the WGA doesn’t trump ensuring someone besides Fox covers the election year. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are both... Read Full Story
from Lazlo's Basement Camp: noun 1. An entertainment style characterized by intentional self-ridicule “A part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the 1960s , camp came to popularity in the 1980s with the widespread adoption of Postmodern views on art and culture.” If you need to be all snotty about it. Up until this week, I would have said ten times out of ten that Joss Whedon is the undisputed king of camp, and I would have gladly thrown down against anyone who suggested... Read Full Story
