Prime Time Love
Are you a fan of the Big O? Noooooo.. I don’t mean Oprah! I don’t mean THAT either. I mean – do you watch the Oxygen Network? It’s not one I watch regularly, but it does have a bunch of Reality Tv shows, including the lovely trainwreck of Janice Dickerson Modeling Agency that is so bad I can’t even watch it. I know, shocking, right?! Anyway, now there’s a new one called Dieon and Pilar: Prime Time Love. It’ll follow football legend Dieon Sandars, his wife Pilar and their five kids day to day in small town Texas.
The show’s not slated to premiere till April 15th, but there will be a special 22 minute sneak peak, aired without commercial breaks this Sunday during the Superbowl Halftime show. It will be streamed at Oxygen.com as well. So if you want to see a show about “a bigger then life personality that just happens to be a football star” at home, bickering with his wife about helping with the chores – then be sure to tune in for the Sneak Preview.
The sneak preview will be introduced by Harry Kalas, the sportscaster who is the voice-over narrator for NFL Films. On the sneak preview episode, Deion refuses to help with housework because he is too busy working on his football picks for a live radio show. Deion’s wife Pilar issues a challenge that if she can do his radio job just as good as he can, then Deion has to help with the housework. Also, daughter Deiondra has a hot date, and a very over-protective Deion wants to help her get ready. – Reality TV Magazine
Reality TV Casting Calls!
So, you think you have what it takes to bare your soul to the world on Reality TV, and face all the things (read: ridicule) that comes with it? Here’s some casting information for shows on the horizon:
Discovery Health: National Body Challenge.
It’s Discovery’s answer to The Biggest Loser, done in week long specials, and they’re currently casting for their next couples. The last special showed Twins and their struggle to get down to size. Now they’re looking for people to star in the 2009 National Body Challenge. If you are:
* Mother/Daughter
* Father/Son
* Coworkers
* Or, people who need to lose over 100 pounds
Then they’re looking for you! Each person/team is provided with a professional weight loss program, gym membership and personalized 1on1 instruction with physicians, nutritionists and fitness experts before they share their story with us. See the website to apply!
The Mole is back!
Contestants compete in challenges, all the while trying to figure out who, among them, is the Mole – someone there to sabotage their efforts to win money. A game of paranoia and competitiveness at it’s best – can YOU figure out who the Mole is before the contestants do? Each episode sees the contestants deciding who they think the Mole is (Often changing many times during the show – and sometimes during the episode!) and learning as much as possible about that person. They are tested on their knowledge at the end of the episode, and the person who knows the least about The Mole is eliminated until the finale where the Mole is revealed and the Winner gets a bunch’o’cash. Check out the site to apply!
America’s Got Talent – back for round Three!
That’s right, everyone’s favorite asshole, Piers Morgan and his crew of judges will be on hand to decide if American’s have a marketable talent. That’s the key there, kids – Piers is all about the marketing! But – anyone with any talent can apply for this old time smorgasboard of wacky and legit talented people. You can pre-register here, and then show up at the following two open calls.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Wednesday, January 30
Doubletree Hotel
315 4th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Saturday, February 2
The Blake Hotel
555 S McDowell St
Charlotte, NC 28204
More to be announced soon!
O.M.G.
My son has friends.
Friends who DRIVE.
Friends who drive CARS.
Friends who drive CARS that were parked in my driveway that I had to call the house and say “get the hell outa my parking spot, boyo!” so that I could pull into my driveway.
Boys.
That Drive.
A boy who when they asked if they could walk into Holiday I said with a straight face “Why don’t you drive?”
*blinks*
I am not OLD enough for this shit!
So today, I am the cool mom. I can tell this because the Boy has a friend over (the afore mentioned driver of the El Camino in my driveway), and the Girl has THREE friends over, and also I have Buglet too. I went and got junk food to feed them with, thus cementing my “cool mom” status.
I am, however, VERY lucky and grateful because my kids have GREAT friends. The core group of buddies they’ve chosen are all really good kids, and I don’t mind having them hanging around at all.
Even if they’re old enough to drive.
El Caminos.
And park them in my driveway.
Which only reminds me that MY son will be 16 in a few weeks.
*groans*
Catching up!
Sorry about the lack of updates – been a busy week here with Mom being in the hospital and them running tests and so on and so forth. She’s on her way home with a clean bill of health though, so yay! Time to catch up on the week, huh?
First off – Project Runway!
Is it just me, or are many of the challenges this year – many MORE of them, I should say – blatant commercials for things? This week was no different, with the creation of a new Levi’s 501 Iconic Look. Jillian has an irritable moment when Victoria ‘copies’ her coat idea, then breaks down because she keeps poking herself with the needles and is “bleeding everywhere” and of course is running behind schedule. Chris talks to his clothing, and Christian is dubbed a ‘cartoon character’ which I think fits along perfectly with my desire to shrink him and carry him around in my purse to pull out for my entertainment – my own little Pocket Gay, so to speak.
As for the looks – I think they were spot on with picking Ricki as the winner, his was clearly top level, as was Rami’s. Victoria and Jillian deserved to be the bottom two as well, and I am SO glad that Victoria was Auf’d – because she annoys me so. Heh. That, and her dress was AWFUL. And if you think you want Ricki’s design, it’s available at Levistore.com in sizes 2-16.
Next up – Make Me A Super Model!
Last night’s episode got a little STEAMY didn’t it? RAWR!
First off – THANK YOU AMERICA for getting it right and sending Dom packing at the top of the show. For someone who ‘never complains’ he managed to never take responsibility for anything at all, didn’t he? Even as he was leaving “I can walk – it was faulty coaching and maybe give me shoes that fit..” Wah fuckin’ wah.
Then, it’s all about stepping outside the box and creating chemistry. We have straight boys playing gay, we have straight girls playing lesbian, we have gay guys playing it straight, and straights either connecting or lacking any chemistry at all. Ha. It was very steamy up in there more then once as the top couples ROCKED it out, and the bottom couples bored us to death.
In the end, the bottom three were chosen – Three of the four that were the most boring and couldn’t leave their troubles at the door (Frankie was saved by his previous week’s performance, I think) – Aryn, Jay and Holly. Here’s hoping America gets it right again, and sends Jay packing.
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And – Check back later and I’ll have a list of other shows that are currently casting!
Flame on!
No, it’s not about the Ms. America Reality Check show (though, it could be! Ha!). Nope, what those two words mean now, is it’s time for Top Chef Season Four! The contestants – no, the CHEFtestants were announced today at BravoTV. For season four, we have:
–Andrew, 30 – Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, FL; A Sous Chef who Resides in N.Y.
–Antonia, 31 – Executive Chef, Foxtail, SBE Restaurant Group, Los Angeles, CA
–Dale, 29 – Hometown: Chicago, IL; Resides in N.Y where he’s a Sous Chef at Buddakan.
–Erik, 38 – Hometown: Chappaqua, NY; Resides in San Francisco, CA where he’s Executive Chef at Circa Restaurant
–Jennifer, 35 – Hometown: Brooklyn, NY; Resides in San Francisco, CA where she’s the Executive Chef at COCO500 Restaurant
–Lisa, 27 – Hometown: Toronto, Canada; Resides in N.Y. where she hopes to open an Asian themed restaurant.
–Manuel, 33 – Hometown: Laredo, TX; Resides in N.Y. where he’s Executive Chef at Dos Caminos
–Mark, 29 – Hometown: Invercargill, New Zealand; Resides in N.Y. where he’s Sous Chef at Public Restaurant
–Nikki, 35 – Hometown/Resides in: N.Y. where she’s the Chef / co-owner at 24 Prince
–Nimma, 26 – Hometown: Peachtree City, GA; Resides in Atlanta, GA where she’s Chef at Repast
–Richard, 35 – Hometown: Uniondale, NY; Resides in Atlanta, GA where he’s Chef and culinary designer at Trail-Blais
–Ryan, 28 – Hometown: Los Banos, CA; Resides in San Francisco, CA where he’s Chef at Myth Cafe
–Spike, 27 – Hometown: Clearwater Beach, FL; Resides in Williamsburg, N.Y. where he’s Chef de Cuisine, Mai House, Drew Nieporent
–Stephanie, 31 – Hometown: Stamford, CT; Resides in Chicago, IL where she was the chef/owner of Scylla in Chicago until recently
–Valerie, 32 – Hometown/Resides in: Chicago, IL where she’s a Personal Chef
–Zoi, 30, – Hometown: Seattle, WA; Resides in San Francisco, CA where she’s a self-taught Chef/Restaurant Consultant.
So there you have it! The season premiere will be in March, and Padma returns to head up the judging table alongside head judge Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and Ted Allen. And of course, a variety of respected chefs will guest star this year as well. The cheftestants will compete to out-flavor, out-cook and out-do their compeition in order to win a cool $1,000,000 to help open their own restaurants from Glad Family of Products, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, a shocase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and a gourmet dream vacation in the French Alps.
But most importantly? They will be able to call themselves Top Chef.
Flame on!
