Things are Grim

No Golden Globes??? No Red Carpet??  This writers strike definitely has to end. Now. I can’t stand it much longer. Apparently there is going to be 157% more reality tv on the schedule until this whole mess is cleaned up.

I watched Cashmere Mafia yesterday. It was OK. I’m going to keep watching out of sheer desperation, but I don’t know that I would bother if my regular TV shows were one. It seems more of a summer show to me.  I was thoroughly entertained while I folded my laundry, which is all you can ask for really.

Last night was big. Stewart and Colbert came back on the air!  Yay! I’ll watch today sometime, but the Washington Post said that Stewart did really well. I didn’t expect anything less!!! I also have October Road and Anthony Bourdains No Reservations to watch. Tonight is Real Housewives and Life on Mars, so there is some viewing hope for the next couple of days.

Last weeks Real Housewives of Orange County was quite good because everyone except Quinn went on a vacation and Tamra got her boobs reduced. She is a total bubble head. They should have removed her brain and put in a saline sack and no one would even notice. She’s over 40 now and doesn’t need the big boobs, so she says. ugh.

Vicki screamed the whole way to Mexico and home again and then demanded thanks from everyone for taking them on the trip. She did a great job planning it, but I’m sure that teenagers don’t want to be woken up every morning at 7:00am to go on jungle hikes. She is really turning into a massive pain. She needs a reality slap.

Jeanna was boring and just went a long for the ride with Vicki and didn’t really have much to say except to insult Michael’s girlfriend. Yawn.

Quinn is the most irritating and hypocritical Housewife yet. I just can’t stand her and I don’t think she adds a thing to show. They should get rid of her.

Lauri took George and her girls and his girls RVing to Yellowstone Park which looked absolutely amazing. This is the first time that she’s acted like a real person, trying to make everyone have a does of reality in the RV. Scenes from next week show that she quickly goes back to her shallow botox ways at her wedding shower!!

Can’t wait to see this wedding!

All I want for Christmas………

All I want for Christmas is for the writers strike to be over. I want it to end tonight at midnight and then everyone can get back to work on Wednesday, writing all those great shows, and all the actors can stop wandering around and getting married or pregnant, and life can go back to normal.

This is what my “To DO” list on my Tivo looks like right now:

Nothing to watch.  There is Life on Mars tomorrow night and then a huge gap until Sunday when Amazing Race tapes, then nothing again until Tuesday. Even if the networks have a couple of new episodes of shows on the shelves, my prediction is there is no way anything is going to be put back on until sweeps in February, and the networks will use the shows then. So the whole of January is going to be one big nothing as far as TV viewing goes. 

Real Housewives… Real Boring

I’m so not into this season  of Real Housewives at all.  As I said last week, the ladies have all gone down hill rapidly. This week, everyone except Lauri went to San Diego for the weekend to get Jeanna out of her shell and they stayed in some luxury suite which was twice as big as my house.  They probably still though that was slumming it, although I don’t see how. Vicki and Jeanna got into a “fight” on the way down in the limo, which wasn’t really a fight, more they had words. Well, at least Vicki had words, and then Jeanna said what she felt later to the camera in her one on one.

The thing that stood out to me the most in this episode is what a dumb tramp Tamra is. I have no clue how she is keeping any real estate clients. She’s just so inappropriate. I guess she thinks a hot body is her golden ticket to everything. I hope all her clients dump her and jump over to Jeanna. It might teach her a lesson.

And that Quinn is super annoying.  I’m glad she went over like a lead balloon at her “boyfriends” birthday party. Although that could have just been creative editing, but I’m sure if she’s annoying me, she’s annoying everyone else.

I hope the last couple of episodes are more entertaining than the first three – at least Lauri’s wedding will be interesting. And I was pleased to see Lauri doing something with Sophie, her one child that hasn’t disappointed her!

Other things I watched this week were : the season finale of Survivor. I though this season was quite good, but the ending was predictable with Todd winning. I thought for a few seconds that Courtney might win, which would have been excellent, but Todd prevailed.

Another reality show wrapped up and that was The Biggest Loser. People lost so much weight this season it was incredible.  It does seem that a woman is never going to win because the mean are either so much bigger or they can lose weight more easily, because season after season a guy wins. I was sort of hoping that Julie would win this time. She looked incredible at the finale and obviously worked really, really hard to get into shape. 

And the best news all week: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be back on the air 7 January! yay!!

Gone to Hell in a Handcart

The Real Housewives of Orange County have really gone to hell in a handcart. What a pack of shrews they have turned into.  I really couldn’t stand any of them in Tuesday night’s episode. It was really sad. At least last seasonthere were some funny, light moments to go along with the shrieking and the botox. I can’t say that this season.

The “fame” has obviously gone to their heads. Vicki is still basically acting the same, but has no insight into herself and is a total hypocrite. When she was talking about teaching Michael to drink responsibly and then the next thing is she’s getting smashed in front of all the people she employees and works with. Nice.

Lauri tried on $10,000 wedding dresses and said “I’ll think about it” when her eldest daughter begged to be her maid of honour. What a lovely mother.

Jeanna is totally lame and doesn’t really have a clue about her kids. Colton seems like such a nice kid, but he’s probably going to turn out like Shane, who’s the obvious favourite and spoiled rotten and has a personality to match.

Tammy didn’t have much to say last night, which was good because she’s a total empty head.

Tamra is just plain unaware of how stupid she sounds and looks. She can probably sell tons of real estate in that area due to her looks, but she has nothing to say that is interesting and she needs to really give her kid a boot up the butt. I know all kids think they can start working at the top and earn lots of money, and Tamra needs to sit him down and give him a few facts. He’s 21. He can deal with it.

And as for Quinn the “new” housewife, she would have to be the most irritating housewife yet. Even more irritating than Jo De La Rosa. She is a self proclaimed Christian, but thinks nothing of dating two guys at once, and apparently is out every night, leaving her 14 yr with who?? I think her son should be the main man in her life right now, not that there is anything wrong with dating, but two guys at once has to be a huge time commitment. She also seems incredibly fake to me.

Next week promises some sort of fight between Vicki and Jeanna, but I’m sure it will turn out to be nothing, like the big cliff scare of two weeks ago.

Real Housewives are Imploding

What is going on with the Real Housewives?  And who is the new chick Quinn, who appears to be a serial dater? We’ll find out the whole story on Quinn next week, but until then we will have to spend our time talking about how many of these rich kids feel the need to get a tattoo. I find that totally bizarre, the amount of time this show has spent in Season 3 in a tattoo parlor. Last night it was Ryan, Tamra’s son who got the entire side of his stomach tattooed. And it was damn ugly. I was quite sympathetic to Ryan in the first couple of episodes, but now he’s just a self fulfilling prophecy of stupidity.  I want to slap him and send him to his room.

The other person I want to slap is Megan and her baldy friends. I don’t blame Tammy’s boyfriend for throwing them off the boat. They are all spoiled brats. And those guys with the big disks in their ears – could they look any stupider?

And Lauri obviously doesn’t think her kids are watching the show because she said this week “Sophie is the only one of my kids that hasn’t disappointed me”. Maybe she should take a long hard look at herself and see how’s she’s disappointed her kids???

Vicki was absent most of this show and was only talked about by her kids as being crazy. Jeanna showed up for a few minutes to talk about body image issues and Hollywood, and they were the sanest Housewives of the night!!!

Oprah’s Favourite Things

I thought Oprah’s Favourite Things was a bit of a non event this year. Last year she didn’t even have it, and I bet there were a lot of complaints. This is usually the best hour on daytime TV all year.

I thought it was sort of lame this year. She went to Macon GA, which is apparently the most Oprah watchingest city in the entire US, then she was yapping on about Macon and said “it’s my favourite things” and the audience was screaming so much at the thing she said before that half the audience didn’t even hear her. People went nuts, but not as nuts as in years past. Anyone remember the lady in the grey suit about 3 years ago that Oprah seemed scared of?? Now that was nuts.

Between Williams Sonoma (convinced Oprah owns shares in them) and herself, there wasn’t really that much that was great. The first item, the Samsung HD Digital camcorder was the best thing I thought, and the Josh Groban CD the worst. I would have been furious if I had finally achieved one of my life goals – which is being in Oprah’s Fav Things audience – and then have to spend 5 minutes listening to Josh Groban wailing away when I could have been getting more stuff.

Ugliest thing:  Rachel Pally Swing Turtleneck and Sailor Pants. I can’t believe Oprah would be caught dead in them. Horrible.

Biggest Rip Off: Oprah was hawking her book club selection, Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth for $24.95.  Hello Oprah, no one pays list price for books. You can get it at Amazon for $14.95 and probably Costco for $8.98.

 Here’s the whole list if you are interested .

Sadly I didn’t feel as euphoric as I usually do after watching the Favourite Things Show. Maybe it was the measuring cups for $18.00 that put a dampner on things?

Real Housewives of Orange County

These women are just as self involved as they were last season, and mostly at the expense of their kids.

 I’ll start with Jeana.  Jeana spent a lot of time talking to the camera about how  Colton is acting out and she needs to keep and eye on him and he’s not allowed be be alone blah blah blah, and then promptly goes off to San Franciso for the weekend with Kara and doesn’t even tell him she’s going. Colton is clearly upset by this, after all he’s only 15. Then Jeana has the nerve to come home and say that she told him but he forgot. I doubt that.

 Vicki bought a house to downsize into, and then spent the entire episode stressing that the house was going to be too small. This didn’t stop her wanting to spend up to $400K on putting in a pool and a backyard, including grill, fridge and outside dishwasher!! She’s totally nuts.

 Lauri was botoxed up the wazoo as usual, and it’s seeped into her brain, because she encouraged her 22 yr old daughter and her 18 yr old step daughter to go to a cocktail party at the Playboy Mansion. Highly innappropriate in my opinion, but what do I know.

Tamra is nuts. She went out riding on a Harley with no protective clothing. I’m all about safety first, so I could barely watch this . And then she promptly went and lay on a tanning bed!!  Talk about reckless. She wants to be the hottest 40 yr old on the planet. She’s also the dumbest one.

 Tammy did nothing this episode except flip some burgers and talk about her dead ex-husband.

Next week it appears that someone falls off a cliff. Can’t wait.

Terrified

Is anyone else out there terrified that this writers strike is going to go on and on and there is going to be NOTHING left to watch except “Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader” and “Big Brother”?  I am shaking in my boots. How could The Man let this happen???

I’ve heard vicious rumour after vicious rumour that some of my favourite shows only have 3 episodes left in the bag and we are going to be left high and dry for the rest of the winter.

 In a shear act of desperation I’m going to start watching Project Runway tomorrow night, for the first time ever. I’ve heard that Tim Gunn’s a real pistol. I have to get involved in some new reality TV so I’ll have something to watch. Anything really.

 To totally change the subject, Real Housewives of Orange County 3 started last week. It got off to a bit of a weak start. Vicki didn’t throw one tantrum, but she did buy her daughter a Mercedes and then tell her she’d have to make the car payments (only $279 a month??). Yeah – that’s tough love. She could have got her a Neon.

I’m hoping for bigger and better things from the ladies this week, it usually takes them a week to warm up, and we’ll get to see more of Lauri and George (is that his name?) wedding. In one of the “interview” pieces last week, Lauri had so much botox that she could barely move her face to talk. It was like she had a plastic mask on. She looked totally ridiculous.

I’ll do a full recap of tonights show (that is if it’s any good). I didn’t do one for last week because I thought it was a bit lame.

The Week So Far….

We finally got around to watching the Damages finale. It was so good. I didn’t see it coming at all that the bearded guy with the glasses that was offing everyone was also a cop!!  Good twist. And that Ellen would go back to work for Patty, but really be working for the FBI, who are trying to bring down Patty. And Frobisher shot!! By the old man!! Bring on Season 2!! I thought I read somewhere that Damages had been signed for a second season.

Samantha Who is shaping up nicely. The writers must have read my comments about needing to really define the new Samantha and not have her be so all over the place. She really is trying to be a good girl. Barry Watson was also adorable in last nights episode!!

Sunday Again

We have been watching “Life is Wild” on the CW on Sunday nights, as a family. Both the kids like it, although I think it’s a bit over the 5yr old’s head, but the scenery of Africa is lovely and the animals are great.  Finally a show that we can all watch. It hasn’t been doing very well in the rating, but I hope they keep it on the air, I’d hate to not have a family show now that we are used to it. A Daktari for the 21st Century.

 Desperate Housewives has been going strong so far this season. I just love Dana Delany, she’s fabulous in everything she does and her character Katherine is a perfect foil for Bree. Last week was horribly irritating though, because Susan once again had a couple of prat falls trying to be liked by the new gay neighbours.  I just can’t stand those storylines. So irritating.

Brothers and Sisters is now my go to show for a good cry on a Sunday night. Grey’s used to be that show, but since they moved it to Thursdays it hasn’t been as sad.  Great writing, great acting and a great sob fest, Brothers and Sisters is one of the best shows on TV.