Posted May 19th 2008 10:32AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Vs., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reaper, Reality-Free
I've confessed before -- or should I say shouted from the rooftops -- that I am a
Joss Whedon fan.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my all-time favorite shows and I still mourn its loss (the comic books just don't give me my
Buffy fix).
This season, I was hopeful when
Reaper arrived on the scene. It seemed to have some of the same elements that I liked about
Buffy: demon lore, a Scooby gang, a story arc, and a lighthearted, humorous side to a subject that could be very dark.
So how does
Reaper measure up to
Buffy? When I actually did the breakdown, I was pleasantly surprised. A very interesting outcome, indeed....
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Posted Apr 21st 2008 8:03PM by Erin Martell
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Vs., Reality-Free
"Welcome to the war." Ben Linus utters those words to John Locke in one of ABC's Lost promos, gun in hand. Since day one, Ben claimed that the freighter folks were going to kill everyone on the island. The show's three-hour finale is only a few weeks away. What do these last episodes of the season hold for the island residents? Can they hold their own against Widmore's team of scientists and thugs? Spoiler Warning: Some details from promos, interviews, and podcasts are mentioned.
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Continue reading Lost: The freighties vs. the island dwellers
Posted Feb 15th 2008 2:41PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Vs.
It's not too surprising when similar shows or movies suddenly appear at the same time, seemingly without one party knowing that the other project was even in the works. In fact, in the pilot for NBC's
Lipstick Jungle -- which looks like ABC's
Cashmere Mafia's twin sister -- the Brooke Shields character is a movie executive who learns that her company, which has been developing a Galileo biography for Leonardo DiCaprio, is competing with a rival studio that's also making a movie about the famous astronomer. In other words, these things happen all the time in show business! That's the case on cable TV now with not one, but two shows about a professional matchmaker.
The shows A&E's
Confessions of a Matchmaker and Bravo's
Millionaire Matchmaker couldn't be more dissimilar in style. They're like different sides of the same coin: heads you're schmoozing in a hot tub with a Malibu millionaire, tails you're riding a Zamboni with a guy who works at a suburban ice-skating rink. That's how diametrically different these matchmaking yentas are! Aside from their passionate desire to make matches that work, the only other factor linking the
Confessions' matchmaker to
Millionaire's is that they share the same name, Patti!
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Continue reading Confessions vs. Millionaires (Matchmakers, that is)
Posted Feb 15th 2008 10:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: The Apprentice, Video, Vs., TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
A few words to describe the celebrity version of NBC's
The Apprentice: drama, tempers, egos, backstabbing, bitching, arguing, egos and... more egos! This week, the bruised egos are those of
America's Got Talent's Piers Morgan and of
The Apprentice (Season 1) Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth. Since the beginning of the season, both have been strong and opinionated players on their respective teams. Even if they didn't have to work together, Piers and Omarosa were pretty vocal about what they thought of each other. This week, hell broke lose when Trump decided to mix up the teams and the enemies ended up, you guessed it, on the same team!
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Posted Feb 6th 2008 12:02PM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Lost, Vs.
Last week's riveting Lost premiere brought the Jack-Locke conflict to an entirely new level. This time, all of the survivors (including some of the Others) were forced to choose sides. It wasn't an easy decision, and there were some surprising choices. Each side has its benefits and its drawbacks. Let's take a closer look at these new teams!
Continue reading Team Jack vs. Team Locke
Posted Feb 1st 2008 10:19AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, The Apprentice, Video, Vs., Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
If you watched
The Celebrity Apprentice this week, you probably still are thinking and talking about that boardroom scene (and I use that latter word here to
mean both "a subdivision of the episode" and "
an exhibition of anger or indecorous behavior"). Even if it looked childish at times, we have to admit that this was one of the most entertaining boardroom ever!
In short, during the task America's Got Talent's Piers Morgan, who was project manager for the men's team, sent The Sopranos' Vincent Pastore over the women's team to spy on them. Of course, it backfired: Vinnie, who did it willingly (see the first video after the jump), eventually admitted to the ladies that he was sent there to spy but that he now wanted to be a double agent; and, later on the episode, Vinnie and Piers had a major argument about the "rat project". In the boardroom, Vinnie revealed to Trump what had happened. This was followed by more argument between Piers and Vinnie, and comments from the women, the other men, Trump and his children.
Continue reading Celebrity Apprentice: Piers Vs. Vinnie - VIDEO
Posted Jul 13th 2007 10:17AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Programming, Vs., Game Show
This week, two networks premiered game shows that are really similar. NBC launched
The Singing Bee while FOX premiered
Don't Forget the Lyrics. Which one will last longer? Will both tank? Or maybe both will survive thanks to their lead in:
America's Got Talent and
So You Think You Can Dance, respectively.
Now that both premieres aired it's time to decide if you'll be a singing bee or you'll try to not forget the lyrics.
Continue reading The Singing Bee Vs. Don't Forget the Lyrics
Posted Apr 23rd 2007 12:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Vs.
News about the
Grey's Anatomy spinoff have been pouring in since late February when it was announced that
Grey's character Addison would possibly get her own show. Since then, fans and critics have been speculating as to whether this was a good or a bad idea.
Earlier this week,
ABC gave official details about the two episodes that will serve as a test to see if the spinoff will indeed be part of their 2007-2008 lineup or if Addison will stay at Seattle Grace.
Even if the two-hour spinoff episodes will only air on May 3, we can already start speculating as what series we will like better:
Grey's Anatomy or
Private Practice (the spinoff's tentative title).
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy vs. the spinoff
Posted Apr 8th 2007 5:19PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Vs., Celebrities
Mike Vs. Ian. Even though Susan Mayer said yes to Ian's proposal on
Desperate Housewives, any fan can see that she still has feelings for Mike and is somewhat second guessing her decision to wed Ian.
Pretty much anyone can predict that, even though Mike lost the poker game, things are not over between Susan and him. For sure, Mike will come back in the picture and somehow put Susan's wedding to Ian in jeopardy.
Continue reading Mike Vs. Ian on Desperate Housewives
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