I hate summer! In years past this statement is followed by a long rant about hockey being over, but hockey has been over for me for almost two years. I did watch 15 minutes of game 5 of the Stanley Cup playoffs between the Oilers & Hurricanes but was afraid I was about to see a canadian team lose to a team where they rarely see snow so I changed the channel. I just checked nhl.com and saw that the Oilers pulled it out in ot to force game 6 - good for them.
Anyway I still hate summer! It’s hot! It hit 100 degrees in Denver today - hotter than Vegas! It’s only supposed to be in the low 80’s! We’re going to die!
Plus the drive in is too crowded (they didn’t change or re-arrange anything for this week), and there is nothing on TV!
To keep my Tivo from going dormant I’ve had to find something to record in the wasteland that is the summer television season, so I have added Season Passes for the following:
“Windfall” - watched the pilot, it was OK. I wish it was Brandon instead of Dylan as the devoted husband, but thus far it is not unwatchable.
“Saved” - watched the pilot, it was OK. I think they’re trying to hard tho so it will probably get tiresome fast.
“Last Comic Standing” - I know this has been around for awhile and I’ve never been interested. Not sure how it caught my attention this time, but I was fascinated by the Simon Cowell counterparts and what they considered funny and how you couldn’t read their reactions at all. And there were some truly funny people who turned up. I obviously appreciate good comedy so I’ll watch. But with some bizarre added reality tv twist of having the finalist live together in a big brother-ish house, I will probably get over that real fast.
“Treasure Hunters” - premiers this sunday and I would have higher hopes for it if (a) the amazing race hadn’t gone so far south in recent seasons and (2) if it wasn’t from the producers of “the davinci code” but we’ll see how it goes.
That’s it for now, but I did add a wish list for Brandon Routh, my new boyfriend, and set it to auto-record! He’s also my new wallpaper, and on the holographic Superman Returns Slurpee cup I got today!
..yummy!I do have standards, low ones, but standards.. So here are some things that I won’t be programming into the old Tivo:
“The Rock-Paper-Scissors Championship” - seriously, I couldn’t find the remote control the other night and this came on A&E. Live from Vegas of course.. on A&E!? They really need to remove the “A” since it is supposed to stand for arts, and change it to WTE, white trash entertainment.
“America’s Got Talent” - it hasn’t started yet and I could see myself getting sucked in, some of the acts on the previews look.. intriguing. But I have to try and avoid it, if for no other reason, two words.. David Hasslehoff!
“Chris Angel: Mind Freak” - I hate this guy! Really, is there anything sadder than a David Blaine wannabe?
“Big Brother All-Stars” - Are you frickin’ kiddin’ me?!
I’m sure there are others, but that’s the worst I’ve seen so far. Besides, I’m constantly finding it necessary to adjust (aka lower) my standards.
Oh, wait there is something else I programed in my Tivo.. (I can’t believe I’m going to admit this) “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Wait, I had a reason… I had the Tyra Banks Show on (oops, I shouldn’t have admitted that either, but there’s a reason for that too. it’s on right before the mid-day news and i like to watch the weather before i leave the house.) and Antonio Sabato, Jr. was on. And I have to admit, he does not look as bad as that picture I posted a few weeks ago. Anyway, he was on because he is now on The Bold & The Beautiful as a regular, permanent cast member. Did you know that “The Bold and the Beautiful” is now literally the Most Watched TV Show In The World!? So I couldn’t resist, I had to check it out. It seemed pretty obvious really, in all those tv movies he looks and acts like he’s on a soap opera. So I set the Tivo - not a Season Pass, just a few days because not everybody is on every day. And there he is engaged to Felicia with whom he has a child, but in love with Brooke’s daughter, Bridget, who turned down his proposal previously but now knows she made a mistake and wants him back so he was going to break off his engagement to Felicia who is a Forrester, but I watched B&B in college and Ridge & Thorne didn’t have a sister, but you know how soap operas work, Brooke didn’t have a daughter then either (wait, if Felicia is Ridge’s sister and Bridget is Brooke’s daughter doesn’t that make Felicia Bridget’s aunt? wait a second, did Brooke get pregnant when she had an affair with Eric, Ridge’s dad? because then they would be half sisters. ehww! how do people watch this stuff?) but when Dante (that’s Antonio’s name) got to the Forrester mansion he found that Felicia had his whole family flown in from Italy to surprise him and they were totally smitten with her already and she moved the wedding up to this week so his family can attend. (dramatic music rises) uh-oh, this is awkward.. what will Dante do?
But the surprising part, because that’s all S.O.P. for a s-o-a-p, was the opening credits… do you know who else is in The Bold & The Beautiful cast? Soap opera veterans Jack Wagner and Lorenzo Lamas, as well as Patrick Duffy!! Oh and also one of those kids from Saved By the Bell. Wow! That’s kind of alot for a half hour show, plus from what I could tell most of the core cast is still there from when the show started. I just can’t figure out why they are so much older and I’m still the same. So I guess if you had to watch a soap opera, that would be the way to go which could be why it’s the most watch show in the world. But I think it’s because “Baywatch” isn’t on anymore. OK that’s two Hasslehoff references in one post. I gotta go!
