I think this was acutally the third episode of OTL. I didn't watch the previous ones. I agree, there were only a few good films.

Did I miss an episode? Wasn't there supposed to be an ep where people were eliminated based on a one hour take?

Fox must have skipped one, because DH and I noticed the same thing! On Thursday there were 34 and they were in the middle of shooting the films that would narrow the field to 18. Fox must have decided not to risk another night of low ratings and just move on to the semifinals.

I also don't think the online voting is working, because I haven't gotten my confirmation email yet and it's been almost half an hour. And I don't care enough to pay for a text message.

Right now I'm all about Zach (adorable + Canadian + post-production geek + robots on fire = LOVE), but I'll also vote for the first woman to chuck something sharp and pointy at Gary Marshall's head.

Garry Marshall was crazy condescending to the women tonight, wasn't he? Wow.

I think someone must've told Garry to be sensitive to any women's issues and he didn't know what to do with it. I hope his sister whacks some sense into him.

Carrie needs to let some of her sharper wit out. She's trying to be too nice.

With tape delay and FF, the 2 hour show wasn't terrible but I finished watching too late to vote online. I liked Check Out and Danger Zone, but the best was Dance Man.

I felt a little bad for the last guy. He had to sit through the whole show knowing thinking "Oh crap, they don't like fart jokes!"

Yowza - OTL only pulled in a 2.4 last night. (http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/newsletters/proginsider/index.jsp)

Anyone wanna take bets on how many they eliminate next week? I'm guessing at least 5.

You think they'll just skip to the finale? (I mean, these things are pre-taped, right?)

I think the broadcast is pre-taped, but voting is live (and there's a live results show tonight, same as with Idol), so the only way to skip ahead to the finale would be to eliminate more people every week so the finale comes faster. I doubt it'll be given another 2-hour timeslot.

The one mitigating factor is that all the networks did really badly last night -- CBS was at the top with a 5.8 -- so it's not like Fox tanked because another show had their audience. Everyone was just out barbequeing instead of watching TV.

I was going to post about the OTL results from last night, but right now I'm too busy being fascinated/horrified by this to think about anything else.

When I become a billionaire like Mark Cuban, I'm going to make a reality show where people have to live as actual hunter-gatherers.

All I know is the kid who missed his wheelchair-bound brother and cried -- and the group of kids who immediately rushed over to hug him -- made me cry.

I worked with kids for a long time outside the academic environment (day camps and afterschool programs) and so much of what I saw in that clip is familiar. Leaders will emerge, groups will form, and things will even get accomplished, but the chance for a lot of the kids to be hurt and scared and lonely and out of their element is definitely scary. I would imagine that they all to undergo psychological and probably intelligence testing to qualify, though.