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.
Actually, that show looks really fascinating and not at all trainwrecky -- unlike
Texas Ranch House
which was a ginormous train wreck.
I just want to ask the parents what the hell they were thinking letting a reality TV show babysit their 8 year old for a month. I'm sure CBS has their collective legal ass completely covered, but still - a TV show is not summer camp!
I just want to ask the parents what the hell they were thinking letting a reality TV show babysit their 8 year old for a month.
An eight-year-old is way, waaaaay too young, if you ask me. So are most ten- and eleven-year-olds, probably.
I would guess that they were swayed by the possibility of their child being awarded a $20,000.00 gold star.
Man. I had heard about this show, but that clip was bad news.
Anybody watching SYTYCD (even the acronym is too long!)? There was a popper in the Chicago auditions that was unbelievable! I can't even describe what he did! If you get the chance still to catch it, it is worth the whole show! He came at about the 1hr15min mark or so.
