Dawn ,'Selfless'
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Why is Robert Irvine on NFNS? They took him off Dinner: Impossible, yes? Seems odd they'd ask him to be a guest.
They're still airing the Dinner Impossibles that he stared in, although they say they're not going to tape any new episodes with him. I think maybe they taped this before everything came out and they couldn't go back and re-do a challenge.
Ah. Yes, I see the winter coats now.
there was a part in the broadcast where they were booing the team who wasn't sent home. The audience CLEARLY disagreed with the judges' decision.
I felt sorry for that team, but I agreed with the audience. They were surly, but they were right.
Being someone who doesn't like confrontations, and doesn't even like watching them, I prefer to think that the audience was booing the judges' decision, rather than the team.
well, you could be right about that as well - though I suppose that's a sort of confrontation too.
True! But I feel less sorry for the judges. I think their egos are insulated enough by professional success to withstand the crowd disagreeing with them. I just feel sorry for the teams.
NFNS - I can't believe it but I actually liked Lisa this week. She, Aaron, Jeffrey and Kelsey are my current favorites and they totally sent the right guy home but Nipa needs to go next.
Design Star - I LOVE that they're going to have to build some sort of dwelling in a week. Ha!
She improved a lot, and it sounds like she got it through her head that she needed to lose the crazy "three Cs" babble.
Yes, that Beautiful Basics is a much better concept.
From that TC interview:
Which of the winners of your show would you hire for your kitchen?
Any of them. I have purposefully stayed away from hiring anybody that's been a contestant. But I think Tiffany, a woman from Season 1, was fabulous. She wasn't a fan favorite, but I thought her cooking was brilliant. Harold I would have hired. Forget about the show for a second -- if Harold walked into my restaurant and said he wanted a job, I would have hired him. Same thing with Sam. [Season 3 winner] Hung, definitely. I think a better question would be, "If you were going to open a restaurant with one of them, who would it be?" That's a little different. Probably Harold or Hung. I think [Season 2 winner] Ilan -- he's a good cook, just a little immature, and he has a little way to go. If I were going to raise money and put someone in charge of the kitchen, I'd want someone with a little gravity or weight to them.
I am vaguely disgruntled about educational TV this weekend. Normally if I don't have travel plans or movies to go see I like to veg out and watch assorted science type programs on a lazy Sunday. But the History Channel has apparently become the Ice Road Truckers Channel, Discovery had a Dirty Jobs marathon that proved Mike Rowe is one of those good things you can get too much of, and the Travel Channel was one long endlessly looping Disney infomercial.
It's pretty bad when you find yourself yearning for Patrick Stewart to narrate how dragons co-existed with the dinosaurs.
My usual fallback when nothing else is on is to go to OnDemand and pull out whatever ep of The Universe looks good. I like those space documentary shows, because they usually do a good job of making something that is literally cosmic understandable to me.
Also, now that I've got a DVR, I've kept a few eps of Top Gear on tap for watching when I can't stand what on the tube.