My TV Musings

NCAA Football

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:57:01 +0000

Gators and Longhorns won by 10-point margins, but USC lost to Washington and ‘Bama won their game, so there’s a little bit of a shake up in the top 5. I can only hope that Kentucky will be an easy win for the Gators next week because Texas takes on UTEP which should be an easy one.

Survivor Samoa

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:50:00 +0000

Survivor premiered this week and one contestant, Russell Hantz, is calling everyone stupid because they are willing to ally themselves with him. He chose one of his teammates to be voted out because she suspected that he wasn’t being truthful in his alliances. Can he fly under the radar for many more weeks before his team figures out what he’s up to? He is making his own team weak by emptying their canteens! Can he win with this strategy?

Dark Blue Finale

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:22:01 +0000

I have enjoyed this edgy cop drama. Loved learning more about each character with every new episode. Early on I hoped Jaimie would dump her attorney boyfriend for the ever-so-hot Logan with whom she had a very steamy relationship. Even Dylan McDermott grew on me over time, so it was nice to finally learn something about his mysterious past, into which we had not been able to see until this finale.

America’s Got Talent Finale

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:24:08 +0000

This talent competition has one of the most eclectic mixtures of oddities I’ve ever seen! There were times when I was dumbfounded at some of the acts that got through to the next level, leaving what I thought were obviously more talented acts behind.

The finale was no exception. My favorites coming into this week were Drew Stevyns, the Texas Tenors, and Recycled Percussion, but certainly I did not expect Kevin Skinner, a former chicken farmer, to steal the crown from Barbara Padilla, who was clearly the best singer of the entire competition. America was feeling extremely sentimental when they let Kevin slip past Barbara and gave him the $1 million dollars. Gotta give it to him, though, he is a humble, nice guy and I’m sure his family and friends in Kentucky are extremely proud and, who am I kidding? Barbara and all the other finalists will do just fine!

Big Brother 11 Finale

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:27:36 +0000

Going into this episode we didn’t know who the final two were. We watched Jordan compete with Kevin for the final HOH. It came down to a tie breaker and Jordan was able to pull out the win! I was happy for her, but I had a feeling that she would lose against Kevin in the jury vote because he probably had more people on the jury than Jordan. But then Jordan actually sent Kevin packing and took Natalie to the final two!

What followed were questions asked of the final two by the jurors, and it started to look like there might be a chance of a split jury, meaning that America’s vote MIGHT be the final word. Julie Chen decided to show us America’s vote first, and America voted for Jordan to win. Still it wasn’t definite until the other votes were in.

You could almost hear the collective gasp as we found out, contrary to what most of us must have thought, when Jessie and Lydia BOTH voted for Jordan! But it still wasn’t final yet, and we found out that Russell had voted for Natalie, so it all came down to Jeff, Michelle, and Kevin. The next vote uncovered was Jeff’s and, not surprising at all since he was her BFF and possible future boyfriend, he voted for Jordan. That made it official – Jordan was the winner! It was so exciting because we could NOT believe that Jessie voted for Jordan and not, as we thought, his one-time conspirator, Natalie!

We later found out that Michelle voted for Jordan and Kevin voted for Natalie, making Jordan’s win a 5-2 victory! I would be surprised if Natalie ever talks to Jessie again and I’m thinking that he may have disliked the fact that Natalie road his coattails (to some extent) and, since he was a semi-star from having been on a previous Big Brother season, she acted as if they were a team, while he just wanted to have allies, not close friends. I never cared for Jessie and believe he is too full of himself and doesn’t want to have to share the limelight with anyone.

So, another Big Brother season is now behind us and I tip my hat to Jordan, who I think was the most deserving of those at the end. I wish Jordan and Jeff luck in pursuing their newfound relationship, maybe we’ll hear more of them as we did Rob and Amber from another reality show.

Bills – Patriots Football

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:54:23 +0000

What a great game! I never expected to want to watch the entire game, expected the Pats to kill the Bills from the start. I’ve gotta give it to Trent Edwards and the Bills’ offense for bringing it, too bad they couldn’t take it to the very end of the game. Still it gives me hope that perhaps Brady and the Pats won’t have another undefeated season this year. I don’t like it when one team is able to run the gauntlet, well, at least when it’s not one of MY teams!

NFL Opening Day

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:43:42 +0000

As every Sunday during football season, opening day is a dawn to dusk event at my house, starting with ESPN’s Sports Reporters, followed by the talking heads, trying to juggle as many as possible by recording 2 on the DVR and watching 1 on live TV. Got to be sure to hear the predictions, whether from Hank Goldberg or the NBC and CBS panels of experts, love to hear what they have to say and get our own predictions down. Then we hope to get enough of the good games that we don’t regret not being able to get satellite in our apartment! Living in Texas, we usually get the Dallas and Houston games, and I try to monitor my Bucs and Seahawks on the crawls and revolving scores. Most of the games didn’t go my way this week, but my Seahawks DID beat the Rams, and the Giants beat Washington, so it’s not all bad. Here’s hoping Green Bay can come through against Chicago and maybe TO will make the Buffalo game on Monday night enjoyable!

Stargate Universe Premieres on SyFy 10/2

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:06:13 +0000

The long-awaited new series, Stargate Universe, starring Robert Carlyle, will premiere on the Syfy Channel on October 2. I hope it will live up to the standards of its predecessors, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis. The premise is that a team of researchers boards a failing Ancient vessel with no way to gate home. Lou Diamond Phillips and Ming-Na also star.

If you enjoy watching Carlyle in this series, I highly recommend the BBC series, Hamish McBeth, in which he starred in the 1990’s.

Dollhouse Premieres 9/25 on Fox

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:27:09 +0000

In anticipation of the second season premiere of Joss Whedon’s (of Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Serenity fame) Dollhouse, starring the amazing Eliza Dushku, I just finished watching (thanks to Netflix which I now love) the final two episodes of season one as well as the original unaired pilot, which was parsed throughout the first seasons’ aired eps, AND an additional show, a post-apocalyptic videotaped episode, entitled Epitaph One. The last was created just for DVD and shows a possible future of the Earth due to the impact of the use of Dollhouse technology, which allows a human essence to be downloaded into another body. I’m psyched for the next season and glad Fox is going to let Joss do this one without interference from the network!

Big Brother 11

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:32:01 +0000

What a great episode! Natalie was about to cry she was so upset about her loss to Jordan in the 2nd of 3 competitions for the next and last HOH of this season! Is it possible that Jordan could beat Kevin in the final next Tuesday? And is there any way she could actually pull a win out of this? I may actually think about getting online to vote for her since America gets to be the 7th juror this year!