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This Week on TV (8/25-8/31)

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Daytime, Drama, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, MTV, NBC, General Hospital

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MONDAY (8/25)

  • General Hospital (ABC, check local listings):  wakes up from her catatonic state. Hurry up and ask her all your questions before she goes back under.
  • High School Musical: Get in the Picture (ABC, 8pm):  “The six finalists attempt to learn TV theme songs from the 1970s and ‘80s.” Should we really allow these teens to butcher classic songs from before they were born?
  • Deal or No Deal (NBC, 8pm):  Season 4 premiere. Could this be the day that someone wins the million? Pleez. Do you think they’d give it up that quickly?
  • America’s Toughest Jobs (NBC, 9pm):  Series premiere. “Average Joes perform dangerous and physically demanding jobs in this competition series. The winner is awarded the annual salary of each job completed.” Aren’t Average Joes the ones already performing these jobs?

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This Week on TV (8/18-8/24)

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Drama, Food & Home, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, Bravo, Cable, MTV, NBC

Danity Kane

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)
(You can navigate NBC’s Olympics schedule here.)

MONDAY (8/18)

  • I Want to Work for Diddy (VH1, 9pm):  “Two members from each team must go to Paris and convince a model that Diddy saw in a magazine to come back to NYC with them and pose for .” If you want to flatter a girl, don’t send one assistant - send four.
  • The Hills (MTV, 10pm): Season 4 premiere. I’m ashamed to say that I know what a ‘Lo’ is.
  • Paranormal State (A&E, 10pm):  “A family in Shrewsbury, Mass., claims to have been living with a spirit for 40 years, and all but one family member believe the spirit is malicious.” If they’ve managed to live with it for 40 years, how bad could this spirit possibly be?
  • Date My Ex: Jo & Slade (Bravo, 10pm):  “Juvenile tomfoolery back at he house irks Slade and may mean the expulsion of a suitor.” Had this been simply adult tomfoolery, things would have been fine.

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This Week on TV (8/11-8/17)

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Action, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, MTV, PBS, TNT-HD

Kung Fu Killer

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)
(You can navigate NBC’s Olympics schedule here.)

MONDAY (8/11)

  • Sesame Street (PBS, check local listings):  Season 39 premiere. ”One, two, three, four...chickens just back from the shore.”
  • High School Musical: Get in the Picture (ABC, 8pm):  “The contestants get a lesson on how to express emotions without using words.” Tip #1: If you need to cry, cut a hole in your pocket, take a pair of tweezers, and just start pulling. (Thanks, Joey Tribbiani.)
  • The Closer (TNT, 9pm):  “Provenza gets in hot water when he loses evidence from a successfully executed sting operation.” Somebody better buy the boss a box a chocolates asap.
  • The Mole (ABC, 10pm):  “The mole’s last victim and the Mole are revealed in the fifth-season finale after all 12 players reunite.” If a mole is revealed but nobody’s there to see it, will a show get whacked?

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Hosting Quintet for 60th Annual Primetime Emmys

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Award Shows, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, CBS, FOX, NBC, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Survivor, News

Tom BergeronIf you hated 2007’s Emmy Awards coverage, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news? The theater-in-the-round crap will be gone. (At least, I hope.) The bad news? Ryan Seacrest will once again be hosting. Though, in this case, he’ll be getting a little bit of help.

Instead of burdening one person with the ringleader task, the ceremony’s producers will be doling out the responsibility to five this time around. After all - who better to host a broadcast than the nominees for Outstanding Reality Host?

For the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys, those up for this year’s new category - (Dancing with the Stars), Heidi Klum (Project Runway), Howie Mandel (Deal or No Deal), Jeff Probst (Survivor) and Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) - will coincidentally be representing five different networks. Could this mean a much wider audience for ABC? They better hope so. Otherwise, one of them could be eliminated…

This fall’s telecast will be broadcast from Los Angeles on September 21.

Read More | Variety

Project Runway’s Season 5 Cast and Judges

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, News

Project Runway's Season 5 cast

While it may be hard for to land style icons bigger than Sarah Jessica Parker or Victoria Beckham, the producers will always try to outdo themselves.

Here are the list of celebrity names we should expect to see on the reality show’s last season on : Diane Von Furstenberg, Sandra Bernhard, Apolo Ohno, Brooke Shields, LL Cool J, RuPaul, Rachel Zoe, Cynthia Rowley, and Francisco Costa.

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This Week on TV (7/14-7/20)

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, BBC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, MTV, NBC, TNT-HD, Degrassi

Saving Grace

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY (7/14)

  • Top Gear (BBC, 8pm):  Season premiere. “A game of car soccer is played.” No wonder kids are too fat these days. They can’t even get out of their car to actually kick a ball!
  • American Gladiators (NBC, 8pm):  “In the ladies tilt, a student tries to make the grade against a future figure skater.” As we’ve learned from , figure skaters come with an unfair advantage.
  • The Closer (TNT, 9pm): Season 4 premiere. “Fritz and Brenda’s new duplex forbids the presence of pets, but that doesn’t stop Brenda from keeping Kitty on the premises.” If Kitty is the pet, what’s Fritz?
  • Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm):  Season 2 premiere. “Grace gets busy on her day off: She works to unlock the secrets of her her haunted past, but instead ends up apprehending a criminal on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.” And I’ll bet she doesn’t get paid for doing all that work on her own time.

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Bravo Announces Project Runway’s Summer Return

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, News

Project Runway logo

Bravo TV loyalists - mark this date on your calendar. ’s last run at its original home begins in just a matter of weeks. It’s just been announced that Season 5 will begin on Wednesday, July 16th.

Come November, the hit reality show will not only make a move to Lifetime - it will split its time between Los Angeles and New York.

In other words, make sure to ‘watch what happens’ before all the changes start a-coming…

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Project Runway Goes LA

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, News

DescriptionApparently supermodels really like a good change.

First, Tyra Banks decided to move her daytime talk fest from Los Angeles to New York.  Now, is scheduled to do the exact opposite.  Though in the latter case, the switch will not be permanent.

According to Entertainment Weekly, ’s sixth outing will be split between NYC and LA.  This city-hopping move will apparently accommodate Klum’s personal and work schedules much better (but make everyone else’s a living hell).  The following year, things will return back to normal in New York.

As for the reality hit’s fifth season - the last one on - that too will still be set in the Big Apple.  That installment can be seen starting this July.

Read More | Entertainment Weekly

Naomi Campbell Visits Ugly Betty

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, ABC, Gossip

Naomi CampbellIn the past few months, controversial stars have seen their share of the comedy spotlight.  First, we had on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother.  Then NBC welcomed Paris Hilton on My Name is Earl.  Now it’s ABC’s turn to jump into the action.

For Ugly Betty‘s season finale (airing May 22), the producers will be bringing on troubled supermodel Naomi Campbell.  (Apparently she hasn’t done anything to ban herself from the show’s set.) Like Victoria Beckham’s cameo last season, Campbell is expected to play some version of herself.  In other words - Amanda better hide the staplers.

And just a reminder, Project Runway fans should make a point of tuning in on May 1.  That’s when Christian Siriano and Nina Garcia are scheduled to make their entrances.

Read More | E! Online

Project Runway Spinoff Coming to Lifetime Too

Posted by Jacci Lewis
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Cable/Satellite, Editorial, News

Project Runway Spinoff

Ever wish you could know more about the designer’s models on ? Lifetime thinks you do. USA Today reports that is planning to pair its newly acquired Project Runway with a half-hour spin-off called which will focus on them as people, not just living clothes hangers. (The model paired up with the winning designer on Project Runway also wins a modeling contract and a spread in Elle magazine.)

Project Runway is expected to move over to the top-rated women’s cable network, Lifetime, in November. will air its fifth and probably final Project Runway season in July, though the move is being contested in court by Bravo parent company . Project Runway has been Bravo’s top hit. 

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