Some of you have written to ask why I devote Fridays in this space to asking for nominations for the worst TV all week instead of the best. Well, aside from the fact that it’s my job to help steer you away from the lousy, I also think you should have a forum to sound off on what you–not what just I–found annnoying. Plus, EW.com already does a dandy job of rounding up the best TV moments every week, as video, here.
So, what’s the worst thing you watched all week? Here, I’ll get you started:
I cannot abide those non-stop Fox commercials for next week’s American Idol audition episodes. How clearly can I say this to the producers? WE GET IT: LOTS OF AMERICANS CAN’T SING. SHOWING US 10,000 MORE EXAMPLES OF THIS IS BORING.
Now then: What drove you up a wall? Was it a network show, a reality-TV fiasco, a cable-news annoyance, a commercial? Comments, please!
True Beauty. Awful, awful stuff.
I totally agree with you Ken about the AI commercials. The one I hate the most starts out “It happens one time a year….” Yeah one time a year for 5 months! The show is on twice a week til May! Ugggh. I hate American Idol season…
I’ll also put a vote for The People’s Choice Awards. Yesterday, Whitney hit the mark with her blog.
The “people’s choice” awards… or as I now like to call them, The “Give the trophy to any celebrity that shows up and is promoting a current project” awards.
I only watched a half hour…. but it was boring as hell.
An invitation to discuss tv crap. How irresistable!
You actually picked a good week for this discussion because there was lost of dreck on tv these past 5 days. And, you started with a series of commercials for one of the most popular shows on tv – commercials that I agree are annoying. But a lot of promos on tv these days are grating to the nerves.
Worst tv this week? People’s Choice Awards, Multiple Repeats of New Shows During the Same Week (Scrubs, Law & Order), Any New Reality Show.
“lots”…..not “lost”. Perhaps I was thinking that most shows are the opposite of Lost. Perhaps…
The worst thing I saw this week was a schlocky/fake show on Animal Planet called “Lost Tapes”. This show is so bad and so far beneath what Animal Planet is usually capable of.
I have never, nor will I ever, watch “American Idol.” It’s sadistic twaddle, pandering to the lowest common demoninator among brain-dead teenaged viewers who wouldn’t know good taste if it bit them on their bums.
Toss up between Superstars of Dance and the People’s Choice Awards. Thankfully I only watched abut 20 minutes of each of them and had PopWatch to hilariously fill me in on the garbage that I missed.
After reading EW’s article last week about the Secret Life of the American Teenager, I decided to give it a whirl. I only lasted 8 minutes before being suffocated by the earnestness.
90210, god help me. When the kid started singing Amazing Grace I think I came close to vomiting.
People’s Choice Awards – Rascal Flatts singing “Life is a Highway”…AGAIN..
seriously…didn’t that song come out, like, 3 years ago?? PICK A NEW SONG!
did they do a good job? sure…it’s just ANCIENT
The “You showed up so you win” awards are the winner by a mile of worst tv I saw this week. however, True Beauty- I was totally on board with the concept of awarding the person with the best inner beauty, but then they did that stupid “fake science” exam… wtf? Who gave that guy a medical degree if THAT was what he was going to do with it?
The return of the horribly written, poorly acted, completely rediculous, devoid of reality Secret Life of The American Teenager. Seriously people, teenagers don’t act like that!!
I completely agree with kingofcities, this week’s 90210 was laughably bad. My vomit moment came during the moment where they were like, yay you don’t have aids but you are preggo…
The producers of the Biggest Losers sending home half of their contestants on week 1. After making a huge deal of having the “biggest” contestants ever who needed the most help, they send half of them back home immediately. Just hated it.
I’m really hoping there is a fabulous twist and those people are out training somewhere with Kim!