Evidently hating Jon Gosselin can even inspire good (well, relatively good) dancing. During last night’s Dancing With the Stars rehearsal segment with Kate Gosselin and Tony Dovolani, Kate broke down in tears about her current legal tussle with Jon over the custody rights to her fame-making eight children. In an attempt to get her to focus on her dancing, Tony said READ FULL STORY »
The season finale of Undercover Boss told us the thorny story of 1-800-Flowers. The show pumped up a rivalry between the two brothers who head up the company, Jim and Chris McCann. Jim (the CEO) asked Chris (the company president) to go undercover. Why? Because as founder of the company and Jim’s big brother, he likes READ FULL STORY »
If you’ve been reading my recaps, you know I’m a fan of Huntington, WV, disc jockey Rod Willis, the man whom Jamie Oliver describes as “the biggest enemy of the food revolution.” That’s because, based solely on what I’ve seen of Rod on this TV series, he’s READ FULL STORY »
Performing in make-up and a costume that looked put together by her children, Kate Gosselin had another agonizing night on Dancing With The Stars. Moving with a vague sense of rhythm to what she said was “a song that speaks to me” — Lady Gaga’s READ FULL STORY »
The water-works were flowing full-force this week on Undercover Boss, and they weren’t limited to the clogged bathtubs and toilets that Roto-Rooter President and COO Rick Arquilla went undercover to tackle.
The hour promised hair-clogging and sewage spewing galore, with our hopes high that the Big Cheese would take a bit of it up the nose, since we tune in Boss to see the high and mighty brought low, right? Well, the show fell considerably short of this. We were told Arquilla’s back-story at the start, that he was raised in a working-class family with an alcoholic father who himself worked on the factory floor of a Roto-Rooter plant. Then we were shown that Arquilla’s past led him to feel particular sympathy for a New Orleans employee, Chris, who said he was a recovering alcoholic. READ FULL STORY »
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution could yield a spin-off: Alice’s “Your Food Is A Pain In The Butt To Cook” Resistance. Alice, the Huntington, West Virginia, elementary-school lunch worker, is proving to be the British cook’s greatest adversary. This week, in his quest to rid the unhealthy-eating town of processed, fatty food, Oliver brought in some extra help for the five-woman Huntington cook-staff, but Alice READ FULL STORY »
Another Tuesday, another set of vexed TV decisions to make this evening. I count at least eight non-rerun possibilities for you to choose from.
Will you be a Lost viewer who’ll stick around afterward and see if the new run of V episodes draws you in?
Another Good Wife rerun this week. (Come on, CBS: Stop READ FULL STORY »
Yikes. Dancing With The Stars “shopping cart” Kate Gosselin reduced her partner Tony Dovolani first to quivering rage and then to quivering apology before their jive-in-every-sense dance on Monday night.
In the taped rehearsal segment before their performance, Kate was shown READ FULL STORY »
There were nothing but good vibes emanating from Undercover Boss this week, as Joel Manby, CEO of Georgia-based Herschend Family Entertainment, toured some of the various amusement parks in READ FULL STORY »
If you liked the first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, last night’s second edition was… pretty much the first episode all over again, with a couple of eyebrow-raising new details. Such as READ FULL STORY »
