American Idol/Apprentice Premieres
From Washington D.C. the contestants came in droves in their search for the big time and their belief they have the talent to win it.
Surely some of those entrants went with hopes of perhaps getting a spot as one of the quirky ones, sort of a William Huong kind of thing.
There were so many featured this past week on the two nights the show was on that it was hard to hone in on contenders or sad story lines.
I found a few of note. A Regina Brooks had a big feature spot. Her story is that it was a choice between selling her Karoake machine or her wedding rings to get the money to attend the audition. She couldn’t bear to part with the machine so the wedding rings were pawned.
Frankly it sounds a bit far fetched to me, in that, come on, sell your wedding rings instead of a Karoake machine? And Regina had quite a bit of family in attendance at the audition so where did they get the money and why couldn’t they lend their beloved family singer a few bucks?
Regina is quite a singer and has the “feel” of an American Idol. Also, Simon voted “NO”, straightaway, usually a sign the auditioner will make it to the finals.
Didn’t get her name, but there’s a young British kid to look out for. More details next week.
Now for a few interesting TV offerings in the coming week.
On Monday, 1/24@ 9pm, tune in to the Pet Channel. It’s a premiere of a new series called “Who gets the Dog?”. The premise being that a specific dog, of its certain breed, age, sex and such, is up for adoption. Potential pet adopting couples will be “interviewed” and their lifestyle, dog breed requirements, children and type of house will all be factors in considering the appropriate home for the dog then up for adoption.
Not only is Grandmother an expert of the highest caliber of all things dog, their personalities, breeds and weirdnesses, I’m also pretty good at judging people. Check in not only to the show, but on next week’s missive on how I did.
This intriguing show also has great potential in illustrating the differences in dog breeds, the special requirement each brings to pet ownership and the importance of a proper match of owner and dog.
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On Tuesday, 1/25 @ 10 pm, ETV is featuring a show yon readers will thank me for reminding. It’s, I’m not making this up, “The Best of Anna Nicole”.
Save your applause for the show.
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On Thursday, 1/27 @ 8 pm, ABC is featuring “In Style Celebrity Weddings”. Well sure it’s stupid. I like to watch this sort of thing just to see what lengths people will go to make themselves feel important and better. How much money or what special foods or the flowers that will stun-the things people will do when in the end, they aren’t doing anything much different than any of us if we had the money and resources.
Though The Wise I would argue myself and perhaps yon readers would be much more level-headed about it, having suffered car payments and mortgages.
But that’s just me.
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Let’s Talk About the Apprentice
Gotta love it. Gotta love The Donald, who got married this past week, precisely at a prime time during this third in The Apprentice Series.
The Donald, hell, he’s an expert at Bullshit. And the man got rich being a bullshitter. Those not insanely jealous gotta stand on the sidelines and love it. None of us make a living bullshitting, except maybe me, but I work hard at it.
So in this third series it’s the ‘brains’ against the ‘brawns’. The notion being that the brains have fancy college degrees while my-name ‘brawns’ are those with only a high school diploma. It’s a story straight out of the fiction books and already the signs are there.
In the Great Burger King episode, the street smart kids beat out the brainy ones handily. Were I scripting the series I’d follow that very same pattern exactly.
In fact, if I’m honing in on the concept correctly, I’m betting the format will be that street smart gang win consistently until, tada, that one assignment that would have a weird problem that only education can solve.
Danny is the weirdie of the series and Trump and producer play him well. He almost played out as the “mascot” of his team standing in front of Burger King with some strange shiny objects bouncing over his head. The man does dress, ahem, unconventional. Which means conventional wisdom would be that Trump fires him right away.
I don’t believe this for a minute. Danny is being set up to be the drama throughout the third series though in the end I predict he will not win.
Unconventional Danny
One interesting story I heard this week was that Trump wasn’t quite telling the whole truth when he told one potential apprentice that the story of how he purchased a house for a driver who helped his chauffer with a flat, was TRUE. Well, there’s a lot of skepticism about this claim. One thing, if this is a true story, and let me tell you the would-be apprentice smiled and was appropriately wowed in a suck-up kind of way, then The Donald would be parading this vehicle Good Samaritan all over every commercial and in every ad he runs.
Yet nobody knows the guy’s name.
Here’s a link to the Snopes story on this urban legend. Donald, Where’s the Good Samaritan?”
For another review on this third series, Check Out MSNBC’s writer.
Here’s a site called RealityTVFever
and there’s lots on The Apprentice.
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On Friday, 1/28 @ 10 pm, Twenty/Twenty is featuring, well here’s the blurb:
Talk, Newsmagazine, Lies, Myths and Nasty Behavior With John Stossel Journalist/author John Stossel examines popular beliefs and bothersome behavior.
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On Sunday, 1/30, @ 8 pm, TVGOS is featuring what looks like a fun Super Bowl preview.
On that same night, @ 9 pm The Food Network is featuring new American Iron Chef. Bobby Flay vs Ming Tsai. I prefer the American version of this fun show as I hated watching the Japanese always do horrific things to fish. The more normal American fare is more palatable.
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