TV News: The Good! The Bad! The Weird!
Posted by BRADY in American Idol, Celebrity Apprentice, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dancing With The Stars, Mad Men, South ParkApril 23rd, 2010, 02:20 PM
I know it’s traditional to start off with the bad news and end with the good, but this week’s good news in TV is just too great to leave until the end. My TV is finally free of the two most annoying contestants on cheesy TV talent contests!
Anyone who reads Square Eyes knows about our fascination with Kate Gosselin on Dancing With the Stars, in which we tune in every week to watch her attempt to dance/yell at her instructor/complain about how hard her life is/not spend time with her children, and then root for her to get kicked off because she is just so darn annoying and unpleasant. Well that day has finally come! And no one is apparently happier than the cast and crew of Dancing With The Stars, who had to live by Kate’s crazy rules on set, such as who was allowed to look at her and when. Yeah, that’s just full blown Howard Hughes style crazy.
Over on American Idol, Tim Urban (aka Sanjaya v.2010), who had been nicknamed “Teflon Tim” because of his miraculous survival on the show despite his horrible performances and reviews, finally got the boot as well. It only took until the Top 6, but now the show finally consists of only people who can at least carry a tune! Tim Urban, with his bizarre bowl haircut and persistent wide-eyed grin, looked more like the serial killer brother that wasn’t allowed to tour with the rest of the Partridge Family than a singer from this decade. I’m sure he will go on to great success touring with Justin Bieber on the “Our Terrible Hair Gives Tween Girls Aneurysms Tour.”
And now onto the bad news: Mad Men will be coming to an end in 2012, according to creator Matt Weiner, who planned the show for 6 seasons. I don’t even want to imagine a world without Don Draper drinking, smoking, picking up women, and spouting genius advertising ideas on occasion. Here’s to hoping for a better ending than the last critically-acclaimed show Weiner worked on, The Sopranos. Was this what the Mayans had predicted when they said the world would end in 2012?
In other unfortunate news, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are apparently going to get murdered over a cartoon. Yes, in this week’s episode of South Park the controversial pair attempted (yet again) to show a cartoon image of the Prophet Muhammad on the show, only to have it censored by Comedy Central (yet again) because of death threats. Let’s hope they survive long enough to make the Broadway musical about Mormonism they’ve been talking about!
And for the weird: a (supposedly real) website has been set up to “restore Stephen Baldwin,” who they claim has fallen on hard times because his outspoken born-again Christian ways have made him unemployable. The site is hoping to raise millions of dollars and restore Stephen Baldwin to his former glory. I didn’t know that appearing in Bio-Dome ever qualified as “glory.” More importantly, Stephen should have learned some business sense when he appeared on Celebrity Apprentice. Or maybe he can appear again next season with this as his selected charity!
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