POISON SCOOTER

Reality TV Quickie

Anyone watching Celebrity Duets? I'll admit that the singing is sometimes laughably awful, but you have to get behind Hal Sparks who last week got paired with Dennis DeYoung from Styx. Talk about a match made in heaven. Hal got to duet on Come Sail Away for his judged performance, opening the doors on the following night to put it all out there and do Mr. Roboto with a voice modulator and a robot mask. Amazing!



Okay, so how about Dancing with the Stars? I haven't seen much of this show the past 2 seasons, but the prospect of seeing Jerry Springer, AC Slater and Joey "Whoa" Lawrence was too much for me to not tune in. Jerry Springer's segments building up to the performances are priceless, the guy is really funny. Joey Lawrence looks like a young, fit Mr. Clean and I would guess has the potential to win this thing like Drew Lachey did last year.

The new Survivor kicked off with the battle of the races and from the looks of it, blacks and whites are underdogs this time around. If this race racket was a ploy to draw more viewers, it's back to the drawing board for Burnett and the gang. The show actually lost more viewers than last season's premiere. The first survivor tossed off was an African-American big mouth guy who didn't realize until it was too late that the women in his tribe had all the power from the start (3 women, 2 men). I happen to be a big fan of the show regardless of how the teams are drawn up, so I'm hooked already.

Finally tonight, let's talk about the new Amazing Race which started last night. The game appears slightly more challenging than prior seasons, and although I welcome the new tougher race, I didn't think a freakish elimination practially 10 hours after the race started appropriate. And the elimination mid way through the first leg turned about to be a disaster on another level when the real elimination took place at the end of the 90 minute premiere. I guess the show as trying to be more diverse and had a Muslim team and an Indian team added into the mix with the usual suspects; the gay couple, the bouncy white girls, the Alpha males who win every leg. (This time the men are ex-models (naturally) and (scandal) ex-junkies!) Too bad both the Muslims and the Indians are gone after episode 1. Thankfully the coalminer and his lady made the cut, because they look like fun. As in the fun to make fun of kind of team.

posted by Scooter @ 7:25 PM