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JERSEY SHORE! BIG BROTHER! ALL MY CHILDREN! The TV Addict Week in Rewind

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The “Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya Where The Good Lord Split Ya” Award Goes To… : Vinny, The Situation and any other JERSEY SHORE cast member who walks away — or threatens to — from the show. Dudes, if you think there aren’t about 5.3 million folks with equally low IQ’s willing to act like [...]

2 Posted in big brother, Daytime TV, Featured, Showtime, Week in Rewind

Channel Surfing with CT: TRUE BLOOD, BACHELOR PAD, AS THE WORLD TURNS & More!

What a difference a year makes! Last season, TRUE BLOOD’s main storyline — about a creature named Mary Ann who wanted to… um, well, do something bad that I didn’t really give much of a crap about. But this year’s various plotlines were compelling and humor-filled, turning this into the HBO show’s best-yet showing (both [...]

3 Posted in big brother, Channel Surfing, Daytime TV, True Blood

Has reality TV run out of pretty people? Just Askin’

In this new recurring column, we tackle some of today’s biggest… or at least most interesting… … or at least vaguely interesting to us… questions. This week, we ask… … has reality TV run out of pretty people? That’s the only explanation we can come up with to explain some of the casting that has [...]

1 Posted in big brother, Random Musings

Channel Surfing with CT: TRUE BLOOD, BIG BROTHER, AMERICAN IDOL & More!

Hell hath no fury like a vampire scorned. Just ask Russell Edgington, the bloodsucker who, after interrupting a TBBN telecast and declaring to the world “We will eat you, after we eat your children”, changed the game as it is played in the TRUE BLOOD universe. From the beginning, the show existed in an alternate [...]

1 Posted in American Idol, big brother, Channel Surfing, True Blood

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Hysterical Things Uttered by Lane on BIG BROTHER Last Night

While the 12th season of BIG BROTHER is turning out to be a major snoozefest, last night we were at least kept entertained by the unexpectedly entertaining things said by Lane, the Texas boy who until now has been relatively quiet.  Upon seeing a statue of a unicorn: “I’ve seen a lot of horses in [...]

2 Posted in big brother

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Reasons This Summer’s BIG BROTHER Is a Big Bust

  Worst. Alliance. Ever. Folks, learn a lesson here: Never let a guy who gives himself the nickname Meow-Meow name your group. Chilltown? Great name. The Brigade? Not so much.   Too Much Whine Britney and Monet are two of the most annoying creatures ever admitted to the BIG BROTHER house, and that’s saying something. [...]

8 Posted in big brother

Say What? Our TV Quote of the Day!

“I know ‘lie’ is in Natalie’s name.” — BIG BROTHER’s Kevin realizes that his partner-in-scheming isn’t all that trustworthy.

1 Posted in big brother, TV Quotes of the Day

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: CT’s Reasons Why this Season’s BIG BROTHER Blows!

America’s Choice: The best they can do is let us decide what nasty food to have the houseguests eat each week? Yawn. Broadcast delays: Sorry, but thanks to the potent combination of the internet and CBS’ own live feeds, any fan of the show not only knows days in advance what’s going to happen, but [...]

6 Posted in big brother

Reality Check with C.T.

So what’s up around the dial where reality TV is concerned? Let’s take a look… I’m not proud about this, but I’ll admit that when watching THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA I fast forward through everything that doesn’t involve human train wrecks Kim and NeNe. Come to think of it, I’m not proud that I [...]

1 Posted in big brother, so you think you can dance

Reality Break with CT

After sitting through another exhausting episode of BIG BROTHER — with its endless squabbling between the increasingly immature housemates — I realized that I never gave due praise to a little reality show that really deserved it: HERE COME THE NEWLYWEDS. Airing over the past few months on ABC directly after THE BACHELORETTE, the woefully [...]

1 Posted in big brother, Reality TV