Froodee

Living. Blogging.

The Voice vs. X Factor: Which Show is Going to be a Hit?

By

The battle is on between two top rating reality singing shows as they start their new season. The Voice debuts today while the X Factor will premiere on Wednesday.

NBC is pitting these two popular TV shows against each other in a bid to increase viewership. And what can fans expect from the new season? New twists in the shows, as revealed by Mark Burnett, the executive producer.

For The Voice, the battle rounds among the singers will have a new format. In this new season, a coach is given the chance to steal a losing contestant who has been sent home. In addition, the losing contestant can choose to change his coach but only if more than one coach hits the red buzzer.
[Read more…]

DWTS Coming Down to Four

By

After the great performances in “Dancing with the Stars” last night elimination night will surely be interesting. The scores are pretty close with Niecy Nash trailing behind Pamela and Erin only by two points.

  • Niecy Nash and Louis Van Amstel- 49
  • Pamela Anderson and Damian Whitewood- 51
  • Erin Andrews and Maksim Abcrunchowsky – 51
  • Chad Ochochinco and Cheryl Burke – 52
  • Evan Lysacek and Anna T- 54
  • Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough – 54

With such close scores who knows who’ll be going home? The fan votes will definitely carry even more weight tonight and no pair will be safe, not even power couples Nicole and Derek and Evan and Anna. I do hope though that Evan and Anna will not be going home tonight. That will just be plain wrong after they got perfect 10 from all three judges for their Argentine tango!

However the eliminations will go though we can be sure that performances from this week forward will get even better with the stars shaping up to be like pros more each day. As for me I’m betting that Evan and Anna will go home with the trophy this season. You just do go toe on toe with a figure skating champ and not expect him to win a dance competition. But I might be wrong, people after all root tend to root for the “underdogs” (case in point: Kate Gosselin). As for the other pairs all I can be sure about is that at least for Erin and Maksim they’ll be bringing home something if not the trophy (Just watch TMZ!) while the rest will still have memories and fat paychecks.

Kate Gosselin the TV Star

By

Kate GosselinKate Gosselin may be have finally been booted off Dancing With the Stars last Tuesday but it sure isn’t the last time we’ll be seeing her on TV. Not including all the tabloids and Jon-Kate “entertainment updates”, Kate will be getting a lot of TV face time with her upcoming TLC show “Twist of Kate”. It is also reported that she’ll also be continuing the show “Jon an Kate Plus 8” with the kids, of course this time sans Jon.

DWTS

Kate’s stint with DWTS sure was painful to watch but it just shows how bankable it is to do a reality show with her since she managed to stay on for weeks just by the sheer volume of votes from her fans. It just goes to show how much people can relate to the confusion and hardships that goes with motherhood, having a egotistic ex-husband, and maybe even finding yourself mess up but still wanting to go on for your kids and yourself. Even I was touched by Kate’s thank you. Anyway, I guess I can now watch DWTS without having to cringe so much. For DWTS though it might mean a significant drop in viewers with Kate gone.

Twist of Kate

In Twist of Kate, TLC will bring Kate to different states to meet different families with different issues. We can expect the show to take off what with the drama that Kate always brings wherever she goes, plus this time it might actually be educational for her to see just how hard it is for other more normal families to struggle through life without a reality show to pay for the bills. I hope Kate the best in this series and hope it will make enough for her that she’ll opt not to go ahead with Kate plus 8. I’m all for her working and appearing on TV but maybe it is time for the kids to get less exposure. But who am I to say, maybe they really do miss the TLC’s crew since they know no other life?

Is there hope for VH1?

By

VH1 is pretty much the last place you’d ever look, if intelligence is what you’re seeking on your TV screen. Somehow, the network that used to be devoted to music videos 24/7 has turned into a home for the most wretched, depraved reality shows in the world, which at best highlight the inane lifestyles of the rich and famous, and at worst, parade around one brainless, bikini-wearing bimbo after another. Face it: the V and the H might as well stand for vapid hussies.

So it came as a surprise to me today to hear that VH1 is completely reworking its entire lineup of shows by launching no less than 44 new ones. I had high hopes at first, especially upon hearing that Flavor Flave and Bret Michaels would no longer have VH1 shows to feed their libidos. But I’m sad to say that a close inspection of the network’s list of new shows does little to inspire confidence.

Among the highlights:

  • You’re Cut Off: 9 spoiled girls are forced to stop abusing credit cards. VH1 has nicknamed it “spoiled rotten rehab,” which conjures all sorts of mental images about the tantrums that are sure to ensue.
  • My Big Friggin’ Wedding: 5 couples cause excessive, thoroughly unnecessary drama as they try to throw the “wildest weddings anyone has ever seen” complete with “smoke machines and lasers” and “a bride that wants to be lowered from the ceiling.”
  • Estranged with Dr. Drew: Dr. Drew Pinsky continues to whore out his Ph.D, this time to couples facing relationship meltdown. The doomed duos are forced to undergo “an intense and focused process that takes place over the course of a day.” God help them.
  • The OCD Project: Patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder are exploited for your entertainment.
  • Diary of a Hip Hop Girlfriend: Good grief, do I even need to describe this for you?

Vh1, we implore you: make the madness stop. Or, just acknowledge that you’re trying to morph into a pay-per-view porn network and be done with it.

Michael Bay takes a shot at TV

By

Hollywood’s reigning king of explosions, Michael Bay (director of Transformers, Armageddon, and The Rock, is taking on television for the very first time, with a competition/reality show called One Way Out. Bay is joining forces with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, who produce Project Runway and Top Chef, to create what’s being called “action-adventure” reality show.

The premise of One Way Out puts selected contestants in extreme and volatile environments, with no bare necessities on-hand, where they’ll try to keep hidden secrets from their pasts from their fellow contestants. Trust and betrayal are the name of the game, while every contestant must also go to extremes merely to survive. It all builds towards some kind of showdown where every secret is exposed and some kind of big twist takes place.

If that description sounds pretty vague, that’s because it is. Bay and his partners aren’t releasing exact details about the show just yet, preferring to keep things mostly secretive to build interest. The trio hasn’t yet found a network home for the show yet, but is shopping it around Hollywood as we speak.

Whatever. As long as explosions are involved, that’s all that really matters.