Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the DMV goes and does this. This week our heroic Governor Schwarzenegger announced that the Department of Motor Vehicles will cease its Saturday morning services. Budget cuts led to the state’s unwillingness to pay part-time and overtime employees so that it could serve its citizens more conveniently.
This is completely backwards thinking; wouldn’t it make more sense to shut down on Monday and Tuesday with a work week that includes Saturday and Sunday? While it’s true that most people would rather get a root canal or be forced to listen to the Scarlett Johanson album than waste a weekend day underneath the blinking fluorescent bulbs of the DMV, that’s also the only time many of us can make it to this unfortunately essential destination.
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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the DMV goes and does this. This week our heroic Governor Schwarzenegger announced that the Department of Motor Vehicles will cease its Saturday morning services. Budget cuts led to the state’s unwillingness to pay part-time and overtime employees so that it could serve its citizens more conveniently.
This is completely backwards thinking; wouldn’t it make more sense to shut down on Monday and Tuesday with a work week that includes Saturday and Sunday? While it’s true that most people would rather get a root canal or be forced to listen to the Scarlett Johanson album than waste a weekend day underneath the blinking fluorescent bulbs of the DMV, that’s also the only time many of us can make it to this unfortunately essential destination.
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August is finally here which means the baseball playoff race is heating up, football is on its way back and, most importantly, the new TV season is almost here.
That doesn’t mean, however, that we’ve escaped the hell onscreen that is the endless reality programming and reruns of the summer. We must soldier on for a few more work weeks until all our favorite shows come back in September to make the drudgery more bearable.
But don’t despair, below are enough good shows for tonight to get you through at least this evening.
Reality Rundown
- Ace of Cakes returns to the Food Network with it season premiere tonight at 10:00. The fifth season kicks off with the bakery producing a theme cake for the premiere of “Kung Fu Panda”. No word on whether Jack Black ate the entire thing by himself.
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Every night until summer ends you need look no further for your daily guide through the summer TV jungle.
This is a rough time for nightly entertainment with the tube awash in repeats and lame reality shows, but there’s still good stuff available to get you through the work week.
Let the picks begin. . .
Reality Rundown
- It’s catharsis time for NBC as it attempts to make up for airing the horribly exploitative “Baby Borrowers” with an hour-long town hall meeting entitled “Lessons Learned” Let me guess, people will do anything to get on TV?
- At 10:00, HBO takes us inside NFL training camp for the second straight season with its series “Hard Knocks”. Last year, we journeyed through the pretty mundane Kansas City Chiefs camp, this time around it’s the Dallas Cowboys featuring the rain king Pacman Jones, T.O., and Jessica Simpson’s boyfriend, Tony Romo. Seems more like a soap opera than a football team.
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Every night until summer ends you need look no further for your daily guide through the summer TV jungle.
This is a rough time for nightly entertainment with the tube awash in repeats and lame reality shows, but there’s still good stuff available to get you through the work week.
Let the picks begin. . .
Reality Rundown
- At 9:00 on ABC is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the grand finale of “I Survived a Japanese Game Show”. The final four contestants compete to determine a winner by running an obstacle course filled with the hardest challenges from previous episodes. So if you haven’t watched the show yet, you can enjoy the entire series in one two-hour installment. Banzai!
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August 4th, 2008 Written by: Andrew · 1 Comment
August is finally here which means the baseball playoff race is heating up, football is on its way back and, most importantly, the new TV season is almost here.
That doesn’t mean, however, that we’ve escaped the hell onscreen that is the endless reality programming and reruns of the summer. We must soldier on for a few more work weeks until all our favorite shows come back in September to make the drudgery more bearable.
But don’t despair, below are enough good shows for tonight to get you through at least this evening.
Reality Rundown
- At 8:00 on NBC it seems that one hour just wasn’t enough “American Gladiators” so they’re treating fans to a two-hour extravaganza this evening. There’s a good reason for it as in this episode the four finalists are determined and then will battle it out to see who the ultimate contender is. What a night!
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Kathy Griffing - My Life on the D-List
Every night until summer ends you need look no further for your daily guide through the summer TV jungle.
This is a rough time for nightly entertainment with the tube awash in repeats and lame reality shows, but there’s still good stuff available to get you through the work week.
Let the picks begin. . .
Reality Rundown
Kathy Griffin takes us on another trip through her “Life on the D-List” with two straight episodes on Bravo tonight at 9:00. First Kathy performs a stand-up set in exchange for two extra tickets to Bora Bora. Then in an all-new episode at 10:00 Kathy attempts to bring some Grammy attention to her new comedy CD.
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Every night until summer ends you need look no further for your daily guide through the summer TV jungle.
This is a rough time for nightly entertainment with the tube awash in repeats and lame reality shows, but there’s still good stuff available to get you through the work week.
Let the picks begin. .
Reality Rundown
- “Project Runway” is back in full swing with its final season before it moves to Lifetime. At 9:00 on Bravo catch a brand new episode as the contestants attempt to recreate the Manhattan skyline in fashion. Guest judge Sandra Bernhard will help determine their fate.
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Generation Kill
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Every night until summer ends you need look no further for your daily guide through the summer TV jungle.
This is a rough time for nightly entertainment with the tube awash in repeats and lame reality shows, but there’s still good stuff available to get you through the work week.
Let the picks begin. . .
Reality Rundown
On Lifetime tonight at 10:00 catch the premiere of “How to Look Good Naked” hosted by one of the former “Queer Eye” guys Carson Kressley. Tonight he helps a tall lady lose weight in order to fulfill her dream of dancing a tango.
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With the dog days of summer really sinking in as the heat combines with a lack of TV to completely fry our brains, picks for the best stuff on the tube is becoming increasingly important.
In order to meet this need, our weekly TV guide will expand to a daily list of the best bets in several different categories.
Let the picks begin. . .
Reality Rundown
We’ll spare you ABC’s 3-hour reality block featuring “High School Musical: Get in the Picture”, “Wanna Bet?” and “The Mole”, and turn you over to a gem on TLC, “John and Kate Plus 8″. This show details the attempted ordinary life of a central Pennsylvania couple with a set of twins, and a set of sextuplets. Catch four consecutive episodes tonight, starting at 9:00 with the brand new “Sunny Day” where the clan visits the Sesame Place amusement park.
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On September 6th, the finest ever show about movies will cease to exist.
“At The Movies” that pantheon of serious criticism originally featuring the thumbs of Siskel & Ebert and more recently Richard Roeper and Michael Phillips is about to get a makeover. For its 23rd season, Roeper and his guests will yield the balcony to the new team of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
It might as well have been fric and frac. Mankiewicz the slacker creature from the basement of Turner Classic Movies has no experience as a film critic and has just gained the most powerful spot in the industry. His companion’s biggest claim to fame is the movie critic for that bastion of film journalism “The Daily 10″ on E! Lyons is just a haircut and Mankiewicz needs one. Hey, at least their dads were famous
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On September 6th, the finest ever show about movies will cease to exist.
“At The Movies” that pantheon of serious criticism originally featuring the thumbs of Siskel & Ebert and more recently Richard Roeper and Michael Phillips is about to get a makeover. For its 23rd season, Roeper and his guests will yield the balcony to the new team of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
It might as well have been fric and frac. Mankiewicz the slacker creature from the basement of Turner Classic Movies has no experience as a film critic and has just gained the most powerful spot in the industry. His companion’s biggest claim to fame is the movie critic for that bastion of film journalism “The Daily 10″ on E! Lyons is just a haircut and Mankiewicz needs one. Hey, at least their dads were famous
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