Archive through September 11, 2003
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Archive through September 11, 2003
Eeyoreslament | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:50 am     AMERICAN satellite is illegal up here. The CRTC is the governing body up here, and one of the major reasons we can't have American tv is that there is no control over the mandatory amount of "canadian content" on each channel. It's their way of keeping the arts/production scene up here in business. Otherwise we'd just all subscribe to the American stuff, and anyone who wanted to produce shows up here would have a fighting chance. The CRTC allows Bell ExpressVu, and StarChoice, but they offer EVERYTHING that you could get with your digital cable provider. There is no REAL HBO or MTV. Noooo....we get the watered down MTV Canada, and our movie channels get to PICK the HBO series' and programs THEY want to see. I believe there is a sneaky way to get around this, and subscribe to American satellite, but I believe you need to have an American PO Box to recieve your bill in, and you have to install the dish yourself etc. I guarantee the person who says they see tons of satellite dishes is just seeing the StarChoice and Bell ExpressVu dishes, and not the American versions. Down with the CRTC!!! |
Chy | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:59 am     Too much Mike Boogie last night, wasn't it? I like the part when JerriM from Survivor said her acting career was actually hurt by being on a reality show. She thinks real actors recent Reality shows since it take away chances for real actors to make money(Reality shows take up too much air time blah blah...) Then they immediately show this seasoned Hollywood agent/manager. She basically said that it'd only hurt if a person did not have enough within to become an entertainer to begin with. If a contestant has potential, a good agent will be able to stretch that 15 min. fame much longer.(I think that agent said she signed up 5 of them from Survivor I and made them all millionaires??) Bravo show followed this statement with many examples, but since I'm not that savvy with names, I could only try here. Richard H. from Survivor I said he made a lot of dough on account of being on that game show. A Mike person from Real World is Host/VJ of a show on MTV now. He's doing real well! They showed (snake calling)Sue's face as one of those who made rounds of talk shows making $5-250 G.. (I was surprised.) Will was still charming as ever. But he did not speak well of his fellow HGs. He talked as one proof about how these game shows encourages contestants to calculatingly doing things against others. Lie, cheat, be mean, and especially playing with minds. AG the producer seems to be in love with him, saying he's amazing and the best ever most whatever... Regarding Nicole, Will couldn't even say "The lady in the F2 w/me..." he goes:"There was a girl in the show name Nicole..... I messed with her so bad, ...play with her head about her relationship with her husband... in the end she thought I was her only friend in the whole world and had to keep/cling on me ....(PP of course) I watched it 1am, fell asleep before it finished. It'd be too difficult to do a spoiling since it's on tonight the same time as BB live show for instance. The repeat show at 1am is not a good time for me to be typing. My PC is awful small/slow, never mind that I won't even know how to record it on PC. But I plan on taping the whole 5-part repeat on Sat. I promise I won't tape it over for a while. So if there's no other ways, I could post it some where for someone smart to put it on a stream or transcribe it.... |
Chy | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 11:15 am     Can I just keep posting impressions from the show for those who missed it? Will my long ranting annoy anyone? I did not like that Mike Booger was considered an expert... He loved the publicity BB bought to "his" restaurant. Bravo showed that those who didn't get to make much appearances on the tube were popular in colleges making speeches about show biz, their experience and(get this) morals, human natures... BTW, in my first msg, when I said "post it", I literally meant post it with the post office. |
Mich | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 03:32 pm     well fellow Canadians, on the bravo Canada site, on the faq page, they have a question "Can I request that Bravo! air a particular film or program?" links to them. I am going to request that Bravo Canada air this...maybe if enough of us do so we'll get to see it sooner that just little old me asking |
Keiffer | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 04:37 pm     I agree that the Bravo series so far has not shown us anything that WE didnt already know. The people on this board are the harder core reality show fans, and get links to articles, pictures, and chats. We have known all along about the way producers edit shows to create more one diminsial characters because that is what the general TV audience wants. We knew that Amy wasnt just a drunk, and that Chiara was not just a . The producers though for a TV show need characters that are easy to either root for or against. As for trying to lead the game in a paticular way for one person to win I do not think BB does that. If they did they would have fixed it so Shannon would not have left so early in BB2, so that Amanda could have stayed to have more sex in the house this year. |
Texasdeb | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 04:42 pm     I watched at last night's show for the 1st time. Bravo will show the whole series this Sun. afternoon so I've put this aside as "lazy time" & will watch every show! |
Tweety | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 07:32 pm     Chy, thanks for your impressions of the show. The more detail people include, the more helpful it is for those of us who can't see it! Mich, I'll follow your suggestion and request this show on bravo.ca. Do you think they could accommodate our request by this weekend? With no BB show we'll need something to watch!!!! |
Donut | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:54 pm     there was SO much of 'Dr. Will, Kirby, M.D.' and Mike and Belly's, i think the "reality of reality shows' show is fixed too! I think will and mike are secret producers... For those who couldnt see it, the high point was when Will said that he told the producers during his audition that he would go to any lengths to win, and they asked him what if they asked him to do something with another guy, and he nonchalantly replied " I would f*** him up the a$$ and then go make a sandwich" He said that they all laughed and said, see you in two weeks, you're on!" |
Bastable | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 08:56 pm     Yeah, and then Les Moonves said he didn't think such a conversation ever took place. Besides, Will WAS in the house with a gay guy (Bunky) and as far as I recollect, he only made good on half of his promise. |
Chy | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 09:12 pm     Donut, I was so sick of seeing Booger's baby-blue head band plus baby blue shirt, that could be why I didn't doze off. But there was enough coverage of Survivor and Bachelor shows in between so I didn't think Mike & Will were that involved. But like I said, AG looked so taken by the Dr., and Mike said they are business partners now. Tweety, if you like Justin from the 1st AI, the show also have a lot of him. (That'd be 2nd hr of the 5-hr series.) I just remember how it was mentioned that, the game-show type of contestants look down upon the dating kind. Joe Millionaire and Bachelor was the counterpart. Pt. 3 would be on again in less than 25 min., but I need to go to bed. I'll come back and recall what I could tomorrow. |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:56 pm     DARN IT! I missed tonight's episode!!!! |
Angelsluv | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 11:57 pm     The guy from "Real World" is not Mike, his name is Eric. He was in the first group on "Real World" in NYC. After doing the show, he ended up modeling and being the host of MTV's "The Grind". Later he created dance/excersise videos with the same title. Last thing I saw him on was one of the "Real World/Road Rules" competition series'. |
Luvtrash | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 12:32 am     I thought it interesting that when they were talking about manipulating story lines, the BB producer complained that BB is very limited in what they can create because of the internet viewers who knew the truth about what had happened. He gave as an example a clip that showed Jerry hanging over the shower door apparently oogling Marcelus and then showed a posting from a message board that pointed out that it wasn't the way it happened--they were discussing strategy. Maybe the show whould be a whole lot more interesting if we weren't so nosy! LOL |
Angelsluv | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 12:41 am     *LOL* Luv, we keep them on their toes and just goes to show they do have moles checking out the boards *LOL* |
Beruthiel | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 02:01 am     Thanks for the tip about requesting the series from Bravo.ca, Mich. I went to the site and they say that although they don't take requests for shows, we are free to email them and make suggestions, and so I did. For any other Canadians who'd like to do the same, the email address is bravomail@bravo.ca, to save you hunting for it! (I had to read the whole thread for the exact title, so here it is again: "Reality of Reality") I'd watch it just for the segments on BB, and I want to see what A. Grodner looks like! |
Spear | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 02:24 am     Here you go, Beruthiel:
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Fan3 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 02:31 am     I wonder if you Candaians ( or anyone else who wanted a copy but couldn't see it) could go to the Bravo site and order a tape of it? just a thought |
Beruthiel | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 03:17 am     SPEAR! THANK YOU! And what a face, My God! I'm speechless, ROFL! FAN3, we probably could, but I think it would worth the wait to see if we get the show up here first. Maybe we'll get a reply to our emails telling us the show's going to be on sometime! But thank you for the good suggestion!  |
Mich | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:21 am     haha Tweety - i wish! i got an automated response back from them saying they take all inquiries into consideration however due to the amount of requests they receive they cannot respond to each inquiry personally. so you know what that means...the brush off but i still think that the more requests they receive the better! |
Mich | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:23 am     Beruthiel - sorry, i didn't see your response there as well. thanks for "linking" ppl up where i failed i hope this works! |
Beruthiel | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 05:00 am     No problem, Mich, I was being proactively selfish - I want to see this series!!!  |
Bastable | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:20 am     She looks like Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus. |
Fan3 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 09:09 am     Looks like "Wierd Al Yankovwich" (unsure how he spell his last name,,,, but she is weird looking. if you don't know who he is , he is a comedian? songwriter/ singer to makes up lyrics to other artist songs, quite good if you ask me. |
Bbb333 | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:17 pm     Todays live feed:Rob said he had not been in the DR for 2 days and Jun was immediately FOTH'd as she said "they are pretty much telling us what to say now anyway" |
Donut | Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 07:39 pm     "WE are the real Big Brother!" I was so glad to see Arnie finally give us some credit! I thought it was great when he talked about trying to make it look like Gerry had the hots for Marcellus, but couldnt because us internet viewers see the real story..I thought it was great when he called us the real Big Brother, because we are always watching what HE does so he cant get away with as much. And when they showed the lines from a thread, i couldnt help but feeling like that was all of us on the show! I was a bit surprised by the fact that editors take data from weeks of reality shows and try to paste it together to make furniture match so it looks like it all happened on one day...I mean , i know they edit lots of stuff together, but i didnt know they time crunch things THAT extensively. It was a trip seeing Shannon and the toothbrush again... And i just think Mark Barnett is so evil with his threats that staff cannot interfere even in tragic situations because they shouldnt try to affect their world. Its not like he is running a control group in a life saving medical study, its just a world created for entertainment for chrissakes!! Just pull Mike out of the fire and lose your stupid job! What's wrong with people! it makes me ashamed that i watch these shows.. Was that Cheaters show American??and was the host ok? did anyone ever hear about that stabbing incident? |
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