TV Bender

Burger King has now found a new low, instead of just sticking with food as their topic they’ve resorted to selling sex. Sex as in the “Morning Tongue,” okay we all know what they are talking about and how the heck do you tell your 10-year-old boy that they aren’t talking about something else. Or imagine your 7-year-old daughter asking why she doesn’t get a morning tongue like the commercial shows. What’s your thought on this? Has Burger King gone too far?

Honestly, I’ve seen Burger King commericials that have made me hungry, but after watching their “Morning Tongue” I’ve become sick. Sick with their gross view point of hunger. Sick with the thought of this commericial.

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This past two weeks we’ve heard rumors that Bionic Woman was being canceled, this is NOT the case. You can read more about this at Watching Bionic Woman. From what I’ve seen though everyone thought it was being canceled due to the writer’s strike, this does not seem to be the case for the show.

NBC has yet to make any official statement on the shows behalf. Of course if rumors are to be believed we’ll be losing Las Vegas as well.

The Writer’s Guild voted yesterday to end the writer’s strike. So, what does this mean to us regular folks that just sit back and watch television? Well, if you hadn’t heard or noticed there have been many reruns on several television shows lately. Or maybe they just killed off your favorite character because, well they just needed something. Starting very soon we’ll start getting brand new episodes to watch, which means goodbye to the reruns, however this won’t happen immediately so gear up.

What are some tv shows that you are hoping continues on? Some shows you can care less if they ever show back up?

Chris North, from Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and girlfriend, Tara Wilson welcomed a little boy into the world this past Friday. The little bundle of joy weighed in at 7lbs 10 oz. No news yet on the name.

UPDATE: The name of this wonderful gift is …. Orion Christopher.

Yes, Carrie from Days of Our Lives is actually pregnant. No, not on the show, but I’m sure they could even write that in somehow if they really wanted to. But the actual actress, Christie Clark, is actually expecting her first child with husband Thomas Barnes. The little Angel is going to be a girl and they are naming her Hannah.

Christie even touches it on her blog:

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American Cinematheque honored Julia Roberts late yesterday afternoon during 22nd Annual Award ceremony. It was only last year that Julia Roberts presented the award to a smiling George Clooney and this year it was Denzel Washington who was able to give it to Julia Roberts. Of course Julia Roberts wasn’t willing to just take the award and walk away. With her bright smile she replied, ““I think I came along at a kinder time in the business.�? Whether that is true or not, she sure has made some GREAT films, that’ll forever grace us on the television.

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After looking at my Tivo I realize that I have watched the wrong ‘SVU’. Instead of seeing the new episode on NBC I was duped into watching a rerun on USA. Never trust anyone else to set the timer for you. You know who you are so I won’t say your name here this time. So I’m sorry about the mistake ,and I won’t let it happen again. In other news starting tomorrow I will start to cover a newcomer to the crime drama genre. The new show is on NBC ,and it’s called ‘Life’. All the critics are giving this show rave reviews. The little part of the premiere episode that I got to see this show looks phenomenal. The premise of the show is that a cop is wrongly convicted in a triple homicide. He serves twelve years in prison before his case is overturned. He receives millions in a settlement with the city and rejoins the police force. All of the years in prison have changed his perceptions of things. From what I saw it gives him an edge in solving cases. This show seems to be the sleeper hit of this season. I think that this show brings a fresh take on the crime drama, and I’m happy to get to cover this. Check out my excellent coverage of the rerun ‘The Kiddie Killer‘.

Tonight is the premiere of season 9 of ‘law and order SVU’. I’m very excited to see what’s in store for us. For a while season 9 seemed to be in doubt when Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay entered into negotiations for more money. All the disputes have been settled. Now the ninth season promises to be more exciting than ever before. With strong story telling, the already superb cast, and tons of new guest appearances this season I’m prepared to be in awe. I have always thought that the formula of ‘SVU’ and ‘CI’ was a successful one. Keep your eyes here for the episode recap as well as information on upcoming episodes as well. In other ‘law and order’ news ‘CI’ returns on October 4 with their new season. Actress Julianne Nicholson will be on maternity leave as the season starts. It is going to be interesting to see how they write Detective Wheeler’s temporary departure from the show. Her temporary replacement will be the accomplished actress Alicia Witt as Detective Nola Falacci. Her acting credits include the films ‘Two Weeks Notice’ and ‘The Upside Of Anger’. Make sure to check out my other latest posts Brushing Up and Coming Monday.

Yahoo TV has made a list of the Top 11 Worst Dressed Emmy’s.

Hayden Panettiere
Jenna Fischer
Elizabeth Perkins
Vanessa Williams
Becki Newton

Lorraine Bracco
Mindy Kaling
Jaime Pressly
Ellen DeGeneres
Kyra Sedgwick
Debra Messing

I do agree with many of these pics, while the ladies in these dresses may be gorgeous the outfits they wore were ickkk.

Emmy, Worst dressed Emmy’s, Hayden Pantierre

It seems that after a mother complained to the state about something that happened during the filming of KidNation, New Mexico took interest. Even though the show stopped filming in May and begins to air in September, they can still get into a lot of trouble if found guilty.

New Mexico is looking into whether or not KidNation broke any state laws or labor laws when they had children fend for themselves. According to a rep for the Attorney’s State Office:

“Information is being evaluated now and reviewed in light of all the interest in this. We are determining what our next move will be or even if there will be one. Even though it seems it’s kind of a moot point, there are a lot of things to look into that we could still address.�?

By all means, I really hope they didn’t but even after watching footage I had wondered. I don’t know if it is illegal to make the kids do all the work that they showed in the filming but I do understand why the parents would be upset. I’d be a bit ticked off if it were my kids.

According to the NYTimes the 22-page contract signed by parents stated:

“parents and kids were responsible for “emotional distress, illness, sexually transmitted diseases, H.I.V. and pregnancy�? if the participant “chooses to enter into an intimate relationship of any nature with another participant or any other person,

I’m not sure about you, but this would’ve been a definite FORGET IT. To state if something goes wrong they are taking no liability, they already had NO privacy except for showering and going to the restroom. Why could they NOT watch children to make sure they were doing anything?

Here’s a part that someone will be getting in trouble for:

“Violating the confidentiality agreement carries a $5 million penalty. CBS and the production companies, Good TV Inc. and Magic Molehill Productions, retained the rights to the children’s life stories ‘in perpetuity and throughout the universe.”

I wonder if they’ll sue now that word has gotten out? Now a child was able to get paid $5,000 but if they left the show early they no longer qualified. Hmmm, but didn’t they send kids away every week? (I could be wrong there since I haven’t seen the September episodes)

Accidents:
1 girl burned by splattered grease to her face. (sounds like cooking duty)
4 children hospitalized after mistakenly drinking bleach

We shall all be finding out really soon what it was really like and if KidNation broke any laws. Stay tuned!

KidNation, CBS, New Mexico

What will you be watching this weekend? Here’s a short list of all those TV shows that’s on:

Kids:
Drake & Josh:
Really Big Shrimp- Drake gets a music deal but Josh screws it up when he tries to get creative. Josh gets upset when Mindy gets the assistant manager for a wedding. (Last episode of Drake & Josh)
8/7 C Friday Nickelodeon

Big Brother-
Two houseguests go to the block. Who will leave? What’s your guess?
8p.m. Sunday CBS

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CBS has announced that Drew Carey will now be the new host of The Price is Right.”

Carey was quoted stating,

“I couldn’t be more excited. I realize what a big responsibility this is. It’s the longest-running game show in American television and I plan to keep it that way.”

Carey has already filmed the first “new” episode this past Monday, I know I’ll be tuning in when it airs. My guess is while Carey is extremely excited about taking on this role he must be very anxious as well. Bob Barker made this show a hit and kept it going strong for 35 years.

To all those Bob Barker fans, don’t worry he was all for Carey taking over. He even gave Drew some advice:

“Go out there and do that show the way you think it should be done. Don’t imitate me and don’t imitate anyone else.”

Photo Source: EW.com

Drew Carey, The Price is Right, Bob Barker, CBS, game show

Apparently the producer of KidNation has heard talk about his first show not being so great and has spoken up about it.

“I exchange e-mails with every one of these kids and they’re doing just great,” he said.

I know a reader mentioned the children working awful hours (labor laws), according to Tom Forman that is not the case. Of course, would he really be truthfully on something like that? I guess we’ll know if the children start talking. He even stated that the best location was New Mexico and no where else, not even California due to lack of labor laws.

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Did you ever watch X-Files the t.v. show? I remember this showing growing up, it scared the crud out of me. But now I love watching the old re-runs and can understand why X-Files was a hit. X-Files is now in talk about making an X-Files Movie part 2, so if ya liked The X Files Movie you’ll want to see it.

Currently there is no name to the X Files sequel, but talk is it’ll be released in 2009. David Duchovny, who played Agent Fox Mulder, has stated that fans wouldn’t have to wait long to see X-Files on the big screen once again. He’ll even be reading the script for it this upcoming week. I wonder if he’ll state what he thinks of the script.

Photo Source: YahooTV

X-Files, X-Files Sequel, X-Files Movie, David Duchovny, Sully, Agent Fox Mulder