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Our rating scale is like the social life of that loose girl you know, the more Shafts the merrier. But only upto 10, which makes no sense, but helps our scale. It is also completely negative and written by people who have no discernible talent, except at griping. That’s to assure that these are like real TV reviews. All photos are from the official
sites of the shows. When we get out of college and start getting
paid, we'll take them off.
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Kristen (8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, NBC) This was the summer vehicle for Tony Award-winning Kristen Chenowith. Kristen’s over-acting
and ultra-squeaky voice reminded us why she’s a Tony Award-winner.
Here’s to hoping that NBC doesn’t pick it up. Not because we don’t
like Kristen, we just don’t want Tony Award-winners Nathan Lane and
his fat buddy to start popping up. On the show, popping up on the
show.
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Big Brother 2 (All the time, Various Weeknights, CBS) Much like tea, snootiness, and the band Wham! – some things just work better in Britain. It’s not Survivor,
and it will never be Survivor. Hell, Survivor 2 wasn't
even Survivor. We know CBS bought the program idea from some
network in the U.K., and after two seasons, can they sell it back?
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The Wayne Brady Show (Sometimes in August, ABC) As far as sketch comedy goes, this show is Nickelodeon’s “All That” with grown-ups. Except the writing on All That is probably stronger. A talented
individual, Whose Line Is It Anyway’s Brady serves up awesome,
never-seen-before impressions like James Brown, Tina Turner, and Michael
Jackson circa 1983. You’d think that he stopped paying attention
to popular culture at some point during that year when you see the cutting
edge satire. The skits mostly suck, but that’s ok, because it’s a
“variety” show, which means lots of completely unnecessary singing.
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Manhunt (probably cancelled by now, UPN if ya got it) Paintball. Yippee. Did we mention it’s scripted? Scripted paintball
fights between morons and washed-up professional wrestlers. Okay,
just “morons” will do. If they were actually hunting people down
and killing them for sport, that would be entertaining television.
Or a mediocre Ice-T movie.
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Alright, if this is supposed to be so good -- why isn’t he on it? We get the feeling watching The Downer Channel that Steve Martin just signed a bunch of papers from NBC without reading them so they could use his name. Compared by some critics to Saturday Night Live in 1975, we think it’s alright, but we wouldn’t go that far (unless you thought that was just alright, but you probably weren't even around then. We weren't.) Wanda Sykes-Hall is a cast member, that might not mean anything to you, but she writes most of Chris Rock's stuff. And she's the voiceover lady in the Carrot Top phone commercials. Did we mention she wrote alot for Chris Rock? The Downer
Channel is different, and that’s fine with us.
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CABLE TV Martin Short is the Cadbury Egg of Comedy Legends. He sounds good every once and awhile, then after a taste, you realize why it's not on the shelf all the time. We thought this show would be horrible.
At first glance it looks like a “look how many famous friends I have” vehicle
by Short, but it’s not completely awful when given an honest chance.
The parodies between interviews are rather clever, and we’d rather
see Short be involved with a show that did those. Did we mention
NBC shows SCTV re-runs after Conan?
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Feet Under, Arli$$ (new episodes, HBO)
We forgot, it’s not TV, it’s HBO. Well, we’re sure that all of the
shows mentioned above would be better with swearing and tits. That
said, let’s hear it for swearing and tits!
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