Pregnant on Primetime

January 24, 2010 in Documentary, Drama, Features (BSWatch & Users), Reality, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

After Lifetime’s debut of the original movie The Pregnanacy Pact, the verdict is in: America has a cultural fascination with sensational pregnancies—and the more controversial, the better (remember Octomom?). The [...]

One Big Happy Family’s New Year’s Resolution

January 3, 2010 in Features (BSWatch & Users), Reality, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Reality TV likes spectacle. Half the fun of American Idol, after all, is puzzling over how so many talentless people can delude themselves into standing in line for hours only [...]

NBC’s Sing-Off hits all the right notes

December 23, 2009 in Drama, Features (BSWatch & Users), Reality, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Out-of-key Christmas carolers might be a bit more ambitious this year, after the fall television season saw the airwaves inundated with group singing.  High School Musical might be old news and American [...]

Steve and Tango’s School of Hard Knocks

December 21, 2009 in Features (BSWatch & Users), Reality, Science Fiction, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Though asking spirits to rap on walls has been mostly out of vogue since the decline of Spiritualism (that’s so 19th century), Syfy’s bringing it back with a bang in [...]

Introducing Models Who Don’t Tear Each Others’ Hair Out

October 16, 2009 in Drama, Features (BSWatch & Users), Reality, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

Lifetime Television might have something with it’s new “behind the seams” look at the models of Heidi Klum’s Project Runway.  And I have to say—these models have restored my faith [...]

The Colony: Honey, you need a flamethrower

September 12, 2009 in Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show, The Colony

This summer the Discovery Channel premiered a new series, a so-called “controlled experiment” called The Colony.  Something of a hybrid of Lost, Survivor, and Stephen King’s The Stand—but only roughly, [...]