A reality show airing in Algeria on state-owned TV is a competition between men who recite the Quran. ENTV’s Knights of the Quran “allows viewers to vote for their favourite reciter” and will announce its winner, the “Knight of Quran,” on the final day of Ramadan, The National Reports. The show “replaces two racy music …
Posts from: September 2008
America’s Next Top Model 11 debuted last night, and despite Tyra’s imitation of a moose and the faux Star Trek theme, Tyra and company were watched by 3.5 million viewers, an all-time low. The show was “down 11% from last February’s cycle, and down 32% from last September in the adult demo” and overall the …
Survivor Gabon has a fantastic character and perhaps a very strong player in Susie Smith, who won me over instantly. She was the first cast member to use my name and engage me in her answers, rather than sounding like she was saying the same things to yet another stranger; a strategy, perhaps, but it …
Tonight, Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares returns at 9 p.m. ET with a two-hour episode titled “Gordon Returns,” on which Fox says “Gordon Ramsay revisits the kitchens of six restaurants that were once on the verge of disaster.” Next Thursday, the show will return to hour-long new episodes focusing on a single restaurant’s makeover each week. While …
In mid-August, of the top 10 shows that were DVRed by viewers and watched within one week, there were just two programs: NBC’s coverage of the summer Olympics and CBS’ three broadcasts of Big Brother 10. And The Mole 3‘s finale came in at number 11. Sunday’s Big Brother 10 episode led that week in …
Bow-tie wearing high school teacher Robert Crowley was a likable guy, but like a few too many other Survivor Gabon contestants, I couldn’t decide whether or not he’d be a good player–especially when he said he’s not really interested in the money. “I’m not playing the game, I’m here to have a good time, I’m …
America’s Next Top Model 11 debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET, with a two-hour premiere that starts with the perfunctory and unnecessary audition episode the finalists are always revealed by The CW well before the first episode airs. For the opening hour of its 11th season, the show adopts a “Top Model Institute of Technology” …