Hotel Impossible‘s biggest challenge on Tuesday’s episode, “Hershey Addiction,” was not bed bugs, mold, or a decaying property. Instead, it was alcoholism. A general manager’s addiction found its way into online reviews and was clearly affecting both his 91-year-old mother, who founded The Simmons Motel in Hershey, Penn., and his son. The star of the …
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No show starts a new season better than Survivor, and everything there is to love about the CBS show, 15 years and 31 seasons later, was there during Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance‘s premiere. From a lack of self-awareness to insanely cute baby animal b-roll, it delivered. With 90 minutes and only one true challenge (though, …
After 10 seasons, America’s Got Talent ended up where it has been before: with a ventriloquist winner. But it has also been places it has never been before, thanks to excellent casting, production design, and judging by Howard Stern, who’s leaving the show. British ventriloquist Paul Zerdin won the $1 million and Las Vegas show, …
NBC’s three hours of reality television last night—two hours of live performances by America’s Got Talent‘s finalists, the one-hour premiere of Neil Patrick Harris’ Best Time Ever—offered a lot of surprise, but mostly that was disappointment. So much potential, so little delivery. AGT’s finalists stumble in the finale Nearly all of the all-male finalists on …
After 7 seasons, American Ninja Warrior finally has a winner. More than 3500 people have competed on American Ninja Warrior, and every one of them has failed—until now. Also: Why the show is the perfect summer series.
In the last moment of the first episode of Project Greenlight 4, executive producer and mentor Peter Farrelly says, “this guy is the best filmmaker in the group, but I think he’s self destructive.” He’s talking about Jason Mann, the first-time director the Farrelly brothers, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and others actually chose as the …
Project Runway Junior is well underway—no, wait, that debuts in November This is season 14, but it just feels like junior, and I’m not talking about the sleepover the producers threw in to tire out the cast even more. No, it’s the immaturity of some of the contestants, both in personality and their performance in …