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This summer has brought several surprisingly entertaining shows, and there’s more coming. Tonight, two very different networks debut very different series that are worth watching, even though each may seem familiar. Capture is on The CW, but it’s produced by Blackbird Television and Renegade 83, the producers responsible for Discovery’s great series Naked and Afraid …

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The CW’s upcoming musical chairs game show/reality competition with the hilariously ridiculous name Oh Sit! actually looks good–really–perhaps because it seems like a new version of Wipeout. The show’s executive producer, Phil Gurin, told the New York Post “this is not a kid’s game” and said “it’s musical chairs on steroids.” Here’s how he described …

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After four episodes, The CW has ended the life of H8R, perhaps the fall’s most ill-conceived reality show, although sometime in the future, it may burn off episodes featuring hated celebrities such as Janice Dickinson, Levi Johnston, and NeNe Leakes confronting people who hate them. The show debuted to terrible ratings, and on Wednesday, the …

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The CW is planning a new reality competition called The Frame that is basically the now-dead Fox Reality Channel’s show Solitary with elements of Big Brother (there’s a live Internet feed) and The Amazing Race (the living spaces will be inhabited by two people with a preexisting relationship). The contestants, however, will apparently live and …

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The third episode of The CW’s High Society airs tonight, preceded by the network’s debut of Fly Girls, a docudrama that follows Virgin American flight attendants. Last week, 1.2 million people watched, falling from 1.39 million for its premiere. That may be because, as After Elton’s Michael Jensen’s said in his review, watching the series …

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