All right, everyone! I hope you’ve cleared your DVRs and TiVos of all those Housewives of Atlanta episodes, the selective Daily Show programs from three months ago, and all the Eurekas you recorded during the Viewer Picks marathon of a few weeks ago. According to my sundial, the Fall 2009-2010 season begins in earnest tonight. And, if you only own one digital recording device that can only mean one thing: DVR Emergency!

Yes, once again you need to peruse the TV schedules and select only those shows that you will absolutely watch sometime in the next nine months. This week is particularly bad since 1) a majority of shows are premiering, and 2) many of these shows are offering extended premieres to kick off the season. Other than Saturday, you probably won’t get a break from DVR scheduling either, thanks in part to all the summer shows still running on cable. Needless to say, the term “hosed” seems adequate.

Take tonight’s schedule, for example.

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• For those of you who missed last night’s premiere of Top Chef: Las Vegas (clocking in at a mind-boggling hour and fifteen minutes long), you can catch it tonight on Bravo at 7:45.
• Starting at 8, NBC has its two-hour block of 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, and The Office. They’re all great, but I especially love this episode of Parks and Rec, “Boys Club.”
• At 9:30, you can catch the premiere of Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, and see what all the fuss is about.
• At 10, AJ Soprano, AKA Robert Iler, guest-stars on this episode of Law & Order, about the murder of a man who owns a trucking company.
• Also at 10, back-to-back episodes of Entourage: “Fore!” with Tom Brady, and “Murphy’s Lie,” with another Sopranos alum, Jamie Lynn-Sigler.

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Oh my. For a few of the reality shows, this past Thanksgiving holiday week meant it was time for clips shows. You know the promos — “with previously unseen footage.” What they don’t mention is the percentage of “already seen” footage. Alas, they’re usually outright recap shows with teensy tidbits of new footage. Goodness knows, we don’t have enough recap material at the start of each episode already!

The huge reality television happening of the week was the season finale of Dancing With the Stars. Well, that is unless you count the debut of Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood as the big event. Each has its audience.

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Thanks to a whole lot of legal troubles, it sounds like neither Lifetime nor Bravo will be doing Project Runway any time soon. At the earliest, it will most likely be Spring of next year before we see anything. Honestly, that’s totally fine with me. It saddens me to say this, but I have gone from a hardcore, artsy-fartsy Runway super-fan to someone who loathes having to tune in every week, only doing so because she so desperately hopes that things will get better. Let the talent pool grow, I say, and bring back some of that substance that made the first two seasons so quality. Fingers crossed that this little break will let the producers think about what they’ve done. And maybe cry a bit, yeah. Read the rest of this entry »

Bravo

Readers of this space know that two of my great loves are TV and food. I’m sure the expectation is that I would love a show like Top Chef, Bravo’s reality cooking competition. The truth, however, is that I’ve never been able to get into the show. For me, Top Chef is much more a reality show than it is a cooking show, and I guess that’s the point. The challenges seemingly aren’t about cooking as much as they are about creating drama.

Now, I understand that TV shows need to create drama or they’re boring. However, I would point to the Food Network’s Iron Chef America and Next Food Network Star as two food competition shows that remain entertaining without creating faux drama.

On Top Chef, the producers always seem intent on creating a “villain” for the show. This individual tends to be the classic reality program jerk who is just out for him/herself and is intent on driving away the other contestants. I can’t stand this type of person. Why do we, as a society, laud these self serving, arrogant jerks by putting them on television? I don’t understand it, and I certainly don’t understand why people want to watch them, but I also understand not everything on TV is programmed for me.

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Bravo

I love clacking about stuff I see on TV, and now I get the chance to do it right here on CliqueClack. Here are a few things that made my brain clack this week:

I’ll miss Rachel Zoe! I’ve grown to love that pixie stylist-to-the-stars on her Bravo show, The Rachel Zoe Project. Hopefully, the show will be picked up for another season, and based on the season one finale, it looks like both Brad and Taylor will be back. Now if they can only play nice together.

Chelsea Handler is my favorite tell-it-like-it-is chick! The host of E!’s Chelsea Lately takes no prisoners as she gleefully opines on any and every celeb and Hollywoodism. And her little partner, Chuy, a.k.a. “my little nugget,” is the perfect Ed McMahon to her Johnny. Go, girl, and keep the vodka flowing!

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Bravo

(Season 5, Episode 14 – Season Finale)

It’s been a crazy ride, folks, but we’re finally at the end. This season has been unusually torturous, leaving me to wonder if Project Runway is worth pursuing anymore. There was a time when I would staunchly defend the show and force naysayers to change their mind after multiple Clockwork Orange-style viewings, but maybe this painful season marks the end of an era. Or maybe this is the start of a massive improvement. Perhaps that whole Lifetime mess has made Bravo realize it should treat Runway better and pay more attention when she gets a haircut or spends extra time on her make-up. I’m just sayin’, Bravo, show your love a little bit a love.

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