July 2007
As with last week, this week's Scott Baio is 45... and Single starts with Scott and Doc Ali discussing his love life. Scott insists that he has no "type," after all, he says, he has "dated Asian women." The back and forth continues as Scott feels attacked about his dating ways (weird, because he surely wishes to change his ways otherwise he would not be doing this show or meeting with Doc Ali).
Wanted to give all you FItB readers a heads-up that Zap2it is also all over the annual fanboy and -girl bacchanal that is the San Diego Comic-Con.
This
week's episode of Burn Notice imparts an important lesson -- cars are not always the best place
to have secretive conversations. More
on that in a moment.
Welcome, true believers, to another season of Stan Lee's Who Wants to be a Superhero?. The first season was a bit of a mess, though to me the most egregious failing was Stan's notion of what makes a superhero. The creator of nuanced, conflicted characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men for Marvel insisted contestants instead be glorified Boy Scouts, more like a certain super-character over at Marvel rival DC.
We begin to whittle down the top ten tonight, but luckily we're reminded over and over that we'll still get to see them on tour, and we find out a reality show about dancing has to be mindless. So even though the voting is completely up to America now, the judges aren't there just for eye candy tonight.
It's time for Big Brother 8, where we will find out who will be eliminated, who will win HoH, and how bad can RoboChen's hair possibly get? We start with the previouslys: Kail lied a lot, betrayed her "best friend" Jen, and ended up on the block with her. Jen won the PoV and used it to save herself while Mike was nominated in her stead after annoying Dick during the PoV competition.
The inevitable Isaiah Washington question came up Thursday afternoon when Shonda Rhimes and the cast and crew of Private Practice appeared at press tour.
The second semifinal of Last Comic Standing restored some of my faith in reality-show democracy. A couple of the comics who made me laugh hardest made it through this time, giving me hope after last week's near-total disconnect.
This week on American Inventor, six finalists went to Los Angeles to develop their ideas. Three advanced to the final round. Two annoyed the crap out of me, one was only semi-annoying, one needed a change of wardrobe, one seemed sort of meh, and one I pretty much liked. Amazingly, the judges seemed to agree. That never works for me!
