For today? Is a momentous one, maybe even moreso than International Talk like a Pirate Day. For today (well, tonight, actually) is the season cycle 7 premiere of America’s Next Top Model, and brothas, I am stoked.
Oddly, CW doesn’t seem to truck with giving us sneak-peek bios of the bitches like our old friend UPN did,* so I don’t know the contestants’ favorite foods (Furonda’s was corn, while Jayla’s was “chicken romaine”) or any other important details going in, save for one (courtesy the lovely and well-versed Cathleen): that two of the contestants are twin sisters. It’s going to be AWESOME.
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* And what is the deal with that? I had no idea till last night that UPN and the WB had mutated into a new network.
2fs says:
September 21st, 2006 at 9:44 am EDTVisit 2fs
So networks are insisting on “cycle” rather than “season” now? WTF?
Sorry - I just can’t bring myself to even gesture in the direction of possibly thinking of acquiring a rat’s ass to give about “America’s Top Model” (whether the phrase refers to the show or the concept) - but yes, the CW (why that name?) is the new child of WB and UPN, neither of which, apparently, could scrounge together enough beauticians from Iowa and waitresses from Florida to mount their own “America’s Next Pointlessly Famous-for-Five-Minutes Phenomenon.”
But my main question is this, spurred on by the “chicken romaine” thing: what is the deal with all this food being called “Tuscan” this or that these days? I haven’t been able to extract a common set of ingredients, preparation, or presentation that designates what the hell “Tuscan” means - or why allasudden whatever it is they supposedly eat over in that part of Italy is all popular. I think I will rename my blog “The Tuscan Dance Society” - oh, and have a model contest! Readers, submit photos and bios today!
Ezra says:
September 21st, 2006 at 10:29 am EDTVisit Ezra
What’s so great about seasons? It’s a pretty artificial construct, probably built around little more than network sales executives’ vacation schedules from 1950 and perpetuated through social inertia.
And fitting into it can be highly destructive to actually making good shows (I’m thinking about Twin Peaks and Moonlighting in particular, who would have been much better off left to their own pace rather than having the quality suffer from trying to fit into the season system). A positive counterexample is the BBC’s series system, who, for example, make a new Prime Suspect series only when Helen Mirren feels like it.
I leave Editrix to defend ANTM; I’m almost but not quite Warholian enough to watch it.
2fs says:
September 21st, 2006 at 7:19 pm EDTVisit 2fs
Oh, I wasn’t defending the “season” concept as such; I thought the networks were simply using a new term to describe the same old thing. If they’re actually doing something different in terms of when they broadcast shows, I’m all for it.
Except of course when they’re broadcasting the same old crap regardless.
But don’t listen to me: I know about nothing about TV anymore.
Ezra says:
October 10th, 2006 at 9:01 pm EDTVisit Ezra
GAH! Editrix, you’re killing me. Are you ever going to post again?