Thursday, April 12, 2007
Bad Education
STUDIOUS! Campus Ladies, Living, 8.30pm Labels: Campus Ladies, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Living TV, TV
It's not arriving with too much of a fanfare, but the trailer for Campus Ladies features a jovial man with mayonnaise neatly applied to his nipples. On that basis alone it seems worth watching.
Campus Ladies sees chums Joan and Barri discard the shackles of domesticity to pursue the student lifestyle. But this is America, so instead of cultivating dreadlocks and listening to dodgy indie bands, the ladies throw themselves with naive abandon into the more glamorous student pastimes of sexual experimentation, boozing, the slightly sinister world of "sororities" and other completely alien concepts like "co-ed dorms".
This show is executive produced by Cheryl Hines, who plays Larry David’s permanently embarrassed wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm, so look out for improvised faux pas aplenty. Interestingly, various top notch rib ticklers will pop up in season 2 of Campus Ladies, including Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes (Karen and Jack) from Will & Grace, Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld) and Jeff from Curb Your Enthusiasm. From this we can conclude either that the first season proved to be such a chucklefest they just had to get in on the action, or it was actually a bit rubbish and Cheryl resorted to whipping out the address book and calling in some favours. We suppose all will become apparent on watching.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Smile wit' ya eyes
WORK IT! America's Next Top Model, Living TV, 9.00pm Labels: America's Next Top Model, Living TV, TV
Oh, Top Model. You most faithful of mistresses. No sooner than you've crowned your latest winner, you are back to entertain us with more weave-pulling, more fugly model wannabes, and above all else, more outright bitchery. What would we do without you?
So, at the end of cycle six, Jade was finally given the heave-ho and Danielle and Joanie were left to fight it out for Top Bitch, with Danielle finally taking the honours. By and large we were happy with that result - ultimately we were rooting for Joanie, but we weren't actually that concerned who won because Danielle and Joanie were both - in a surprising outcome for this show - talented and capable, and more importantly, neither of them was Jade. So while Danielle heads off to shoot her cover for Seventeen magazine and hawk CoverGirl products in supermarkets across America before presumably fading right off the radar (seriously, anybody know what America's Last Top Model Nicole is doing these days?), Tyra brings in the next batch of willing victims model hopefuls.
This was a two-hour opening extravaganza in America, but we're only getting the first half tonight, which means that we can't talk too much about the prospective runway walkers this "cycle" because we don't want to spoil you over who gets through. But among the hopefuls are a conservative preacher's daughter who's absolutely horrified by nudity, gaiety, and presumably everything else she's likely to encounter in the fashion industry. Well thought-out career choice there, girlfriend. There's also a girl who claims that all the contestants last season were "boring" (and of the many accusations we can throw at the last lot of nimrods, "boring" is not one of them), a girl whose ultimate aspiration in life is to be just like Tyra (uh oh), and a rather mannish-looking set of identical twins. Bring. It. On.
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