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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Jessica - Sep 24, 2010 5:18:02 am PDT #15308 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I had a dream last night that I was on TAR with Tim Gunn as the host. It was pretty great.

yeah, but this production company is just in year 2, right?

I'm not sure how much of the production staff changed over when they moved the lifetime - I thought it was just a distribution deal but I could be wrong.


DawnK - Sep 24, 2010 6:44:56 am PDT #15309 of 23273
giraffe mode

Didn't Magical Elves stay w/ Bravo when PR moved to Lifetime?


le nubian - Sep 24, 2010 6:51:45 am PDT #15310 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Survivor:

realityblurred has details on interviews the latest evictee gave. A choice snippet:

Just when Shannon starts to sound reasonable, Fancast asked him a question that he gave an awful response to. Asked if he thought Sash was in the mob, Shannon said, "No, I was concerned that he was gay and I was protecting my butthole." (Fancast removed the final word but I confirmed what it was.)

What an odious person.

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Jessica - Sep 24, 2010 7:26:00 am PDT #15311 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

What an asshole.

“Believe it or not, everybody thinks I’m this bad person [but] I’m really not. I do have heart. You caught me out there for six days with no food. I stunk and it tasted like I had bird shit in my mouth every morning when I woke up. I mean, you just don’t understand the heat that you go under and then somebody keeps pushing you, pushing you, pushing you to the limit."

Oh, well that explains it - he's only vocally homophobic (and misogynist, which the article doesn't address, but let's not forget his comment on day one that "we can't let a girl win this thing") when he's really stressed out. That makes it all okay then!


sumi - Sep 24, 2010 10:03:46 am PDT #15312 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

The new producers of PR are the folks behind The Real World.

Loved Mondo's pieces j- so happy that he won.

Could have had either Ivy or Valerie gone.


brenda m - Sep 24, 2010 11:12:20 am PDT #15313 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh, well that explains it - he's only vocally homophobic (and misogynist, which the article doesn't address, but let's not forget his comment on day one that "we can't let a girl win this thing") when he's really stressed out. That makes it all okay then!

Good thing none of the other contestants are in that kind of situation or it'd be a free-for-all!


Scrappy - Sep 24, 2010 12:45:46 pm PDT #15314 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Shannon was such a total tool.


-t - Sep 24, 2010 2:06:51 pm PDT #15315 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

ITA, le n, re: the twist on PR. They always do that, but man I just want to see what fabulous things the designers could do given the full two days and no last minute twist when they are aiming for high fashion. Though I have to admit, I liked some of the RTW looks a whole lot.

Predictably, I love both Andy's and Mondo's complete packages, dislike Gretchen's high fashion (so 70s hausfrau! Maybe it looked better in person) and am meh on her RTW.

Michael C's RTW is damn similar to a dress I had in the 80s. His high fashion also seems more old-fashioned than cutting edge, but okay. Ivy's just look sloppy, which seems odd coming from her. Valerie's are okay but not at all exciting. Christopher's high fashion seemed worse, though with high fashion maybe okay is worse than bad. I don't even remember April's clothes and I'm still watching the episode.


-t - Sep 24, 2010 2:09:35 pm PDT #15316 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And I loved what Andy and Mondo both did with the make up, too. This was the right challenge for those eyes.


-t - Sep 24, 2010 2:11:21 pm PDT #15317 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also, I'm gonna take a stand against the word 'advertorial'. Don't need to hear that again.