Okay, this sounds fab! what channel? whens it on?
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
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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]
Vortex - Jul 01, 2008 8:17:51 am PDT #5754 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Scrappy - Jul 01, 2008 8:23:42 am PDT #5755 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It's on TLC. Sunday at 9pm, but repeated a zillion times during the week.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2008 8:38:15 am PDT #5756 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Caught up on NFNS finally - can they just send everyone home except Shane, Kelsey and Lisa NOW and skip to the end of the season? I really have to wonder what the casting people were thinking with this group. Most of them can't cook and NONE of them have personalities I want to watch on TV!
Though I do agree that the challenge was unfair - cooking a simple weeknight family meal and cooking for a 12-person dinner party are *completely* different challenges. (Unless you're Jon and Kate Plus Eight, but I'm pretty sure they're not serving beef wellington every night, easy version or not.)
I would have plated the beef wellington differently - duxelles underneath, puff pastry on top. More visually appealing, and the puff pastry doesn't get all soggy.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 01, 2008 8:57:49 am PDT #5757 of 23273
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I would have plated the beef wellington differently - duxelles underneath, puff pastry on top. More visually appealing, and the puff pastry doesn't get all soggy.
Or even halve the puff pastry and put it in between, but not the way they did it. Those shells should have been easy to cut if they were done properly.
sumi - Jul 01, 2008 9:26:46 am PDT #5758 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Friends of mine suggested that Team Coq au vin could have bought an old roaster, and cooked it in the wine etc in a pressure cooker - and produced something more like the original dish.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2008 9:34:06 am PDT #5759 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, I was wondering if they had access to a pressure cooker. Even if they were just using regular supermarket chicken legs, they could have produced something much closer to real coq au vin than what they ended up with.
And for the turducken, all they needed to do was to make it a roulade instead of a cutlet. (Which I know would have been tricker to cook in the time limit they had, but it would have solved the judges "but turducken has layers!" issues.)
Sean K - Jul 01, 2008 9:40:21 am PDT #5760 of 23273
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Caught up on NFNS finally - can they just send everyone home except Shane, Kelsey and Lisa NOW and skip to the end of the season? I really have to wonder what the casting people were thinking with this group. Most of them can't cook and NONE of them have personalities I want to watch on TV!
S and I were discussing how the last couple of episodes have hammered home how the contestants are not people who want to cook, but people who want a cooking show.
It really is amazing how most of the contestants have almost no cooking training or experience at all.
Jesse - Jul 01, 2008 9:46:08 am PDT #5761 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is anyone watching The Singing Office?
I certainly hope I have it waiting for me on the DVR. I am super excited! I love Joey Fatone, and I love singing at work!! My mother and I agree we want them to come to our offices. Too bad it was already shot, and in LA.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2008 9:46:31 am PDT #5762 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the contestants are not people who want to cook, but people who want a cooking show.
I'd say not even "a cooking show," just "a show." And it's not like the network doesn't have shows where the host doesn't cook, but (a) those people don't, for the most part, suck at being on camera, and (b) that's not the kind of show this is an audition for!!
sumi - Jul 01, 2008 9:50:07 am PDT #5763 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
One of the friends (with the pressure-cooker suggestion) also suggested that Adam would work with a show like "Unwrapped" where no cooking is necessary.