'Bring On The Night'
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]
Scrappy, Hammond's Oliver is what he named his Opel Kadett in the Botswana special. It's the only time any of them have named a car, and he got loads of shit from the other two for being so cliched.
"It's such a happy little car! I think I shall call him 'Oliver'. Oh, God, no--now I've gone and named it!"
Ah--obviously haven't seen that special yet.
After they finished filming in Africa, he had Oliver shipped back to the UK, and he keeps it with the rest of his cars at home. AFAIK, it's the only time any of them has kept a car from a show challenge.
Oh, that's perfect!!
That is too cute!
I bookmarked that site, Kathy, thanks!
Here's some highlights from the British Leyland challenge I mentioned upthread.
So, I watched Chopped and didn't think it was as terrible as you did.
What in particular did you guys find bad?
I like the mystery box challenge part of it and I liked that, similar to Iron Chef, the judges get to watch the cooking process. I wish that maybe they had more time for each part of the challenge.
I imagine 4 weeks of round one and then on to a final tourney situation with the 4 weekly winners.
I just didn't find it compelling. And I have enough to watch on the TiVo without adding things that are only okay.
Keep in mind, I don't really watch the food network except Good Eats and sometimes Iron Chef America, which I think is just okay.
I really liked tonight's TC - thought that the food looked great and so did the farm.
I don't really understand why Radhika didn't speak up more - are Jeff and Fabio so forceful that she couldn't deal? Leah really gave up - I think that they should have dumped her BECAUSE she didn't try so that Arianne would get the blame. That team was a mess because nobody would take the lead.