News, Rumors A Rants
By RTVC Editor Ron Lemon
April 20, 2006
Celebrity Cooking Showdown
NBC's week long "event" got burned in the ratings. Last night it placed 15th. Even Gilmore Girls on The WB beat it out.
The reason's?
The "celebs", who cares?
Host Alan Thicke, boring, forced and annoying.
If they had scheduled it traditionally, with one episode a week for five weeks, it would have been cancelled before it ended it's run. You
can bet that on Friday night's finale they won't be announcing the viewers vote total.
American Dreamz
Hugh Grant tells reporters that the mean spirited host he plays in his new film "American Dreamz" is not based on "American Idol"
judge Simon Cowell.
Yup, we all believe you Hugh.
Grant says, "I have met Simon Cowell at a couple of parties, but I don't know him at
all," "This part is not particularly based on him, aside from the fact that I am a judge on a talent show that is massively popular and I'm
very cruel. There the resemblance stops."
Judge, talent show, cruel, nope that's not Simon at all.
The Apprentice
Viewers of NBC's "The Apprentice" will have the chance to roll in the dough with a weekly Grand Prize random drawing of $10,000 by playing the live interactive "Get Rich With Trump" game during each episode (Mondays, 9-10 p.m. ET/PT). Beginning Monday, April 24 and culminating the week before the finale, "Get Rich With Trump" can be played by sending a text message from a cell phone or by logging onto NBC.com/APPRENTICE.
During the broadcast of the show, Donald Trump will invite home viewers to participate in the promotion by stating which candidate they think deserves to be "fired" in the week's episode. The question will have a number of possible answers depending on the number of candidates left on the show. Each candidate will be assigned a "letter" (i.e. A-G) which viewers can either send as a text message from their cell phone or vote online. Viewers are ultimately in control and depending on how people vote, each time zone could end up with a slightly different version of the show.
All viewers who answer the question - whether correctly or not – will be entered into a Grand Prize random drawing (as determined by the time of entry). One Grand Prize winner will be selected in each of the three time zone entry periods for each episode during the promotion period. The winner will be announced live at the end of the show.
There will be three winners each night, one for each of the three times zones across the continental United States (one winner in Eastern/Central, one in the Mountain time zone, and one in the Pacific time zone).
Viewers playing on NBC.com will be able to play for free, and viewers playing on their cell phones will be charged a fee of 99 cents in addition to their wireless carrier's standard text messaging rates. The game is open to residents in the continental United States, excluding Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Ron Lemon is the very opinionated, but not-always-right, editor of Reality TV Calendar. He is a United States Air Force veteran, a Pennsylvania Army National Guard veteran and retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. He lives on the southern shore of Canada with his fiancee and business partner Christine and their spoiled dog, Stash. He, Ron - not the dog, does this because he enjoys it, he hates alarm clocks, and it is better than getting up and going to work everyday. Until such time as he wins the lottery he can be reached at: Editor@RealityTVCalendar.com.
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