so another sunday rolls around, but it feels like there’s a great empty hole there, dammit. “carnivàle” is no longer on.
oh my lord, has anyone else been watching it? getting to know the travelling freakshow? marvelling at the slack-jawed yokels? being alert, but not quite alarmed at brother justin?
amber?
yeah, yeah, sure i want to know who management is. and what brother justin has to do with ben. and who gets horribly burned in the cliffhanger caravan fire. (and sure, it would be as easy as going to the website and reading the synopses of the next season… but i won’t.) what i really want to know is: what will be my next tv show?
is it possible that it will end up being “my restaurant rules? say it ain’t so, ferris!
i thought you might like to know that not “australian idol”, not “big brother”, not “the block” compelled me to turn the tv on… and in fact more often than not, made me change the channel, which is asking a lot really, because there is no remote control. yes, last year it was “my restaurant rules” that got me on the reality tv roller coaster. and i called up and voted. just the once though, because i voted for sydney and they ended up being the first to go. the site of that ill-fated restaurant housed a second also short-lived italian place, and is now a malaysian restaurant with nice signage called kl.
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oh yay, bowb, you might be the person to ask: does anyone really watch home and away and strictly dancing? or does australia just beam it out to unsuspecting islanders (like us on/in guam) who have nothing else to watch?
hmmm. are you asking because you were watching the tennis final last night and they kept cutting to lleyton hewitt’s blonde actress girlfriend (now fiancee) emoting in the stands? you know she is in “home and away”, yes? and also “dancing with the stars”?
apparently “dancing with the stars” and “strictly dancing” and also another dancing series were really popular with viewers, which is why there are so many of them (in this case, three seems like plenty to me) and why they keep coming back. sigh.
as for “home and away”… i’d watch it if the boy wasn’t so vehemently opposed. i mean, could it really be worse than the endless dinnertime repeats of “frasier” or “seinfeld” or “becker” or “the simpsons”? “home and away” really helps with my australian accent. 😉
ah, so people do! we get abc pacific asia out here and it’s just a touch surreal; strictly dancing def. so just for existing, and home+away because it’s on at 2 or 3 in the morning. it would make more sense at dinnertime, i reckon.
now, is that “my restaurant rules because it’s so totally awesome” or “my restaurant rules: never eat with a dirty fork and don’t ever piss off the waiter”?
“my restaurant rules” is where a couple (lovers in the last season, i think this upcoming series has a mother-and-son) in each state has to set up from scratch and then run a restaurant, and there are tasks and challenges and they get voted off one by one by the viewers, who may or may not make their decisions based on personalities rather than fine cuisine. the new judge in “my restaurant rules” is the old judge from “australian idol”. i’m sure it will be terribly riveting (and possibly just plain terrible).
oh, um, so in short “rules” is a verb rather than a noun.
whoa, nice job with the new-found power that causes malaysian restaurants to sprout. that’s a good power to have. can you make one happen in my ‘hood?
there’s an ad for a sports center pasted up in a bus stop shelter up the street, and it’s got headshots of various gym trainers, and each trainer has some kind of inspirational quote attached to them, and this one girl’s is “why walk when you can fly?” but, i mins, what? because the thing is, ums, i can’t fly.
This is the first i’ve heard about Carnivale having another series. I’d be delighted because I need to see some resolution. But maybe that’s something I’ll always be wanting…
On the good telly front, I reckon Desperate Housewives is a goer, and I’m well and truly sucked in to The OC. Reality telly, well, I’ll miss Outback Jack, but there’s still Extreme Makeover and Wife Swap. Australian versions, ummm….I caught a few minutes of My Restaurant Rules last night and that was enough for me!
xkrissie
krissie: i owe you an email! i will write it soon! yes, i think you are right about “my restaurant rules”, and i have switched my attentions accordingly, to “amazing race”.
“married pro-wrestlers”, “dating models”, ha ha ha.