Sunday TV

Thanks to ABC showing reruns of "Housewives" and "Brothers & Sisters" tonight, I actually got to watch "You're The One That I Want" and "The Apprentice" in real time ...

... For my money, ballerina bombshell Ashley Spencer blows all the other wannabe Sandys away; I've liked her from the start and I'll take her to the end. And while I'm still not very keen on any of the Dannys, Chad's far out take on "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" pretty much sealed his status for me ...

So I voted for Ashley and Chad. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ...

As for The Apprentice, Marissa was as good as gone the third time she dialed Heidi to try once more on selling her crazy chickens-on-a-corner idea ...

Guilty TV

Forgive me for being slow to post this week. Once again, projects at work and on the side are absorbing my time ... and the whole bathroom renovation is proving to be a more-involved and time consuming task than we first thought ...

So I finally got around to watching Sunday night's Apprentice and You're The One That I Want, and I finished watching last night's American Idol over my lunch...

And I loved every minute of them ...

What can I say? They're my guilty pleasures on TV right now ...

And I used to talk endlessly about how much I hated reality television.

Yeah.

But seriously! What the heck was Michelle thinking, resigning from The Apprentice because she couldn't bear to live any longer in the woods!? Baby, the posh backyard of Trump's mansion -- even with the cold showers -- is not the woods ...

And I was sooo cheering for Kara and Ashley to make it to the finals of their Grease try-outs. I've had a soft spot for both of them since the beginning, but I guess it wasn't meant to me ... As for the Danny-boys, I'm not seeing a single one of them as Zucco ...

And why's everybody so strung out about the Idol judge's not so pleasant criticisms? This being my first season of watching Idol, I honestly expected it to be much worse ... My favorite from last night: Melinda Doolittle. She was, as Paula said, brilliant.

Catching up on TV

... Out of work for the afternoon, I finally caught up on my Sunday night TV ...

I watched the new Apprentice first ... and I liked it.

The last couple seasons of the show were getting so bad, Kates and I bailed out ... But I like the new twists. The first task of setting up a tent in the mansion's backyard was comical, and seeing the losing team try to camp out there was even more entertaining. Plus, Ivanka is surprisingly fun to watch. At the first shot of her sitting next to Daddy Trump, I was thinking, geez, this can't be good. Not only does she look ditzy, she looks like she's 14 years old! ... Then she opened her mouth and spoke. Man, that is one intelligent, head-strong woman ...

And all I gotta say about the first episode's main players: Martin is a pompous dope who deserved to be fired, but Frank -- holy cow -- is a bomb waiting to explode ...

Next up: "You're The One That I Want"

Aye.

I'm not hot on the fact that the leads of a Broadway musical -- Grease -- are being picked via a TV show ... but the judges/Broadway top dogs seem like they know their stuff, they know what they want and they're not giving into any pressure to pick someone on a thin notion that they make good TV -- that was evident when Billy Bush swayed the judges to give a wannabe Sandy a second chance audition, and the judges booted her just as fast as they did in her initial try ...

... Kudos to David Ian and the other judges for being far more respectful and straight with the hopefuls than the crew from American Idol will ever be ... But the drama of David telling the hopefuls " ... (long pause with dramatic music and shots of people staring at each other) ... You're not Sandy" is enough to make me scream ...

... I'm not head over heals for any of these shows. The problems is now I've watched the first episodes and I want to see how it all unfolds!