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You know when summer is coming to an end when all your favorite (or not so favorite) summer shows get picked up for another season. There's everything about these renewals in the news from Playboy ladies to divas (live ones!), to assistants and warriors, so read on!
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World's greatest quitter Steven Slater may have his own reality show and Wipeout has been renewed for another season...more TV shows you'll deny watching to your co-workers in today's news...
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For years we've been conditioned to lower our TV expectations during the warmer months, seeking out shows that we would never allow to clutter our overstuffed DVRs at any other time of year. But even though it's only early June, there's already an unusually high amount of truly addictive television - shows that we should be ashamed to watch, but aren't. Here's our top ten favorite guilty viewing pleasures of the summer so far.
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The Donald continues to humiliate celebrities better than they even humiliate themselves. God bless that dandelion-haired man.
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It's summertime, so we've happily lowered our standards in regard to what we'll watch on television. But there is low and then there are shows that we're more than a little bit ashamed to admit that we not only watch... but actually enjoy. On occasion we discover shows like Pretty Little Liars, which we think we're going to have to DVR in secret but that then turn out to be genuinely well done. Or shows like True Blood, which is basically sexy vampire porn, but are OK because all our friends watch, too. But the rest of them... well, they wind up on our don't ask, don't tell list. But if you watched them as well, we'd feel a whole lot better about it. Here's our top (or bottom) ten:
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In the battle of ridiculously stupid game shows specifically created to fill up the summer with cheap lighthearted and forgettable filler programming based on popular Japanese-style game shows where people do stupid stunts, there is no clear winner. Well there is, but it is Ninja Warrior on G4 and it is actually a Japanese game show. As far as these new knockoffs on ABC, there's good and bad about both of them, but I can't really see either of them sticking around for all that long. That won't stop me from trying to determine which one will reign supreme based solely on their premiere episodes, however.
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You'd think nothing... but you'd be wrong. On last night's episode, I was watching the giggly hostess of Wipeout (aka Jill Wagner) on an episode of Bones where she played a skanky girl who was almost charged with murdering her lovah. She's trying to work some weird accent here (ineffectively, as she loses it part of the way through) but like, it was hilarious to me to see a woman who interviews grown men in toucan costumes for a living trying to play something a little more gritty. And really, she was better than I expected, because on Wipeout she can't keep a straight face to save her life and she flubs lines and names constantly (which is part of her charm).
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If the latest slate of upcoming game shows is any indication, it seems producers are taking that age-old adage "The nerds shall inherit the earth" to heart. I paraphrase of course. Suits are embarking on a furious no-dorks-left-behind campaign to pander to the ever-growing and ever more powerful demographic. No longer satisfied to mine Japan's bizarro genre of kamikaze slapstick (as evidenced in the forthcoming -- and hysterical looking Wipeout and the creatively titled I Survived a Japanese Game Show), networks are looking to low-tech but beloved video games to inspire the next generation of mindless reality-based programming. The recent announcement that there will finally (!?) be a U.S. version of the global sensation (!!??!!?!?!???!) Human Tetris is proof that we are embarking on a bizarre and prodigiously geeky journey into the world of physically competitive dweeblings. And there is No. Turning. Back. Gaming purists and minimal synth fans alike are undoubtedly pooping their collective pants while simultaneously beginning a rigorous regimen of calisthenics in an effort to increase their odds of landing an audition. According to the folks at New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Fox is already beginning castings for the American rendition of the small-screen competition, which will be titled Hole in the Wall and will, if the international editions of the show are providing the model -- consist of bodysuit-clad contestants attempting to squeeze themselves through funny-shaped cracks in a moving wall. Just think of the skill required! Since the Vulture dudes beat me to the punch in suggesting a litany of other potential game shows based on vintage games (Super Mario Brothers and Pac-Man), I'll leave you with one word and one word only: Pong.
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