Reality Bites

TV for the week of September 18, 2010   Monday’s roast of Charlie Sheen was the highest rated Comedy Central roast in history with 6.4 million viewers, that’s more than Hugh Heffner, David Hasselhoff and William Shatner pulled. Which makes total sense, the masses have been lapping up the Sheen trainwreck for years now especially…

What’s more fun than watching grass grow? Watching facial hair grow of course! At least that’s what IFC hopes as its newest reality show aimed at the hipster underground attempts to make people care about drunk hairy guys.  Whisker Wars follows bearding Team USA around the country as they battle for hairy glory in preparation…

            Nothing is more maddening than telling a friend about a new TV show you’re into and having them smugly say “oh yea I’ve been watching the British version for years…its way better.” And nothing brings me more pleasure than being that smug douche.  So when I heard that the…

Of all the reality show formulas I hate the people-living-in-a-house genre second most, after the legal prostitution masquerading as dating shows of course. Big Brother bores me to tears and Real World hasn’t been relevant or real since say 1995. But my secret shame, my guiltiest of guilty pleasures is watching the antics of what…

Television for the week of July 25th   IFC is like the hipster generations MTV, and like its acronymed predecessor it’s started replacing the films which were once it’s bread and butter with reality based programming having nothing to do with the title of the channel. Young, Broke and Beautiful is IFC’s stylized travelogue following…