Monday, June 23, 2008
Must See TV
This may be the sort of admission that would disqualify me from running for public office or winning a local Emmy, but I think NBC has some seriously amazing programming going on this summer. To begin with, American Gladiators has returned, and each week they are adding a new event. Now they've got people flying around on bungees trying to throw balls in a basket, people hopping across platforms while gladiators swing at them on ropes, and people coasting around the ceiling on a little track. Plus they are promising us the Return of Atlasphere!! That's right, the one where everyone runs around in ten foot hamster balls. Damn teases probably won't bring it out until the season finale, but still, it's good to have back.
The great thing about American Gladiators is all the amusing slipping, falling, and running into things people do. If that's not the American way, I don't know what is.
Also, NBC is now promising Celebrity Family Feud. The specter of Raven Simone's family trying to determine the most popular answers to a survey is surely the sweetest I can imagine. And with Al Roker to host?!?! Now I will never need to leave my house again.
This may be the sort of admission that would disqualify me from running for public office or winning a local Emmy, but I think NBC has some seriously amazing programming going on this summer. To begin with, American Gladiators has returned, and each week they are adding a new event. Now they've got people flying around on bungees trying to throw balls in a basket, people hopping across platforms while gladiators swing at them on ropes, and people coasting around the ceiling on a little track. Plus they are promising us the Return of Atlasphere!! That's right, the one where everyone runs around in ten foot hamster balls. Damn teases probably won't bring it out until the season finale, but still, it's good to have back.
The great thing about American Gladiators is all the amusing slipping, falling, and running into things people do. If that's not the American way, I don't know what is.
Also, NBC is now promising Celebrity Family Feud. The specter of Raven Simone's family trying to determine the most popular answers to a survey is surely the sweetest I can imagine. And with Al Roker to host?!?! Now I will never need to leave my house again.
