Thursday, July 17, 2008

High and Low Points

Wednesday is my big reality tv night, with "The Baby Borrowers" and "Celebrity Circus" on NBC and "Shear Genius" and "Project Runway" on Bravo.

Pre-teens descended on the practice parents last night on "The Baby Borrowers". It's interesting to see how the teens on the show have handled different age children with varying amounts of skill. Jordan and Sasha were by far the best when handling babies, but fell apart with an unmanageable toddler. They bounced back last night, once again earning praise from the parents. Cory and Alicea seem to me to be the couple who is growing the most. Last night, they had a sleepover with all 9 children. They were fantastic.

The other four couples looked forward to a night alone together. It was not to be. One member of each pair had a friend come to visit.

In last night's "Celebrity Circus", I was disappointed and surprised that Stacey Dash came in second place. I must not be the only one. In a poll on the NBC website, viewers are asked who should have won and Stacey currently has half the votes. Still, Anthony Sabato Jr. was good and deserved the trophy. Really, all three finalists did. They spent three months learning and performing the acts.

The best part of last night's episode wa a showcase of the professional performers. Judge Aurelia Cats had been the toughest on the contestants when evaluating their performances. Last night, I saw why. The woman probably has high standards because her act is incredible. The finale can be viewed on NBC's website. It's worth another viewing.

Over on Bravo, "Project Runway" had its season premiere. I read recently that the show will probably move to Lifetime next year. It will also be moving to California. As I recall, "America's Next Top Model" made a similar move, but decided to move back to NYC. But for now, we have a whole new crop of designers to meet. The challenge was making an outfit from items found at the grocery store. The guest judge was Season 1's Austin Scarlett. The first elimination isn't all that emotional, except for the person who's 'out' because we haven't gotten to know them yet.

Finally, "Shear Genius", like "Top Chef" had two challenges, a 'short cut' and then the elimination challenge. The 'short cut' was a very difficult assignment. Each stylist chose a client and planned a style with her input. Then, they had to communicate their vision to the other stylists as they passed their clients around. Dee won, earning not only the first choice of clients but the right to assign clients to all the other stylists.

The responsibility of choosing for other stylists is more a curse than a prize. No matter what she did, someone was going to be angry with Dee. As there are fewer and fewer contestants left, things get cattier. The main focus of the challenge was creating styles that the clients could recreate themselves for the runway the next day.

Charlie has been used to winning, so ending up in the bottom three was upsetting to him. Most of his time was spent teaching his client how to blow dry the style. He was the only one who didn't color his client's hair. Luckily for him, he had immunity and it was Meredith who was sent home for giving her client a style that was difficult to maintain. Glenn won the challenge succeeding not only in giving her client a wonderful new look as well as showing her how to cut down styling time.

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