TAR Will Begin Shortly Here in the NYC Area

They must have abbreviated 60 Minutes to a mere portion of an hour. It just ended here, so The Amazing Race 11: All Stars season premiere will start momentarily. Expect an East Coast Update on the boot in about an hour and a full review/recap will be posted later tonight. You can get to all of my TAR 11 blog entries by hitting the label you see at the bottom of this entry.

I Hate Golf -or- Stupid Evil CBS

In its infinite wisdom, CBS was airing some golf thing which ran overtime. Although 60 Minutes is on now as I type this, I flipped to the network at about 7:40 and it hadn't started yet at that time.

So, I expect the season premiere of The Amazing Race 11: All Stars just might start sometime before 9 PM here on the East Coast. What the heck is wrong with them? Do they (CBS) consider The Amazing Race, the winner of more than a few Emmy awards, less important than golf? Stupid, stupid CBS. Or, maybe stupid me as I thought since football was over, I'd actually be able to watch TAR at its regularly scheduled time.

Grr.

Bloggy Bits

As I'm sure many of the readers here know, The Amazing Race 11: All Stars begins tonight at 8 PM ET/PT on CBS. I'm planning on posting an East Coast Update for the first boot as the show airs here in the New York City Area. Of course, a full recap/review of the show will be posted by late tonight. I hope you all will join me and share your thoughts on the show!

Ah, but what does that do to my The Apprentice: L.A. review/recaps? Well, since that show itself will be knocked into a 10 PM slot within a few weeks, I'd say now is the time I start writing it up Mondays after I return home from work (but before primetime shows air). I'll post the fired in an East Coast Update as the show airs, but the long article will have to be delayed. I apologize to any fans of the show, but I'm so much more of a TAR fan at heart. Yet, I must get up early on Monday mornings, so something has to go or be delayed. "Trump, you're delayed!"

I have another new show timing conflict I'll be facing later in the week when American Idol goes to three days. Yes, the third day will be on Thursday up against Survivor 14: Fiji. Eep. Since the third night of AI is basically the boot show, I don't plan on writing a full review of that night. But I will watch for the AI contestants voted off while watching Survivor (yes, I can multi-task) and get the news out in a quick American Idol East Coast Update. I plan on continuing full coverage of the Tuesday and Wednesday night American Idol shows and, for sure, full coverage of Survivor.

If I didn't have to do that pesky thing called "working for a living," I could write everything up in the middle of the night, but alas...

Thankfully, there is no Big Brother running right now.

Make Mine Pants - This Week on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' - Feb. 19-23, 2007

Happy New Year! Yes, today is the start of the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year and it's the year of Worldwide Pants!

Um... okay, it's the Year of the Pig. Babies born during this year are said to be lucky, but it's not all that lucky for those of us who are already around. David Letterman, born in 1947, was born in the Year of the Pig as were Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I was not born in the Year of the Pig (Ram here like Mark Twain and Michelangelo), but I'm lucky anyway... I have another week of fresh shows this week on The Late Show with David Letterman!

Here are the guests we can expect this week:

• Monday, Feb. 19: Jim Carrey promoting his latest movie (which sounds very creepy-interesting), The Number 23. The Daytona 500 winner will also be on the show.
• Tuesday, Feb. 20: Barbara Walters promoting her Oscars special and musical guest K-os whose latest CD is Hymns for Disco. Shark attack survivor Eric Nerhus is also on the plate. Maybe I should phrase that differently?
• Wednesday, Feb. 21: Stupid Human Tricks, John Travolta (Wild Hogs), and Broadway's Spring Awakening.
• Thursday, Feb. 22: Billy Bob Thornton (The Astronaut Farmer), Rashida Jones (The Office), and Barenaked Ladies finally admitting Barenaked Ladies Are Men.
• Friday, Feb. 23: Samuel L. Jackson (Black Snake Moan) and comedian Jim Gaffigan (My Boys).

TV Newsy Bits - Saturday, February 17, 2007

Not really television news, but it's expected to finally get over the freezing point here in the NYC Greater Metropolitan Area. Yes! Okay, only three degrees over freezing, but it's a start. Sunny and 35... it's kind of like a tropical heat wave!

Again, it's a Saturday night full of mostly repeats, but I see that BET has The Wire on at 9 PM (unlike last week when I had to tape it at 2 AM Wednesday to catch it). Oh, I'm so into the show! It's like Homicide: Life on the Street done narcotics (and a bit rough) and is written by the same person who's responsible for Homicide.

In other TV Newsy Bits:

• Sad news for the NYC news buffs... longtime reporter and news anchor from WNBC, Ralph Penza has died. For decades, he was the "hard-hitting" reporter exposing stories and he even had a creative edge about how he did stories from a sort of film-making angle.
• The good people at Buddy TV have an interview with ousted castaway Erica, the latest to be voted off Survivor 14: Fiji. She credits her MySpace page for getting her on the show. Huh. The whole interview is an interesting read.
• Remember Amy Crews from Big Brother? You know, the one who was smitten (so to say) with Marcellas Reynolds. She recently visited a chat at Jokers Updates and they have the transcript up.
• Celebrity Spider has mild promotional spoilers for this week's Lost episode while the New York Post has an article about the show's declining ratings.
• Anna Nicole Smith is still dead.