I hate the hosts and some players too.

This week, I saw the end and the beginning. Hmmm...what do I mean? Read on!

Can I just say I'm not liking this season of Dancing with the wanna-be Stars? I can't stand half of the people. The wanna-be's are whiny and the pros are not as accommodating. What happened to the fun stuff like Adam Corolla giving his lecture or take on the competition? It's also very predictable. Nicole and Evan got the highest scores; yawn. Buzz Aldrin is so freakin' old, he's using Ashley as a walker and has to keep hold of her cuz he can't see through his rheumy eyes. Ashley has to keep the dance calm so Buzz's dentures don't fly out. It seems Kate the grate gets bitchier every week. Her poor kids. Meanwhile, Jon is getting all kinds of sympathy without doing anything. It seems Len is taking a little liquid love before the show because he's not his grouchy self. Help! Someone broke Len! I liked him way better when he told people they sucked. He balanced out Brunos love fests. I also miss the looks of, "What the hell are you talking about?" that he'd give Bruno. The only bright spot was when Carrie Ann pointed out Nicole's lift. It doesn't matter who does the lifting; no lifts! It's like watching the teacher's pet get called on the carpet for cheating hee hee hee. For some odd reason, I can't stand Scherzinger. She always has that look like, "I got this in the bag, but I'll play along." Brooke is the worst host ever. She's so boring, the dancers lose their shine as soon as they approach her aura. When they go backstage after their judging, we all take a bathroom break. Poor Tom Bergeron, has to work extra hard to cover the uncomfortable moments. All in all, Buzz was left in the cold and was sent back to his retirement home. Later on Jimmy Kimmel, he showed he was hard of hearing too cuz he didn't pick up on any humor Jimmy was throwing out. Poor Ashley. She got stuck with the head of lettuce again. I'm thinking, I can skip the rest of the season cuz even if the top people get voted out; who the hell cares? The dances are getting old and the dancers are getting moldy. The producers need to not only get stars but get one's that we actually like.

On the crying fatties, AKA Biggest Loser, the fatties had a speed challenge. How fast could they lose 2% of their body weight? They were given their own everpresent huge scale and when someone thought they'd lost their weight, they pushed the button and then weighed in. They only had that shot to make it or break it. Hey, isn't that the name of that other stupid gameshow that consists of college and bar games that you did when you were half drunk? Oh, pardon me. I digress. So half the week goes by and there's a ton of footage of Melissa saying, "I'm going to push the button." She never did. First that new girl pushed it and didn't make her 2%. Really? After only 1 day? Did she think she pooped that much out that day? You could see all the rest of the contestants thought she was a total moron. Then there was a swimming challenge. Good thing the fatties lost a lot of weight. Otherwise, the water displaced would've flooded the ranch. The fatties had to pick up 100 1 pound weights off the bottom of the pool and deposit them in a bin. I think one of the rules was, they could only take 2 at a time cuz I didn't understand why they didn't just load a bunch at a time in their shirt pouch but oh well. When they were done with their own weights, they could help someone else. Just like Survivor, the producers wanted something to show the pecking order on the ranch. Melissa turned out to be on the bottom. Even her fellow returnee didn't help her. Hee hee hee, karma sucks sometimes. Melissa was rewarded with a 1 pound disadvantage. 2 days later after a lot of secret extra hard working out, Sam pushed that button and went way past the 2% weight loss. This guy's not dumb. He didn't push the button until he was absolutely sure. One thing we noticed, Sam has a four pack; whoa! Then it was revealed why Melissa is so good at lying. She's a lawyer. That explains a lot and made America hate her more. It was no surprise that Melissa was sent home; like we couldn't see that coming. When you cry together every week; people tend to get pretty tight knit. Bye bye, you oily lawyer.

Finally! It was the end of Shear Genius. The contestants had to do runway hair and worked with their eliminated contestants. Brig proved she's not as dumb as she looks. Her hair was cool and didn't cover up the clothes. She won. Yay! I'm actually celebrating more, the fact that the show is over. Camilla Alves needs to stick to modeling where we don't have to hear her talk. God, she was sooooo boring.

Thank the gods Top Chef Masters is back. The star chefs have come out of the woodwork with an amazing roster. In the first episode we had Susan Fenniger and Govin with a few other chefs that are probably well known in their own world. The producers are very good at picking who's in each round. The cooking was amazing and I love when chefs acknowledge their mistakes before the judging. The chefs were paired up in this round and won $ for their charity for the quickfire win and the elimination win. That's really nice. Susan Fenniger proved to be a force to be reckoned with because she won both. I don't know how they do it, but the food seemed so good without me being able to smell or taste it. The judges were the same but nicer. That doesn't work. We can't figure out why the people don't get the great ratings. Raynor learned to be funny this year and Gail's still wearing her crazy hats. Meanwhile, that chinese girl/host keeps getting skinnier. Huh? When she turned sideways, I totally lost track of where she was. Maybe she only eats when the show is happening. No wonder everything tastes good to her.

Survivor has turned out to be the Russell show. Good thing cuz I was getting tired of the Probst show. The Heroes are on a roll. They're winning the challenges even though Colby is proving to be the non-athlete of the group. Age has not improved him at all. Jeri doesn't even moon over him anymore. I loved watching Rupert shove whole pieces of reward pizza in his mouth. There were also twice as many pizzas as players on the team. I wonder how much was consumed? Did they feed the leftovers to the natives? What? No schilling of a brand of pizza, beer, soda or snacks? Schaudenfreude kicked in when we heard the Villains whine about not having anything to eat. Coach proved he's not much of a coach and had his weak players sit out for the unimportant challenge so that they had to play the important one. Hee hee hee; we saw that defeat coming wayyyyyy ahead of time. The fun part of the immunity challenge was seeing the contestants totally covered in mud. This season, we rarely get to see the celebration at camp of the winners. So the rest of the episode we had to watch the stupidity of the Villains tribe. Sandra convinced people to vote out the strong player because they were probably going to merge. What? There's still 13 players in the game. For once, Russell didn't vote the majority and the women booted coach. Jeri was devastated hee hee hee. Then we learned, the jury is going to be huge cuz coach was announced as the first member. OMG, the finale is going to be 5 hours if they let all those windbags talk. Yeah, I'm including Probst in that group too. My fast forward button works overtime when Jeff opens his mouth.

Project Runway went to the circus and the designers were told to base their looks on that. I love the way the designers play dumb for Tim Gunn's sake. What? We couldn't figure out the challenge. Oh whatever. Oh Heidi, we're not as dumb as we look. Seth Aron was ecstatic. He could return to his pants and jacket design again. Once again, Jay made something that gave his model huge hips and booty. Is that what we want? Personally, I think every season should have a challenge where the designers have to make men's wear. There were a lot of bright colors; much to Mila's chagrine. Most of the designers made something crazy and the judges ate it up. Unfortunately, the southern belle guy, Anthony, chose to be conservative and was sent home. Nobody can figure out how Emilio wins every week ever since he got Lorena. Ummm... could it be she proved even a burlap sack looks good on her? So we found they're doing the Rami/Chris thing where the 2 bottom designers get to make collections (along with everyone else on the show) but one will get eliminated right before fashion week showing. It doesn't matter what kind of editing the producers try, Mila and her model Brandise come off as bitchy. Maybe they really are bitchy! Anthony's model, Monique, was left in the cold and sent home. Bye! I wish Heidi would give the models a good bitchy critique every week. Like, "You walk like a marionette." or, "You call that modeling a dress?" We could only hope but Heidi's too nice.

Top Model has proved to be very uninteresting. I'm only watching to see when the judges boot Angelea for looking old. Come on! She looks 30 when all the other girls look 12. The models had to pose with fake stuff in the knock-off district of New York. No, they weren't in Chinatown. Once again, they raved over Raina's photo but picked the crying black girl to win. I smell a rat. The mother model was sent home and...nobody gave a damn.

The Amazing Race went to Singapore. This time they not only had a fast forward (it's about time) but also a U-turn. The cowboys got on the first bus but somehow arrived in Singapore in the middle of the pack. What happened? Too much editing producers! Did they have an eating challenge? No. Aw come on. I love watching the racers try to choke down the food in the orient hee hee hee. For some odd reason, the racers chose the detour that they knew they weren't good at. They could either do a complicated drum routine or sell ice cream in hot weather. How did we know it was hot? The cowboys actually took their hats off. I loved the little kids teaching the drum routine. When the racers couldn't get it, the kids gave them that, "You're kinda dumb." look. Loved it! Miss Teen ditzy and her boyfriend got to the U-turn first, danced with glee and promptly gave it to what's her name and Brandy (AKA the lesbians). The gay brothers got the fast forward. Hmmm...I wonder who came in first and last. That was a real duh moment. All we care about is the cowboys and the cops are still in the race. Phil is really fun this season and therefore gets more airtime. That's always a good thing. He always seems to ask the same questions but oh well, it'll take a couple more seasons to get old. I think the racers should have a challenge to do at the mat. Phil has great facial expressions.

The Road Rules/Real World brats are back. It's Fresh Meat II and the same formula as the first. They've finally figured out how to not let someone over run the show. Where's Mark? Oh he's doing the after show. Where's the Miz? Oh he has a real job. Where's Katie and Coral. Oh, they finally got their dignity. Anyway, this season is pretty good with a lot of conniving by the underdogs. A strong team, (Darrel and his chosen girl) was eliminated in the 2 team end challenge that was full of mental puzzles. Maybe the teams will learn not to drink the night before. We'll see.

Finally, the Celebrity Apprentice. The celebs had yet another concept challenge and I'm beginning to feel sorry for them. I think Holly and Curtis were waiting for the big $, selling challenge but it never came and they had to step up to the plate. This time they had to do a commercial for deodorant, a 10 second viral web spot and then a presentation. First, though, Trump had them shoot a free throw basket with the first person to do it winning 10K for their team leader's charity. Trump sunk the first basket to show how easy it is. I figured there probably was a ton of takes to get that. The guys threw a lot of airballs and finally, Kanalis in her 6 inch spike heels won the $. How funny was that? This time 2 women were missing from the women's team because of illness or prior commitment. I can't believe Obama didn't show his dumb face on TV again. He's probably charging too much for Trump. They did take the opportunity to say Obama's name a lot and kiss his ass. I loved that Curtis Stone didn't know what team Clive Drexler played for. No worries mate. Neither did I. You mean the world doesn't revolve around basketball? Peete came up with the cheesiest commercial and the most annoying jingle for her commercial. Ebanks thought a sista wouldn't take a sista to the boardroom and took it easy while the rest of the team did the heavy lifting. Bret Michaels had a health crisis with his daughter over the phone and the producers made sure to get every crying moment on the air. Did we really have to see Brett give himself his insulin shot? Poor Brett, he's so sleep deprived, he cries at the drop of a hat and silly stuff falls out of his mouth at the most inopportune times. Holly Robinson Peete turned out to have an ego the size of New York City but still lost. Haw haw. Ebanks was fired and...nobody cared. Bye, I'm so sorry you make so little money modeling; boo hoo. Whatever. It was great to see the men win and just as I predicted, Johnson quit the show with a family crisis. It involved his kid and it wasn't about health. I'm thinking, he's probably been drug busted and needs bail money. That leaves Peete as the only black celeb; Oh no! What'll they do about diversity? Whatever!

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is back and I'm so glad. Wait. Goren, Eames and the Captain are all going. What? Hey! Thank the gods Goldblum is there to save the show and he does so with his great acting and playing low key but brilliant.

I want to say, the show The Middle has proved to be a winner. It's a multicam sitcom which is a rare thing these days. You know it's really good when the re-runs are great already. All the characters are great, but real. Yes, even Brick is like that weird kid that was in our grade school class.

I'm so glad to see the older characters coming back on Days of Our Lives. The producers finally got smart and brought back the really great actors. The scenes with Stephano and E.J. are totally electric and like watching great Shakespeare. I could watch John Aniston and Vivian Sorel all day cuz they get all the funny lines. Finally, the scenes with Sami and Nicole are like really good food; guilty pleasures. The younger actors are pretty forgettable so it's good they brought back the veterans. Even Adrienne and Anna are back. Yay! Now if only Shaunessy would make an appearance. I would totally be in love again.

Until next week TV addicts. See ya!