Author: B-Side

Probably the only thing we’ll remember from this week’s American Idol was how shocked we all were when Katharine McPhee landed in the bottom two. Aside from that, this latest round of singing was anything but sparkling. I can barely even remember what happened Tuesday night, and that was only 30 hours ago. Nearly all [...]

Quick survey: raise your hand if you thought last night’s Amazing Race was awesome? Yeah, me too. This season has been serving up solid, chaotic episodes one right after the other, and last night’s was no exception. First off — the airport intrigue was so wonderfully confusing, it almost made up for every Family Edition [...]

Great news for Family Feud fans. After years of two lackluster hosts (Louis Anderson and Richard Karn, blech), the Feud is finally getting the sort of man it deserves: John O’Hurley. I can’t tell you how exciting this development is for me. Two of my favorite pop culture phenomena have united to hopefully create one [...]

I have a bone to pick with Marc Berman. For those of you who don’t know who he is, Mr. Berman is a columnist for Mediaweek, and everyday, he writes “The Programming Insider,” which is an analysis of the overnight Nielsen ratings. His work is widely-read, and over the years, he’s become a minor talking-head [...]

I have a bone to pick with Marc Berman. For those of you who don’t know who he is, Mr. Berman is a columnist for Mediaweek, and everyday, he writes “The Programming Insider,” which is an analysis of the overnight Nielsen ratings. His work is widely-read, and over the years, he’s become a minor talking-head [...]

The fifth season of The Apprentice continues to bloom like a wonderful, fragrant flower (with bad hair), and on Monday’s show, we were treated to another hilarious squabble-fest in the Boardroom. We knew we were in for good times when we found out that this week’s challenge involved producing a commercial — a task that [...]

This is it, folks. The moment we’ve all been waiting for. The big finale of The Gauntlet 2. It’s been a fun season, full of ups and downs, drama and heartache, stupidity and… more stupidity. Some people have said this Real World/Road Rules Challenge has been lackluster, but to them, I say “Feh!” Sure, we [...]

Every now and then (read: once a day), we here at TVgasm like to congratulate ourselves over some inane contribution to pop culture. Today, our big news is that the Mischa Barton nip-slip, which we first posted about back in November, has officially eclipsed the Janet Jackson Superbowl Nip Slip on iFilm, becoming the website’s [...]

Hey ladies, feel like making out with a loud, scrawny, clock-obsessed hip hop star? Or maybe you’re in the mood to get into embarrassing cat fights on national television, possibly involving spit and other projectiles? Well, then you’re in luck! Flavor of Love is casting for a second triumphant season, and even though the producers [...]

After several weeks of surprisingly entertaining episodes, The Real World: Key West finally served up a dud Tuesday night with thirty minutes of pure snoozefest. Sure, stuff happened — Zach made a new friend, Svetlana bickered with her boyfriend — but this episode felt like basic filler material in anticipation of the next big Paula [...]

When it comes to celebrity sightings from strangers, we always take them with a grain of salt. That being said, we couldn’t resist this great little Constantine Maroulis story that Defamer published in today’s PrivacyWatch. It involves Connie, sunglasses, and one very bruised ego…

You suck, building!!!

This bitch thought she’d suffered spontaneous human combustion when her hip randomly caught on fire. Well, maybe before she went squawking to the world, she should have mentioned the raw SODIUM in her pocket! Too bad National Geographic figured out your scam, lady. BUSTED!

Who knew this would be the week of Ryan Cabrera and TVgasm? Fresh off his yawning performance on Tuesday’s American Idol, Ryan Cabrera (“singer” and star of MTV’s Score) was spotted by the TVgasm staff at the Fuddruckers in the Sherman Oaks Galleria. J-Unit and I happened to be dining there for lunch, and we [...]

I give props to The Surreal Life and Dancing with the Stars for culling bizarre, hodgepodge collections of celebrities for their respective casts, but nothing compares to the potpourri of star power on NBC’s upcoming Celebrity Cooking Showdown. Variety reports today that the inaugural season of CCS will feature the following aspiring culinary wizards: Rapper [...]

Horrendous news from the recording industry. Constantine Maroulis has departed from his trailblazing band, Pray for the Soul of Betty. This brings to an end a monumental era which saw a new dawn in the rock ‘n’ roll world. Fans of the band are reported to be “shocked” and “speechless” and “total idiots.” Constantine announced [...]

This week on American Idol, the singers had to take on music from the 1950s. I thought this would be a recipe for disaster, much like the Stevie Wonder slaughterfest, but against all odds, nearly everyone brought their A-game to the show. Maybe the big-stage nerves had quelled, or maybe the straightforward melodies were easier [...]

Last week on The Amazing Race, the teams fell into complete chaos as they tried to navigate through the confusing streets of Moscow. In the process, the entire linear nature of the race (1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, etc) fell to the wayside as everyone seemed to be equally confused as the next person. [...]

The Gauntlet 2 is coming to a close, and as we’ve neared that final challenge, the tensions have mounted for the teams. Monday night, there was only one Gauntlet left, and it was for the guys. For the Vets, at stake was having to put poor, idiotic captain Derrick in the fighter’s circle yet again. [...]

So NBC hyped up this week’s edition of The Apprentice as the one where Brent loses it. I mean, LOSES it. You know, goes completely and utterly berserk. I could not have been more excited. However, after watching the show, I had to register general disappointment. That wasn’t a breakdown. That was a tiff. An [...]

Women couldn’t do anything right on tonight’s episode of 24. They were bitchy, hard-headed, slutty, dangerous, and even, perhaps, traitorous. I guess that’s the way it always goes down in the world of 24, where the only thing worse than being a woman is, well, being dead (or on the receiving end of a mean [...]

Project Runway may be the best skills-based reality show out there, but now that the second go-around is over, there’s a certain void in the TV landscape. Luckily, the Food Network has served up a brand new season of its own homegrown reality show, The Next Food Network Star. While it’s not as well-produced or [...]

Scariest Giada De Laurentiis image ever?

Mastercard has announced it’s latest, greatest new promotion: a “Write Your Own” commercial. Applicants can choose one of two commercials to write to, including one directed by Syriana helmer, Stephen Gaghan (wow, kind of a steep career drop-off there). We hardly fancy ourselves as ad wizards, but we thought we’d give this contest a little [...]

Julia Roberts, Penelope Cruz, the Sun-Maid.

Last night, I saw this commercial for Sun-Maid raisins that really disturbed me. Some brilliant advertising firm thought it’d be an awesome idea to turn that little Sun-Maid woman into a vacant-eyed, CGI zombie. Why are companies doing this? First Toys ‘R’ Us turns Geoffrey the Giraffe into a CGI giraffe (instead of his old, [...]

While everyone was out getting wasted for St. Patrick’s Day, at least one group of people was staunchly sober. No, not the Scientologists. I’m talking about the brave men and women hired by NBC to march along the Sunset Strip and promote the new series, Heist — which is premiering, I don’t know, sometime soon [...]

Last year on St. Patrick’s Day, I had the pleasure of carrying on a drunken (and icy cold) conversation with the two queen bees of MTV, Veronica and Rachel. It was such a wonderful experience that I decided to go back to the same bar this year for St. Patty’s day, and sure enough, there [...]

Our worst nightmares have come true. The Pussycat Dolls are looking to break into TV with their very own reality show. And it gets worse: the executive producer will be Charlie’s Angels director and TVgasm neighbor, McG. Yes, it’s the union of two horrendous forces, surely signifying the start of the apocalypse. I have to [...]

Our worst nightmares have come true. The Pussycat Dolls are looking to break into TV with their very own reality show. And it gets worse: the executive producer will be Charlie’s Angels director and TVgasm neighbor, McG. Yes, it’s the union of two horrendous forces, surely signifying the start of the apocalypse. I have to [...]

Without Survivor on last night, I decided to check out ABC’s much ballyhooed new show, American Inventor. This show is such a clone of American Idol, it’s almost hurts. Not only are the initials the same, but the audition format is nearly identical — as is the music, the look, the fake-Seacrest host, and just [...]

Last week, I pleaded with the singers of American Idol to please, please stop singing Stevie Wonder songs (and Alicia Keys too). So what did I get in return? A full damn week of Stevie Wonder. No disrespect to Mr. Wonder. He’s a living legend. The problem is that these twelve are not living legends, [...]

Ever wonder what happened to Luke after he disappeared to the Pacific Northwest on The OC? Well, we have an update. He’s having an illicit affair with Alec Baldwin. Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement (or a complete fallacy). Chris Carmack has resurfaced in the New York production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane where he plays the [...]

After two rounds of semi-serious episodes, The Real World: Key West took a chill pill this week with an installment that was as light and fluffy as the bath foam Tyler frolicked in at the end of the half-hour. Tuesday’s show was pure pettiness topped with a dash of snobbery and a random touch of [...]

Tonight, The OC cordially invites you to celebrate the big 18th birthday of Ryan Atwood, the do-gooder ragamuffin from the tough streets of Chino, CA. The party is expected to start out as a fun romp but will soon become too self-aware and sadly turn into a smug experience, coasting along on the buzz from [...]

It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of one of my favorite sites: MikeTheMiz.com. A classic destination for fans of broken English and simplistic observations, The Miz’s website was a treasure trove of literary jewels that sadly, I have not reported on in many months. Today, I decided to return [...]

This week, that ever lovable government organization, the FCC, doled out massive fines to our faithful television networks for airing allegedly obscene material. The committee received more than 300,000 complaints, including some directed towards Without A Trace for depicting, as E! says, “teenagers engaging in orgy-style sexual shenanigans.” Now, we don’t know how many of [...]

This week, that ever lovable government organization, the FCC, doled out massive fines to our faithful television networks for airing allegedly obscene material. The committee received more than 300,000 complaints, including some directed towards Without A Trace for depicting, as E! says, “teenagers engaging in orgy-style sexual shenanigans.” Now, we don’t know how many of [...]

Last night’s episode of The Amazing Race was awesome. It was like a one hour dissertation on why this show is the most exciting and unpredictable hour on television. Granted, the ending may have left some (or perhaps most) viewers unsatisfied, but I was fine with it. Why? Because for sixty minutes, we had pure [...]