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A lot of our readers e-mailed us this morning wondering exactly what was going on with TVgasm. Fear not for the lack of updates recently. February has been busy with a couple of TVgasm birthdays (complete with Karaoke celebrations), a couple of TVgasm new jobs, a TVgasm layoff, and a couple of TVgasm friend visits [...]

This week, CBS and Mark Burnett bring us the tenth installment of the venerable Survivor with new episodes starting February 17th. While the show hasn’t exactly blown us away since Pearl Islands or Amazon, the series was one of the main inspirations for TVgasm. In that grand tradition, we bring you our season preview. It’s [...]

I think any fan of Smallville will say that they really enjoyed watching the show as all of the characters went through high school. What comes next is open for debate. The list of television shows that have been broken as their characters graduate from high school is long. I think the Smallville writers see [...]

TVgasm would like to thank all of our readers who participated in two of our contests. Both the Battle of the Sexes 2 and the Amazing Race contests and giveaways are now over. We wanted to take a little time to congratulate the winners as well as announce out intentions for other giveaways in the [...]

So this is it, the week we have been waiting for. The event that millions have been anxiously awaiting. The spectacle that will go down as a banner moment in history. If you were thinking “Oh, J-Unit’s birthday”, you were close, but wrong. I am of course talking about The OC and the kiss that [...]

So I promise not to start this review of the latest episode of 24 by imploring readers to watch the show, but I think since I already mentioned I wasn’t going to do it, it sort of is a mention. Whatever. There is too much in the show to worry about the semantics of an [...]

It’s that time of year again. The Academy Awards. The best of the best of Hollywood Gather at the Kodak Theater to recognize the achievements in all things relating to motion pictures. As for the rest of us, we simply try to sneak into good parties that have free booze. TVgasm hopes to liveblog this [...]

Yes, we will be watching the Super Bowl today at the TVgasm offices. Many chicken wings will be eaten, many St. Pauli Girls will be sipped. I may even bake a pie. While we are not going to liveblog the entire thing, if there happens to be a particular commercial that we find particularly funny, [...]

So it looks like the writers of Smallville have decided to take us on a little bit of a Superman hiatus. Early on in the season, it looked as if we were doing to be deep into Krypton mythology for a long time to come. We had ancient stones, ancient maps, ancient 17th century relatives [...]

What the hell was that? Seriously. Aren’t we in some sort of social contract with television writers? We watch their shows and make them rich. In return, they promise to work hard and prevent that show from sucking. Yes, eventually all shows wear out their welcome and plod along with uninteresting storylines. I understand that [...]

Some say the unemployed are disadvantaged, I say they are blessed. B-side and I decided to help out some of you people bored at work and in search of something to do. At around 11AM PST, we invite all of our readers in for a little Instant Messaging fun. The buddies you should add to [...]

I have a confession to make. It turns out that I was being slightly hypocritical when I previously implored people to start watching 24 even if they had stopped in previous seasons. Charity begins at home, you see. And it turns out my own parents had failed to Tivo the program this year. With one [...]

It’s been a little while since I have taken the time to comment on a Smallville episode. Yes, the Tivo missed one and I made an urgent plea to TVgasm readers for help, which they obliged. The main problem though was that the WB has waited quite a long time to air new episodes after [...]

I don’t know why, but it just seems that The OC has lost a lot of its original vibe. I have gone on and on about many of the problems with the show, and this episode started us off with some of the reason. As we open, we get a shot of Ryan, Seth, and [...]

Another final installment of a Real World/Road Rules Challenge season is once again upon us. After many challenges, we have whittled down the boys and the girls teams to Theo, Dan, and Eric vs. Coral, Sophia, and Arissa. If this was Vegas, the sports book would have stopped taking bets long ago. The girls have [...]

In the January 24th issue of Newsweek, they bring up the issue of a possible homoerotic connection on The OC. No, we aren’t talking about the now-cofirmed, and TVgasm breaking story on Marissa and Alex. We are talking about the seemingly more obvious, but perhaps unintentional, sexual tension between Seth and Ryan. While I haven’t [...]

Entering the final week of elimination challenges on Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Sexes 2, I am beginning to wonder if the producers would be better served to fashion the competitions in a manner reminiscent of the Special Olympics. Just as the Special Olympics endeavors to “empower individuals with intellectual disabilities to become physically [...]

Apparently there are still some people out there who still haven’t tuned into watch an episode of 24 during it’s most excellent fourth season. I know that many of you out there were annoyed at the second season of the show, and many people simply turned the show off during the wasteland that was the [...]

Is it just me, or is emasculation a all too regular occurrence on The OC over the first couple of seasons? Where have all the assholes gone? Last year we had Luke, but he got in touch with himself and lives in Portland. Ryan used to be a tough guy, but after that pregnancy scare, [...]

I never thought that writing for Battle of the Sexes 2 would become such a difficult task. How hard is it to sit through a 30 minute show, then make fun of the people in that show? Considering all of the people in the show are now caricatures of themselves, it really shouldn’t be that [...]

Isn’t it great when one of your favorite TV shows defies all expectations and turns out better than you could have hoped? So far, that is the feeling that I am getting from this season of 24. About the only thing lackluster so far is the performance of the President, but considering the actor’s most [...]

You have to admit, The OC really started off on a high note. Marissa had a melt down, and we just knew that despite all of the talk about how the show had changed, there are always certain things you can count on to keep things moving along. Although I can’t say this season has [...]

Somebody recently told me that NBC would air it’s take on America’s Next Top Model Wednesdays at 8 PM. “Whoa!”, I thought. NBC has programming on Wednesdays? I mean, I love Law and Order as much as the next person, but Criminal Intent and SVU are more Tivo-worthy, and I can always see the episodes [...]

Besides fretting over what gifts you were going to give during the holidays and who you were going to smooch on New Year’s, I am sure that everybody was eagerly anticipating updates for The Passion of the TVgasm, our impromptu league celebrating Battle of the Sexes 2 As you can see in the standings, things [...]

I am not the type of guy who makes a bunch of New Year’s resolutions, because I know I am too lazy to actually complete any of them, and am way too shallow to attempt any sort of change in personality. I did drink enough cheap champagne to give me a huge hangover, but didn’t [...]

Hopefully some of us will be sober enough next week to resume writing about television.

Although everybody here in the TVgasm offices is more than willing to keep you updated on all the new television happening whenever it happens, the networks haven’t been so kind to oblige us with anything new on television. Therefore, the TVgasm staff will be spending our time enjoying all of the great things the season [...]

Among one of the many moments that defined The OC during its first season was Chrismukkah. What started out as Seth Cohen’s way to happily morph two holidays that shared an equal part of his family’s heritage. Who knew that that one little episode would spawn a whole revolution? Seriously, there are Chrismukkah cards that [...]

I have to admit, I had to get convinced that America’s Next Top Model was going to be enjoyable television. Although nobody needs to give me an excuse to see a whole lotta Tyra Banks, I kind of brushed aside the show. I sat through a couple of scenes and realized I could do a [...]

Let me be perfectly honest. If what you are after is mindless entertainment, Bunim/Murray is what you are looking for. Then again, I probably didn’t have to tell you that. Between The Real World, Road Rules,and The Simple Life, Bunim/Murray has taken the “if we put idiots on the screen, somebody will watch” motif pretty [...]

So, TVgasm was trying to hold out some suspense for the now fabled lesbian kiss between Marissa Cooper and what had been an unnamed female character on The OC. Some people actually questioned the rumor when it broke, saying that we made it up, but after Out.com featured an article with Josh Schwartz confirming the [...]

Survivor: Vanuatu sort of picked itself up towards the end of this season. By the time we had reached last night’s season finale, Mark Burnett was actually able to string together several enjoyable episodes back-to-back. There was even some suspense as to who would be left in the final, and who was going to be [...]

While TVgasm is trying to secure some seats for this weekends live finale of Survivor: Vanuatu, our Survivors were still on the island, rapidly pissing each other off in the waning days of their seclusion. Although the alliance of Chris, Scout, Twila, and Eliza had worked well for two weeks, it was really the classic [...]

The most requested feature from the readers of TVgasm has been for us to implement some sort of forums system so people could discuss all sorts of subjects in a way that goes beyond the comments. We love our readers, so we now have our software running at http://forums.tvgasm.com. We’ve added a “Forums” link to [...]

Although TVgasm pulled out a pretty big spoiler about future plot lines in The OC, there is still some television to get through before we get there. We broke the news about Mischa Barton’s future love interest in part because we needed something from this season to be worthy of some gab. Sorry Josh Schwartz, [...]

When TVgasm stated earlier this week that a certain cast member of the OC was going to do a little lesbian experimentation, we received many e-mails questioning the quality of our source. I guess there is some element of the population that believes television writers wouldn’t stoop so low as to have two women kissing [...]

Bunim/Murray tried to make a reality movie once upon a time. Some people enjoyedThe Real Cancun, and I admit, I enjoyed the DVD. The ability to pause, slow-mo, and rewind to the good parts(the boobs) combined with the ability to fast forward over the bad parts(anything else) really made it tolerable. I think I am [...]

The writers of The OC have tried all season to make sure that people know that we are in an entirely “new era” and that we should only expect the unexpected. Overall, the season has not been stellar, so we were intrigued when TVgasm reader Spotdog told us of a little plot twist that is [...]

I have to hand it Twila. She did something that I thought nobody among Survivor: Vanuatu had the brains to do, ie beat Ami at her own game. Admit it, you never thought it could be done, but it did happen, and all of a sudden there is suspense about the episodes and the outcomes [...]