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The adventures with the new TVgasm Tivo continue, as I apparently forgot to set several season passes that were on the previous Tivo, including Smallville. Therefore, your favorite correspondent missed last night’s episode, which is, of course, killing him. If anybody has last night’s episode on tape or Tivo and wouldn’t mind sending me a [...]

There is not that much to write home about The Rebel Billionaire, Bunim-Murray’s take on the “Crazy Millionaire wants to find somebody to run their business” genre. Maybe you haven’t heard of it, because not that many people watch it, but it makes The Benefactor look Emmy-worthy in comparison. Personally, I kind of like Richard [...]

As many of you may have heard, we purchased a new Tivo for the TVgasm offices, one that lets us record two shows at the same time. This takes care of most of the recording conflicts on TVgasm, and is very useful on Sunday when you want to track a couple of football games at [...]

Within minutes of the opening of Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes 2, Bunim/Murray put to rest a debate long standing in the annals of TVgasm history. We had previously wondered if Chris, our favorite god-fearing Road Ruler, was living a secret double life as Paulie, an unidentified member of Friendster who bore [...]

Sometimes, even the best laid plans have a habit of blowing up your face. A lot of fans of Survivor: Vanuatu were almost begging for that to happen with Ami. It’s not that her plan is particularly horrible or unfair in itself. Even Ami’s biggest critics have to admit that she has taken a simple [...]

Articles on TVgasm will be light for the rest of the week as we take some time off from our busy work schedule(those of us who work) and do a little traveling during the holiday. B-side will be in New York, while I trudge northward and brave the hippies in and around San Francisco. As [...]

I have decided I am going to start my recap of the latest episode of Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes 2 without the usual complaints about how the men are boring and the women only things keeping the show moving. Then again, I guess by mentioning that I am not going to [...]

How in the hell does one extricate themselves from the kind of predicament we see that Chad and Chris, the last men remaining, have found themselves on Survivor? The way to go about it is surely not the moronic way these two and the Lopevi that have went before them have tried. As antagonistic as [...]

After two episodes used mainly for clearing up some of the loose ends from last season, The OC was ready prepare us for what’s in store for the season ahead. Although the new school year meant plenty of anticipation for the students, all of the characters have been affected in their own way. If there [...]

Throughout the history of Smallville, the writers have chosen to give us a fairly sympathetic view into the pathology of Lex Luthor. He didn’t just pop out of the womb a crazed killer and mortal enemy to Superman. Thanks to his father, he had a pretty difficult home life, ranging from being blamed for his [...]

You have to love the good folk at Bunnim/Murray for at least putting forth the effort in attempting make each new iteration of the Real World/Road Rules challenge seem unique. I always thought that the methods each of the various challenges used to get rid of their less useful members was always a little unfair. [...]

In case some of you out there haven’t been paying attention, or are simply waiting for the TVgasm staff to make it official, CBS is airing its new season of The Amazing Race this Tuesday with a two hour season premiere. In the great tradition of our other giveaways, TVgasm introduces the Amazing Race Challenge. [...]

It’s been a few weeks since we have had a Passion of the TVgasm update, and I if you aren’t part of the league, I should fill you in and let you know that I have everybody else cowering in fears, knowing that it won’t be long before I move out of third from last [...]

If there is one thing that you can always count on in Survivor, it’s that the team with the numbers advantage is never going to be gracious in victory. You’ve seen it before, many, many times. On the one hand, people may think this type of thing is boring. Nobody really wants to watch a [...]

Sometimes I have to remind myself that the OC is actually in its second season. The story has moved along, but aren’t we kind of at square one? (Speaking of square one, did anybody else love Mathnet as a kid?) Sandy has pulled Ryan out of Chino. Seth is fixated on comics and not real [...]

Although I am enjoying this season of Smallville, sometimes I wonder about the writers and their train of thought. I mean, I am not one to pass judgment about fixating promiscuous young women (after a season of Buffy and Riley and Buffy and Spike, I am immune), but it’s like the show just received an [...]

If there is one almost universal rule in sports and competition, it is that people always seem to love the underdog. Look at baseball, where the Red Sox came from behind 3-0 on their arch rivals the Yankees just to get to the World Series. I don’t care if you believe Boston had the better [...]

I am not going to say that the outcome of this season’s Survivor has become predictable, but after the last episode, it has kind of become obvious who is in control of the game. This Survivor has been a battle of the sexes, through and through. After the shuffle, and before the merge, it looked [...]

It’s a time we have all been waiting for. The return of The OC. If you watch it, then you don’t really need to know any more. If you haven’t watched it, I should say that it was instrumental in the creation of TVgasm. And although I won’t say the TVgasm offices are a shrine [...]

After a solid three seasons worth of investigating the often strange inhabitants of Smallville, the producers have started to venture outside of the Sunflower State in order to find some of the wackos they need to help hone Clark Kent’s powers. Lana had been in Paris, and Lex has been in Egypt. Previously, we learned [...]

I am sure that everybody is really stoked that El Paso was chosen as a backdrop for this latest challenge. Or not. Usually, MTV springs to rent out some property in a nice resort town. El Paso has given us Elimination Hill and, um, uh, those strange pyramid/ant hills/termite nests we got at the beginning [...]

I think I can safely say that most of Survivor: Vanuatu, at least for the viewers, has primarily been about one thing, and that is the merge. Quite honestly, Mark Burnett’s spent a little too much time developing the big twist, and too little time on some equally important things, like casting. Perhaps I have [...]

One of the nagging questions on Smallville this season was the status of Lionel Luthor. He only appeared briefly in some early episodes, but was given a life sentence in jail, not to mention a little nagging from the previous season, namely a failing liver. But if he was to be written off so early [...]

I think that the next time Bunim/Murray brings us a Real World/Road Rules Challenge series, they should just forget about the stupid guys team, and focus solely on the girls. The guys simply aren’t that interesting. I am starting to believe that they are along for the ride just to hookup with the girls. Think [...]

I usually don’t step in to enter random gossip about ex Bunim/Murray reality stars, but when TVgasm reader Sara E. sent in a recent tip, I couldn’t resist. It turns out that Mike Mizanin, erstwhile known as “The Miz” to anybody who has watched MTV in the last four years, has managed to find himself [...]

So, it has been kind of a down season for Survivor, but we keep watching because we know, somewhere deep down inside, there is a lot of petty arguments and backstabbing to be had. We just have to take some of the bad to get to the good. The main problem we had was the [...]

Sorry that I am a little late with this week’s Smallville post. After the Yankees blew their 3-0 lead in the ALCS and lost to the Red Sox in such depressing fashion, the TVgasm Board of Directors had me placed under observation for the night just in case I do something to harm myself or [...]

The battle for Bunim/Murray prediction bragging rights is well under way, and after one week of scoring, it looks like we are going to have a great competition for our own take on the Real World/Road Rules fantasy challenge. People are obviously spending close to thirty seconds each day wondering which of the wonderful items [...]

When in the course of reality events, it becomes necessary for one production company to dissolve the the bonds of originality that have separated their show from every other. That production company is Bunim/Murray and the result of all that lack of originality becomes the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Forget that you see the same [...]

This latest incarnation of The Surreal Life has the house guests going through some interesting activities. While they aren’t exactly at the level of The Apprentice or Amazing Race, the producers have kept it enjoyable and haven’t asked too much of our little group of musicians. Unfortunately, when it came time to choose who was [...]

Although I thought that I was the last person on earth to find out that Ami Cusack had appeared in Playboy several years ago before she and her assets became famous on Survivor: Vanuatu, apparently I was wrong. Several readers asked that we here at TVgasm post pictures on the web or e-mail them the [...]

Quick question. When is a Survivor twist not a twist at all? When you can see it a mile away. While we still have an interesting season on our hands, Survivor Vanuatu is shaping up to be as forgettable as they come. Mark Burnett has us constantly looking for a twist, but the episodes play [...]

There was a time on Smallville when Clark Kent was content to live life on the sidelines. He was strung up like a scarecrow in a freshman hazing not a week after he arrived to Smallville High. Instead of joining the football or basketball team, he decided that his time would be best spent writing [...]

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