POSTS TAGGED: Animal Planet

 What is summer without Reality TV? There is always a flood of real TV for us to choose from and this year is no different. It’s a regular smorgasbord for us to feast on. The controversy continues over ABC’s new The Glass House, it’s version of CBS’ Big Brother, who by the way, have taken [...]

Saturday, Jan. 7 My Cat From Hell (Animal Planet, 8 pm) A cat named Kleo keeps Tim from proposing to his girlfriend. Kleo has no opposable thumbs. How much control over Tim can she possibly have? Cops (Fox, 8 pm) A homeless man refuses to leave the handicap stall in a store bathroom. Who can [...]

The final showdown, without anything actually resembling a showdown

Despite their best efforts, Sea Shepherd doesn’t manage to lose the mothership.

To open Week 9 of our ten-episode season, the Gojira has just come upon the Nisshin Maru. It’s the mothership of the Japanese whaling fleet. If Sea Shepherd prevents it from loading whale carcasses onto its slipway, all whaling operations will come to a halt and the campaign will be over. Sea Shepherd has been [...]

We’re all very tired

Jereth Cutestory would have a field day with this

It’s hard to find whalers, even if someone tells you exactly where they are

Wile E Coyote does not catch the Road Runner

Fleiss, the parrot madame.

Makin’ stuff up and callin’ it real

Well then. Here we have something incredibly rare in the reality TV landscape: an episode about something that actually matters. Nobody dies on Hogan Knows Best. But this week on Whale Wars, the Sea Shepherds undertake a search-and-rescue operation to look for some Norwegian sailors who have gone missing in the Antarctic Ocean. The worst [...]

Rescued and thawed

In which multiple references to Indiana Jones are made

Today’s lesson: anger the machines, get whales killed

Whalers pull the ol’ Harpoon Ship Switcheroo and a Animal Planet slogan contest!

Last week, when Sea Shepherd was zeroing in on the Japanese whaling fleet only one episode into the season, I was worried that we had a kind of Whale Wars on our hands. Sea Shepherd knows what it’s doing. It’s even badass. Had the show somehow become about a bunch of people…succeeding? It didn’t sound [...]

In season 4, Sea Shepherd breaks out its most shocking weapon yet: competence

Huge premiere night

Another night of newness

Ewok party!

Part One: The Penultimate Showdown…

You’ve been waiting for it. Here it is.

How can a “between battles” episode still be SO AWESOME?!

Not even (preventable) mechanical problems can stop them

Throw on your life jackets and grab your sea-sickness pills.

Puppies really know what team play means. Only the strong survive puppy bowl. Sure, some men like football and get drunk watching men in tight uniforms but the real heroes? Those who can endure the constant game of puppy bowlery. And yes, we have it here. So- I pose this question to you: Are you [...]