The Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Tardy Party Reunion

The first season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Bravo had to add an extra hour due to way too much good footage of good fighting.

The second season Bravo also added a second reunion hour. Why? I do not know.

Host Andy Cohen tried real hard to get the housewives yelling at each other. Rehashing this season's fights, showing footage of bad behavior and wig pullings.

But the girls just sat there making nice. Kim got grilled about her source of income. Sheree got asked about her out of control narcissism. NeNe got asked about her bad moments. Kandi got asked about AJ. I don't remember what Lisa got asked about. Lisa is a bit boring to me. Oh, I remember, Andy asked her about her Closet Freak clothing line. He also asked Sheree about her She for Sheree line. Of course, both are doing fabulous.

In the first reunion hour Kim told us she'd broken up with Big Poppa, due to him not getting a divorce. We learned that the pair pretty much live together. Andy asks the others if they've met Big Poppa. They all had. Andy said he wanted to meet Big Poppa. Cut to commercial.

Back from commercial we learn that Andy has now met Big Poppa and watched Kim lip locking with the man she said she'd broken up with. Apparently Big Poppa showed up because he knew how stressful these reunion shows are for Kim.

Kim claims her wig line is going fine. Her Tardy for the Party song is a smash hit. That she has cut back on extravagant spending. That she supports herself. That if she had to, she'd work as a waitress or nurse. We never did get a real answer to where her money comes from. After Kim described her relationship with Big Poppa, Sheree suggested that to her understanding what Kim described is the job description of a mistress.

But, nothing could get these girls into fight mode. It was like they all realized how embarrassing last year's reunion show was and so they decided to pretend to make nice. For the reunion. They didn't make nice all that much while the cameras were rolling on their somewhat real lives.

Kim sang Tardy for the Party, with back up singers and with Kandi. This made the reunion show even weirder. The other housewives seemed to look on in pain as Kim sang and danced. At the end Kandi sang a solo, dedicated to AJ. I like Kandi, she grew on me episode by episode, but I'm not a fan of her type music.

Had I known there were going to be no catfights, I would not have watched.

Survivor Samoa Season 19: Episode 8: Eric Voted Out

Last night was the best episode yet of Survivor Samoa. With a real satisfying blindside of Eric Cardona.

Foa Foa plotted what to do if they merged with Galu, to try and survive while being outnumbered 2 to 1. Meanwhile over at Galu tribe members were plotting who to get rid of members of their own tribe.

Laura and Shambo got into a fight over a missing canteen. This led to the boys and Shambo deciding to get rid of Laura.

Treemail then hinted at a merge. The tribes arrive at a beach and find a treasure chest with their new buffs and instructions to head for a feast and move to the old Galu camp.

Brett suggested "Aiga" for the new tribe name, claiming this means "extended family" in Samoan. Eric said his translation of Aiga had it meaning, "Get the hell off my island." Hubris is always fun to witness.

Russell went into overdrive to get Galu members on his side, showing his hidden immunity idol over and over again, making the same promises to everyone he talked to. Russell got Shambo on his side with the promise to get rid of Laura.

Then in the whack a ball and try and have it land on the highest number to win immunity, Laura won, sending all the plans asunder. This was a double immunity deal, one each for the boys and the girls. John won the boy's immunity.

After the Immunity Challenge the tribe went into Scramble Overdrive. Back and forth it went. Plots to flush out Russell's immunity idol, plots to get rid of Jaison. Then John switches Erik to his vote out Monica plan. Erik then talks to Natalie, Mick and Jaison about the new plan to get rid of Monica, while making Russell think it was him to go, thus flushing out the idol.

And then, after Erik left them, Jaison suggested turning the tables on Eric. Natalie then tells Laura that Erik is taking out Monica, causing the Galu girls to flip to the Foa Foa side.

Russell was totally confused by it all.

At the Tribal Council Erik made one cocky comment after another. Probst says it's time to vote. They do so. Russell plays his Hidden Immunity Idol. Erik does not play his Hidden Immunity Idol. Erik is voted out 10 to 2.

The curse of the Hidden Immunity Idol continues. Has it ever been played when needed? No votes for Russell, he plays his. 10 votes for Erik, he takes his Immunity Idol home with him.

Nielsen Rating's Top 20 for October 26 - November 2

The Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for October 26 - November 2. The first number is the ranking, the second number is the season average, then the show name and network. The last number represents the number of viewers in millions. An asterisk * indicates a tie.

Rank	Season average	Show name	Network	Viewers in millions	Season-to-date average
1.	x	World Series Game 4	Fox	22.8
2.	x	World Series Game 1	Fox	19.5
3.	x	World Series Game 2	Fox	18.9
4.	x	World Series Pregame 4	Fox	17.8
5.	3	Dancing with the Stars	ABC	17.4	17.5
6.	1	NCIS	CBS	16.7	21.6
7.	18	The OT	Fox	16.6	13.7
8.	7	The Mentalist	CBS	15.5	16.6
9.	x	World Series Game 3	Fox	15.4
10.	8	CSI	CBS	15.2	16.1
*	12	Dancing with the Stars Results	ABC	15.2	14.2
12.	10	Desperate Housewives	ABC	14.1	15.0
13.	4	Grey's Anatomy	ABC	13.7	17.4
14.	16	60 Minutes	CBS	12.9	13.9
15.	21	Survivor: Samoa	CBS	12.2	12.7
16.	12	CSI: Miami	CBS	11.5	14.4
17.	12	Two and a Half Men	CBS	11.4	14.4
18.	24	Amazing Race	CBS	11.2	11.2
19.	5	NCIS: Los Angeles	CBS	11.1	17.0
20.	16	Big Bang Theory	CBS	10.9	13.9

Levi Johnston Interviewed about Sarah Palin on the Insider

Kathy Griffin gets in a question or two. I don't know who the others are asking the questions. Levi handles himself real well for a 19 year old kid from Alaska.

Apparently Todd Palin has a bad temper, or as Levi put it, "He's a bit of a hothead." But Todd does not beat Sarah. I think that's what Levi said.

With our modern world of 24 hours media, the Internet, blogging, Twitter, YouTube, cell phones, everyone having a video camera, you just can't aggravate someone and be sure they aren't going to strike back, using the modern means, which Levi is using quite well in his feud with his almost mother-in-law.

The Amazing Race: Season 15 Episode 7: Maria & Tiffany Eliminated From The Race

I was so offput by this week's episode of The Amazing Race that for the first time, what used to be one of my all time favorite TV shows, brought out the I'm done with this impulse.

I was sure, do to the totally unfair nature of the pre-Pitstop Detour, that this would be a non-elimination leg. It wasn't.

Detours usually have tasks where one requires clear thinking, with the other more physical. Both Detour tasks on this episode required physical strength.

It was painful watching Maria & Tiffany try so hard to swing that mallet to try and ring a bell so they could learn a Dutch dance. Then they gave up that and went through the hell of swimming across a cold canal to try and play Dutch farmer's golf. That also favored strength and the girls could not make it work. So, they gave up, swam back and tried to swing some more at the bell

Maria & Tiffany then gave up once more on the belling ringing/dancing and pedaled their bikes back for the pre-golf swim again. By now they were getting exhausted. Through it all Maria & Tiffany stayed good-natured and positive. They had been well ahead of Brian and nagging Banshee Erica.

Erica had terrible trouble counting bells. Then the Brian & Erica pair mised the part of the clue that told them to ride provided bikes to the Detour. Then when they finished the dance task and ate the pickled herring, they borrowed bikes to pedal to the Pitstop, where Phil told them, to Erica's crying anguish, that they'd incurred a 30 minute penalty.

We saw Maria & Tiffany try and try. They were exhausted. They did not fight. They supported each other. These girls were among the nicest racers I've seen on The Amazing Race. When the half hour was up Phil checked Brian & Erica in. Then Phil arrived at the golf field. He never actually told Maria & Tiffany they'd been eliminated. I kept expecting him to tell them it was a non-elimination round. But he didn't.

I would think however The Amazing Race tasks are created, that it should always be designed to be possible. These were not weak girls. They were not of the weak Mika crybaby sort.

I have not been enjoying The Amazing Race much this season, though Dubai and Vietnam were cool. And last week's Mika meltdown was good TV. I am very fickle with my TV viewing. Irritate me with something really irritating and I easily bail. I've not watched a second of Big Brother since that idiotic all-star season that that repulsive Boogie person, who was not an All-Star, won.

Top Chef Las Vegas: Insufferable Isabella Told To Pack His Knives And Go

It was good TV to get the insufferably smug Mike Isabella of my Top Chef TV screen. If my memory serves me correctly, each week Isabella would brag that he had whatever challenge in the bag due to his superior cooking skills. But I don't remember him delivering anything that was well received.

For his exit week Isabella was sure he would be on top because the Elimination Challenge was to create a vegetarian dish for Natalie Portman in Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak restaurant in the MGM Grand. Of course, the cheftestants thought they would be cooking a protein and were thrown a loop with the arrival of vegetarian Portman.

But not Isabella. He said he cooks vegetarian all the time in his restaurant. But somehow he did not know that when you cook vegetarian you combine certain grains and beans to make a complete protein. Instead, he thought it was immensely clever to slice leeks to make them look like scallops. He actually referenced, to the judges, the faux scallops as his dish's protein.

This episode started with the drawing of knives for the Quickfire Challenge. The knives had classic TV shows on them. The challenge was to make an upscale, update of a TV dinner, somehow reflecting that show. I really did not get how they were supposed to do that, but Kevin came up with a meatball TV dinner that won the challenge.

Kevin also won the Elimination Challenge, to the total upset of poor loser Michael Voltaggio, who felt his complicated dish, that included a banana infused polenta, should have won over Kevin's simple kale dish that Voltaggio claimed was something you learned your first day in culinary school. Or something like that.

Those Voltaggio brothers are a real intense piece of work. But there are moments when I find them amusing.

Poor nervous Jennifer really suffered this round. She ended up in the bottom again. She was so nervous and shaking so bad she spilled sauce on the judges. I like Jennifer. Both she and Kevin have grown on me. Especially Kevin. It comes through rather clear that Kevin is a nice guy. And a very good chef. I was surprised to hear him reference his wife. I want to see the wife.

It was particularly satisfying to see Robin survive Isabella. Mike was sure that he was safe as long as Robin was also on the chopping block. But it was clear from Tom Colicchio's blog that everything about Isabella's dish was bad and that Isabella stood by his untasty food. While Robin understood what was wrong with hers and Colicchio said that, unlike Isabella's, Robin's problem was not that it tasted bad, it just was not a cohesive dish that combined flavors into something you wanted to eat.

Anyway, good to see Mike Isabella go. Now if Robin survives Eli that will also be amusing.

Almost forgot. The repartee that followed Padma's remark about, I think it was a garlic flower, being like a "little prick in your mouth" was pretty funny. I don't think that repartee would have survived the censors on network TV.

Dancing With The Stars Joanna Krupa Goes From Dancing Wild With Derek Hough to the December Playboy

That is not Joanna Krupa practicing a Kama Sutra move with Derek Hough, instead it is a dance called the Lambada, which I think must be Spanish for Kama Sutra dance.

Joanna and Derek danced the wildest dance I think I've seen on Dancing with the Stars. TV Guide picked it as the TV Moment of the Week, the week it was on.

Joanna will be baring even more skin soon, in the December Playboy, in an 8 page pictorial shot by celebrity photo taker, Rankin.

This will mark Joanna's second time being artful in Playboy. The first time, in the July 2005 Playboy, was after she was named the sexiest swimming suit model in the world.

I do not know if Derek Hough will be appearing with Joanna Krupa in the 8 page Playboy pictorial.

Below you can watch a YouTube video of the infamous Krupa/Hough R-Rated Lambada...