Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Real Housewives of Bravo on Facebook

Real Housewives on Facebook
I was reading various comments in various places about The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

One of those various comments mentioned the comments as being over the top unmerciful regarding the repulsive lying behavior of the widow Taylor Armstrong on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Facebook page.

I did not know the Housewives were on Facebook.

The latest episode with the limo ride to Adrienne's fashion/shoe show with Taylor and Russell discussing Camille's supposed bad behavior towards Taylor, is causing a lot of commentary.

Then Kyle and Mauricio get in the limo. Kyle brings up the Camille situation, quickly realizing she'd just opened a can of worms. Taylor is squirming as Russell puts puzzled looks on Kyle and Mauricio's faces when he says that Camille had no saying right to say such lies. Or something like that.

Camille's crime against Taylor had been to suggest that Taylor was making up the stories about Russell beating her. All the housewives had become skeptical. So, when Russell said Camille was lying, he clearly had not been told an accurate accounting by his demented wife of what had actually been said.

All the housewives on the various Bravo housewives show have blogs on the Bravo website.

Go here for the Beverly Hills Housewive's Bravo blogs.

Bravo seems to moderate the comments on the blogs and weeds out the snarkier remarks. Currently Adrienne is taking a drubbing due to her being miffed at Lisa. There are 102 comments mostly chastising Adrienne. Lisa got around to blogging today. So far no one has commented.

Meanwhile on the Beverly Hills Housewive's Facebook page there seems to be no moderating going on. With 100s of comments. Adrienne is also taking a drubbing on Facebook. But it is Taylor who gets the most disgust directed at her.

Go here for the RHOBH Facebook page.

You will find links on the RHOBH Facebook page to the other Housewive's Facebook pages, like The Real Housewives of New York City where you can read the despicable Jill Zarin getting a good drubbing.

The previews for next week's Beverly Hills drama look rather crazy. Again it is Taylor, having what appears to be a violent fit at that Malibu Brandi party we heard mention made of this week.

Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for November 21 - November 27

The Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for November 21 - November 27. 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.

RankShow name
Network
Viewers in millions
Season-to-date average(in millions)
1.NFL: Steelers/Chiefs
NBC
20.3
20.7
2.Dancing With the Stars Results
ABC
19.6
16.4
*Dancing With the Stars
ABC
19.6
18.4
4.NCIS
CBS
18.5
21.9
5.60 Minutes
CBS
17.0
14.5
6.Two and a Half Men
CBS
15.8
20.1
7.NCIS: Los Angeles
CBS
14.1
17.5
8.Mike & Molly
CBS
13.1
13.8
9.Modern Family
ABC
12.7
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10.2 Broke Girls
CBS
11.3
13.8
11.Castle
ABC
10.9
14.1
12.Football Nt. Pt. 3
NBC
10.8
11.6
13.Once Upon A Time
ABC
10.7
13.6
14.Hawaii Five-0
CBS
10.6
13.7
15.Big Bang Theory
CBS
10.4
--
*Unforgettable
CBS
10.4
13.8
17.Amazing Race
CBS
10.1
10.9
18.How I Met Your Mother
CBS
10.0
11.6
19.X Factor (Tue.)
Fox
9.4
--
20.Last Man Standing
ABC
9.3
11.8

Monday, November 28, 2011

The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Dangling Jewels Are Ridickulous

Kandi & Her Mom, Joyce Reacting to Ridickulous
Well, the Real Housewives of Atlanta continues to deliver some ridiculous entertainment.

Bravo's title for Sunday's night's latest episode was...

Jewels Be Dangled
Episode 4: Kandi gets a very, um, big surprise for her birthday...It's Ridickulous!

Before we saw the jewels dangling we saw that Peter had a $40,000 check from an investor bounce on him. Before that check bounced we saw an angry confrontation between Peter and his wife, Cynthia's sister, Mal. We also saw Mal verbalized concerns that Cynthia would blow her own money, again on Peter's latest venture. Another bar.

Sheree took Phaedra the lawyer along for a confrontation with the guy who is building Sheree's new house. On the interwebs there a quite a few people mystified as to where Sheree acquired the money to build Chateau Sheree.

Before we saw the dangling jewels we saw Kim and Kroy get a lesson from a baby specialist on how to diaper a freshly circumcised baby boy. Kim was quite squeamish with worry about a baby boy's penis.

Kim's penis concerns were not the only penis concerns on this episode.

Which leads us to the dangling jewels.

Kandi gave herself a 35th birthday party on the roof top of a nice place in the downtown Atlanta zone.

The Blurred Out Part That Makes the Man
Ridickulous
Earlier Phaedra had said she would have a really big birthday surprise for Kandi. The dignified birthday party was well underway when Phaedra wheeled in a big box. Kandi opened the big box to find one of Phaedra's clients, an infamous stripper who calls himself Ridickulous. Get it?

Rid-DICK-ulous.

The stripper began doing his thing. Clothes were coming off. Looks of horror played across the faces of those watching, with the most horrified seeming to be Kandi's mom, Joyce, and NeNe.

Phaedra had a lot of face time making comments on what we were seeing on this episode, many of them  very amusing, none of which I remember.

Except for a comment, in a Phaedra confessional, where she informed us that Ridickulous had (paraphrasing in my words) at talent for naturally Viagra-izing himself. And then performing a pleasuring operation on himself.

Then we cut back to the party action to see the party guests recoil in even more horror as Ridickulous demonstrated his special skill.

Can't you get arrested for such a thing at an outdoor party?

Many guests got up and left, including Kandi's mom, who was quite vocal about her disgust.

Kandi seemed not to think anything was wrong regarding this particular party favor. Phaedra seemed a bit embarrassed. Maybe.

I was just grateful this was on BRAVO and not HBO or Showtime, where there likely would have been no blurring of the naughty bits.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Ace Young Gets Drunk & Sings to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Ace Young Wobbly With Mauricio & Kyle
The week's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was another amusing episode.

Taylor Armstrong continues her descent to totally MAD housewife. I'm surprised at how much we've been shown of Russell Armstrong. I thought the Taylor and Russell woes would likely be edited out for the most part.

Instead this week it seemed that Camille turned Lisa's Tea Party into some sort of intervention with Taylor. I'm not believing that Taylor was physically abused by Russell. It seems more believable, to me, that it would be Taylor who would go all Oklahoma on Russell's ass, to use Taylor's verbiage.

Knowing, as we do now, that the Armstrong's were broke, basically running swindling scams, if what I've read is to be believed, and it does seem believable, but it also makes something like wasting so much money on something as absurd as an extravagant birthday party for their 5 year old daughter, Kennedy, seem totally stupid.

Last year, if I remember right, the Armstrong's spent $70,000 on Kennedy's birthday party. This year's party looked like it likely cost a lot more than $70,000.

How much does it cost to get American Idol reject, Ace Young, to compose a song and sing at a birthday party? I"m guessing at least $100. Ace Young was one of the more amusing parts of this episode. He was hitting on Taylor with lame double entendres, like asking if she'd taken a ride on the pony yet. This had Taylor giggling like a school girl.

And then there was Ace Young singing the song. Earlier Taylor had told him it was so beautiful that it drove an entire office to sobbing tears when she played it for them. But, the song was really lame. Not a catchy tune. And Ace seemed to be a bit drunk while he sang, whilst holding his drink.

Brandi made a funny comment about Ace's drinking and singing. I don't remember the exact words though.

And then there was Russell's gift to his daughter, that for some reason the timing of the presentation had to be on some sort of Russell time table. When Russell was contradicted about when he could present the present there did seem a bit of a flash of anger that had me wondering how he would have acted if a camera was not aimed at him.

Russell's gift to his daughter was a big, full grown horse. Not a little pony. A big horse. Where are they going to keep that big horse? Horses are expensive, both to buy and to keep.

Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for November 14 - November 20

The Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for November 14 - November 20. 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.

Survivor is back in the Top 20, this week. NFL football on NBC is NBC's only programming in the Top 20. Nothing in FOX is in the Top 20, which would seem to indicate that Simon Cowell's The X Factor has failed. The Big Bang Theory, on CBS, is the most watched sit-com this week, with more viewers than Two and a Half Men.

RankShow name
Network
Viewers in millions
Season-to-date average(in millions)
1.NFL: Phila. At N.Y. Giants
NBC
20.3
20.7
2.NCIS
CBS
20.0
22.0
3.Dancing with the Stars
ABC
17.9
18.2
4.NCIS: Los Angeles
CBS
15.2
17.6
5.Dancing with the Stars results
ABC
15.1
15.6
*The Big Bang Theory
CBS
15.1
17.0
7.Two and a Half Men
CBS
14.8
20.1
8.60 Minutes
CBS
14.5
14.2
9.Modern Family
ABC
12.9
16.8
10.Criminal Minds
CBS
12.7
14.9
11.20/20 Mon.
ABC
12.4
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*Blue Bloods
CBS
12.4
13.7
13.Mike & Molly
CBS
12.2
13.6
*The Mentalist
CBS
12.2
15.2
15.American Music Awards
ABC
12.1
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16.2 Broke Girls
CBS
11.8
13.8
17.Hawaii Five
CBS
11.7
13.7
*Person of Interest
CBS
11.7
13.8
19.Survivor: South Pacific
CBS
11.6
12.3
20.Unforgettable
CBS
11.4
13.9