Tag: TV

Parents’ Guide to the Movies, Video Games, and More

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 28, 2009

These days, parents have a hard time keeping track of what is good for their kids, or what their kids should avoid – if only due to the sheer amount of content that parents need to stay up with.

Did any of the parents who brought their young kids to a free concert in Central Park last week know what to expect when Green Day took the stage? The concert was sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Walgreen’s, so nothing offensive was going to happen, right?

Watching that clip, you can see the parents with their kids happily singing along to every curse word used in the song. But I’m sure there were some families in the crowd that did not expect a TV morning show concert to contain profanity.

Tags Movies, Music, TV, Video, video games, website

Gambling Games Travel TV

Join WSOP champion Annie Duke at “Sucking Out On The Rivers” poker tourney

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 20, 2009

What are you doing on Wednesday May 27th?

If you didn’t like the outcome of this year’s Celebrity Apprentice… and who did?… then this is your chance to join in a little good natured revenge with proceeds going to Refugees International.

(I mean really – while I admit that the last few Celebrity Apprentice episodes were hysterically entertaining, everyone knows that the best quality finale would have been between Jesse James vs Annie Duke. That would have been awesome. And we would next like to see Annie and Jesse take on Dancing with the Stars next. But I digress.)

What do you need to do to join in the fun? Just join poker champion Annie Duke at the SUCKING OUT ON THE RIVERS POKER TOURNAMENT at the Hard Rock Casino’s poker room in Las Vegas.

Annie Duke and renowned Joan Rivers impersonator Frank Marino are joining forces on this charity poker tournament. Buy-in is $200 (with re-buys), and they expect a few poker pros to come out and join the fun. There are also going to be 20 other Joan Rivers impersonators playing along, each one with a bounty on their head for the lucky player who knocks them out.

Advance information is saying that the tournament is going to start at 6pm, but considering how much fun this sounds like, I wouldn’t be surprised if it started later and ran long into the night.

Full press release after the break.

Tags Gambling, Las Vegas, poker, Travel, TV

Funny Music TV Video

An Ode to Chest Hair

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 14, 2009

And now, an ODE TO CHEST HAIR, featuring tributes to the following unwaxed and hairy:

Tom Hanks
Hugh Jackman
Pierce Brosnan
Tom Selleck
David Hasselhoff
Jake Gyllenhaal
Paul Rudd
Warren Beatty
Sean Connery
Steve Martin

Jack Nicholson
Kevin Costner
Charlton Heston
Chuck Norris
Elliott Gould
Robin Williams
Burt Reynolds
Mike Meyers (as Austin Powers)
Neil Diamond
Prince

Tags Music, TV, Video

TV TV Reviews

TiVo Alert: PITCHMEN on Discovery

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 16, 2009

Billy Mays (the bearded one) and Anthony Sullivan (the other guy) are two of those “As Seen on TV” pitchmen, shilling products ranging from stick-up lightbulbs to cleaning supplies to other handy household products.

Since these infomercials have become so ingrained in the public consciousness (“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”), The Discovery Channel has decided to make Pitchmen, a reality-TV show about what it takes to get a new product from the pitch to TV.

Similar in concept to the ABC program AMERICAN INVENTOR from a few years ago, people from around the country bring their inventions to a pitch meeting with Billy, Anthony, and the president of Tele-Brands in the hopes that they too have the Next Greatest Must-Have item.

Along the way, we learn a little bit about what it takes to be a successful telemarketed product, such as:

Tags advertising, marketing, reality tv, TV

Music TV

American Idol Singers Ranked

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 16, 2009

Victor Balta at Comcast has RANKED ALL 82 OF THE AMERICAN IDOL FINALISTS SO FAR, FROM WORST TO FIRST.

We can all agree that the top ten of all American Idols should be these folks, even if some of the specific ranking numbers may need to be tweaked a little amongst the top 5:

Kelly Clarkson
Carrie Underwood
Chris Daughtry
Clay Aiken
David Cook
Jordin Sparks
David Archuleta
Fantasia Barrino
Ruben Studdard
Tamyra Gray

Me, I would rank Archuleta, Fantasia, Ruben, and Tamyra a little lower into the teens. Just didn’t see what all the fuss was about.

Tags Music, reality tv, TV

TiVo Alert: BBC America’s “BBC AMERICA REVEALS”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 9, 2009

The BBC has given us lots of high-quality programming over the years, such as Doctor Who and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

But if you really want to watch some fascinating TV, you should check out the documentaries that BBC America is airing on Thursdays at 9:00pm ET, as part of their “BBC AMERICA REVEALS” series.

Coming in the next few weeks are episodes about women who fall in love with inanimate objects (“Married to the Eiffel Tower”), and men who are sexually attracted to their cars (“My Car is My Lover”).

Recent episodes have included the following:

Tags Party Talk, TV

Gambling Games TV

Lessons Learned from THE BEST DAMN POKER SHOW

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 2, 2009

I’ve been watching THE BEST DAMN POKER SHOW on Fox Sports Net.

It’s a tournament-based series, with two teams of (mostly) amateur poker players competing against each other and coached by poker pros Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth. For whatever reason, I can’t watch most poker programs on TV, but shows like this one or Bravo’s prematurely cancelled CELEBRITY POKER SHOWDOWN that offer decent, approachable advice for the casual player (along with a little bit of personality and humor) are more entertainly watchable for me versus the more serious World Poker Tour or High Stakes Poker shows.

Besides, who wouldn’t want to get free poker advice from Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth, or Phil Gordon (an early commentator on CPS)? As such, I turn you to one small piece of advice learned from season 2, episode 5, of The Best Damn Poker Show.

Tags Gambling, game, Las Vegas, poker, TV, Video

News TV

TiVo Alert: Head Rush on Cartoon Network

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 25, 2009

Sure, it may not even be scheduled to air yet, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t set a TiVo reminder to record HEAD RUSH on Cartoon Network when it airs later this year (along with the rest of the new Cartoon Network shows planned for 2009, which – oddly enough – aren’t all cartoons).

What’s HEAD RUSH?

Only the coolest game show idea to come along in a long, long time:

Tags News, theme parks, TV