Livewire! 9/18
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Sing On! is pretty much identical to its Spanish and German cousins, right down to the set (they’re likely all filmed in the same studio). Burgess is a natural pick to host a show like this, because he’s a great singer, and can improvise very well. He gave every contestant equal amounts of emcee love, and was able to get the crowd into the show right away, a key to the party atmosphere this show is supposed to foster.
What’s interesting is that, despite the fact that all the songs are in English, as opposed to the other versions’ mix of American and native songs, the American singers had more problems hitting the right notes than the singers did in the Spanish version, for instance. Remember, the voice analysis system isn’t interested in riffing; it just registers people who come in on time and match the melody. In the first episode, out of a possible $60,000 pot, only $39,550 was at stake for the winner. That translates to about a 66% accuracy percentage — actually less, given how the final two money rounds were worth double the first two rounds. You could hear that most of the singers were too busy trying to hit notes than to actually sing well, despite having decent voices.
Like with the Spanish version, we were more interested in the meter and percentage at the bottom of the screen, distracting us from people’s performances — each contestant is given a random set of lyrics to sing, then there are sections where they all sing. What we do know is that the Spanish version felt more fun, and the contestants felt more together, than they did in this version. And don’t get us started on the voting; at least here, the contestants more consistently tried to take out the best singers, despite the fact that the best singers would help make the pot bigger. We’re not sure which strategy we’d go with; we guess it depends on how confident we are in our ability to win.
And in a related note from my hometown:
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Posted by Elise Melvin on Thursday, September 17, 2020
My friend ELise Melvin will be on later in the season. Go Elise!
Now we're all ready for some football!
If you tuned in to Monday’s season premiere of “Dancing with the Stars,” you may have heard new host Tyra Banks mention that the first elimination will take place “next Tuesday” a few times. No, that wasn’t a flub, and no one got their calendars mixed up. Next week episode will air on Tuesday, Sept. 22, not Monday, so adjust your schedule accordingly.
“Dancing” is getting displaced next week because of football. The “Monday Night Football” game between the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders at the latter’s new stadium will be simulcast on Monday on ESPN and ABC, marking the first “MNF” broadcast during the regular season on ABC since the 2005 season. The date is the 50th anniversary of the inaugural “MNF” game, when the Cleveland Browns defeated the New York Jets, on Sept. 21, 1970.
Skai Jackson and Alan Bersten, and Justina Machado and Sasha Farber topped the premiere with scores of 21, while Carole Baskin and Pasha Pashkov was at the bottom with 11.
“Dancing” will return to its regular Mondays-at-8 slot the following week.
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The tent is back open for business!
— Netflix (@netflix) September 15, 2020
On September 25, an all-new season of The Great British Baking Show will start rolling out on Netflix in The US — new episodes will be available every Friday (three days after they premiere in The UK) pic.twitter.com/CQdzQbTiJ6
Meanwhile.....
Great British Bake Off fans were shocked when Sandi Toksvig confirmed her exit from the hit C4 show this January and she has now spoken more about why she quit. And how she never watches it!
Sandi hosted the show alongside Noel Fielding for three years after it moved to C4 in 2017, but will be replaced by Matt Lucas when the eleventh series gets underway next week.
Speaking in the run-up to her latest C4 series, The Write-Offs, Sandi finally lifted the lid on her reasons for quitting and also hinted that she’s never watched an episode of the popular cookery show!
“Like bread, everything has a shelf life,” she told says. “I did three years and I loved the team and Prue will always be a life long friend, but I’m 62 years old and I have a lot to do and decided it was probably enough meringue for me!”
https://youtu.be/WwymAkSflC4
In these desperate times, the virus asked the govenors of all 50 states and the enitre world to stay home. But staying home doesn't mean you're bored and want to watch TV. You entertain to a virtual neighborhood and invite those you haven't seen as if you were going out. The stay at home orders forced us all to play Animal Crossing and Jackbox, but trivia nights are what we were missing when everybody remained in the house. Now the feeling of game nights are being brought to you on the internet thanks to this new segment called:
The Quarantine Olympics!
We got a letter from the mailroom and it's from MyDVCPoints. If you're thinking a survey Site, you are dumb wrong.
The site, however, is actually a Disney Travel related site that not only specializes in podcasts, but they usher you into the weekend with a pub bar-style quiz. Each Friday, they make the game more interactive. Already best buds with Skywalking Through Neverland in which we discussed in an earlier Quarantine Olympics segment, the latter has only 4 choices to My DVC Points' 3. Interesting. Yet, the took a page from the Woloski School of Game Night Trivia and let them hush up and play music to psych themselves while they get quizzed on The WOnderful World of Disney. Heck, Richard and Sarah decided to play Sub teachers last month.
To be part of the game, go here:
https://www.facebook.com/mydvcpoints/?ref=page_internal
And even the archives on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrVbHSqPH_k_uDcDX03NaiQ
You deserve points!
(song stops)
On the same day that Tyra Banks took over for her in the Dancing With the Stars ballroom, Erin Andrews reflected on the “super big bummer” that was her dismissal from the show.
“I didn’t have much time to deal with it,” Andrews shared on Monday’s episode of the Token CEO podcast. “I got a phone call, we were on the putting green with my dog and my husband, and I got a call that said, ‘So-and-so from ABC wants to talk to you.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, s—t. This is it.'”
Andrews and longtime Dancing host Tom Bergeron were both let go from the show in July, much to the surprise of viewers. At the time, ABC cited a “new creative direction” for the series — and thanked Andrews for “all that she brought to the ballroom” — before bringing in Banks to fly solo as the new host.
“I felt sorry for myself, and I was like, this is a terrible time to lose my job because we don’t know when live television is coming back,” Andrews added. “These are hard jobs to get. I was like, ‘Oh, no, I’m a loser. This is really bad.’ And then you just start talking to other people from other networks and people who have production groups, and they’re like, ‘You’re going to find something.'”
Though Andrews conceded that “nobody wants to be let go when it’s not on their terms,” she said she was trying to keep things in perspective, given how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted others.
“I did remind myself, by the way, there’s people that have such worse stuff going on right now,” she continued. “For me to be that selfish and think, ‘Oh my God, the world’s ending’ — people have lost multiple people in their families because of COVID.”
And even though Andrews still has a steady job in sports broadcasting, she said she would love another role “in the entertainment space,” including a potential gig hosting a game show.
CBS All Access is getting a new name — and a fresh slate of original series to go along with it.
The streamer will be rebranded as Paramount+ in early 2021, ViacomCBS announced on Tuesday. (See the new logo pictured above.) The new name is part of a previously announced relaunch of the streaming service, which will combine original content with shows from CBS and cable outlets MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount Network and Nickelodeon.
“Paramount is an iconic and storied brand beloved by consumers all over the world, and it is synonymous with quality, integrity and world-class storytelling,” president and CEO Bob Bakish said in a statement. “With Paramount+, we’re excited to establish one global streaming brand in the broad-pay segment that will draw on the sheer breadth and depth of the ViacomCBS portfolio to offer an extraordinary collection of content for everyone to enjoy.”
Along with the name change, Paramount+ is developing five new original series:
* The Offer, a scripted limited series about the making of the iconic Oscar-winning film The Godfather, told from the perspective of film producer Al Ruddy, who will serve as an executive producer. Michael Tolkin (Escape From Dannemora) will write and also serve as an EP.
* Lioness, a spy drama from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan that “follows a young Marine recruited to befriend the daughter of a terrorist to bring the organization down from within.”
* A reboot of the classic VH1 docuseries Behind the Music titled MTV’s Behind the Music — The Top 40 that “will unlock MTV’s vault from the past 40 years for a unique and intimate look at the 40 biggest artists of all time, through their voices and their eyes.”
* The Real Criminal Minds, a true-crime series based on the long-running CBS drama.
* A revival of the hit BET drama The Game. (The revival was reportedly in the works at The CW last year.)
DWTS, sign her up!
I've been Waiting all day for......A Restraining Order?
A Los Angeles judge has partially signed off on Cassie Randolph‘s restraining order request against her The Bachelor ex Colton Underwood on Sept. 14, in paperwork obtained by HollywoodLife.com. The 25-year-old claimed that her former love had been stalking her, by attaching a tracking device to her car to allegedly monitor her movements. She even include a photo of the small black apparatus in her filing. The former ABC reality star also alleged that Colton had been bombarding her with harassing texts, as well as showing up uninvited to her Los Angeles apartment and at her parents’ Huntington Beach, CA home. The “partial” part of the request was because Colton is currently in Denver with his parents at the moment.
Colton has not responded to Cassie’s allegations since she first filed the restraining order paperwork on Sept. 11. A judge has set an Oct. 6 date as the next hearing in the case, but until then Colton must stay 100 yards away from Cassie, her home, her car, her job, her parents’ home and her school. He is also not allowed to “harass, attack, strike, threaten, assault (sexually or otherwise),” Cassie according to the paperwork.
In the legal filing, Cassie asserted that, “Mr Underwood admitted that he was the one who put the tracker on her car and had been the one sending text messages to her, her friends and himself, under the alias phone numbers.” Her lawyers added that, “[M]s. Randolph fears for her safety and the safety of her family and friends and wants to ensure that the harassment and stalking behavior cease when he returns to Los Angeles in the coming days.”
The paperwork also alleges that “Mr. Underwood also watches Ms. Randolph’s apartment in Los Angeles. Mr. Underwood admitted to his roommate and his roommate’s girlfriend (who is also Ms. Randolph’s friend) that he goes on multiple walks a day to Ms. Randolph’s apartment building. Ms. Randolph and several of her friends have seen him around Ms. Randolph’s apartment from her balcony.”
The pair broke up in May 2020 after over a year of dating. Colton infamously sent home his final two Bachelor contestants in March 2019 so he could pursue Cassie, even though she was not at all ready to marry or get engaged to the former football player. She also infamously told him how she loved him, but wasn’t fully in love with him and was ready to send herself home. It caused Colton to jump over a fence in Portugal in a fit of heartbreak where he wanted to run off and stop filming the show. But he was so crazy about her that virgin Colton agreed to just date Cassie and take things day by day, rather than have the standard Bachelor finale of the star proposing to his final rose contestant.
When the pair announced their split on May 29, 2020, they said that they were “meant to be friends,” but their breakup has been anything but cordial. While in her announcement, Cassie wrote, “Colton and I have broken up, but have decided to remain a part of each others lives. With all that we have gone through, we have a special bond that will always be there,” she later claimed that he was leaking personal and intimate details about their time together. In Cassie’s legal paperwork, she claims that her relationship with Colton actually “ended in mid-April 2020,” and that that the alleged stalking incidents began “on or about June 27, 2020” and have continued throughout the summer.
Just a reminder:
NBC has made the following scheduling changes:
· "The Weakest Link" will now premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 8-9 p.m. and stay in that timeslot for three weeks until it moves to Mondays beginning Oct. 19 where it will air at 10 p.m. following "The Voice."
· In addition to airing Fridays beginning Sept. 25 as previously announced, "Dateline NBC" will air Mondays at 10 p.m. from Sept. 21 through Oct. 12 following "American Ninja Warrior."
· The season finale of "America's Got Talent" will air from 9-11 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23.
· The season premiere of "Ellen's Game of Games" will air from 9-10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6.
They Think It's All Over......
Listen up, Dolls: season 20 will mark the final season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.The Kardashian-Jenner family and E! announced today, Tuesday, Sept. 8, that the iconic series will return for season 19 on Thursday, Sept. 17 followed by one last season (season 20) in 2021.
"It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to Keeping Up with the Kardashians. After what will be 14 years, 20 seasons, hundreds of episodes and several spin-off shows, we've decided as a family to end this very special journey," the family shared on social media. "We are beyond grateful to all of you who've watched us for all of these years - through the good times, the bad times, the happiness, the tears, and the many relationships and children. We'll forever cherish the wonderful memories and countless people we've met along the way.
"Thank you to the thousands of individuals and businesses that have been a part of this experience and most importantly, a very special thank you to Ryan Seacrest for believing in us, E! for being our partner, and our production team at Bunim/Murray who've spent countless hours filming our lives. Our last season will air early next year in 2021. We love you!"
The heartfelt announcement was signed by Kris Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Rob Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner and Scott Disick.
The E! networks added in a statement, "E! has been the home and extended family to the Kardashian-Jenners for what will be 14 years, featuring the lives of this empowering family. Along with all of you, we have enjoyed following the intimate moments the family so bravely shared by letting us into their daily lives. While it has been an absolute privilege and we will miss them wholeheartedly, we respect the family's decision to live their lives without our cameras. It is not our final goodbye yet, we are excited to have the new season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians launching on September 17 with the final season airing in 2021. We thank the entire extended family and our production partners, Bunim Murray and Ryan Seacrest Productions for embarking on this global phenomenon together."
Since the KUWTK series premiere on Oct. 14, 2007, there have been 12 spin-off series on E! including, Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons, Khloe and Lamar, Sex with Brody, I Am Cait, DASH Dolls, Life of Kylie, Rob & Chyna, Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian and Flip It Like Disick.
There's lots more exciting moments to come when KUWTK returns Sept. 17 at 8 p.m.! And get ready for the final, fabulous season coming in 2021.
Their tweet reads "When you can’t decide on a colour, so you wear them all," and posted a picture of one of the families who were taking part. The family wore their proudly Xitsonga attire, hence the outrage as people thought the franchise was mocking the culture.
Deleting their tweet was not enough for viewers and soon after #KFCMustFall trended. They heard the country's cries but instead of apologising they replaced the tweet with another one.
An outraged tweep wrote,"Considering that Xitsonga culture & language are marginalized. And we hardly have no representation in the mainstream media. These lady proudly represented us but were ridiculed made a butt of a “joke” that failed to land. I’m Tsonga & highly offended #kfcmustfall."
Confused at the outrage over their tweet, another one wrote, "I’m Tsonga myself! But hayikhona guys! When did we loose our sense of humor? Noo man! Afterall it’s true that we wear all the colors and make them beautiful! Isn’t that what makes us standout?"
We'll meet again when you hear this sound:
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Then you know it's time for Livewire! Until next time, play on playas.
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