Livewire! 11/13
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Activist, actor, host and founder of I Weigh Jameela Jamil will join WrapWomen’s 2020 Power Women Summit, the largest annual gathering of women in media and entertainment. With the theme “Inclusion 360,” the event will take place virtually December 8-10.
Jamil will discuss how she is using her I Weigh platform to celebrate progress, not perfection, in conversation with Dr. Deepika Chopra. Instead of giving into cancel culture, I Weigh is a radically inclusive community built to share ideas and stories that teach and mobilize activism. During this session, attendees will learn how to find value from within while making meaningful change both in their own communities and globally.
For the first time in the “Bachelor” franchise’s two-decade history, the star of “The Bachelorette” was replaced.
After months of rumors pouring out from the quarantined set, viewers finally learned that Tayshia Adams is taking over the leading lady spot from Clare Crawley on the 16th season.
Crawley fell head-over-heels for contestant Dale Moss immediately when the season began filming in a bubble at La Quinta Resort & Club near Palm Springs, Calif. As viewers witnessed in the premiere, once Moss walked out of the limo on the first night, Crawley said she believed she had met her husband. Then, as the days (and episodes) went on, Crawley only had eyes for Moss, and therefore, was not paying much attention to the other suitors, which became the main storyline of the season. Host Chris Harrison told Crawley that the way things were unfolding was not fair for the other men, and so, a new Bachelorette was brought in with Adams.
Adams previously met with the casting team behind “The Bachelorette” to be considered as the lead after she first was introduced on Colton Underwood’s season of “The Bachelor.” She wasn’t picked at that point, but because producers realized that Crawley was falling hard for Moss, they began to consider their options to keep the drama alive throughout the current season.
“There really wasn’t the luxury of time, so it was really instinctual. We had gotten to know the guys,” Rob Mills, senior vice president of alternative series, specials and late-night programming at ABC Entertainment, tells Variety. “The guys felt a little spurned that they’re going all in for Clare. They’ve left their jobs to be there, they’ve quarantined there, it’s insanely hot in Palm Springs, and they never really had a chance because Clare only had eyes for one guy. You just go with instinct at that point.”
And so, their minds jumped to Adams.
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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!
If your livestream trivia company like Randomish game show and SMRT trivia want a boost, you have to work harder and harder to take down the 300-lb chimpanzee known as King Trivia. An LA institution for many years, the darn virus from China brought it all to a halt and decided that Twitch was the only way to go. Their view count is becomng a monster hit. To give the crowd a fair advantage, the chat is turned to emote only to prevent cheating and giving out answers no matter how right or wrong they are. The game is divided into 5 rounds: General Knowledge, Audio, Themed, Hidden Connection and a video round. David Gallic will be the quiz master locked up in a room somewhere in the suburbs as he can take you from the music hall......to the television. Kinda weird, huh? For rounds 1, 3 and 4, the questions will be shown again with a music video accompaying it. When it's over, there will be a 45 second warning to submit your answer sheets the chat provided for you while this song plays in the background.................
Once the clock hits zero, extra time depending on lag is needed is spent on future zoom events, photos from where you are and what's coming up ahead in the weeks to come. Here's a sample of it.
Ten seasons in, Taskmaster is still the freshest, funniest show on television.
Alex Horne continues to put comedians in bizarre, funny and frequently ingenious situations each week, whether it's having to knock a coconut off a perch or make a part of your body look abnormally long. It's amazing to watch, and creator Horne is basically a genius.
But many Taskmaster fans may not realise that Horne fronts another show, along with former Taskmaster contestants Tim Key and Mark Watson.
No More Jockeys is a YouTube series which releases new episodes every Friday. Like Taskmaster, it's a strange and hilarious game show. But where Taskmaster is elaborate – tasks frequently involve a whole selection of resources from the Taskmaster house – No More Jockeys is enticingly simple, a game you can play with anyone at any time or place.
Originally invented by Mark Watson and Tim Key in 2001, No More Jockeys had a brief life on the BBC Comedy website in 2009 as a spin-off from Horne, Key and Watson's panel show We Need Answers. But it was given new life earlier this year when the guys started filming episodes over video call during lockdown.
The three of them take turns naming a famous person and a category that person fits in. That category is then eliminated, meaning no person named from that point may fit into that category.
It's hard to explain but easy to understand: Mark Watson will say, "Neil Armstrong, no more Americans," and you get it intuitively. The categories range from the broad – no more actors, no more fictional characters, no more dead people – to the tricky – no more people who have a surname that is an Oxbridge college – to the absurd – "Rod Hull," Key says in the first game, "No more names that are long and thin" (like a rod).
Eventually, it becomes more and more difficult to name someone who doesn't fit into any of the eliminated categories, or even to keep track of what the categories are. When a player names someone, the other players can offer a challenge if they think the person fits into an eliminated category. If he concedes that he did name someone from an eliminated category – usually after lengthy arguments – he gets knocked out.
Like Taskmaster, No More Jockeys is an incredibly fun show to watch each week. It is, first and foremost, great comedy: Horne, Key and Watson are all very funny men, and No More Jockeys is full of running gags, from saying Horne looks like Matt Hancock to "in-game relocations" being flagged up as if they mean anything.
The best of these build on each other over time. Key's many, many attempts to name Penelope Pitstop getting him knocked out over and over can't fail to bring a smile to your face.
In one game, Watson says "no more left-handed people", thinking it will give him an advantage of knowing more as a fellow lefty, only for Key to say no more left-handers in several subsequent games despite having zero knowledge whatsoever of who might be left-handed.
There are categories that are phrased in silly ways that get more and more amusing when they're played repeatedly: no more job gloves, no more people who are so good at cooking that their job is cooking, no more people who have definitely been to a given country. Often they'll say an extremely normal category and add "when you think of them" for no reason.
But the show is also genuinely exciting. They're partway through the second "set", like in tennis, and in many ways it has the thrill of sport.
You root for your favourite and despair when they make some unforced error – Watson saying "Bob the Builder" when no more people whose name is a verb and a noun, no more names as sentences and no more first names shared with a British monarch had all been said – and get swept up in controversies over who is knocked out or reprieved.
We’d like to offer a hearty “gefeliciteerd!” to the first-ever winner of Drag Race Holland, crowned in dramatic fashion during Thursday’s season finale (now available to stream on WOW Presents Plus).
At the top of the hour, four fierce queens remained in the running to become the first Dutch Drag Superstar: Envy Peru, 31, of Amsterdam; Janey Jacke, 28, of Volendam; Ma’Ma Queen, 30, of Rotterdam; and Miss Abby OMG, 25, of Breda.
Fresh off last week’s (somewhat) shocking double shantay, the finalists convened in the werkroom — and none of them were thrilled about the prospect of having to face three queens in the finale. With the drama beginning to boil over, Envy ominously noted that tension “can lead to a stronger performance… or it can tear everything down.” Dun, dun, dun!
Come showtime, the queens were ready. Despite their initial jitters, all four finalists crushed the group dance number — which was really more of a pose-off, but whatever — before hitting the runway as individuals. Janey reemerged rocking a stunning pair of Victoria’s Secret-style wings, Abby paid homage to Aaliyah’s character from Queen of the Damned, Envy drew inspiration from Dita Von Teese, and Ma’Ma strutted out looking like a tropical bird that just flew the coop.
After offering some inspiring advice to their younger selves, the queens learned of their collective future: Abby was the first to be sent home by the judges, with Ma’Ma following closely behind. This left Envy and Janey to face off in a ferocious lip-sync battle, set to the tune of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
It wasn’t the most thrilling final lip sync in Drag Race herstory, but the drama was still there. And when the dust settled, the winner was revealed to be… Envy Peru!
Even though many of us likely see ourselves as being sub-geniuses when it comes to game shows, it's clearly a very different experience making guesses from home and making guesses in front of hosts, fellow contestants and millions of people watching at home. That can be a completely distinct and sometimes insurmountable kind of pressure for someone to face, which has been made evident time and time again across so many years of Wheel of Fortune episodes. The latest Wheel flub is a particularly hilarious blunder that had Twitter rolling with laughter and disbelief.
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— CogginToboggan (@CogginToboggan) November 3, 2020
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DR. SHAUN MURPHY AND THE TEAM STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND AN ILLNESS THAT IS UNLIKE ANYTHING THEY'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE ON ABC'S 'THE GOOD DOCTOR' "Frontline Part 1" - In part one of the two-part season premiere of ABC's "The Good Doctor," Dr. Shaun Murphy treats a patient with an illness that is not only unpredictable in nature, but also unlike anything he or the team at San Jose St. Bonaventure has ever seen before. As safety protocols and quarantines increase due to the global pandemic, Lea and Shaun's new relationship will become tested; and Dr. Alex Park gets ready to move back to Phoenix, Arizona, to be closer to his family. Meanwhile, Dr. Morgan Reznick navigates her way around the clinic following her departure from the surgery team and unknowingly puts herself and several members of the staff in danger. Finally, Dr. Claire Brown continues to work through her grief, still reeling from the sudden death of Dr. Neil Melendez, on "The Good Doctor," THURSDAY, NOV. 5 (10:01-11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. (TV-14, DS) Episodes can also be viewed on demand and on Hulu. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 11/5/20) The series stars Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne, Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews, Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman, Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim, Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick, Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park and Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo. Guest starring Beau Garrett as Jessica Preston, Ricky He as Kellan Park, Sheila Kelley as Debbie Wexler,Karin Konoval as Nurse Petringa, Jennifer Birmingham Lee as Mia, Elfina Luk as Nurse Villanueva, Lochlyn Munro as Martin Cross, Carly Pope as Lily Cross and Arlen Aguayo-Stewart as Ambar Estrada. "Frontline Part 1" was written by David Shore and Liz Friedman, and directed by Mike Listo. Tune in, tune on.....who's that? At the start of Wednesday’s all-new episode of “The Masked Singer,” host Nick Cannon will introduce a brand new costumed character named Mr. TV. Don’t worry — this isn’t a contestant who’s crashing the party midway through the competition. Instead, it’s the week’s special guest judge. In Fox’s preview trailer (watch below), Mr. TV comes out on stage wearing a sparkly silver suit and crooning Maroon 5‘s “Memories” in a familiar baritone voice. “Season 4 is full of surprises!” Jenny McCarthy shouts. However, the surprise is ruined later in the video clip (specifically the 14-second mark) when the mystery celeb is shown on the panel without his television mask. So who is he? As you no doubt have already guessed by his trademark voice, Mr. TV is actually … Season 2 winner Wayne Brady! This five-time Emmy winner, comedian and Broadway star took home the Golden Mask in the December 18, 2019 finale in his Fox costume. Robin Thicke and Nicole Scherzinger both knew Brady was the dapper mammal with a cape and top hat, while Jenny and Ken Jeong both picked Jamie Foxx as their final guess. The runner-up that season was Chris Daughtry as the Rottweiler. As the Fox, Brady performed the following songs throughout the second season: “This Love” by Maroon 5, “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” by Panic! at the Disco, “Every Little Step” by Bobby Brown, “Tennessee Whiskey” by Chris Stapleton, “Blame It” by Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain, “This Christmas” by Donny Hathaway and “Try a Little Tenderness” by Otis Redding. A few weeks ago, Joel McHale became the first mystery guest judge of “The Masked Singer” Season 4 to come out on stage wearing a mask — specifically a Robin Thicke mask. “It looks too much like me, it’s weird!” Robin exclaimed at the time. The panelists quickly recognized McHale’s voice as he tried to sing “Blurred Lines” while unbuttoning his shirt in front of the virtual audience. After Mr. TV’s unmasking in the sixth episode, the competition will begin with the rest of Group C — Broccoli, Jellyfish, Mushroom and Squiggly Monster — performing to stay in the competition. This season’s previously eliminated masked singers were Busta Rhymes (Dragon), Mickey Rourke (Gremlin), Brian Austin Green (Giraffe), Mark Sanchez (Baby Alien) and Wendy Williams (Lips). |
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