If you're one of those who are really into the recent CW remakes of "Beverly Hills 90210" or "Melrose Place," then you'll enjoy this.
Thursday Afternoon Diversion: Seinfeld, CW-Style
Tyra and Co. Looking in Chicago for Next Top Fashionista
Attention, aspiring Jaslenes: Tyra and Co. have developed a new reality-TV show for fashionistas, but this one actually requires contestants to be able to read, unlike ANTM (and possibly write, too). The contestants on the yet-to-be-named show will compete in two challenges on each episode, "an individual competition and a team competition, in which each squad will submit a page for "The Book," a mock edition of [a fashion] magazine." The season winner will win a vaguely defined "job in the fashion industry." Please tell us the job us being Ms. Jay Alexander's assistant. Please?
Reality Check: Adios, Chicagoans
This week saw favored reality show contestants from Chicago bite the dust, further proving that people from our fine city just can't win on trite, ridiculous shows that require little talent! Over on the CW, Ebony left ANTM in a dramatic fashion. Repeatedly unable to convey a good "model face," Ebony's shot this week took it to the next level, featuring what we like to call a "poo face." Not good. As expected, she landed...
TV Heads Begin Rolling
Whenever we pick up on a story about “cost-cutting” we always pause to ponder the ultimate usefulness of most cost-cutting strategies, namely, slicing off a thin sliver of fat at the bottom rather than the thick fat at the top. So it’s bemusing to read in the Trib that NBC 5 is slicing, dicing and shuffling its news programming in an effort to slim down. Changes include Michael Sneed’s snarky celeb gossip (discontinued), WSCR-AM 670...


