Ever wonder if all these lunatics chosen for TV drama, make people act more like lunatics outside of TV-drama?
what came first the chicken or the egg?

If you watch either one, you should be lined up against a wall and shot, but that's just my opinion.

Is this something I'd need a TV to know about?

I watch both the UK version of The Apprentice (with Sir Alan Sugar, not the Donald) and Idol, which is shown on Fridays here, all three shows one after the other. So I make sure I don't see the results before.

I'm pretty well hooked on Idol.

My name's Jan, and I'm an Idolaholic ...

ATTENTION SINNERS: KILL YOUR TELEVISION.

American Inventor starts tomorrow night. Just a heads-up for all the nerds out there.

The Apprentice. It has a depth to it that Idol/Factor doesn't have.

Today's (UK) Apprentice was a real corker. They had to make and sell pizzas. One of the girls led the boy team and one of the boys led the girl team.

The boy team pulled a target of 500 pizzas out of thin air (like they so often are). It worked out to making & selling a pizza every 15 seconds (or something like that). And then they bought 100 large chickens -- to make 100 pizzas.

I am genuinely suprised that they're all where they are in life. The "management consultant" who couldn't manage her way out of a paper bag (she's an Economics graduate but can't work out than 9-6=3). The "financial advisor" who sold his pizzas at a loss from the word go (and subsequently made a loss of £800). Planks, the lot of them.

And what's up with Jo?! Totally graceless! Totally psycho! (She's a HR manager).

I'll stop now.

See, I'm all about Project: Runway more than I am about The Apprentice, and I'll tell you why. Apprentice is about fucking up your competitors while doing the tasks and Runway's more about being genuinely talented rather than fucking up your competitors at the same time. Wendy Pepper from Season 1 may have made it all the way to the final three by playing a game, but it was the really creative gay hick from Pennsylvania who won the whole shebang because he was being creative and not being a dick.

I like both of the above. : )

I hate all of them. However, The Amazing Race is something that our entire household schedule revolves around on Thursdays. Yay that today is Thursday!

If there is ever a chance that this show runs a series based out of Australia, we have decided to do whatever and spend whatever it takes to get on the show. You will see us labelled "Dysfunctional Couple".

Stones, glass houses, and The Gauntlet 2.

I dislike both shows but Simon is honest and decent while teh donald is a turd and I just can't listen to his reedy whiney wee voice.

The only reality shows that I watch anymore are "The Amazing Race" (spectacular!) and "Survivor" (pretty much out of kneejerk habit anymore). I've totaly abandoned "The Apprentice" out of boredom and have forced myself to give up "America's Next Top Model," but I Tivo "American Idol" to zip through to find the most unintentionally hilarious parts (those usually involving lamentable dancing, ill-advised wardrobe choices, and any attempts by Paula to use a metaphor correctly), which means I usually end up watching about 10 minutes of every hour. Last year, however, I watched a lot more because of my forbidden, shameful crush on Constantine.

Yes, I said it.

I've never seen an episode of either. I'm tempted to feel smug about that, until I remember that I actually watched the first season of The Real World, which may have started all this. My only defense being I was young and foolish.