It’s going to be hard to top the onslaught of lunacy that Celebrity Wife Swap contestants Ted Haggard and Gary Busey and their respective significant others brought to the table during last night’s absolutely bonkers episode. No one brings the crazy quite like Busey. While Flavor Flav and Dee Snider will do their best to protect the sanctity of marriage and reality television during next week’s episode (though Snider should try and save up some of that energy for his upcoming stint on The Celebrity Apprentice… just ask Busey), there’s plenty of other stars who would...
- 1/4/2012
- by Aly Semigran
- EW.com - PopWatch
I wasn't taking the whole 2012 apocalypse theory all that seriously until the premiere of Celebrity Wife Swap last night. After watching Gayle Haggard pray with Gary Busey and a man dressed head to toe in buckskins, I think we may have just seen the last proud vestiges of Western Civilization dissolve in between Activia commercials.
The original Wife Swap was a UK import that saw two moms trade households... More >>...
The original Wife Swap was a UK import that saw two moms trade households... More >>...
- 1/4/2012
- by Lily Sparks
- TV.com
It’s going to take more than a skirt and lipstick to make these numbers look pretty.
The ABC’s cross-dressing comedy Work It opened weakly in the ratings on Tuesday night. About 6.1 million viewers tuned in for the sitcom at 8:30 p.m., with a 2.0 rating in the adult demo. That’s down from lead-in Last Man Standing, which had 7.9 million viewers and a 2.4 rating. The modest debut is despite the show’s biggest comedy competitor, Fox’s Glee, airing a repeat. Work It was also down 17 percent from the premiere of the now-defunct Man Up in the slot.
The ABC’s cross-dressing comedy Work It opened weakly in the ratings on Tuesday night. About 6.1 million viewers tuned in for the sitcom at 8:30 p.m., with a 2.0 rating in the adult demo. That’s down from lead-in Last Man Standing, which had 7.9 million viewers and a 2.4 rating. The modest debut is despite the show’s biggest comedy competitor, Fox’s Glee, airing a repeat. Work It was also down 17 percent from the premiere of the now-defunct Man Up in the slot.
- 1/4/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
In case ABC's "Wife Swap" wasn't crazy enough, they've stepped it up a notch, bringing in noted lunatic (and Oscar-nominee) Gary Busey and disgraced pastor Ted Haggard for "Celebrity Wife Swap."
Busey's girlfriend, Steffanie Sampson, who wears a wedding band because she believes she and Gary are married spiritually, swaps places with Gayle Haggard, who is determined to share her side of Ted's gay prostitute scandal.
The question of faith is obviously a focal point of the episode. Gary and Steffanie, who do consider themselves Christians, also believe in past lives (they were together in several). Gayle questions whether their belief in reincarnation can jive with their belief in Jesus. Meanwhile, Steffanie takes offense when she reads that Gayle considered the male prostitute that Haggard was caught in an affair with to be Satan.
Ultimately, the families were surprisingly amicable. Gary was uncomfortably interested in Gayle's high school extracurriculars and...
Busey's girlfriend, Steffanie Sampson, who wears a wedding band because she believes she and Gary are married spiritually, swaps places with Gayle Haggard, who is determined to share her side of Ted's gay prostitute scandal.
The question of faith is obviously a focal point of the episode. Gary and Steffanie, who do consider themselves Christians, also believe in past lives (they were together in several). Gayle questions whether their belief in reincarnation can jive with their belief in Jesus. Meanwhile, Steffanie takes offense when she reads that Gayle considered the male prostitute that Haggard was caught in an affair with to be Satan.
Ultimately, the families were surprisingly amicable. Gary was uncomfortably interested in Gayle's high school extracurriculars and...
- 1/4/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The winter TV drought is over! A whole crop of new shows are premiering this week and many more new and old favorites are back from hiatus. Whatever you choose to watch this week, just don't let it be "Work It" on Tuesday ... otherwise ABC might be tempted to make more.
Monday, January 2
"The Bachelor" (8 p.m. Est, ABC) season premiere
Winemaker Ben Flajnik is the lucky (if dull) bachelor seeking a second chance at love after falling short of winning Ashley Herbert's heart during last season's "The Bachelorette." Twenty-five women will enter the mansion, including one enthusiastic senior citizen named Sheryl, a sexy equestrian who arrives on horseback, and an athletic soccer player. But which 18 will make it through to next week?
"Hoarders" (9 p.m. Est, A&E) season premiere
The sometimes disturbing, always fascinating reality series is back for a fifth season, focusing on a man called Norman...
Monday, January 2
"The Bachelor" (8 p.m. Est, ABC) season premiere
Winemaker Ben Flajnik is the lucky (if dull) bachelor seeking a second chance at love after falling short of winning Ashley Herbert's heart during last season's "The Bachelorette." Twenty-five women will enter the mansion, including one enthusiastic senior citizen named Sheryl, a sexy equestrian who arrives on horseback, and an athletic soccer player. But which 18 will make it through to next week?
"Hoarders" (9 p.m. Est, A&E) season premiere
The sometimes disturbing, always fascinating reality series is back for a fifth season, focusing on a man called Norman...
- 1/3/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The winter TV drought is over! A whole crop of new shows are premiering this week and many more new and old favorites are back from hiatus. Whatever you choose to watch this week, just don't let it be "Work It" on Tuesday ... otherwise ABC might be tempted to make more.
Monday, January 2
"The Bachelor" (8 p.m. Est, ABC) season premiere
Winemaker Ben Flajnik is the lucky (if dull) bachelor seeking a second chance at love after falling short of winning Ashley Herbert's heart during last season's "The Bachelorette." Twenty-five women will enter the mansion, including one enthusiastic senior citizen named Sheryl, a sexy equestrian who arrives on horseback, and an athletic soccer player. But which 18 will make it through to next week?
"Hoarders" (9 p.m. Est, A&E) season premiere
The sometimes disturbing, always fascinating reality series is back for a fifth season, focusing on a man called Norman...
Monday, January 2
"The Bachelor" (8 p.m. Est, ABC) season premiere
Winemaker Ben Flajnik is the lucky (if dull) bachelor seeking a second chance at love after falling short of winning Ashley Herbert's heart during last season's "The Bachelorette." Twenty-five women will enter the mansion, including one enthusiastic senior citizen named Sheryl, a sexy equestrian who arrives on horseback, and an athletic soccer player. But which 18 will make it through to next week?
"Hoarders" (9 p.m. Est, A&E) season premiere
The sometimes disturbing, always fascinating reality series is back for a fifth season, focusing on a man called Norman...
- 1/3/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
The winter TV drought is over! A whole crop of new shows are premiering this week and many more new and old favorites are back from hiatus. Whatever you choose to watch this week, just don't let it be "Work It" on Tuesday ... otherwise ABC might be tempted to make more.
Monday, December 2
"The Bachelor" (8 p.m. Est, ABC) season premiere
Winemaker Ben Flajnik is the lucky (if dull) bachelor seeking a second chance at love after falling short of winning Ashley Herbert's heart during last season's "The Bachelorette." Twenty-five women will enter the mansion, including one enthusiastic senior citizen named Sheryl, a sexy equestrian who arrives on horseback, and an athletic soccer player. But which 18 will make it through to next week?
"Hoarders" (9 p.m. Est, A&E) season premiere
The sometimes disturbing, always fascinating reality series is back for a fifth season, focusing on a man called Norman...
Monday, December 2
"The Bachelor" (8 p.m. Est, ABC) season premiere
Winemaker Ben Flajnik is the lucky (if dull) bachelor seeking a second chance at love after falling short of winning Ashley Herbert's heart during last season's "The Bachelorette." Twenty-five women will enter the mansion, including one enthusiastic senior citizen named Sheryl, a sexy equestrian who arrives on horseback, and an athletic soccer player. But which 18 will make it through to next week?
"Hoarders" (9 p.m. Est, A&E) season premiere
The sometimes disturbing, always fascinating reality series is back for a fifth season, focusing on a man called Norman...
- 1/3/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
Sometimes we have to take our little blogger porkpie hats off and bow from the waist in praise of the reality show gods, because we never would have thought to pair Gary Busy and Ted Haggard on Celebrity Wife Swap. A thousand monkeys typing for a thousand years never would have come up with that idea. Except apparently they did, and now ABC is putting it on the air.
While Busey has made a career out of reality show gigs like Celebrity Rehab and Celebrity Apprentice in the past few years, Ted Haggard is probably best known for losing his reputation as an evangelical pastor after he was found to have visited a male prostitute. Also know as reality TV gold. The real question is, why on earth would Gary’s partner Steffanie Sampson or Gayle Haggard agree to go along with it? And since they are, can we please...
While Busey has made a career out of reality show gigs like Celebrity Rehab and Celebrity Apprentice in the past few years, Ted Haggard is probably best known for losing his reputation as an evangelical pastor after he was found to have visited a male prostitute. Also know as reality TV gold. The real question is, why on earth would Gary’s partner Steffanie Sampson or Gayle Haggard agree to go along with it? And since they are, can we please...
- 9/22/2011
- by Halle Kiefer
- TheFabLife - Movies
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