A Man. And His Blog.

Season 3, Episode 22 (68)
Date of airing: Apr 29, 2012 (CBS)
Nielsen ratings information: 9.97 million viewers, 1.7/4 with A18-49

Wow… What a ridiculous season finale. And how constructed and fake were those cliffhangers? I especially have to deal with Kalinda’s for a bit, because that is definitely one of the most horrific season cliffhangers I have seen for a while.

Okay, just let us get behind it now: Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) has a husband? That twist literally came out of nowhere, and I cannot believe that no one was suspicious of it. When a guy like Blake was able to find out about Kalinda and Peter in season two, then either he or somebody else would have been able to find out about her husband. That twist is just ridiculously stupid, I don’t even know what to think of it. And since it was obviously a well-kept secret in Kalinda’s life, she sure as hell made it easy for Alicia (Julianna Margulies) to find out. Kalinda just told her like that? I don’t buy that for a single second. The next problem I had with Kalinda is that she glides from one threat to another. First the IRS, bit this story was discontinued like that. Then the threat coming from Bishop, but he wasn’t even mentioned in this episode-very lame. And now, all of a sudden she has a husband, who seems to be even more dangerous than Bishop? I don’t buy that AT ALL. While the Bishop threat disappears into Neverland, the writers create a complete new problem for Kalinda, which was created out of nothing, and now serves as the cliffhanger for her character? I can’t even begin to tell you how bad the writing was here. I’m stretching so far out and say that the script for this episode was the worst of the whole series so far. It’s interesting – and pretty much unbelievable – how a great show like THE GOOD WIFE can sink to such a low, just to serve a few cliffhangers.

Because the show didn’t even need cliffhangers. Alicia’s phone ringing during the first season finale was a subtle one, because it made her make a decision right there. In the second season finale, with Alicia and Will wanting to go at it in a hotel room, she made her decision and lives her life. This season finale could have been about Alicia living the decision she has made. Like, going into her house and having dinner with her family, instead of just standing outside and looking through the window. THE GOOD WIFE doesn’t need cliffhangers, and the final scene was always Alicia-centric. But now the writers chose to put Kalinda in front and Alicia in the background? Someone didn’t think that through at all. I’m very disappointed.

Same goes with the actual case of the week. It could have been more of an internal fight between Lockhart & Gardner and their enemies, when Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox) and Patti Nyholm (Martha Plimpton) would have followed up on their plan to destroy the firm, and not just steal their wealthy client(s). It was another ridiculous and terrible twist, when both Will (Josh Charles) and Diane (Christine Baranski) thought they would have won the duel against the suckers, when they really haven’t. First off, why would Patric Edelstein change law firms anyway? There was no reason for him to abandon ship and go with the competition. I remember the case about the Syrian protests, but like I said back then, Patric’s involvement in that case was ridiculous, and why he would be “angry” at his lawyers wasn’t even implied back then. And it wasn’t implied in this episode either. So I really cannot understand how it was possible for Diane and Will to lose Patric as a client, without even noticing any of it, and without realizing that Patti and Louis might be up to something more than just suing them. It’s stupid for me, because I don’t get behind the logic of it all.

The rest of the episode also didn’t follow through, but they weren’t as bad. I liked the scene between Eli (Alan Cumming) and Jackie (Mary Beth Peil), and I was almost thinking that Jackie was up to something again (or still), when she was all sorry and stuff. I just hope the story has an end now. I already said I don’t like Jackie anymore, and it’s time to finish her off. Giving te kids the opportunity to own the house makes it easier for Alicia to accept Jackie’s faults and for the writers to say goodbye to her, because Alicia has arrived at the point, where she wanted to see her kids: in a good position for the future. They are basically happy; Peter (Chris Noth) is back in their lives; and even Alicia seems somewhat happy about recent events. Who knows, maybe the campaign storyline in the fourth season will bring back Alicia to Peter again, making the next season somewhat more family-themed (which I would like to happen). I just don’t understand why Eli was interested in Jackie’s apology to Alicia in the first place. Isn’t Peter able to hide his anger against his mother in the future campaign? That makes him shine weak, right?

All in all, very disappointing season finale. Who would have thought that? But at least I know now, why the last episode was also ridiculous at some parts. I just hope the writers don’t take it with them over to the fourth season. 3.5/10

“Hello, we are your charming enemies.”

“Hello, I’m the new lawyer, sitting with the crowd.”

Season 2, Episode 4 (16)
Date of airing: Feb 13, 2012 (NBC)
Watched for review: Feb 13, 2012
Number of review in February/2012: 60/183

How THE VOICE could be shorter in running time and less boring: Cut out the fake thrill moments, when the contestants chose their coaches. Cut out the repeating moments after the commercials. Cut out the “Previously on” in the first two minutes, which don’t even have relevance in the show. Cut out the repeating words of the coaches, when they talk about how angry they were that one of the other coaches stole their performer. You would either get like 15 minutes of extra time with it, showing three more contestants, or the show could be 15 minutes shorter, which would create a faster pace for THE VOICE. But something has to change here, because I notice that the producers don’t really have something to show for all the 84 minutes they have to fill…

Finally, THE VOICE has with Sarah Golden its first contestant, which is shown in the dark, so the audience has something to listen and not watch to. When I saw that in the first season, I was a bit confused about that twist, since I didn’t know what to expect from the show in the beginning. But now I kinda like this little twist, though it was obvious from the beginning that we would have a Kurt-kinda-like with this contestant. Even though her story – not marketable, has to change looks – sounds kinda weird for GLEE. The performance itself seemed okay. Not really my song, and a bit slow for me, but I have learned already that the first look can always be deceiving. Well, Sarah seems to be a solid performer, and as Blake said, she sounds very honest. But honest doesn’t mean it’s a powerful, great voice with all kinds of highlights. Which is why I wonder if Sarah is gonna make it far. By the way: When her face was shown, I was surprised that she looked so normal. Normal behavior, normal character. Not marketable? Not marketable my ass. Though I was thinking at first that Sarah would be a guy (her arms looked like a guy’s arms), because the story she told sounded so Kurt-like.

Elley Duhe (19) is one of the contestants, who has given herself to singing. Open mics, different shows, school dropout – her life wasn’t a teenager’s life, because she lived the life of a musician from the beginning, with the parents’ help. Her rendition of “Mercy” wasn’t really my thing though. I thing for a song like this you must have a powerful voice, and even though Elley doesn’t sound bad, she didn’t have the voice to pull off a song like this. Definitely a wrong song choice here. So, I won’t really miss her in the first place. But it’s nice to have a sweet girl on stage for once, taking it like a lesson.

Pip (19) is another one of those artists on this season. Seems like a boring character, because I have seen people like him very often in AMERICAN IDOL already (most of them couldn’t sing though), so I’m definitely interested in knowing how he will get through the blind audition. With “House of the Rising Sun” he definitely picked the right song for him, and I wondered why Adam needed so long to be the first coach turning his chair. Similar to Jesse Campbell, I would have pushed the button during the first ten seconds. Strong opening, followed by a strong performance. Pip could actually be a guy to follow throughout the battle round. Unfortunately, the blows between the coaches was a bit over the top this time. First Adam versus Blake, then Blake versus Christina, then Christina versus Adam. Where was Cee Lo in that fight?

Erin Willett (22) has to follow a contestant, who turned all four chairs, which will be difficult to do. She is one of the people with an insane friend for a father, also a father with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which means that Erin has a story to deliver (also, tears during her camera time). She has a dying father with a positive attitude about his situation, and yet she decides to try out for THE VOICE. With the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back”, she had a little party on stage, and luckily the studio audience went along. Unfortunately, her performance wasn’t that strong as I hoped it to be. It was fun, it was like a party, it was good. But not really great. But maybe just because when I’m hearing a “I want You Back” cover, I have the one from KT Tunstall in my ear. So, it was kinda awkward for me to have Erin sing it here, who doesn’t look like KT at all. She could be a rocker girl though, maybe she will get into a rock number in the battle round. Hopefully it’s gonna work on Team Blake.

David Grace (28) grew up playing football, but he randomly bought a guitar one day and decided to follow the footsteps of his father, who is a singer. David could definitely be the action hero of THE VOICE. He himself said he looks like a UFC fighter, and he could be an interesting person with either one of the coaches. Also, David was another one of those rare contestants to choose the perfect song. The first three notes from “Sweet Home Alabama” he delivered – wow! Great performance, and I was disappointed no one from the coaches turned their chairs during the first 30 seconds. Instead, Blake and Adam battled it out on their seats, wanting to hit the button for each other. That’s why I was disappointed even more at the end that no one turned their chair.

Insurance worker Katrina Parker (34) was handed the invitation to the auditions for THE VOICE by Carson Daly himself. Of course the whole office she was working in was completely empty and she was the only one working with it. Not much of a surprise, huh? Her story is a sickness she had for two years, when she couldn’t sing. Now she’s back in the business, and instantly tries out for THE VOICE with the title song of JOAN OF ARCADIA. A show I really should rewatch in the near future. Her performance was solid. I don’t know if “One of Us” was the perfect song for her, but she chose the right song to showcase her vocal abilities, even though the performance wasn’t really strong – despite the fact you can do a lot with that song.

Geoff McBride (51) is not just one of the oldest contestants of the blind auditions this season, he is also singing for 19 years straight. He doesn’t wear his sunglasses for the cool-factor, because he actually carries damages in his eye after getting too much kickboxing into his eye. Of course these specific sunglasses are not for the cool-factor… especially with “Higher Ground” as song choice, where he rocked even more. As if his sunglasses were also singing for him. His performance was solid though. Nothing spectacular, even though I was expecting this, when Geoff started singing. I actually noticed some pitching problems in the second half of the performance – probably a reason for the whole party environment in the studio at that time. Maybe he was a little too excited during his audition. I was also surprised he didn’t choose Cee Lo as his coach. From sunglasses to sunglasses, it could have been great partnership. Instead he chose Team Christina. Which isn’t wrong. Just surprising.

Erin Martin (28) is a former print-model, and jumped to music a couple of years ago. For the audition, she chose the wrong outfit though. She kinda looked like Cleopatra, or another Egyptian princess from the antiques. But then her audition happened. What the…? I mean, I was speechless. In the most positive way I can mean it She was so awesome, so cool, so unique, I couldn’t even stop smiling. Her persona on stage was so different from her persona in front of the camera during her introduction bit. Her way of singing I didn’t expect at all, but kinda reminded me of Lisa Hannigan with an accent. Okay, maybe not really but she reminded me of somebody, yet I still think that Erin is unique. Maybe too unique for a show like this though, because I don’t know how she’s gonna end up the winner of this season, when she’s so anti-mainstream in her performance. But I have to give rights to Blake. She is really cool. Definitely the most surprising audition so far this season. She could be a favorite. But I don’t think she is going to win this competition.

Boston native James Massone (23) wants to get any one of the coaches, since he just wants to get out of his day job. He’s most likely one of the contestants not liking his normal life, and instead having dreams of a bigger, more awesome life. I feel already sorry for him, seeing in the auto shop, listening to his father, doing things for work. He also almost met death from a gun in 2005, when he told the story of a basement massacre in 2005. Three rappers died that day, and James’ brother was supposed to be one of the dead people, since he was supposed to be in that basement studio that day. It’s curious to notice how I instantly stopped watching the episode and googled the incident, found out more about it. And only because I couldn’t really understand James, when he was telling the story. Anyway, now to his awkward performance. Because I really don’t know what to say of it. The song choice seemed wrong, the pitch seemed totally out of place, and I had the feeling James was totally into all kinds of stress on stage. I didn’t know the song (or completely forgot it by now), which is what I believe he sometimes forgot the lyrics and didn’t know what to do. And the fact that he sounds like a heart-throb (but doesn’t really look like one – instead he looks like he jumped out of a John Hughes movie). So, I can’t really understand what the coaches were seeing in him. Maybe his voice. Blake said that James fell apart at the end of the song, yet I saw him falling apart during the song. I don’t know, but he might be the worst contestant for me, who actually advances to the next round. Not really somebody I will be looking for. But who knows how he’s gonna do in the battle round.

Winter Rae (26) is the next contestant with an ass-kicking haircut, as well as a dreamer, who wants more of her life. She looks like she’s going to be a punk girl, especially with the pictures from her school days, where she still had blond hair. Then she surprises with a soul voice and “Hero” by Mariah Carey being her favorite song. What a shame she didn’t sing it (instead “Take a Bow”), because it could have been her ticket to the next stage. Her performance really was shaky. She never risked something, she ever really was into the song, and especially at the end she kinda fell flat, when she tried to get the title lyrics past her lips. That was the moment, when I had to close my eyes, because it sounded so wrong. It’s a shame she didn’t advance, because she had a few nice elements there. And I really wanted to see a punk girl doing slow music numbers – that would have been unique.Erin MartinErin Martin

Chris Cauley (27) introduced himself with his grandmother as his musical influence. Everything musical for him came from her, and with one of her songs came product placement for sprint, which is always awkward, when it’s so damn obvious. Like the KIA promotion, when Carson was giving the invitations away. His performance was cool though. His soul rendition of “Grenade” sounded cool, and again I was pretty much surprised no one turned their chair during the first 20 seconds, and it had to take such a while for at least Cee Lo to honor Chris and push the button. Though I was really expecting for Adam to hit it first. Well, eventually he didn’t. And eventually Chris was one of the few contestants, who got better during his performance. Especially when one chair was turned already. Respect for that! He could be one to watch.

The last artist of the episode left it all on the stage of THE VOICE. Like, all kinds of nerves and sweat and stress: Jordis Unga (29). She started to play in a punk-rock band, before stepping into a pop band. Now she’s on THE VOICE, and she is giving her life. And she already gave me the best song choice anybody could choose. “Maybe I’m Amazed” is one of my favorite songs of all-time, so she already won with me. But I have to say she left a lot on stage, even though she shouldn’t have. That song isn’t a punk-rock number, and she didn’t put much emotions to it, which I could feel. It felt like she just wanted to rock the night away and wow the coaches with her powerful voice. So, int he battle round I hope she’s going to learn something vocally, putting not too much strength into the performance and instead show some emotions.

It was a good episode. Not really one with blew-my-mind contestants, but with some, who actually deserved to advance to the next round, yet didn’t. It also shows, once again, that THE VOICE is so much more serious about what it wants to be – without saying bad things about the contestants. 7/10

Pip is ready to blow the women some kisses

Erin Martin is the surprise of the season. Adam won't see it that way though

Hehe, interesting take on the writer’s strike. I think that’s the first episode I have seen, which actually spoofed the strike and made a joke out of it, as well as the rise of reality television. It’s a great idea to implement it into a fictional television show, but I really hope that was the only time the producers went out of their ways. After all, here they had their reasons to make this episode, and it worked just because of that. People who don’t know that this episode was produced directly after a month-long writer’s strike, making fun of it, probably won’t like it.

Well, you can have it: It was a unique episode. Not that it was great and all, but I give the producers credit for it. “Ghostfacers” could be a show on Syfy, showing all the ups and downs of a haunted house, with all the crazy and stupid characters, thinking they are the best, but not knowing anything about the supernatural. It was already a funny plot point in the first season episode “Hell House” and it worked here as well. Harry (Travis Wester) and Ed (A.J. Buckley) are just cool characters, and the rest of their team was just hilarious as well: some crazy characters, doing crazy things, paying for their mistakes, losing a friend. Luckily, the episode even had a story, and went from spoofing-reality-TV to dramatic, when Corbett (Dustin Milligan) was dying, and Ed trying to convince his dead friend to help him. Very touching scene, and with the gay background even hilarious. I was watching RED STATE a couple of days prior to this episode, and I was just wondering how religious gay bashers and homophobic people would see this episode, when Ed said in the final moment that gay love saved the day. Just hilarious, especially with RED STATE in mind.

I didn’t mind that Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) were in the background of the episode. I even wouldn’t have mind, when they turned up at the end of the episode, saving the day. In fact, the moments with the ghost in the basement didn’t fit much into the episode, and made the fake reality look even more fake. I know it was probably impossible to make this episode look like a real Syfy paranormal reality episode, and it would have worked better, when Corbett’s death scene would have been excluded, as well as all the other stuff in the basement. Let Sam figure out a way freeing himself and let him tell everybody that Corbett has died. The emotional scene with Ed would have been missing though, but without all of it, the episode should have had the real reality TV touch. And the producers would have succeeded to not just spoof the strike, but also reality TV - the pest coming out from the strike. Which I also watch btw, but that’s another topic.

All in all, as a one-time-thing pretty entertaining. But those kind of episodes should be part of the storytelling only once. FRINGE already did the mistake to include special episodes twice: the half-musical, and the comic episode. I hope SUPERNATURAL is not doing the same mistake… 8/10

Someone in this reality show is going to be scared

Someone in this reality show is going to die

All negative critics from the Parents Television Council, the women’s rights leader, and the other dickheads aside, who didn’t stop trashtalking the show without actually having watched it: THE PLAYBOY CLUB is solid entertainment with a great 60s flair to it. Something, what MAD MEN hasn’t done in its first season (which is the only one I have watched so far), and something, which was fun to look at during this pilot. But what am I disappointed about the US audience? Another courageous show on network television; another TV show, where everybody should say that writers, producers and the network executives try something to get past the wave of reality TV. And another bomb in the Nielsen ratings. And people continue to say that television has nothing to offer but reality television. It’s your fault you’re getting reality TV, when you give TV shows like this not even a slight chance. I’m annoyed of this, and I’m annoyed of the US television audience. Why even reviewing the pilot of THE PLAYBOY CLUB, when there’s a big chance its fifth episode will not see the light of day? Why even considering watching it, when everybody says it is not destined to survive for more than five episodes? Why ranting about it?

Welcome in Chicago of the 1960s, where Hugh Hefner just opened his first Playboy Club of many. Rules were broken and fantasies become reality, when you walk through the doors of the Playboy Club. The 50s are over, and now it’s time to live the life. We are introduced to the young and attractive Maureen (Amber Heard), who is currently in the middle of her first shift as a cigarette bunny. Carol-Lynne (Laura Benanti) is performing Frank Sinatra’s “Chicago, My Hometown” on stage (which is not the actual title of the song, so I’ve learned days after I’ve written the recap. But I don’t care), while everybody in the club is smoking their cigarettes and cigars, drinking their martinis and whiskeys, and are definitely having fun. Among those people: womanizer Nick Dalton (Eddie Cibrian), rising state’s attorney with a past with the mob, as well as Bruno Bianci, a mob boss, who developed the hots for Maureen. Unfortunately for Maureen, Bruno is too much of a bad guy, and wants to rape Maureen in the backrooms of the club. Fortunately for Maureen, Nick hurries for her aide, and Bruno ends up with Maureen’s stiletto in his neck. Dead.

Now Maureen has a bit of trouble. She just killed the mob boss, and her witness Nick is not really into talking to the police. The two ally to make the dead body disappear, but that doesn’t mean the troubles are over for the two. Since Bruno is a well-known guy within the criminal underworld, people are looking for him, and they start looking for him with Maureen. But the murder mystery in THE PLAYBOY CLUB wouldn’t be a larger storyline, if Maureen was just the innocent girl from the Midwest. She is somewhat kic-kick-ass, when it comes to lying. Meaning she definitely has some hidden secrets in her hidden drawers.

Meanwhile in the Playboy Club, we are introduced to a few more people. Beginning with Carol-Lynne, who becomes the Bunny Mother and develops an antagonistic relationship with Maureen; going over to Bunny Brenda (Naturi Naughton), who seeks to be the first Chocolate Bunny on the Playboy; going over to Bunny Alice (Leah Renee Cudmore), who lives in a fake marriage and leads a fake life, because no one should know that she is a lesbian (and her fake husband is gay); ending with Bunny Janie (Jenna Dewan-Tatum), who takes her job in the club with a bit more humor than anyone else. Rounding it up, Billy Rosen (David Krumholtz) is the club manager and tries to keep everything together. Because outside is the mob waiting, and inside you can’t always hide from your life and hide in the glitter world of sex, fake love, and alcohol.

Yes, THE PLAYBOY CLUB is a wannabe MAD MEN with barenaked Bunnies. No wonder that most of the critics couldn’t stop comparing those two shows, even though it’s obvious that both shows have almost nothing in common. Yes, they are set in the 1960s, and yes, Eddie Cibrian looks and sounds like Jon Hamm. But is every show set in the 1960s a copy of MAD MEN? And what can Eddie Cibrian do against his looks and sound of the voice, when he had the similarities with Jon Hamm for most of his adult life? To be honest, I’m not just getting annoyed with the TV audience, but with the critics as well. Why comparing THE PLAYBOY CLUB with MAD MEN, when the movie STUDIO 54 is much more similar to THE PLAYBOY CLUB than anything else on television and the movies?

But what about the actual pilot? Well, I liked it. I loved the 60s atmosphere, I loved the music, I liked the characters, even though they were a bit sterile at times, and I loved the overall look. Unfortunately, THE PLAYBOY club doesn’t have a proper plot so far. I don’t count the murder mystery, bringing Nick and Maureen some shit into their lives, as a plot, because it seems so cheap. A cheap way of having a serial storyline in the series, starting the plot in the pilot. It wasn’t wrong to do that, but did anybody think about not going so far into it, and keeping some of the story for the second episode? Especially since the murder already brought Maureen and Nick together, plus a kiss, and the possibility of the two becoming a couple, and Carol-Lynne not being happy about it. That seemed a bit too much in just one hour. Especially Carol-Lynne’s point of view could have been more elaborated. What did I see with her? She learned that Nick and Maureen were together, she “hates” Maureen because of it, and she becomes the Bunny Mother. That’s it. Nothing more. To make her character somewhat antagonistic, there should have been something to make her like that in the pilot. But who knows, maybe there is something coming in the future. After all, she is in a conflict with Maureen now. Though I don’t like the aspect of a triangle relationship between Maureen, Nick and Carol-Lynne.

In addition, the side plots were interesting, but they barely had any screentime to make them intriguing. Alice’s secret behavior in the club was the only really good plot, because there was something in it, which made me guess her real intentions. That the conclusion was a bit lame was only because of my expectations. I haven’t expected that the gay revolution is going to be included within the show. I rather expected Alice to be a criminal or something, using the job to stake out the club or something, to maybe rob it… I don’t know, something like this, but not the revolutionary thing. But thinking about it, it could be an interesting season arc (if THE PLAYBOY CLUB should live to see the year 2012). Same goes with the first chocolate bunny Brenda. Unfortunately, those storylines should have gotten a better resonance in the pilot, because I have the feeling they don’t seem that important, and instead the writers will continue to focus on the mainstream-ish murder mystery.

Anyway, judging the ratings, I shouldn’t expect talking about this show for more than six weeks. It still annoys the shit outta me, and it still annoys that people continue to rant over the invasion of reality television on TV, when they cancel shows like this one. Even more, I’m annoyed of the Parents Television Council or the Women’s Rights Leaders, who seem to think that THE PLAYBOY CLUB offers pornography, hookers and whores, and sex from the first to the last minute, without even thinking about that this series could actually rescue fictional shows on network television. And then they are happy that THE PLAYBOY CLUB gets cancelled and replaced by a reality show similar to JERSEY SHORE, which continues the sex and violence – this time not in a fictional world. Talk about double standards. Assholes. 8/10

Amongst Bunnies, various topics are always talked about

Love between a key holder and a Bunny is a topic too

Originally I planned to get back to The Gloss and write a bit more about television, but during the summer months I have realized there isn’t much to write about every week. So, I stalled The Gloss for something else I always wanted to do, and thanks to TVByTheNumbers, I finally decided to do so: a Fantasy Ratings Online Game. Well, almost a game. It doesn’t have a logo (yet), and rules aren’t worded and written (yet). But it’s an easy game: Guess the household viewers and the ratings (not the share!) of audiences between 18 and 49 (a.k.a. the targeted audience) of a complete week of network television. Repeats included. Everything between 8pm and 11pm, on Sundays even 7pm. If you want to take part in this game, guess the viewers and ratings (not the share!) of the scheduled week (posted always on Sundays before the week starts on Monday) and post your guesses in the comment section. I will take notes of your (and my) guesses in a spreadsheet and give points to those, who were the closest to the actual ratings. The player, who got the closest to either the viewer numbers, or the exact figure of the A18-49 rating (not the share!), gets 10 points per day, per category (both viewers and ratings are each one category, meaning that a maximum of 20 points per day are possible, meaning a maximum of 140 points per week are possible). The player, who is second-best in guessing gets 8 points per day; the player, who is third-best in guessing gets 6 points per day; and from here on it’s from 5 points down to 1.

All the points are going into a table, which will be posted together with the results of the past week and the schedule for the upcoming week. You can guess your viewer numbers and ratings at any time, as long as the program didn’t air. Meaning I won’t take guesses for programs into considerations, which have already aired on the East Coast!

You can take part of this game at any time, and you can stop playing it at any time. Nobody forces you to take part in this game, and you won’t get any prices, if you get out as the lucky winner! You only get respect, love and some gratitude for me.

If something is not clear, post in the comments. Otherwise take a look at the schedule of the week from Sept 19, 2011 to Sep 25, 2011