It’s weird days recently for one of TV’s already-weirdest reality franchises, as Big Brother—the human zoo in which people are kept drunk, bored, and on-camera until they either get voted out of the house, or reveal their most racist and sexist inner selves—lumbers forward through its 20th season on CBS. Desperate to…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, June 27. All times are Eastern.
Anyone versed in reality television competitions knows there’s nothing more embarrassing for those involved than getting sent home on the first episode. Just recently, Bachelorette Becca Kufrin sent a dude packing before the first night’s rose ceremony even commenced, which must be some kind of record. And then…
Abruptly reminding us that Big Brother is still a thing that continues to happen on TV, whether we’d like it to or not, CBS announced today that it was extending the long-running reality show franchise with a new spin-off series. Per Variety, the new show—which will break out of the show’s usual summer “Christ, it’s…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, September 21. All times are Eastern.
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With the Flash speeding over to CBS for a Supergirl crossover in March, it seems like that network has caught a bit of The CW’s crossover fever. As reported by The Wrap, CBS is now planning a no-holds-barred crossover showdown between The Price Is Right, Survivor, Big Brother, and The Amazing Race, with the winner…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, September 16. All times are Eastern.
Perhaps responding to the fact that the Halle Berry-lead show posted record low ratings this week, CBS has announced that it’s moving sci-fi ridiculousness pageant Extant up an hour on Wednesday nights, to 9 p.m. Eastern. The move will nestle the second-season show— which stars Berry as a female astronaut forced to…
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Big Brother, the televised equivalent of the need to take a shower, is coming back. And no one could be more excited than the new contestants, because they are the only humans left on Earth still excited by the possibility of being on Big Brother. CBS has released the names and descriptions of the 14 people chosen to…
CBS has announced that it’ll be picking up Big Brother—its long-running adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel about a dystopian future where everyone is a dumb, racist homophobe—for a 17th and 18th season. The program, a scathing piece of social commentary that imagines a world where people will do and say any…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, September 24. All times are Eastern.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, August 27. All times are Eastern.
It used to be that the TV networks would ignore the summer. Programming executives figured that everybody goes outside during the warmer months, which was a problem because few people owned enough extension cords to bring their TV sets outside with them. Sure, the benevolent demigods of American broadcasting would…
