In just less than an hour the fall season of DANCING WITH THE STARS premieres here in California. Many out east have already watched. I am beyond excited. My family has been hooked on this how since season one. I personally have been a fan since season 4 when I first caught sight of Julianne Hough, she's just adorable...and not on it this season. I have suddenly become enthralled with all things ballroom. It is just such fun to watch...perhaps I'm just getting too old for regular TV. In fact in our house I believe the only first run regular show we are still watching is CSI Miami.
We had long resisted reality shows. We watched the first two seasons of Survivor, then quit. We watched most of season one Big Brother and then quit. Then suddenly when Dancing with the Stars and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition hit the airwaves, we got hooked. It wasn't an over night jump away from scripted shows into reality, but before long we added America's Got Talent. Then during the writer' strike we watched Celebrity Circus, Nashville Star, and every Game show that came to prime time. It was coming out of the writers strike last fall when all the shows were back from extended hiatus that we realized we actually preferred the non-scripted reality/competition shows. We followed Kris, Danny and Adam as they battled it out on American Idol, and were glued to our seats as Jeanine peaked at just the right time to win So You Think You Can Dance.
Have we left scripted TV behind for good...We'll see after we watch tonight's CSI Miami on our Tivo Thursday night (No Dancing on Thursday). Of course we still watch the reruns of Seinfeld, and our DVDs of Friends. And I've Got Alias, Dark Angel, 24 and Heroes to watch on my lunch at work.....Ah, but tonight is for Dancing with the Stars!!!
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Steve,
I watched NCIS: Los Angeles tonight and I was embarrassed for the actors. That show was worse than Adam Baldwin playing the overzealous Capt. Casey in Chuck. I was embarrassed for Chris O'Donnell. I think he's been away from the business for a long time, or maybe he was never that great an actor (I think it's the latter; I couldn't watch the show without thinking "Hey, it's Robin from those horrible Joel Schumacher Batman movies from the 90s!").
Holly likes American Idol. I don't... We both like So You Think You Can Dance and occasionally we can stomach "the Hoff" and America's Got Talent (I think America's Got Talent if they can watch the Hoff and keep coming back).
My wife, with her business as a real estate stager and interior redesign specialist, she loves HGTV. Admittedly, some of those shows are really cool, if you haven't yet checked them out.
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