Space Cadets - New Reality TV Show I heard about this show and went hunting for more info. It seems the contestants (dupes) have already started "training" and are thus out of circulation and not in contact with the outside world. Whatever ... it should make the final run in to Christmas a rivetting time If this doesn't flop like a floppy thing in a strong wind it'll probably be one the funniest hoaxes ever pulled ... and even better it won't be repeatable. (God I hate endless TV ... Threshold came to UK screens last night. I watched the double-header and ... it was great! I shan't be watching any more episodes cos it's just like Lost & 4400 (and a gadzillion shows besides) ... the never-ending story is really kinda tedious. Call me old-fashioned (or just odd) but I like a beginning, a middle and an end. I can't be doing with endless back-stories when the initial mystery is more or less plopped on the back burner to paper over the embarrassing truth that the writers and producers just wanna recycle the plots of The Man From Uncle ... again.
Oh, that is just mean!!! And it will be premiering on an American Network Fall 06, I'm sure!! I see y'all still have a "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!" series. I watched the American Version and thought it was hillarious. Right now I'm really into "Breaking Bonaducce" on VH1. Is there something really, really twisted in me that I think he is very hot, and very pittiful, and very much a pig, but I think he's my type?? :(
LOL Kristal. Celebrity has just started its umpteenth series. There's nothing so good as watching C-List celebs getting covered in bugs and slimy snot. This year we've got Carol Thatcher (daughter of the Mrs Thatch :shocked: how desperate must she be???) We also have little Jimmy Osmond who had the barefaced and decidedly un-mormonlike brazenness to attempt to smuggle in some pepper hidden inside his ... teddy bear! Now then. I'll cut a deal with y'all in the US of A. A totally dork brit is rowing across the Atlantic for charideeee. His name is Ben Fogle and he is terribly nice but terribly dim. Please don't send him back and we'll do out best to stop the baby Osmond bro from bringing all six million of his teeth back to your side of the pond. (We've been performing a similar service for the Aussies for decades
Sorry honey, for two Osmonds you'd have to agree to take the population of Cardiff ... erm not specifically Cardiff ... erm I mean an equivalent number of dorks some of whom whom might very well be Welsh ... you already have Tom Jones so you're on the way ... [Voice off] Mirelly shut up! :shocked:
I don't mind Donny Osmond. I had a crush on him when I was 10. Do you think Siberia would take Michael Jackson, though?
I just found this press piece on the upcoming show (starts Wednesday) Seems there's a chance that ABC is buying the format ... and the question is asked is there anyone in the US gullible enough to fall for this ... oh I doooo hope so; the American version would be so much classier and much more fun and on soooo many levels (mostly cos it's easier to laugh at people raised under a different flag than it is to laugh at one's own - no offence intended ) :rolleyes
Any other brits watching this? As someone who loves a really good joke I think this show is inspired. Channel 4 is doing their best to give the contestants a chance to rumble the ruse. My favorite clue came tonight during an astronomy lecture where the victims were told that the Milky Way is part of a local cluster of galaxies called <ahem> I think what they were told might be too rude to say outside of the UK but it translates to a kind of chocolate candy made with hazelnuts This has to be the funniest TV I have seen ... tho' part of me remains sceptical that maybe the joke is, after all, on we viewers ... ooh they wouldn't do that, would they?
I was watching Space Cadets too, although is now all over. I did wonder if the joke was on us but it wasn't
Didn't watch, missed 'I'm a Celeb...' 'cos I was away. I do enjoy Big Brother. Couldn't get into X Factor this time. I don't watch Lost. Wish I did, then I could join in with my friends when they speak about it. In fact, I am really strange when it comes to TV. I spend all of my free time when at home on the computer. Apart from The Simpsons. I watch the Episode on C4 at 6, then switch over to Sky 1 after half an hour of semi-watching Tracy Beaker on the CBBC Channel. I'm just a big kid. The Simpsons runs from 7-8 weekdays on Sky 1. As you can see, I quite enjoy my little routine. Call it a rut if you want. I don't care! Also theres the usual evening argument between Lee and I. He always wants to wtch the news, while I stick with the normal yellow people. Go on, ask me anything about The Simpsons.
I don't watch TV much either, except for my favorite shows like Grey's Anatomy and Gilmore Girls. I always have to watch the new episodes for those. Then occasionally when the computers are taken, I watch Spongebob as it's almost always showing on one of the three Nick channels we have.
