Top Chef – Recap & Review – Fit for a King

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Top Chef
Fit for a King

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Ryan O – Senior Reviewer
ryano@thetwocentscorp.com

This was a weird, not good, episode. The Elimination Challenge is interrupted and takes place in not a great kitchen. There were equipment problems in the Quickfire challenge, too. Anyway, welcome to the Bahamas.

Oh, and we have three more episodes to go after this one, so don’t look for a winner any time soon!

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American Idol – Recap & Review – Top 13

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American Idol
Top 13

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Patricia Morris Buckley – Sr. Staff Writer
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We’re finally getting to see that a few of the contestants have an Achilles’ heel. Heck, Ashthon Jones has Achilles legs!

But let’s look at how they did with songs by their personal idols:

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TNT Announces Summer Schedule, Including Season Premieres of The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles And Series Debuts of Falling Skies And Franklin & Bash

what's on tnt this summer?

TNT has unveiled its summer schedule, including the Monday, July 11, return of basic cable’s top two series of all time: The Closer, starring 2010 Emmy® winner Kyra Sedgwick, and Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon (Law & Order) and Sasha Alexander (NCIS). TNT’s summer lineup also includes the network’s two newest series, with the two-hour Sunday, June 19, premiere of the science fiction drama series Falling Skies, starring Noah Wyle (ER) and produced by DreamWorks Television and executive-producer Steven Spielberg, and the Wednesday, June 1, premiere of the light-hearted legal drama series Franklin & Bash, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar (NYPD Blue) and Breckin Meyer (Road Trip). Also returning this summer are the TNT original series Men of a Certain Age, Leverage, HawthoRNe and Memphis Beat.

Below is a complete rundown of TNT’s original series premiere schedule for summer 2011.

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Remember Those ’90s Nickelodeon Shows? They’re Back!

which nick show do you miss?

Sabrina when she was Clarissa. Amanda Bynes hosting her own show. Kenen before Saturday Night Live.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you didn’t grow up watching the awesome Nickelodeon programming that included some classics like Clarissa Explains It All and The Amanda Show.

Okay, maybe those aren’t the classics I was thinking about (Salute Your Shorts anyone?) but according to TVSquad, TeenNick is going to air old Nick shows to bring in an older audience who was at one time their young demographic (the kids who were tweens watching are now mid-twenties).

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Off the Map – Recap & Review – There’s Nothing to Fix

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Off the Map
There’s Nothing to Fix

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Meg – Staff Writer
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In this week’s Off the Map, Tommy impresses everyone, Lily loses someone, and Mina yells a guy to death. We start off with Zee discovering Tommy and Mina sleeping in her garden, after their ill-advised night together. Zee gives them hell for destroying her plants.

Elsewhere, Ben buys Ryan a ticket to New York for her surgery. After some good bro-talk with Otis, Ben realizes that Ryan needs him to be there for her, so he takes a week off and goes with her to New York. Awww.

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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior – Recap & Review – One Shot Kill

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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
One Shot Kill

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
Angelique@thetwocentscorp.com

Finally! Last week I had an extremely hard time writing my review, last weeks episode was in my eyes extremely predictable and uninteresting and I really doubted if I wanted to watch it again. And to be honest the fact that I signed up to write these reviews is most-likely the reason why I watched it this week. But it was well worth it! Yes, it was! For the first time I actually watch an episode without being distracted by other things and in this case that says quite a lot!

A sniper is on the loose in Chicago killing innocent people on the streets of the Windy City. The BAU Red Cell team is asked to help the investigation when yet another man is killed, the third in a week. All killed point blank without warning whatsoever. Three people has been killed and the sniper seems to be building up to something, each time he shoots his target from a bigger distance.

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Survivor – Recap & Review – Don’t You Work for Me?

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Survivor
Don’t You Work for Me?

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Ryan O – Senior Reviewer
ryano@thetwocentscorp.com

The low down
I don’t want to spoil anything if you haven’t seen the episode but this was the most fun I’ve had seeing participant get eliminated from a reality show ever. This was a fantastic all around. The Redemption Island duel was tense.

Its aftermath was a joy to watch. Watching Rob maneuver his tribe away from camp so he could look the hidden immunity idol was intriguing. There was some interesting Phillip stuff sprinkled through out the episode.

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Justified – Recap & Review – Cottonmouth

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Justified
Cottonmouth

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Lyssa G – Reviewer
Lyssa@thetwocentscorp.com

Starting out this season we have some very interesting characters that were introduced to the show. We start to dig into Raylan’s past this season it seems as though the more that we dig into this season, the more insane that it becomes…

This week starts out in the prison with Raylan and Dewey Crowe. Dewey is always a funny moment every week. This time when he is trying to tell Raylan different information, he seems to always lose track of what he is saying though when he is talking to Raylan… Cannot really blame him though when all Raylan does is beat him up and throw him in jail.

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Biggest Loser – Recap & Review – Season 11, Episode 10

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Biggest Loser
Season 11, Episode 10

Original Air Date: Mar 8, 2011

Anne – Associate Editor
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It’s Captain week on The Biggest Loser ranch! Ali has each team choose their captains. Red chooses Justin and Black chooses Marci. They get to wear C’s on their shirts like in sports.

It will be interesting to see how Courtney and Rulon adjust to having their partners be the leaders.

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Emmy Award-Winning Series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” Returns For Second Season

the food revolution is back

Jamie Oliver, impassioned British chef, TV personality and best-selling author, will bring his Revolution to the nation’s second largest city — Los Angeles, California — and take on his biggest challenge yet when “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” returns for a second season to ABC, TUESDAY, APRIL 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET).

In this inspiring series from Fresh One and Ryan Seacrest Productions, Jamie attacks the problems of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in this country — where our children are the first generation not expected to live as long as their parents — and invites viewers to take a stand and change the way America feeds itself at home, in schools and on Main Street. The series’ first season was just named as a recipient of the forthcoming Television Academy Honors, exemplifying “television with a conscience.”

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