stupid bimbo tricks
Written: Sep 08 '00 (Updated Sep 08 '00)
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Pros: "Coming Attractions"
Cons: vapid, substance free programming
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| kilinahe's Full Review: E! |
My favorite show on E! is the scavenger hunt show called "Search Party". On this show, a few celebrities and a few wannabes run around various exotic locales to find stuff and do tricks a la David Letterman. There's something so satisfying about watching ex-Playboy Playmates act like middle-schoolers. It's very life-affirming.
Other than that, this channel is practically unwatchable. For starters, every year, like clockwork, E! gives Joan Rivers her own Emmy pre-show. Does anybody really care what Joan Rivers thinks? More to the point, do we care what Dennis Franz was wearing? Not only do they run this thing before the Emmys, but rerun it ad nauseum. She fancies herself Mrs. Blackwell, but it's so obvious that she enjoys the spite.
E! is sometimes known as the Howard Stern network. They run Stern all the time. His radio show is sometimes amusing, but it doesn't really translate to TV, so much of the intended humor is lost and you think you're looking at your friend's home movies. It's by no means a slick production. Still, if you don't live in a market that carries his show, it's your only alternative.
"Coming Attractions" is rather useful. It's a solid half-hour of trailers for upcoming movies. Not only can you find out when to expect the newest blockbusters, but get a sneak peek, too. If I'm channel surfing and I flip by "Coming Attractions", I'll stay, even if I've seen some of the movie trailers before.
Every cable network has a "true story" show. A&E brought us "Biography"; VH-1 came up with the ever-popular "Behind the Music"; E!'s contribution is "True Hollywood Story". Its formula involves taking a standard celebrity profile and giving it the full National Enquirer treatment with "shocking revelations" and scandal. Usually the show highlights some drugged-out celebrity. This week, the story went behind the scenes of Dirty Dancing. For once, I was completely riveted. If every episode were like that one, I would even be a semi-faithful viewer. Unfortunately, though, it's the same old fame-booze-rehab-comeback song and dance that's done with more style on Behind the Music.
Hey, there's even a travel show! Mexico, Hawaii, and Japan, courtesy of stupid suburban white kids in bikinis! Yippee! The "travelers" on this show are perfect examples of the type that give Americans a bad reputation overseas. I have never caught the kids visiting the Buddhist temples in Japan or anything else of substance; they're in constant party mode, club-hopping around the world.
Since E! (allegedly) stands for entertainment, you can expect plenty of celebrity butt-kissing. Much of E!'s programming revolves around movie star homes, models, and more movie stars at work in "Behind the Scenes". E! is just like Hollywood: vapid, self-obsessed, and phony. It's good for a laugh now and then, but the Discovery channel, it's not. Just catch "Talk Soup" if you can, and you've seen the good part of this network.
Recommended:
No
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