Cheers & Jeers: Really Real ‘Housewives’, a Hateful ‘Big Brother’ Houseguest and ‘Supergirl’s Super Casting!

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Cheers150x150Cheers to Bravo Uncensored
Ooooh, the tea was spilling all over The Real Housewives of Orange County when Andy Cohen and company dished the deets in this week’s Uncensored special episode. Pulling back the curtain on Season 8, the hour told the “stories behind the stories” of Vicki’s insane temper, the truth about Gretchen and Alexis’s season-long beef and why Heather Dubrow did the show. It was the realest these Real women have ever been.

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and then the screaming started...

and then the screaming started…

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Cheers to Supergirl’s Superman
Tyler Hoechlin has been missing from Teen Wolf for way too long, so we are flying high over his casting as Kal-El on the newly relocated CW supershow. The plan is for him to appear on the season’s first two episodes, but if he fills out the tights as well as we suspect, who knows, right?

Mmmman of Steel

Mmmman of Steel

 

Cheers150x150Cheers to Orphan Black’s End Date
It’s not that we’re happy to see Tatiana Maslany’s sci-fi drama go after next year’s fifth and final season, it’s that we love when networks give producers a definitive finish line so they can wrap up their stories without the worry of cancellation. In addition, this also prevents great shows from overstaying their welcome or worse yet, simply cloning old storylines because they have exhausted their creative juices.

Send in the clones...they're already here.

Send in the clones…they’re already here.

 

Jeers150x150Jeers to CBS’ Bigot Brother
In the same week that a madman massacred 49 people inside an Orlando gay club, it was revealed that Big Brother’s 276th season would include Corey Brooks, a 25-year-old baseball coach with some seriously homophobic tweets in his social-media past. Awesome. Just what this world needs, more hate-spewing camera hogs getting media exposure.

Corey Brooks of the CBS series BIG BROTHER, scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Guess who loves to drop the “F” word on Twitter?

 

Jeers150x150Jeers to HGTV Envy
At first, it was all “I want that backsplash” or “Oh my God, I love those repurposed barn doors.“ But if you’re like us and spend Saturdays bingeing on every version of House Hunters, Flip or Flop, Fixer Upper, Love it Or List It and every other show with those twins we still can’t tell apart, you now know the covetous rage they inspire. Entitled couples bitching about their Beachfront Bargain options. Hipsters expecting their on-air renovations to happen overnight. Or worse yet, first-time buyers asking for the moon when they can barely afford a skylight. Where do these idiots come from? And how can we get the Property Brothers to redesign our lives?!

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“Hey honey, let’s boss those twins around until they get rid of these hideous cabinets!”

 

Jeers150x150Jeers to the silencing of a beautiful Voice.
For as much fun as we like to have here at Cheers & Jeers, events on TV can sometimes get a little too real to joke about. So all of us here at TV Insider and TV Guide Magazine would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to the family, friends and fans of Christina Grimmie, The Voice Season 6 contestant who was shot and killed while signing autographs after a concert in Florida on June 10th. A true talent taken way too soon.

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    CyanCoathanger

    I really miss those HGTV shows about decorating on a real budget. Remember the ones that only had $1,000 to work with, and they had to find creative ways to repurpose what they already had? Now, they have nothing but shows that glorify excesses. You have to have those $6,000 countertops and a $4,000 refrigerator, and your floors have to cost more than a luxury automobile!

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      RedCupcake

      I have to confess, I don't see how or why people watch these house-hunting or house-fixing-up shows. Why do I want to see an annoying couple choose between three houses for sale? Or a couple of wannabe contractors manufacture drama over some closet doors or what kind of window panes to use. Honestly, I just don't get it. And yes, I do avoid these shows, but now and then I'm someplace where I have to put up with them.

      (I did used to love Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I think the show went WAAAAY overboard most of the time, and could have done a lot MORE good work for a lot less money per house. But it was all about ABC showing off for ratings. They turned it into do-gooder porn. 😀 )

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      CyanCoathanger

      The worst part is that some of those shows are almost completely fake. I've read a couple of articles and posts to message boards by people who know people who were involved that the houses the couples looked at weren't even ones they were interested in, and it was all staged for the show.

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      RedCupcake

      Yeah, I've heard that most "reality" TV is staged and at least semi-scripted. But other than a few rare exceptions over the years, I just don't like reality (i.e., non-fictional) shows. If I want 'real,' I'll watch the news or a documentary on PBS or something. Otherwise, give me escapist TV that doesn't even pretend to be 'real.' 😀

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      PurpleCocktail

      I also question the budgets of some of these shows. They rarely seem to factor in labor as a cost or all of that new furniture.

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      CyanCoathanger

      My former editor and her husband applied for and was picked to be on one of those low-budget makeover shows six or seven years ago. I don't remember the name of the show (I never saw the episode), but I do remember her saying she liked some of what the designers did, but not all of it. She said they mounted their flat-screen TV to a wall in the master bedroom---a great idea---but didn't have the time and/or budget to run the cables inside the wall, so the cables were running down the wall from behind the bottom of the TV. She said she and her husband were happy, happy people for the cameras during the reveal, but ended up undoing some of the renovation they didn't like.

      Going back even further, one of the people I worked with three jobs ago had her house featured on Monster House on Discovery Channel. This is the show where the family lived in an RV outside of the house during the week-long makeover.

      If you watched the show, it was the episode with the family that loved camping so much that Steve Watson and his crew o' the week brought "the great outdoors" indoors. (Yikes! Danger, Will Robinson!) They installed the front part of a camper shell---the part that extends over the cab of a truck with space for a kid to sleep in---in the dining area, so the girls could climb up there to pretend they were camping as they ate their lunch. Or something. Great (not really), but so impractical after the girls grow up.

      In the living room, they removed the hearth of the fireplace and used half stones to re-create the semi-circular border of a campfire. Seriously! I thought it looked hideous. The family did get a big flat-screen TV for the living room, though. This was 11 or 12 years ago, so it would have been a really big expense back then.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I doubt if there were many people who were completely happy with any of the makeovers on any of those shows. I'll never forget the woman on Trading Spaces who cried and cried because they painted her room brown which she specifically said she didn't like or the guy on a garage makeover show that stormed off screaming, "That's not anywhere near what I wanted!"

      I do remember that episode of Monster House, and I remember those people didn't look all that thrilled about the makeover. However, that show wasn't about serious decorating. It was about turning people's homes into ridiculous spaces that looked like something out of a theme park like a prehistoric cave (complete with a dinosaur!) or a medieval castle (with a working drawbridge!)

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      CyanCoathanger

      I never watched Trading Spaces, but I remember hearing about that episode! I think living in a cave- or medieval castle-themed house would be awesome---at least until you tried to sell!

      There's a Witch's House out here in Beverly Hills that's really cool looking. It was built on a movie studio, then moved to Beverly Hills.

      Photos from the most recent renovation.

      http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-look-inside-witchs-house-beverly-hills/

      A short piece CNN did last year.

      http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/10/travel/witch-house-beverly-hills-feat/

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      CyanCoathanger

      I've never heard of or seen pictures of that one before. I'm always fascinated in odd homes that people build that look like castles or something, but I don't want to live in one.

      I didn't see Trading Spaces when it was first on because I either didn't have cable or I didn't get that channel at the time, but I believe I saw most (if not all) of the episodes when they reran them in later years.

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    OlivePaw

    Jeers to TV Insider/TV Guide Magazine for Cheering the miscasting of Tyler Hoechlin as Superman on "Supergirl." The Teen Wolf and 7th Heaven Alumni appears to be in the same age range as the mid-twentysomething title character -- which is a problem when the show has established that Clark is well-into his second decade as the Man of Steel and that he's at least a decade older now than Kara. Hoechlin even appears to be several years younger than his erstwhile sidekick, James Olsen, who looks to be in his early 30's. Unless these two episodes only present Clark in flashback to Kara's ship crashing on earth and his placing her with the Danvers, this casting is super-dumb. Which is a shame because Teen Wolf hasn't been the same since Hoechlin left it at the end of season 4.

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    BlueRadio

    I agree that it is a good thing that Orphan Black has an end game.. The only negative is not seeing what new versions of herself can Tatiana portray... While I do watch it week to week, this has been a show that probably plays better as a binge watch.

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      CyanCoathanger

      It's a good thing there's only 10 episodes per season if you want to binge watch it! I will say that it's one of the few shows I don't forget things between episodes a week apart though. Unlike some shows, I never find myself wondering who someone is or what part they play in the plot line.

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    RedSeahorse

    My favorite HGTV show is Property Brothers and I am currently enjoying the new season of Brother vs. Brother. I use to watch House Hunters and I also loved Love It or List It but just can't get into them lately but I will always watch my Property Brothers.

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      CyanCoathanger

      You can get burned out even on shows you really like at first when they repeat them over and over again. There was a time when I'd turn on HGTV and just leave it on all day (or all night), but it got to the point I'd be thinking, "I've already seen that episode 25 times!" Lately, it's been that way with Animal Planet and History too. Can't they show something else besides the same episodes of those fish tank guys or Pawn Stars again and again and again?

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      PurpleCocktail

      I wonder what happens to the rooms the Property Brothers don't show on camera. Do they only change the flooring on the rooms shown on camera?

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      PurpleCocktail

      They should really pull from their archive. Surely episodes of Color Splash aren't dated already. They have like 5 seasons of Design Star, they cancelled the show, but repeats of pasts seasons could still occupy time.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I'm not sure about rerunning Design Star because you pretty much have to watch the episodes in order to really enjoy it. I was really surprised that they cancelled it. I wonder if it was because only David, the first winner, went on to become an actual star.

      You could watch Color Splash in any order, and it wouldn't matter. Not too long ago, they were still showing reruns of it on either Saturday or Sunday morning.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I'd think it would depend on which room(s) they do and how they connect to other rooms. A kitchen can have a different floor than the rest of the house, but a connecting living and dining room pretty much have to have the same flooring to look right.

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      OrangeTag

      I miss shows like Color Splash that actually teach the home viewer.

      People like Joan Steffend teaching about color and design are sorely missed on the network. Karen McAloon on Find Your Style was great at helping people learn how to design their rooms. Design on a Dime had a number of great casts. Loved Lisa Laporta on Designed to Sell, and Sabrina Soto was great on several shows. I liked Sandra Rinomato because she gave good advice on what to look for, and avoid, in buying a property on Property Virgins (I know the show is still on, but it's not the same.)

      Where are these people now? HGTV used to be a network I watched all the time, but now I don't watch often. They could use these people, and shows, to get the network back to its former glory.