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Matt Rogers talks about the time bears invaded USA’s Summer Camp! |
| July 18th, 2013 under USA Network. [ Comments: 1 ]
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If you are like me, then last week you fell in love with USA’s Summer Camp that airs Thursdays at 8p on USA. Since then you have been wanting to find out what happens next to our 16 (now 15) adult campers who get to live their summer childhoods all over again and vie for the chance to win $250,000. What challenges does the show have coming up for them and who hooked up with who? Let’s be real, it’s camp and that is what we did when we were away from the ‘rents!
Well yesterday I was on the set of Home & Family that airs weekdays on the Hallmark Channel from 10a-12n and I got to speak to the host of Summer Camp Matt Rogers. You might remember him from season 3 of American Idol, so I wanted to know if he knew then that he would be where he is now. He told me, “I always had the vision and the dream of doing my stuff. Ever since I was 3 years old, I would take my little cassette tape recorder and my own Saturday Night Live show. So it was something I always wanted to do.” So now that he’s doing what he dreamed he wanted to do, he made sure to tell me is super grateful about it.
This isn’t the first reality show he’s done, far from it because in fact he’s been doing this for almost a decade. So what is he going to take away from this one over all of the others? He said, “I’m going to take away from this show, there’s still a way to produce good reality shows even after almost 15 years. There’s a lot of bad reality shows out there and I don’t think this is one of them. The format is super cool, the way it is shot is cool, the cast is hands down the best cast I’ve ever worked with and I’ve been doing reality shows for 9 years. I’m really proud of the cast that was put together and I’m proud of the show.”
He couldn’t stop gushing about the campers. He shared with me, “The cast is literally what makes up this show. The cast is unbelievable. My hats off to the casting department who found these people.” Then he added, “Even Chuck who is labeled the Sci-Fi geek. He’s a huge strong competitor. His personality is awesome and he is a great guy. But he basically won it for the guys in episode 1.” Then Rogers wanted us to take note, “Watch how strong of a little player he is for the guys in episode 2. He’s labeled as a geek, but that does not mean he is not a strong competitor. He is literally the backbone of the guys’ team. As the episodes go further you will see him develop a lot more.”
Chuck stands out to him, but which contestant surprised him the most? He revealed that contestant to be Lauren, who declared herself the mean girl last week and shocked everyone (including the viewers) when she wasn’t eliminated. He let us in on a little secret about her, “She comes off as the mean girl. Off-camera she really sweet. She plays the game really well, like it is a game. You want to have fun and develop relationships while you are there, but at the end of the day there’s a quarter of a million dollars on the line. She plays the game part of it really well. She embraced the theme of summer camp, she hooked up with the cute cowboy, made a couple of friends and some enemies because she is the mean girl. She surprised me a lot.”
While she surprised him as a contestant, what surprised him when he was doing the show. Here’s a story of something scary that happened when they weren’t filming, “Off-camera bears invaded the camp and we had to shut everything down. I had to scream on the PA, ‘Campers get back into your cabins, there are bears on the lot.’ So we’re really in summer camp.” So as you can tell things got really real on this reality show.
So when I asked him what he’d say to get you to watch this show that airs Thursdays at 8p on USA, he said “If you are a realty show fan, you’ve found your show. If you like reality TV, you need to watch this show because it has every single element that you are looking for.” As an instant fan of the show, I have to agree him. I know you will do them same when you ride the bus to Summer Camp! Just remember the best part about watching this show, is you get to see them do all the fun things we did in camp but with the air conditioner on and more importantly with no mosquitoes leaving their itchy mark on you. What more can you ask for?
BTW if you missed him on Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family today, you can watch a repeat of the episode tomorrow at 12n. You will want to tune in to see the awwwdorable video of his 5 year old son mastering the art of heckling at a recent Lakers game that he shared with the daytime talk show.
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This is how they roll at Sullivan & Son! |
| July 18th, 2013 under TNT/TBS/TCM. [ Comments: 1 ]
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TBS’s Sullivan & Son is very funny show as anyone who watches the sitcom every Thursday at 10p can tell you.
As you can see in the above picture they have as much fun off the set as they do on it. Show creator and star Steve Byrne Tweeted the above picture and said, “My ride getting pranked last night of taping .@SullivanTBS ALL NEW EPISODE TONIGHT 10/9c on .@tbsveryfunny #BeerMe.” By the looks of his face whoever did that car won’t have a job when the show comes back for season 3. It hasn’t been announced that it will be back; but you know it has to return because not only being hysterical, it’s doing well in the ratings.
So if you have never seen the show, why not start watching it tonight? And here’s a drinking game to play during it, every time you laugh, drink. You will be buzzed by the opening credits, drunk by the second commercial and sh!tfaced by the end of it!
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Would you want Jane Lynch on your Hollywood Game Night team? |
| July 18th, 2013 under Jane Lynch, Sean Hayes. [ Comments: none ]
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Are you ready for another round of Hollywood Game Night tonight on NBC at 10p? Well you better be because Valerie Bertinelli, Cheryl Hines, Sarah Chalke, Yvette Nicole Brown, Rob Riggle and Matthew Morrison are all trying their luck at the game that tests your pop culture knowledge in fun ways that you can play at home with your friends and family.
Now when it comes to the celebrities that are competing tonight on the show, the host Jane Lynch told us that Hot in Cleveland’s Bertinelli really gets into the game. So how is Lynch as competitor when she plays during her personal games nights off-camera? On a conference call she told us, “I love Game Night, you know, I’m a pretty competitive person at it. You want me on your team. You do not want to play against me.” Then she explained, “I think that Sean (Hayes) knew that I was very familiar with all the games and although we did create all of our own games for this but we used Sean’s night as the template.” You see the show creator Sean Hayes has been having game nights at his house for some time now and Lynch was one of the players. So one night when he was over at her house for dinner, he mentioned the show to her. As soon as he told her about it, she asked if she could host the show and the rest is Hollywood history.
So that was a memorable moment for her, what moments does she remember about filming the primetime game show? She responded generally by saying, “There were great moments. There are wonderful funny, crazy moments in every episode. Everybody’s always jumping up and down and high fiving and shaming each other and it’s a lot of fun.” Then she got more specific with, “Dax Shepard calling on the judges as if they exist. Well we do have judges, I guess, going judge you have to look at this. Martin Short falling off the couch every time the band starts to play as if it was a shock to him. Amy Poehler and Jason Sudeikis getting a little bit drunk.”
So those are some of her favorite moments, but which Hollywooder surprised her the most. She told us, “Well, Fred Armisen is very low key and that’s deceptive because everybody’s jumping up and down around him that perhaps you think he’s not very game and he was one So of the smartest of them all and he was fast. Maybe not a lot of volume but he was fast and to the point and did very, very well.” Things we are going to have to look for tonight and during the upcoming weeks, so make sure to tune in to see that and to learn some new games you can add to your own list.
Hollywood Game Night is not only about the celebrities, there is one non-celeb on each team. Was it tough for them to play with people who could be answers to the questions they are being asked? She revealed, “Well the thing that happened again game nights and this happens at every game I go, to including Sean Hayes’ at his house, is that it’s such a great equalizer. You forget who’s the celebrity and you forget who’s the civilian because you just want to win that point and it’s everybody playing together.”
Something you see as soon as it is time to play the game. So tune in tonight and every Thursday at 10p for the funnest hour of summer television that continues even after the credits roll.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt’s pregnancy boobs make their debut! |
| July 18th, 2013 under Jennifer Love Hewitt. [ Comments: none ]
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Fame Flynet
Ever since Jennifer Love Hewitt announced that she is pregnant; you boys have been waiting to see how big her best a$$ets are going to get and now you get to see them starting to grow just like her belly is doing. While us girls just see her getting cuter and cuter as she waits to become a mom!
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Nic Cage is all plugged up! |
| July 18th, 2013 under Nicolas Cage. [ Comments: none ]
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Fame Flynet
Nicolas Cage was seen out in London with a much fuller and darker head of hair and I think it suits him. In fact I think the actor looks more like John Cusack than he does himself. Don’t you agree?
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