Tonight at 9p on The CW the network gets a new Docu-series and it is called Remodeled. Paul Fisher launched The Network in which he takes struggling modeling agencies under his umbrella throughout the world and turns them into thriving ones. In a way it is a lot like Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares and Bravo’s Tabatha’s Salon Takeover as in he goes in and transforms these dying modeling agencies into ones with star models. Just like the other two shows, you learn a lot about the modeling industry as he goes through and changes things up.
In the promos for Remodeled and the show itself, he comes off as very abrasive and last week he explained why he is so tough on the agencies he is remodeling. He said, “Well, first of all, I’m not an actor. What you see is what you get. I’m a very passionate man. I truly believe that when parents are putting their kids’ youth into your hands, I take that as a very serious responsibility. I deal with agencies that are struggling. And it doesn’t matter if they are agencies or whatever kind of business they are. They are on life support. My job is to help them, to help them build their business. And it’s not like curing cancer or anything like that, but we are dealing with young, beautiful souls. They are putting them into my hands into our hands, and I take that very, very seriously, and so I am very, very intense. I’m very, very passionate about what I do.” And it is important for him to do this because as you will see in next week’s episode there is one agency that has a modeling school in the office. One of the first things anyone learns when they want their child to be a model is any school you have to pay to learn how to do things is a scam. So it is important for parents to watch this show to learn what is the right agency to sign up for.
So how does his show different from the others on television, here is the answer Fisher gave to that question: “Well, I’d like to start with, you know, I’m an agent, and I’ve been an agent for a very, very long time. I really no disrespect to any other shows out there. There’s some really, really cool shows out there about the modeling industry, but I am an agent, and that’s what I’ve done for many, many years is create help create young people into becoming stars. So I believe what you guys are going to see for the first time ever in the history of television is young is the real world of the modeling industry, is actually a young person and the process of what takes what truly takes place when a kid is found, discovered, and then actually launched, not placing the kid with a modeling agency, but actually you’re going to actually see kids do campaigns and not get campaigns. You are going to actually see kids walk down the runways for the biggest designers in the world, and this is not make-believe. You guys call it a reality show. I call it a docu-series. To me, what we are doing is we are documenting what The Network does every single day.”
One thing that makes him very different from any model agent I ever heard from is his stance on being a model. He said, “I’m not a big supporter of the modeling industry. I don’t suggest any young person to ever enter into our world. I actually think it can be very, very damaging for a young person. I believe that anytime that you go on 5 castings a day, 25 castings a week, 100 castings a month, 1,200 castings a year, and 1,198 times you don’t get that job, by the time you turn 18, 19, 20 years old, you look in the mirror, and you see things that nobody else sees. When young people come and see me, I actually tell them to ‘Run away from me, ma’am.’ I actually say, ‘Do not model. This is not a good business for almost anybody.’ I don’t support the modeling industry. I don’t suggest it upon anybody.” So if he does take on a client, you know he really sees something in them. And that is a process you will see through out the Docu-series.
Another thing that blew me away is how he cares for his models and what he does to protect them both mentally and physically from the harsh business. Here is what he does to do that, “I believe that our industry must take social responsibility for the media, for the messages and the photos and images that we’re putting out into the world. You know, a typical a normal young person, a normal woman 5 foot 4, 143 pounds; a normal model 5 foot 11, 111 pounds. Our industry ten years ago, we were about 8 percent off of what the normalcy was. We’re now 23 percent off. I believe there’s 7 million kids around the world right now that are sticking their fingers down their throat, and I believe that our industry must take responsibility for the images that we are we’re putting out there into the world. When I first decided and I had this dream. You know, I wanted to create a business which would be a very safe environment for young women, and that’s when we decided to put together experts in all these various different important in these very important things that these kids need as they’re entering into our business. And so what we have is not workshops, but if a young person has an eating disorder, we have experts that can speak. At no cost. There’s no cost to this. If a kid has an eating disorder or a kid has a skin issue, if a kid has a depression issue, if a kid has a self esteem issue, we have experts that work with these kids because, once again, I want to say very, very clearly whether you believe me or not, how much money I make off of a kid is one thing. Their soul is ten times more important to me than how much money I can make off that kid. I have a responsibility to them. I have a responsibility to their parents. And it’s a responsibility that I take very, very seriously. So we have experts that work with all of our kids. You know, and, once again, this ain’t a show. This is my business. This is a mission of ours.”
So now that you know how Remodeled is different than anything else on TV, why not watch this beautiful show tonight on The CW at 9p and for the next two Tuesdays at this timeslot before moving to its permanent one on Wednesdays starting February 1st.
Kevin Williamson has a very tough job being the Executive Producer of the hottest shows on The CW, so why shouldn’t he get some rewards for all his hard work. Instead of taking one girl to the Golden Globes parties, he took two women and they weren’t your normal ladies they are witches. So which witch is more enchanting to you The Vampire Diaries Kat Graham or The Secret Circle’s Phoebe Tonkin.
Personally I think they are both equally bewitching, so it is a tie for me. That and I am afraid if I were to pick one what the other one might do to me.
You can see both witches cast a spell on you every Thursday on The CW.
Yesterday at the The CW TCA Press Tour Day they brought out some of their most Bad-Ass actors to talk to the press and we learned that they are always what they play. Kris Polaha (Ringer), Wilson Bethel (Hart of Dixie), Jared Padalecki (Supernatural), Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl), Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries) and Shane West (Nikita) all proved to us that they are Bad-Ass on TV, but I know for one struggled with them in-person personas being that too and not that is not a bad thing.
Kris Polaha wasn’t fully convinced he was Bad-Ass, but he thinks that show Ringer is totally that. He told us, “Ringer seems like one of those shows that it almost demands you to watch it live because there’s so many little twists and turns that, if you miss it, you kind of fall behind. So it was just fun to be a part of that.” But when he is not working on the show he is home being a good dad to his millions of kids. At least that is how many Padalecki says that he has.
Wilson Bethel was declared the most Bad-Ass guy of the bunch because in every episode he takes off his shirt and shows us how he watches his shirts on washboard abs. OK I added the last part, but you know I just thought that was a poetic way of describing it. And did you know that he writes poetry? Since he didn’t want to ruin his Bad-Ass cred, he shared with us how he does it, “I only write poetry while I’m riding my motorcycle.” He get to keep the title, don’t you agree?
Jared Padalecki told us he enjoyed playing a soulless and emotionless Sam Winchester on Supernatural, but there is something that he has a lot of heart and soul about. The Supernatural actor has something very natural happening to him in a little over a month, he is going to be a dad. He described to us how he feels about it by saying, “I’m very excited. I hope it doesn’t bleed over into my work because I have a boyish excitement about it. I’m almost worried I was just mentioning it earlier. I’m almost worried about how excited I am. I feel like I should be nervous because I’m bringing a life that I’m going to be half responsible for sometime in March. But I’m just so kind of chomping at the bits to get my hands in there and raise a child that I right now I’m just like an excited little boy.” Yeah if you weren’t in love with him before that quote, I am sure you are now.
Joseph Morgan shared what he likes about playing the Bad-Ass Klaus on The Vampire Diaries, he said “Yeah, no, for me it’s the sociopathic nature of the character, for sure, the idea that you can be in a room with him and you never know what he’s going to do. I said it before, he could kiss you or kill you, and it’s all the same to him. There’s no clear line. It’s all completely blurred. So it all means the same. That’s really where the danger comes from. That’s the interesting thing for me as an actor playing that, is from one moment to the next he can completely switch moods and emotions and not be aware that he’s done it or not be aware that that is anything abnormal, you know. That’s really the part that fascinates me.” And someone who fascinates him as a Bad-Ass is Gordon Ramsey. Once he openly admitted to that all the other boys on the panel revoked his Bad-Ass card.
Shane West feels that his show Nikita is more Bad-Ass than him as he told us, “Well, Nikita is based around that. I mean, the entire show is bad ass basically. It’s based off of that action, that being able to fire the guns, being able to I’m not going to be adding up all the bad asses, by the way. No more bad asses, I swear. The guns, the cars, the action, the stunts. It’s like, you know, being a kid again. Bad ass.”
You can watch each on of these Bad-Asses every week on The CW. Mondays at 8p you have Ed Westwick on Gossip Girl and then at 9p you get to see a shirtless Wilson Bethel on Hart of Dixie. Then on Tuesdays at 9p Kris Polaha keeps his shirt on in Ringer. Thursday nights we sink our teeth into Joseph Morgan in The Vampire Diaries at 8p. We end the week with Shane West kicking it at 8p on Nikita followed by Jared Padalecki doing what he does best on Supernatural at 9p. So you don’t have to be one of them to be a Bad-Ass, you just have to watch them to get that title.
Nina Dobrev films The Vampires Diaries in Atlanta, so since she was up for a People’s Choice Award she was flown to LA to attend the event. Luckily the network got it’s money’s worth because the people like, they really really like so much so that she won the award she was nominated for. But instead of celebrating with the other winners, she had to make a mad dash to the airport and almost didn’t make it. As she Tweeted with the above picture, “Close call, Was so rushed to the airport… Didn’t have time to change out of my dress!” I am sure no on the plane had an issue with her make the friendly skies, even friendlier in that gorgeous green dress.
The actress who plays two roles on one show is not only beautiful on the outside, she is just as beautiful on the inside. Here is what she Tweeted once she was settled in on her flight home, “Okay, so I was so flustered and nervous when I won the award, that I missed a few major things I wanted to say. First off, I didn’t get to Thank my mom. So, Thank you mama! AND – to everyone who voted for me, you got me to the PCA’s. Your votes got me this award. Your voices are So unbelievably powerful. You can make things happen. You made this happen. Can you imagine what else you could do? Go go out and do it! Again thank you, so so so so much. I’ve always wanted a Peoples Choice Award, thank you for making my dream come true.” I love how humble how she is and the honor was so well deserved.
BTW she isn’t the only one from VD that has had to travel back to Atlanta in their Awards clothes, her boyfriend Ian Somerhalder did the same after the Emmys.
Starting at 8P The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle are back on The CW and they are so good they will take your breath away.
At first I thought that tonight’s episode of The Vampire Diaries was all about a new tough Jeremy, but something that happens as the end will have you gasping for air.
Once you think that your respiration is back, you will start to lose your breath again due to a powerful episode of The Secret Circle. Charles’ mother (Stepfanie Kramer) is back in town and she is such a tough witch that she is the reason why we say the b word rhymes with witch. She can sense who is using their magic and how they are using it, and she knows that her son and Dawn have been up to no good. She also knows about Cassie’s Dark Magic lineage and does something that will change everything. What happens will once again having you gasping for air.
Britt Robertson is spellbinding in this episode as we see her struggling with her dark and light sides. Kramer is a nice addition to the show and I hope she is staying around for a while. Especially since her presence finally helps her son Charles (Gale Harold) grow his much needed pair.
I wish I could tell you more about both episodes, but I was told if I did a bad spell would be put on me. So you will have to tune in to find out more and remeber to breath!
