Posts by Juliet Litman

  • Reality TV Podcast: Real World, Survivor, and Khecking in With the Kardashians

    Juliet and Jacoby take time to appreciate Real World’s Hurricane Nia and her journalistic endeavors, celebrate Survivor’s Cochran, and hate on the Kardashians. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Pop Culture podcasts on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

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    Parenthood Renewed! You’re Welcome, Braverfans

    Dear Mr. Greenblatt, Well, Bob, you did it. You really did it. The Grantland office just burst into a lively celebration when we heard that Parenthood got its much-deserved Season 5 pickup. In case you forgot, while you were determining the fate of our favorite (scripted) show, we were sending you weekly missives that should […]

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    Parenthood Pickup Watch: Sarah’s Second Career, and New Braverman Ventures

    Dear Mr. Greenblatt, This week we’re trying to see the bigger picture for you. If you renew Parenthood (and you will, right?), you should probably go all in with it. Spend more money and optimize it to cross-promote your other successful franchises. And maybe you can even get Ellen DeGeneres onboard! Thank us later. Forever […]

  • Reality TV Podcast: Real World: Portland and Survivor: Caramoan

    Sometimes the developments in reality TV demand action. With a Survivor tribal council that shocked even Jeff Probst and the arrival of Hurricane Nia on Real World, we fled to the Grantland studio to record an emergency podcast. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

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    Parenthood Pickup Watch: Zombie Kittens and Remodeled Kitchens

    Dear Mr. Greenblatt, We stumbled upon this video of Dax Shepard on Sesame Street. This is what your cast is doing in the offseason. Just wanted you to be aware. Now, here are your weekly Season 5 Parenthood story lines. We know you’ve been waiting. Forever young, Juliet Litman and David Jacoby

  • Reality TV Podcast: Ready for Love, Real World: Portland, and Survivor: Caramoan

    Are you Ready for Love? Only one-half of this reality-TV loving tandem is. Juliet tries to justify why she’ll keep watching NBC’s attempt at The Bachelor while Jacoby explains why it’s just bad. Then we move on to breaking down this weekend’s provocative tribal council on Survivor and the Portland roommates’ “job search” on Real […]

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    Parenthood Pickup Watch: Ray Romano and Love Triangles

    Dear Mr. Greenblatt, I had an epiphany this week: I’m an NBC fan. Not only do I advocate for Parenthood, but I’ve been with The Voice since day one, and I’ll continue watching Ready for Love even though it’s a total mess. (NBC fans are hard to come by these days, so I wanted to […]

  • Reality TV Podcast: Real World: Portland, Real Housewives, and More

    MTV’s Real World franchise is still holding strong after 21 years. Last weekend, the network reminded us of how captivating its early seasons were with the #MTVretro marathon, allowing us to remember that Puck was a terrible roommate and Julie was a babe. But this was all just an amuse-bouche for the new season, Real […]

  • Reality TV Podcast: The Survivor Meltdown, the Bachelor Finale, and Real Housewives

    Survivor may be in its 26th season, but this week’s episode showed no signs of fatigue. I suggested a few theories about what could have motivated Jeff Probst’s intense back rub of Brandon Hantz, and Jacoby ably analyzed them to determine what was really going on. Of course, any discussion of people touching led directly […]

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    Parenthood Pickup Watch, Week 5: Haddie Goes Baddie

    Hey, Bob, Did you attend the Parenthood PaleyFest panel? We wanted to go, but we couldn’t make it. We did read about it, though. We’re glad that the door is still open for Hank (the sublime Ray Romano) to return, but our favorite fact to emerge from the panel was that the cast has matching […]

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