Posts by Juliet Litman
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Reality TV Friday Podcast: Sizing Up The Latest Bachelor Batch
I have bad news for anyone who was thinking about getting Jacoby or me a Christmas present: an intrepid reader has stolen your thunder. Reader Devin alerted us to the fact that the contestant bios for the next season of The Bachelor have been released, and we had a field day wading through the gals. […]
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Reality TV Friday Podcast: The Challenge, Survivor, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
It’s high season for us reality TV devotees: We’ve got the housewives of both Atlanta and Beverly Hills back in our lives, The Challenge remains in top form, and we had a near psychological breakdown on Survivor this week. A pre-Thanksgiving television feast, if you will. Jacoby and I discussed all of these, plus we […]
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Reality TV Podcast: The Challenge, Survivor, Jersey Shore, and Bad Girls Club
I’ll just say it: This week’s episode of The Challenge was my favorite one in recent history. There was a crazy tirade from Camila, an Emmy-worthy performance from T.J. Lavin, and a trivia challenge that prompted Sarah to deliver what may or may not be my new catch phrase. Thus Jacoby and I could not […]
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Reality TV Friday Podcast: Jersey Shore, The Challenge, and Survivor
We might need to rename the podcast formerly known as “Reality TV Friday” to “The Knight Show.” Not only is there wordplay going on, but we were so taken with Knight’s performance on this week’s Challenge that we couldn’t help but spend a good 20 minutes analyzing his machinations. We also touched upon the bizarre […]
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Reality TV Podcast: The Challenge, Jersey Shore, Survivor, and Gallery Girls
There have now been three episodes of American’s fifth professional sport. We could have spent a few hours dissecting every minute of The Challenge, but we tried to control ourselves by addressing just the most pressing topics: Who is this zen Alton? Do we miss Mr. Beautiful and his friends? Can Zach pass a PED […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast’s Reality TV Friday: Bachelor Pad, The Real World, and More
In a week with both a Bachelor Pad shocker and a Real World finale-reunion, Jacoby and I couldn’t resist the magnetic pull of the Grantland Network studio. Reality TV Friday makes a triumphant return to address Nick’s big move (if you are wondering who that is, we didn’t know until last week either) and the […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast’s Reality TV Friday: Gallery Girls, The Real World, and Bachelor Pad Dream Casts
Even though the reality czar is on vacation, reality TV does not stop. In fact, this week brought us the fresh new joy of Gallery Girls, the latest docudrama from the geniuses at Bravo. Hollywood Prospectus editor Emily Yoshida and I got to know the new art-loving ladies, and then moved on to Bachelor Pad […]
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The B.S. Report: Reality TV Friday With David Jacoby and Juliet Litman
It’s the final day of Grantland’s B.S. Report takeover, and today we bring you the nascent Reality TV Friday podcast. First we check in with our Real World–ers, who get off their island and hit St. Thomas’s clubs; then we check in on the logo-centric drama of the Real Housewives of New York; and we […]
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Team USA: Hard Knocks, Jock Docs, and Thoroughly Unnecessary Roughness
Well, Team USA fans, it’s the end of the road for populist television enthusiast Juliet Litman. This will be the last entry in her rough guide to the lawyers, spies, and rogue medical practitioners of the USA Network. If you’re not ready to say good-bye, we suggest a Suits marathon to ease the pain. There’s […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Reality TV Friday
Things have really picked up in the reality TV world, and accordingly things are heating up on the Reality TV Podcast. This week Jacoby and I needed a special guest, Hollywood Prospectus editor Emily Yoshida, to fully digest just what we witnessed on Monday’s Bachelor Pad — especially since we were mentally exhausted from trying […]