Spoiler video sneak peak and official description of Private Practice Episode 6 In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole.

Charlotte seeks Pete’s help in treating her insomnia, Naomi goes on her first date since college, Cooper suspects that his patient’s injuries aren’t an accident, and a patient asks Addison and Naomi to conceal her fertility from her husband, on “Private Practice,” WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Here is a 3.5 minute spoiler video clip for Heroes Season 2 Episode 6 The Line.

Scenes include:

Bob wants Suresh to take away Monica’s abilities.
Claire and West discuss how Claire didn’t make the cheerleading squad and what to do about it.
HRG and the Haitian try to get answers.

Preview Part 1
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Watch the preview video after the jump.

Continue Reading: (”Heroes Season 2 Episode 6 Preview, Part 2″)

In The Biggest Loser 4 Episode 6, the already decimated red team decided to just go for broke and vote for a tie, eliminating the person they considered the biggest individual game threat, Phil, who has remained the only person giving them even a prayer of remaining competitive. Blue team, the winner of the weigh in, was more than happy to oblige.

Lucky for the red team, the teams are being broken up, and they will be divided into new teams of three. The winner of the temptation will configure the teams as they see fit. They will be playing high-low and be betting with calories. Whatever they bet, they have to eat.

Everybody antes up, two vanilla wafers, totalling 36 calories, with the exception of Kae, who’s not only been consistently the biggest loser, but just says it’s not worth it. Bryan gets a 2 and decides to bluff, raising 3 vanilla wafers (to 90 calories total). Bill raises two crackers (to 122 calories total). Amy tosses in a stack of Reese’s peanutbutter cups (to 522 calories total), a ridiculous bet that may have been based more on eating chocolate and peanutbutter than actually winning, but big enough to scare some people. Neil folds. Isabeau with an ace calls, as does Nicole. Ryan folds, as does David. Hollie raises three chocolate chip cookies (to 681 calories total). Julie folds. Jez raises cheese and two chocolate peppermints (to 857 calories total). Despite only having a 2, Bryan raises two cheese and two Oreos (to 1103 calories total). Bill folds. Amy again makes the most ridiculous raise, tossing in her whole pile (to 1750 calories total). At least she’s now gone from saying “Mmm…” to being grossed out, though. Julie, despite having an Ace, folds because she doesn’t think it’s worth it. Nicole also folds, as does Hollie. Jez calls. Bryan finally folds. Why the hell he ate the 1103 calories in the first place is beyond me. It comes down to Amy and Jez. Amy has a 9. Jez wins with an Ace.

Team one: Kae, David, Hollie
Team two: Amy, Julie, Bill
Team three: Bryan, Nicole, Ryan
Team four: Neil, Isabeau, Jez

The trainers come in, and the players get them up to speed. Then Amy starts whining at Kim for wanting to get rid of her. Don’t worry, Amy, nobody’s going to get rid of you any time soon. Amy decides to train with Jillian instead. She couldn’t even handle training with Kim. Other than that, all the teams stick with their original trainers.

Teams must complete 75 revolutions of metal arms. Two team members will be on platforms (adding their weight to what must be pushed), while the third pushes the arm, and they can swap out as needed. The winner will receive a Bowflex home gym. Kae and Hollie come up with the strategy of using their weight to help out, pushing from the platform. Neil’s the first to swap out at about 5 circles. Bill subs out at 12. Bryan and Bill lead their teams and are pretty competitive throughout, but Bill’s team eventually takes a 2 circle lead. Bill, Amy, and Julie win the challenge.

It’s time for the weigh in.

Bill: 261 pounds (-7)
Amy: 265 pounds (no change)
Julie: 192 pounds (-3)
Total: -10 pounds (1.37%)

I don’t think Amy’s numbers necessarily reflect her trainer switch so much as her attitude.

Bryan: 297 pounds (-7)
Ryan: 321 pounds (+1)
Nicole: 244 pounds (-4)
Total: -10 pounds (1.15%)

Kae: 174 pounds (-4)
Hollie: 223 pounds (-2)
David: 315 pounds (-8)
Total: -14 pounds (1.93%)

Jez: 289 pounds (-6)
Isabeau: 255 pounds (-4)
Neil: 372 pounds (+17)
Total: +7 pounds (+0.77%)

What the hell was that? Wow, Jez, great job of picking teams. Neil tries to cover it up, but no matter what his argument is, I find it hard to believe anyone would buy it. Neil finally reveals that he made a promise to blue team he’d do whatever he could to keep them there, including throwing the weigh in to get rid of one of his new teammates from the black team. From the sounds of it, he drank excessive amounts of water, enough to run the risk of death from water intoxication.

Votes
Julie, Bill, Amy: Neil
Ryan, Bryan, Nicole: Jez
David, Kae, Hollie: Jez

Jez has been eliminated. He definitely got blindsided by Neil’s over the top actions. What Neil did is completely understandable because it is a game and will buy him more time in the house, but next time try not to make it so ridiculously obvious.

Today, Jez weighs 242 pounds, down 103 pounds from his starting weight of 345.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Biggest Loser 4 episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

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This is a rare unrelated to TV post (except that it does screw up the TV times of shows for night owls), but this is one of those odd things I noticed people are searching for on this site, so I’m making this post to help those who are searching for the answer.

In the US, Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday November 4 at 2AM.

We left Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 9 with a cliffhanger. Leading up to the merge, people were stupid and voted people off based on personality clashes rather than trying to navigate the waters and try to make more sensible decisions. What this eventually led to was a merged tribe with 4 original Iban members and 4 original Bajau members, none of whom were willing to budge. That led to a 4-4 tie vote between Lorette and Hein. In episode 10, they are participating in a challenge to determine who goes home. Both must count down to 30 seconds and touch the skull closest to 30 seconds. The person further from that mark will be eliminated.

The longest 30 seconds ever. Lorette touches the skull first, followed by Hein way too long after. With 26 seconds, Lorette is safe. With 47.8 seconds, Hein has been voted off the island. Aw hell. So basically I have to hope for at least one of three things to happen here. 1) There’s some sort of ghost twist like last year. 2) Dyke can keep winning immunity. 3) One of the members of ex-Bajau can weasel their way into the other camp when we get down to 5. Angie’s way too emotional, and Grant dragged Lisa along for weeks too long for no reason and to his own detriment. I do somewhat like Mandla and Lorette, however, even if neither have really stood out in the game thus far.

When they get back to camp, Lorette says she thinks Hein threw the challenge, as does Amanda. Dyke can’t figure out what the heck happened. Angie takes the opportunity to remind ex-Bajau they’re going to be voted off. She says she was irritated by them voting by Lorette. Yeah, there’s a shock. This coming from the girl who’s been irritated for two weeks straight.

The reward challenge is the mean question challenge where majority rules. Reward is a trip to a spa.

Who’s most difficult to sleep next to? The group votes for Dyke, and Angela and Dyke get it wrong.
Who smells the worst? The group votes for Mandla. Mandla, Dyke, and Angie get it wrong.
Who is the most untrustworthy? The group votes for Dyke, including Dyke, the only person smart enough to vote for himself. Lorette, Angela, Angie, and Amanda get it wrong.
Who talks the most? The group votes Amanda. Lorette, Mandla, and Amanda get it wrong, voting for Angela.
Who does the least work around camp? Votes are split between Amanda, Angela, Angie, and Dyke (obviously a throwaway vote not to offend anyone), with Amanda being the one who receives the most votes. Angela, Lorette, Mandla, Amanda, and Angie are incorrect. This eliminates Angie, Angela, Amanda, and Mandla.
Who has had the easiest ride into merge? Angie receives a majority vote, including one from her ally Lorette. Interesting. Let’s see how long this takes to irritate Angie. Grant is incorrect.
Who is the biggest charmer? Lorette again with an interesting vote, as she and Dyke vote for Dyke. Grant is incorrect. This is bringing me back to his time with Lisa. He just keeps voting how he thinks he can kiss up to Angie best.
Who is the biggest whinger? The majority votes for Amanda. Lorette has been eliminated.
Whose life would the million change the most? All the eliminated people get to vote as well. Angela, Lorette, and Dyke receive votes, with Dyke being the majority answer. Except for the two Angela votes, most of the votes were along tribal lines.

Dyke wins reward. He gets to choose one person to bring along with him. Some good potential strategizing time, but he opts to live up to his promise of taking one of the girls, so he chooses Amanda. At the spa, they start off by having some tea and taking a bath. Dyke shaves for the first time in weeks. Then both get a massage. This is followed by a hottub and drinks.

Lorette didn’t know what the word whinger meant, which explains why she voted for Dyke. I saw that one coming, as I had to look it up as well.

Angie pretends she didn’t even notice Hein was gone because things are still getting done. This confessional is immediately followed by a scene of people scrambling about trying to figure out what the heck they’re doing.

The immunity challenge is called the ring. The tribe will start behind one of the evenly spaced skulls around the circle. When they step into the ring, it’s every man and woman for themselves. Their hands will be bound with shackles to their belts. This is a very easy challenge to gang up on people, so Dyke has his work cut out for him. Mandla and Grant immediately target Dyke but fail to get him further down than one knee (the only acceptable body part to be able to touch the ground). Grant and Lorette are eliminated first. Dyke and Amanda target Mandla, but he just bowls them both over and eliminates them. Angela is eliminated by Angie in the process. So it’s between Angie and Mandla. Obviously Mandla wins immunity.

It’s a foregone conclusion who will be eliminated tonight. All Dyke can do is try to stir things up and warn the guys about a potential girl power alliance. But there’s a ray of hope from Lorette. She says her game, which she’s played the whole time, is to compete against the strongest people. Strategically, there is certainly much potential fault in this, but it’s commendable. Amanda chimes in about how Angie over on the other island said she hated Lorette, and now she’s pretending to like her. This is the reason why I thought voting for Lorette was a mistake previously, as she’s the most likely to be swayed. She says, however, that Angie is not her current problem.

At tribal council, Grant bluntly states the goal in the immunity challenge was to make sure Dyke didn’t win, and he didn’t care who won as long as it wasn’t Dyke. Lorette essentially acknowledges that her theory about wanting to compete against only the strongest has passed, and follows this up saying that Mandla is her next target. Hmm. When asked if keeping her word is important, Angie reiterates her position that she’d be willing to screw over her alliance when the need arises. Completely valid gameplay, but that’s the kind of thing you keep to yourself.

Votes:
Dyke
Angie
Dyke
Grant
Grant
Dyke
Dyke

What a horrible end to this episode. Hein and Dyke both voted out. Who the heck do I root for now?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 11.

The Race 2 is a production of ICTV that’s structured similarly to The Amazing Race. Watch The Race 2 online.

In The Race 2 Episode 4, Dave & Matt kept pushing and ended up going too far, receiving a time penalty that dropped them to last for a prank they played. Their actions were enough to get the other teams to form an “alliance” with a common goal of getting rid of Dave & Matt. This all led to one of the best tasks I’ve seen in quite some time, with much drama ensuing, climaxing with a physical altercation. It wasn’t long before the alliance started ditching each other, and all it ultimately did was get them so worked up that they were willing to all rush in the wrong direction. But at the end of the day, unable to get any directions (still not sure why they asked a random person in a gas station rather than the person behind the counter), Dave & Matt were finally eliminated after a strong, albeit perhaps questionable, run.

In episode 5, part 1 of the finale, I’m expecting the alliance to just completely crumble, as there is no basis for it any more, not that using an alliance to complain about one team had basis to begin with.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Hal & Matilda
Second: Daniel & Jeff
Third: Sadie & Ginalola (right behind)
Fourth: Jon & Jenna

They first head to the Side Hill Acres Dairy Goat Farm in Candor. The challenge is to find a goat with a specific numbered tag, holding hands until they do, and milk it. They receive instructions from the kids on the farm how to milk the goats. Hal & Matilda arrive first. Daniel & Jeff arrive second with no trouble. Sadie & Ginalola stop to ask for directions but still get lost. Daniel & Jeff manage to finish first, and Matilda accidentally spilling hers halfway through doesn’t help Hal & Matilda any. Sadie & Ginalola see both Daniel & Jeff and Hal & Matilda driving in the opposite direction as they’re heading toward the challenge, and they arrive in third. Jon & Jenna depart 25 minutes behind the other teams, a huge gap to make up, and if they have a chance will be up to whether there’s another challenge like the one that killed them in the last episode. If the order of the editing is any indication, they arrive at this challenge after the other teams have finished the next one.

The next destination is the only operating flax field in New York state, down the street. They must pick and bundle 5 bundles of flax for each teammate and stack them in the proper formation. Doesn’t appear to be any real trick to this one, so all the teams should finish within a similar amount of time. Daniel & Jeff arrive first, with Hal & Matilda close behind. Sadie & Ginalola arrive third, having finished the previous challenge the fastest of all.

After this, teams must return to Ithaca and go to Gino’s Pizzeria. The task is to deliver pizzas to three different addresses in Ithaca. Hal & Matilda, who aren’t sure where they’re going, take the lead as Daniel & Jeff stop for directions. Sadie & Ginalola are the only team of the three completely aware of where they’re going and catch up to and are behind Daniel & Jeff, hoping they keep going the wrong way and get lost. They eventually just decide to pass them, though, and then figure out how to lose them. When they arrive in Ithaca, parking proves to be a problem for all the teams, so they have to find a spot to park and run from there.

Hal & Matilda arrive first, with Sadie & Ginalola right behind. Daniel & Jeff have absolutely no idea where they’re going and have to keep stopping for directions, but they do arrive in third. This is the break last place Jon & Jenna were hoping for, and as Daniel & Jeff are leaving to deliver their pizzas, Jon & Jenna see them. Sadie & Ginalola get off to an early lead with their first delivery. Daniel & Jeff decide to make the initial delivery by foot, which is Sadie & Ginalola’s second stop shortly thereafter, and after leaving, Daniel & Jeff decide to just follow them… briefly anyway. Jon & Jenna, who know the area and have developed a strategy instead of just driving aimlessly, manage to work their way up to first place. Sadie & Ginalola get to the last apartment second and ask whether a blonde arrived there, not being able to figure out what the response actually meant.

The pitstop is the top of the parking garage nearby.

First: Jon & Jenna
Second: Sadie & Ginalola
Third: Hal & Matilda
Fourth: Daniel & Jeff (eliminated)

This leg ultimately came down to familiarity with the area, or lack thereof, but it did keep things interesting, even if what seemed like a predictable Jon & Jenna boot was merely replaced by a predictable Daniel & Jeff boot. They remain upbeat as they’re being eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Race 2 Episode 6.

CBS won the night as usual. Deal or No Deal kept NBC competitive. Smackdown, one of the The CW’s consistently strong performers, was good enough to give the network a rare fourth place. Fox, meanwhile, has been struggling to find something to work in the Friday night slot, having cancelled their other reality show Nashville for low ratings, which makes me wonder whether Next Great American Band ever had a chance to begin with. Regardless, it’s back to the drawing board.

CBS
Viewers: 9.37 million
18-49: 2.6/8

8-9 Ghost Whisperer
Viewers: 9.87 million
18-49: 2.7/10

9-10 Moonlight
Viewers: 8.56 million
18-49: 2.4/7

10-11 Numb3rs
Viewers: 9.68 million
18-49: 2.7/8

NBC
Viewers: 8.18 million
18-49: 2.2/7

8-9 Deal or No Deal
Viewers: 10.50 million
18-49: 2.3/8

9-10 Friday Night Lights
Viewers: 5.88 million
18-49: 2.0/6

10-11 Las Vegas
Viewers: 8.18 million
18-49: 2.4/8

ABC
Viewers: 6.57 million
18-49: 1.7/5

8-9 Grey’s Anatomy (rerun)
Viewers: 4.31 million
18-49: 1.3/5

9-10 Women’s Murder Club
Viewers: 8.90 million
18-49: 2.0/6

10-11 Men in Trees
Viewers: 6.51 million
18-49: 1.7/5

CW
Viewers: 4.61 million
18-49: 1.4/5

8-10 Friday Night Smackdown!
Viewers: 4.61 million
18-49: 1.4/5

Fox
Viewers: 2.87 million
18-49: 1.2/4

8-10 The Next Great American Band
Viewers: 2.87 million
18-49: 1.2/4

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for continued Nielsen Ratings coverage.

Fast National data is preliminary. Source: Nielsen Media and PIFeedback.

Here is the official NBC description and promo video for Heroes Season 2 Episode 6 The Line. As usual, I’ll work on getting a second preview up prior to the episode airing, which will be followed by a live recap when the show does air.

HEROES
THE LINE
10-29-2007 9:00PM

AT SCHOOL, WEST CONVINCES CLAIRE TO TEACH A BULLYING CHEERLEADER A LESSON — West (Nick D’Agosto) convinces Claire (Hayden Panettiere) to teach head cheerleader Debbie (guest star Dianna Agron) a lesson after she deems Claire too ordinary to join the squad. While Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) faces a serious moral dilemma with the Company, H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) pays his Russian mentor a visit in an effort to locate Isaac’s last prophetic paintings. Meanwhile, nearing the U.S. border, Alejandro (Shalim Ortiz) becomes increasingly uneasy about Sylar’s (Zachary Quinto) intentions, especially towards Maya (Dania Ramirez) . Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) and Caitlin’s (Katie Carr) search for a mysterious doorway he painted ultimately leads them to a surprising place. In feudal Japan, while attempting to repair history, Hiro (Masi Oka) struggles with his feelings for Kensei’s (David Anders) ‘princess’ Yaeko (guest star Eriko Tamura). Noah Gray-Cabey, Dana Davis, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, James Kyson Lee and Adrian Pasdar also star. Jimmy Jean-Louis, Adair Tishler and Stephen Tobolowsky guest star.

Show Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, Greg Grunberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Masi Oka, Adrian Pasdar, Noah Gray-Cabey, Jack Coleman, James Kyson Lee, Dana Davis, Dania Ramirez, Zachary Quinto, Kristen Bell, David Ander

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