After just three poorly rated episodes, NBC has sent The Chopping Block to the chopping block, effective immediately. The network did hold out hope that the show may return, although it’s unlikely to be for very long or in a time slot that actually matters.
For the time being, reruns of Law & Order: Criminal Intent will air in NBC’s unlucky 8:00 Wednesday time period. The original Law & Order, currently in its 19th season, also airs on Wednesdays on NBC.
J was thrown out in the middle of the service in Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 7, so Chef Ramsay didn’t have to dismiss anyone else at the end of the show.
The chefs will be cooking tartar. Nobody’s made it before. Nobody has apparently tasted food before either. Tuna has been substituted for beef, and seabass has been substituted for scallops. None of them notice. The next challenge is the taste test.
LA volunteers very quickly to sit out for the red team. Nobody else even has a chance to consider it.
Filet mignon
Ben guesses sirloin beef.
Andrea guesses liver.
Fried egg white
Ben gets a point.
Andrea gets a point.
Beets
Ben gets a point.
Andrea gets a point.
Romaine lettuce
Andrea guesses celery.
Ben gets a point.
Blue leads 3-2.
Turnip
Robert guesses cream of cauliflower and/or broccoli.
Giovanni guesses asparagus.
Pea tendrils
Giovanni guesses spinach.
Robert guesses watercress.
Lobster
Giovanni guesses poached egg yolk (huh?).
Robert guesses mushroom (huh? again).
Black truffle
Robert guesses s***.
Giovanni doesn’t have a clue either.
Blue team leads 3-2 after both people don’t know anything.
Mushroom
Lacey guesses dicon.
Carol gets a point.
Calf’s liver
Carol is correct that it’s gross and is liver.
Lacey guesses foie gras, duck/goose liver, not calf’s liver.
Broccolini
Both are incorrect.
Sweet potato
Lacey gets a point.
Carol gets a point.
Red team takes the lead 6-4. Andrea has to be nice to Carol. Today.
For the final round, each player will have to identify 10 ingredients in minestrone soup, and as they list ingredients, they score a point, which has the potential to make the first three rounds pointless. Danny scores 3 to bring his team to 7. Paula scores 2 to give her team the win.
Red team will be doing a photo shoot with TV Guide. Blue team will be waiting on them during that shoot while prepping both kitchens for that night’s service.
Tonight is celebrity night. I recognize this guy from Will & Grace. There’s apparently someone there from Terminator 2 (a movie from 1991?) as well.
Paula’s first appetizer is spat out. Her risotto is inedibly salty.
Robert’s falling behind, so Ben is told to help him out. He interprets helping as taking over.
Paula’s next attempt at risotto is perfect.
Danny’s told that his dishes are nicely cooked.
Carol’s falling behind on meat. Chef Ramsay wants her to crank up the temperature on her oven, but she doesn’t want to burn everything else, so he’ll have to wait.
Lacey’s lost. Now it’s Danny’s turn to watch her. She tells them she’s no good at meat. Hopefully she just doesn’t burn the place down. Ramsay is willing to give her another chance (again). When she returns, Ben goes over there to try to calm her down, burning himself in the process.
Robert is handling the appetizers on his own, although his pants have split open.
Carol continues to struggle on the meat. Andrea tries to communicate her, but she’s not answering. They produce rubber food and blame each other.
Ramsay is screaming at Lacey every 30 seconds. After getting tired of hearing his voice, she just brings him whatever she’s got and sees what happens. What happens is he has to throw her off the show. She can only look back on the positive things, of which there weren’t many.
That leaves blue team two men down. They seem to be doing okay regardless. Better, in fact, than Carol’s doing over in the red kitchen.
Blue team comes together to finish serving all their tables, but Ramsay’s tired of Carol, Andrea, and LA, so red kitchen is done. Because he’s never seen more team work than he did from the blue team, they win the service.
Carol nominates herself and Andrea. Andrea nominates Carol and LA. Paula nominates Carol and LA, which LA says is personal. Giovanni picks Carol and LA (so is that personal, too?). LA nominates Carol and Andrea.
Failing as a team again, red team has been unable to come to a consensus, but LA and Carol have been nominated. Since Andrea’s name also came up, she will step forward as well.
Andrea would give herself a 6 out of 10 for the night. Her first nominee is LA, despite the fact that she hates Carol. Carol would send Andrea home. Yeah, it’s not personal.
Carol and Andrea are safe. LA will be leaving Hell’s Kitchen.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 9, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.
The top 10 performed in American Idol 8 Episode 23, and tonight one more person will go home.
Adam Lambert is safe.
Matt Giraud is in the bottom three.
Kris Allen is safe.
Lil Rounds and Michael Sarver stand up next. Between them, it’s a safe bet that Michael is in the bottom three. Lil is safe, and Michael is the second person in the bottom three.
Allison Iraheta is safe.
Anoop Desai is safe.
Danny Gokey is safe.
Scott MacIntyre and Megan Joy Corkrey stand up last, and both of them could easily be in the bottom three. Scott is in the bottom three, so Megan is safe.
Of the bottom three, Scott is safe. That brings us down to Michael Sarver or Matt Giraud. Of the two, Matt shouldn’t be there, so this would be an opportune time for the judges to save somebody, but I’d wager that Michael’s met the end of his rope.
Matt is safe, and Michael Sarver is going home. The judges will not be saving him.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 25, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.
So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 will premiere Thursday May 21 at 8/7c on Fox. Show nights will be on Wednesday night from 8-10, with results nights from 9-10 on Thursday nights.
Having just arrived on the island in Lost Season 5 Episode 9, Kate, Jack, and Hurley agreed to play Sawyer’s game, at least for now. Sayid’s also on the island, and he meets up with little Ben.
Little Sayid’s brother is being instructed by his dad to kill a chicken. He doesn’t want to kill a chicken, though. Sayid, however, has no problem taking out the chicken.
Ben wants to feed the hostile, Sayid. Did Richard send him? He’s his leader, right? Ben ran away into the jungle before and found Richard. He’s been patient since then looking for a way out. If Sayid’s patient, too, maybe they can work together.
Another flashback of Sayid killing, this time a human. The man behind his murdering ways: Ben. That marks the last of Widmore’s men, so now they can part ways.
Horace goes into Sayid’s cell trying to find out what he was doing in the jungle. Either they’re in some kind of disagreement, which means he can help him, or he’s a spy. He’ll give him an hour to think about it.
Juliet fears that this whole playing house bit they’ve got going on is over now.
Worried that the prisoner won’t talk, Horace wants to have Oldham do his thing. Sawyer volunteers to talk to him instead. By talk, he apparently means hit him and pretend he’s confessed. If he doesn’t cooperate, he’s on his own. So he’s on his own then.
Kate thinks she can get something out of Juliet even though Sawyer’s not talking, but Hurley has this crazy idea that they’re together. Who couldn’t see that coming?
Ben brings another sandwich to Sayid. This angers the janitor, which is apparently a big deal.
Back to flashback Sayid, Ben’s come to meet up with him to tell him that John Locke is dead. He’s a killer, although he says he doesn’t like it.
Since Sayid’s still not talking, he’ll be going to Oldham now. Who’s that man? “He’s our you.”
Now it’s a flashback we’ve all seen. Kate calls everybody crazy, and Sayid flees the scene, though Sun wants to go with Ben to meet Eloise. Sayid’s fled to a bar, where he meets a girl who likes sad men. This oughta be a real hoot then. He hopes to change his ways, rather than continuing his killing.
Sayid is answering Oldham’s questions, and he’s been given some truth serum. He tells them his real name, the fact that he’s not a hostile, and that he got there via plane. Having been there for 100 days already, he knows about all the stations, including the unbuilt one. Oh, and they’re all going to die. He knows this because he is from the future. They fear that they’ve driven this man insane. Nonetheless, he pretty much needs to be killed. By a unanimous vote, the tribe has spoken.
The girl at the bar actually is a professional, hired to bring him to Guam. The family of the guy he killed on the golf course wants him dead.
Sawyer offers to let Sayid punch him and steal his keys. Sayid would be fine with Radzinsky’s idea of dying, though, so he’ll just stay put rather than trying to escape. He didn’t see the purpose of being on the island before now.
As Sawyer’s asking Kate why they came back, a flaming VW bus makes its way toward the houses, setting off a quickly spreading blaze. Three years with no burning buses, now this after just one day.
Ben will let Sayid out if he takes him with him. Yes, he will. That’s why he’s here.
The woman holding Sayid hostage doesn’t want to let him go. They’re taking that plane (that’s going to crash) whether he likes it or not. Is she working for that monster Ben?
Sayid brings Ben through the woods as agreed. Jin spots them, and Sayid pretends Sawyer let him out. Since Jin has to clear this with Sawyer before letting them go, he’ll have to be knocked out. He tells little Ben he was right about him. He is a killer. So he shoots Ben. Didn’t see that one coming.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Lost Season 5 Episode 11 Whatever Happened, Happened, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on ABC.
Alexis Grace was sent home in American Idol 8 Episode 22, which brought us down to the top 10.
Tonight is Motown night with the guidance of Smokey Robinson.
Matt Giraud
Song: Let’s Get it on by Marvin Gaye
Randy: Challenging for the top spot.
Kara: I think there are a lot of girls going yeah, let’s get it on. Solid performance.
Paula: Tasteful, classy, spot on.
Simon: Brilliant choice of song other than the corny bit in the middle. Voice absolutely suits that kind of song. One of the frontrunners.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-01
Kris Allen
Song: How Sweet It Is to be Loved by You by Marvin Gaye (playing guitar)
Kara: You didn’t do James Taylor or Marvin Gaye. You did Kris. Everything right.
Paula: Infectious personality. Brilliant.
Simon: Smart. But still need more confidence.
Randy: In the zone. All good.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-02
Scott MacIntyre
Song: You Can’t Hurry Love by Diana Ross and The Supremes
Paula: Whole new life to your performance.
Simon: How much more can you take? Not a great version of the song. Completely the wrong song. A bit cheap.
Randy: Hotel kind of performance. Better singer than that.
Kara: Brought tempo tonight, finally. Not crazy about the liberties with the melody.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-03
Megan Joy Corkrey
Song: For Once in My Life by Stevie Wonder
Randy: Trainwreck. Doesn’t really fit what you do.
Kara: All over the place. Bad notes. Song took you over.
Paula: Was not the right song for you. Confusing.
Simon: Horrible. Atrocious.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-04
Anoop Desai
Song: Ooh Baby Baby by Smokey Robinson
Kara: Pretty good job for such a hard song.
Paula: For the most part, not only spot on but also sweet.
Simon: Great vocal. Looked as if you were half asleep.
Randy: Nice to hear but turn it up next week.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-05
Michael Sarver
Song: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by The Temptations
Paula: A little Las Vegas loungey. Not always reaching the notes.
Simon: Couldn’t wait for it to end. Screaming and shouting. No chance of winning. Just not good enough.
Randy: Song is too big for you.
Kara: Who are you as an artist?
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-06
Lil Rounds
Song: Heat Wave by Martha and the Vandellas
Randy: Front of the song was a little bit torture but cool toward the end.
Kara: Diva that everyone was waiting to hear… but it wasn’t the right song. Screaming at certain parts.
Paula: Like hearing a classic song for the first time.
Simon: Authentic tribute to the sound of Motown. However, there was no moment. Too fast.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-07
Adam Lambert
Song: Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson
Kara: One of the best performances of the night. You showed artistry on that stage.
Paula: Completely in your own league. Element of surprise but an extention of who you are as an artist.
Simon: The best performance of the night. You have emerged as a star.
Randy: Sang such tender moments still using everything in your arsenal.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-08
Danny Gokey
Song: Get Ready by The Temptations
Paula: First class performance every week.
Simon: Clumsy and amateurish.
Randy: Dope voice. Not your best performance but loved the energy.
Kara: Good but not great.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-09
Allison Iraheta
Song: Papa Was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations
Randy: Blazing Hot
Kara: America, you gotta vote for her. You sing like you’ve been singing for 400 years.
Paula: Awesome. Amazing.
Simon: You are a survivor. One of your best performances.
Number: 1-866-IDOLS-10
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 24, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.
After the blue team lost yet again, Cathy volunteered to go home in The Biggest Loser Couples 2 Episode 11.
Black team’s shocked that Aubrey’s still there.
Ron says he would do the same thing if it meant keeping his son safe, although Cathy actually kept Aubrey safe rather than Kristin. Whether that was the wisest move to protect the team is hard to say.
Not that there are teams any more. They’re going to singles. Mike finds out that his original shirt fits over both himself and Aubrey.
The first thing they will do as individuals is pick who will train them for the rest of their time. They have half an hour to think about it. Mike has made an effort to get to know Jillian as well as he knew Bob, so he’s got a tough choice. Filipe, however, being the whiner he’s been, is jumping up and down that he gets to pick Bob. Not that he listened when they told him he was with Jillian. The others seem pretty split as well if they’ve been on both sides. Laura, though, has been training with Jillian since day one, although Jillian did throw her under the bus and got the others to say (the truth) that she was the weakest link.
They will pick in order of percentage of weight loss so far.
Tara: Jillian
Mike: Jillian (by coin toss)
Helen: Jillian
Kristin: Bob
Filipe: Bob
Sione: Bob
Ron: Bob
Laura: Jillian
Aubrey: Bob
Having just chosen Bob as her trainer, Kristin’s already worried that he won’t be able to focus on her and instead will be focused on Sione and Filipe.
The challenge will consist of two parts. In part one, they have colored blocks with the exact amount of weight they’ve lost, which they can divide amongst their opponents. The total amount of weight that each player has will be added in part two. What’s part two? That will remain a mystery for the time being. However, immunity is up for grabs.
Aubrey splits between Tara and Helen. Ron splits between them as well. Sione and Filipe mostly target Tara. Mike continues the Tara onslaught. They all find this quite amusing, but Tara is having trouble handling this. Helen splits her weight between all the people who targeted her. Tara goes for her biggest competitor. Tara ends up with the most weight on her scale at 257 pounds, and she doesn’t want to talk to anyone. She just wants to be left alone. She’ll talk to her partner Laura, though. She’s decided to throw the next weigh-in and send herself home. Laura wants to return the favor from all those times earlier in the season and get her to stay strong through the stressful times.
So here comes part two. They see a bunch of cars with all their colors. We all know this challenge will not involve driving. NASCAR Cup driver Clint Bowyer is there as a special guest, and he’s got a message to set goals and keep going to meet them. In addition to immunity, the winner will be a VIP guest at a NASCAR race. Each of them will be pulling a car that weighs over two tons nearly half a mile. The extra weight from part one will be added to the cars.
Ron: 37 pounds
Mike: 63 pounds
Filipe: 67 pounds
Aubrey: 72 pounds
Sione: 92 pounds
Helen: 215 pounds
Tara: 257 pounds
Ganging up on Tara makes sense, but this whole ganging up on Helen thing really didn’t. Mike and Sione get off to a quick start. Tara’s got them in her sights and is trying to catch up. She catches up to Mike and takes second place. Now she just has to go for Sione. From the corner of his eye, he sees Tara coming up on his tail. Despite the efforts of the others to give this challenge to Sione, all they did was anger Tara, who easily walks away with the challenge win and immunity. Mike crosses in second. Sione wore himself out early and finishes third. Filipe, Helen, and Aubrey follow. Mike and Aubrey return to help Ron finish. As another part of her reward, Tara will be going for a ride with Clint.
Going into the weigh-in, Kristin and Tara have the same goal: to lose 4 pounds and be the first woman ever to lose 100 pounds on campus.
Tara: 195 pounds (-3, 1.52%, immune)
Kristin: 255 pounds (-8, 3.04%)
Aubrey: 191 pounds (-4, 2.05%)
Mike: 264 pounds (-6, 2.22%)
Laura: 213 pounds (-7, 3.18%)
Helen: 177 pounds (-5, 2.75%)
Sione: 266 pounds (-7, 2.56%), over 100 pounds
Ron: 317 pounds (-10, 3.06%)
Filipe: 263 pounds (-4, 1.50%)
Once again, immunity has played a role in saving its holder, with Tara being safe because of it. That puts Sione and Aubrey below the yellow line. Now that we’re down to singles, the choice here is pretty simple and obvious, although based on the prior ganging up on Tara and not at all on Sione, they’ll probably keep the bigger threat around.
Votes
Tara: Filipe
Mike: Aubrey
Laura: Filipe
Helen: Aubrey
Kristin: Aubrey
Ron: Aubrey
With 4 votes, Aubrey has been eliminated. While she was gone, her father has lost 26 pounds, so perhaps he’s finally accepted that he either needs to lose some weight or else. In her first three weeks after returning home, Aubrey gained 9 pounds. That’s… not good. Most contestants fall off the wagon eventually, but this has to be a record. Last time she went home, she only lost 2 pounds in a month. However, she’s starting to get back into her routine and has lost 10 pounds since leaving the ranch.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 7 Episode 13, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.
Sam won $1,000 in the lottery, which Ben believes is his since he bought the ticket. After Sam gets the cash, the Devil takes his money. As if you could win the lotto without the Devil being involved. The Devil wants to use the cash to go bail out Morgan, who accidentally stole a limo. Morgan’s his son, making them half brothers.
Andi finds the Devil having a son pretty scary. That does not bode well for Sam.
Despite that whole being fired thing, Ted is still hanging around at The Work Bench.
Nina, Ben’s new girlfriend, is not overly into their sex life, and she doesn’t want to talk about it.
The Devil tells Sam that he’ll always like Morgan better than he likes him. But there’s something missing. Maybe Morgan just doesn’t want to help him rule the netherworld. Then they see a dead body killed by Edmond Fitzgerald, his latest soul, who ate his gold on his deathbed.
Sock’s assisting a woman at work, but he doesn’t feel like helping her any more, so he subcontracts Ted to do it for her in exchange for splitting her tip. Now he goes to beg Andi for extra shifts. The work will be better than done. It’ll be good.
While Ben and Nina are out, she sees an ex-boyfriend. Their relationship was entirely physical. Rather than talking about it, though, she would prefer to stuff her face with as much food as she can get her hands on.
The Devil shows up in Sam’s bathroom to give him a vessel and ask a small favor (aka give him a demand that he can’t refuse). They have to get their hands on a painting before the soul does. There’s a burglar alarm sticker on the window, so obviously there’s a burglar alarm. What if it’s just a sticker? Neither Ben nor his friends are exactly useful in this scenario, but Morgan seems to know something about breaking or entering. Just not breaking and entering well. He throws something through the window and drives away, leaving the others behind to steal the painting while the cops are probably about three minutes away.
Sock plans to unpack all the sprinklers and restock the paint. So he says. His new subcontracting plan is genius. At least it is until he gets busted.
Ben pays a visit to Gladys at the DMV. He wants to discuss demon sex with her. Her response is that humans and demons can get it on all the time, and she can help him learn how to please a demon if he drops by her place later.
The soul has managed to find the boys, and he sends his jewelry to attack them. They hide in the bath tub, which works until Kristen finds them. When they’re done being chickens, they see that the painting is gone.
Andi asks: what’s the soul doing with all these things he’s stealing? He must have like a warehouse or something. Now that she’s solved that mystery, she sees Ted working. He has to leave, but before he can do that, she’ll have to talk to his boss. That means waking up Sock from his nap. He’s already been fired. Should have stuck the first time. Except Ted has nothing else in his life.
Fitzgerald owns an old shipyard, which has been condemned for years, so that’s probably where he’s storing everything. The Devil told Morgan exactly where to look. If only he’d actually help Sam with anything. They find a list that suggests they need to find Maryann.
Morgan got Maryann’s address from his dad, and Andi’s decided that Morgan is not that bad after all.
Ben’s got a good plan: he’s going to do it with his girlfriend in her demon form, mannish voice and all.
Maryann tells Sam to forget about getting his hands on the estate. He’s got a message for her: Edmond’s back from the dead and may try to kidnap her. But he only loved things, and the Maryann in question is actually his boat, which sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Then she notices that Morgan is wearing Edmond’s ring, which Sam thinks will lead him right to them. This somehow leads to a discussion about how Morgan’s evil, while Sam’s good. When they see the gold bugs inside the vents, they’ll probably have to run now. Morgan could give him the ring, but it’s stuck. It comes off after he jumps in the pool, so he tosses it to Sam, who agrees to give it back to its rightful owner. Then he shoves him up against the vessel and sends him back to hell.
Tired of running away and shoveling food in her mouth, Nina decides to tell Ben the truth. She used to be married to a human, which angered God, who smote the guy she loved, so she doesn’t want that to happen again.
Andi has made her decision. Ted can’t continue to take Sock’s shifts. However, the home office has approved her request to hire Ted back on a six month trial basis as a trainee. The new trainee needs a trainer. That would be Sock. They’ll be a team, joined at the hip, for six months.
The Devil gives Morgan all the credit for capturing the soul, then he gives all the gold coins to Morgan, too. He’s so conflicted. He doesn’t know who to root for now. Sam suggests rooting for Morgan.
When Sam gets home, he sees his father, who may possibly be dead.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper Season 2 episode 5 I Want My Baby Back, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.