Author: Shane

American Idol 8 Audition Schedule

Auditions for American Idol season 8 begin this month.

Thursday, July 17
San Francisco, CA
The Cow Palace

Monday, July 21
Louisville, KY
Freedom Hall

Friday, July 25
Phoenix, AZ
Jobing.com Arena

Tuesday, July 29
Salt Lake City, UT
EnergySolutions Arena

Saturday, August 2
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Coliseo de Puerto Rico

Friday, August 8
Kansas City, MO
Sprint Center

Wednesday, August 13
Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena

Tuesday, August 19
East Rutherford, NJ
IZOD Center at the Meadowlands

The Mole 5 Episode 5

Victoria became the fifth person to exit the game in The Mole 5 Episode 4.

Nicole is wondering why everybody she picks to be the mole gets executed, but she doesn’t.

A still sick Craig is ready for some more outdoor fun in the mountains.

Tonight’s first mission is all about trust. Everybody is chained by their ankles to steel bars. They must free themselves. Only one person at a time can have enough slack in the chain to get free, if the others all cooperate with them. Every 10 minutes, a window will open for 1 minute. The person who reaches it can either free themselves or grab the exemption right next to the key. If someone takes the exemption, no money goes in the pot, and everybody must sleep out in the cold.

The rest of the players reluctantly agree to allow a sick Craig to go first. He gets free and leaves the exemption. They argue for a bit, then vote to allow Kristen to go next. She frees herself and goes inside. Paul swears on his daughter. Famous last words in reality TV, but despite his fake out, this time it proves to be true. Clay, Alex, and Nicole agree they won’t take the exemption. Mark refuses to agree. He says he doesn’t even trust himself, which for Clay is a problem because they’re in a coalition. Clay agrees to go next and frees himself. Believing that Nicole is telling the truth, Mark lets her go, and she frees herself. Alex is next, and he frees himself. That leaves Mark all by himself. As valuable as exemptions can be, this one’s probably not worth it since it will create isolation. Mark has decided to not take the exemption, adding $25,000 to the pot.

Pot total: $177,000 out of $379,000

Everybody gets fresh new journals. I was hoping Mark was done whining, but he doesn’t like the new journal because he still wants his old burned journal back instead.

That night, they travel to Mendoza, which is known as the Napa Valley of Argentina. On the way there, Clay hopes to refill his journal, but Paul isn’t interested in cooperating. In an attempt to use Paul’s own game against him, Clay calls him an uneducated incompetent moron with a Napoleon complex. Craig jumps out so he can be in the sane van. Then Clay also leaves the van, after throwing a lemon at Paul’s head. Paul complains about being assaulted by fruit (it was a run by fruiting).

Players will be split into teams of two and will use various forms of transportation to travel 5.5 miles in 45 minutes. Since there are 7 people, the first person who said exemption at breakfast (Craig) will be in charge of who is on what team and what form of transportation they will use. If nobody reaches the end, he will get an exemption. His goal is to get this exemption, and he admits it openly.

Alex is a conquistador who must bring his donkey with him. His partner Mark will wear a scuba outfit.

Clay will ride a unicycle, while his teammate Kristen will be on stilts.

Nicole is the head of a llama, and Paul is the llama’s ass.

Mark throws a hissy fit, and with Kristen backing him, they cause a mutiny. Nobody wants to even try. Alex puts on his conquistador outfit, but without his partner, he’s got no choice but to fall in line.

Craig wins the exemption.

Pot total: $177,000 out of $409,000

Nicole calls $25,000 a paultry sum, though Alex wouldn’t mind it.

Alex believes Mark’s playing the game too hard now. Kristen says she has just one target, whereas most people are playing the odds. Paul suspects Craig. Clay thinks Nicole’s a wildcard whose real name may or may not be Nicole.

Like last week, there’s a tie. The difference in time is one second.

Alex is safe.
Paul is safe.
Kristen is eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Mole 5 episode 6, which airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.

The Bachelorette 4 Episode 9

DeAnna has picked her final two, but before we find out who the winner is, it’s time for the men to tell all. A bunch of guys we don’t know (and some we actually do know) are back.

We start off with the Jeremy hatefest. I’d almost forgotten this portion of the show. Eventually, this comes around to how he was just there to win. He says that, if he came off negatively, it wasn’t intentional but just him trying to deal with the situation the best he could. Ron denies being jealous.

Jeremy still doesn’t know what happened in the Bahamas when he finally got rejected. He says that this is the first time he’s opened himself up like this and is just left with a big empty void, and he still has feelings for her.

Graham’s exit was unexpected, or so we’re told. He feels he made a lot of effort and felt it was unfair of her to blame it all on him. He’s learned a lesson, though. Not real sure what that lesson is, but he’ll take it forward and use it in the future, he’s fairly certain.

DeAnna comes out to answer some questions. Jeremy goes first, and he wants to know when she knew he wasn’t the right guy. Her response is that, after her date with Jason and Jesse, she realized she was already in love with them.

Next up is Graham. She is no longer second guessing her decision, and everything happens for a reason. They’re arguing as usual.

Ryan proves to be quite bitter and doesn’t get why DeAnna got rid of him.

DeAnna’s parting thoughts are that she’s happy, in love, and unlike last time, she’s engaged.

In an unexpected twist, Fred gets asked out by a member of the studio audience and accepts.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Bachelorette 4 episode 10, where we will find out who The Bachelorette 4 winner is, which airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.

The Bachelorette 4 Episode 8

Graham, who’s stuck around for too long, finally got the axe in The Bachelorette 4 Episode 7. At the end of the show, DeAnna said he was the only one she was falling in love with. Yeah, I still don’t get it. Did I blink and miss something?

DeAnna had her heart set on being with Graham, but, well, now that he’s out of the picture, I guess she’ll have to settle for one of these other guys who has to get stuck with her. They’ll all be going to the Bahamas to figure out which of them she’s willing to propose to instead (in a week).

Jeremy wants to let DeAnna know how he feels, but he’s having difficulty expressing himself. She’s picking up on this and fears he’s another Graham. He hopes the romantic dinner setting will improve things. Their very dull conversation doesn’t suggest it is initially, but he finally opens up to the fact that he really does care about her and is afraid to lose her. He tells her he’s fallen in love with her. Her response is that she’s glad that he told her. After dinner, they head to the fantasy suite.

Jason gets the next date. They go off roading in a vehicle with blurred logos, with a destination of a completely secluded picnic. DeAnna’s happy that their talking is not quite so serious as it normally is, and Jason says it finally feels like they’re a couple. At dinner, he tells DeAnna they can talk about both her and Ty if she wants, since they’re the two most important things in his life. He doesn’t have to read the entire fantasy suite card before answering yes. He thanks her for teaching him he can fall in love again. Like Jeremy, he doesn’t get a response to this either, but she tells us she’s falling for him.

DeAnna hopes Jesse is more boyfriend-like on their date than he has been before. They go horseback riding down the beach. Unlike before, he can’t keep his lips off her. They have a discussion about how they both want to start popping out babies right away, they discuss the potential living arrangements (she’s not sure she fits in to his snowboarding lifestyle), and then he tells her he’s falling for her. The statement he made that he doesn’t know if he can share a fantasy suite with her until he meets her dad (that they played again and again throughout the whole episode) turns out to just be a joke, and so they do indeed get a room. She’s happy to have seen his romantic side for a change.

DeAnna tells us that now she’s falling in love with everybody, whereas before she could only think of Graham for some unknown reason.

Roses
Jesse
Jason

Can’t say I called that one. I’m sure I’m not the only one surprised by Jesse being one of the final two. She tells Jeremy he’s perfect, and she’s stupid. Afraid of confusing the bond over the fact that their parents died for romantic feelings, she has decided to let him go. He tells her he’s in love with her. Then it’s time for him to go. He doesn’t want to lose another person that he loves.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Bachelorette 4 episode 9, which airs next on ABC.

Farmer Wants a Wife Winner

The surprise elimination of both Kanisha and Amanda in Farmer Wants a Wife Episode 7 brought us down to the final two: Brooke Ward and Christa Ackerman. Tonight we’ll find out which of them is the Farmer Wants a Wife winner.

Brooke and Christa hate each other. Still.

Matt wants them to be a wife for a day. He’s made a list of what they’ll need to do. He’s got some errands for them to run.

Brooke will have to catch three chickens, which she will exchange for some pies. After that, she has to pick up a starter, deciding between two (picking the wrong one will cost her $100 to return it). At the bait shop, she must collect 20 crickets.

Christa’s first stop is a visit to the mayor, who’s got a rebuilt carburetor waiting. Then she will have to pay the tab at the market (but not until she decides to add sunglasses, beef jerky, and condoms to it). She is surprised to find out they don’t have any sex shops around. Her next stop is for some horse feed. Not knowing what kind of horses to shop for, she thinks pleasure horses sounds appealing. Matt’s got a dead head in the freezer, which she must reluctantly collect and deliver.

Matt arrives at lunch before they both get back. After both the girls are done with their chores, they run into each other, and from there it’s a mad dash to see who gets back first. Christa is the first one to return home. She gives him the sunglasses (he doesn’t know whether she’s serious). He’s happy with what she’s brought back. Brooke returns, and Matt is also happy with what she returns with.

Matt wants to go on a date with both of them later, but not at the same time again. Brooke will get the first date in the afternoon, with Christa in the evening. Brooke’s got 30 minutes to get ready. He believes she will like anything outdoors, so they go four wheeling to a picnic. He hopes she will become a bit unreserved, as he feels it takes her a while to warm up. He asks her point blank why she’s still holding back. She can’t tell him she loves him because there’s another girl in the picture. After the date is over, she thinks she totally blew it.

Brooke got the fun date. Now Christa gets the romantic date. Matt pulls up on a horsedrawn carriage for a night beneath the stars. Brooke insists on torturing herself and having a look out the window to watch them riding off into the sunset, and she thinks she’s toast. The carriage takes them to his house for a candlelit dinner. There are dead deer heads on his wall, which creeps her out. Her concern is what she will do for work when she moves there. He is happy with how she’s not holding back. There seems to be quite a bit more kissing going on here than there was on Brooke’s date. When she returns, Brooke’s worried, and the fact that Brooke didn’t get a real kiss doesn’t help her fears.

Waiting around for Matt to come make his decision, the girls find out they won’t be alone. The entire town is there (yeah, probably every single person in the town). The mayor is on stage with a band playing in the background. It’s a little on the creepy side. Matt takes the stage and must now pick a wife. He’ll have a cropduster fly over with his choice.

The Farmer Wants a Wife winner is Brooke. Can’t say I’m surprised. If he chose Christa, I would have had to throw something. Matt tells Christa he learned more from her than anybody else, but he feels a stronger bond with Brooke. Both of them say they’ve fallen in love with each other, and she seems to fit in quite well with this small town and its people. Christa’s disappointed with having lost, but she doesn’t seem overly upset that she will be going back to the city.

So what’s next for Farmer Wants a Wife? Given the show’s ratings, I’m not expecting it back, but this is The CW, where anything goes. It may have done well enough where they want to try it again after a season of originals of America’s Next Top Model. Granted, it’s entirely possible by this time next year that the experiment known as The CW may be over, so it’s really anybody’s guess what happens from here.