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The Biggest Loser 4 Episode 6

In The Biggest Loser 4 Episode 6, the black team lost the weigh in, despite torturing themselves and refusing to indulge while on vacation in Jamaica. In a strategic move, one of the twins, Jim, was eliminated.

Bob seems to be getting tired of losing challenges. This time, the challenge is not about fastest time but who can carry weight the furthest. Each teammate will carry weights (60% of body weight for women, 75% for men) as far as they can. Whichever team carries the weight the furthest wins. Red team drops out first with Amy. Nicole is next out for blue team. Hollie just keeps going and is last out. Next up is Jez for the black team, Kae for the blue team, and Bryan for the red team. This puts black and blue teams within 6 feet of each other, with red still way behind following a horrible performance by Amy. Ryan is next for blue, and despite a strong effort, Bill drops out in second for black, so Phil ends up winning it for the red team, in spite of them, not because of them. As one of the others said, he won this challenge and the others. Even if it’s reasonably fair to say there was some fairness to how the weight was determined, I think it’s fair to say Phil’s got a lot more muscle than the rest. As a reward, the red team is able to see videos of their family.

Dave starts to whine about not wanting to do what he’s being told because he prefers to go at a ridiculously slow pace instead. Kim keeps pushing, and he keeps whining. She loses her cool and swears, and he hops off the treadmill and leaves the room (swearing at her that he doesn’t like people swearing at him).

Jillian gets a call from Hollie’s stepfather telling her that her mother had a relapse with leukemia, and they’re not sure what’s going to happen. Hollie goes home to talk to her mom and see how she’s doing. At the weigh in, it’s revealed that her mom died a couple hours before.

It’s now time for the weigh in.

Blue Team
Nicole: 248 pounds (-4)
Neil: 355 pounds (-10)
Kae: 178 pounds (-6)
Ryan: 320 pounds (-11)
Total: -31 pounds (2.74%)

Red Team
Amy: 265 pounds (-3)
David: 323 pounds (-5)
Bryan: 304 pounds (-4)
Phil: 342 pounds (-4)
Total: -16 pounds (1.28%)

Black Team
Hollie (weighed in earlier): 225 pounds (-3)
Isabeau: 259 pounds (-5)
Julie: 195 pounds (-4)
Jez: 295 pounds (-7)
Bill: 268 pounds (-11)
Total: -30 pounds (2.36%)

Kae’s amazing. She keeps putting up huge numbers for someone her size. Just in general, though, blue team did quite well tonight. Red team has another bad week, and it wasn’t even a question whether they’d lose the weigh in. Among them, David is the biggest loser, so he’s safe.

Kim tells the team that Phil (who’s second to Kae in terms of weight loss percentage) and Bryan are carrying the team. So basically she wants them to get rid of Amy, who hasn’t been carrying her weight anyway. She leaves them with the knowledge that she’ll be pissed off if they let it go to a tie.

Votes
David: Amy
Amy: Phil
Phil: Amy
Bryan: Phil

And it’s a tie. Wow, now that I wasn’t expecting. Dumb dumb dumb. They must be praying the team game is ending very soon. Since they won the weigh in, the blue team will decide who goes home. Pretty easy decision here. It would be monumentally stupid for the red team to get rid of Phil, so it works in the blue team’s favor to do so, and in the process they get rid of the biggest threat, both in terms of the team and in terms of the long-term individual game. As a team, they decided to vote out Phil. Whether at their own hands or due to a shift to an individual game, red team is done.

Phil’s down from his starting weight of 403 pounds to 295 pounds today for a total of 108 pounds.

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

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 5

In Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 4, Jesse and Erin got their revenge, sending Rebecca and Will to the elimination room. Sam also got duped by his partner into sending an allegedly strong team, but the team that everyone feared proved so bad at Q&A that it didn’t matter anyway because Rebecca and Will didn’t get a single quesiton right, and as a result were eliminated. This breakup of the couple should benefit the house and removes one person who’s not there for the right reasons, while it may get the other one on the right track (but I doubt it). Sam’s obviously upset by this.

The beauties go back to school for reading, writing, and arithmetic. The geeks’ challenge is a surprise, but before that, it’s geek makeover day. Let’s find out who the ringers are who geeked up specifically for the show, as well as how much the actual geeks can improve.

Jesse’s mom cuts his hair. David wants whatever’s most efficient. John seems willing to change but doesn’t know how he wants to change. Shay tells Joshua he’s probably going to have to get rid of everything he has.

More than one of the geeks shops at the discount rack. David says he doesn’t want jeans, so they make him wear jeans. Then there’s hair coloring and body hair removal.

Not so sure about the blonde look on Jesse, but he looks pretty good. Minus the glasses, plus a shave and new hairstyle, David looks a lot better. William looks as good as can be expected, but Jen’s not impressed because she doesn’t like him anyway. Joshua’s still a geek but an improved geek. Nicole had a great makeover. Luke, who looked good to begin with, is improved as well. For John, all it took was the loss of the shaggy hair and glasses, and he’s easily one of the best looking guys in the house.

It’s announced that the next day there will be a prom. The geeks must ask dates and will go to prom with anyone other than their partner. Nicole can ask another geek. Sam can’t go, and one other beauty will be left out as well. Yet another problem with this year’s twist, whether it creates some drama or not.

Luke asks Erin right away. Jesse asks Natalie. Dave thinks Nicole’s going to ask him, but she asks John, so Dave asks Katie. William asks Jasmine. Shay’s the one who gets left behind.

While everybody else is in the hottub, Sam’s studying. Not so much to learn something but because he wants to win. The next day, they find out what the challenge is. They have to be a teacher for a class of little kids, to be judged by a principal. Jen has no clue what she’s doing. Erin, who didn’t even open the book, knows where the east and west coasts are, and that’s about it. Katie’s as clueless as Jen. Jasmine’s pretty much on the same level as the kids. Sam doesn’t really know what he’s doing but has the personality to get by and impress the kids. Shay similarly uses her personality and interacts with the kids to do a good job. The winner of the challenge is Shay.

Geeks must mingle and campaign with the students at the dance. The geek who gets the most votes wins the challenge. Luke’s a little too comfortable interacting with strangers, as is John. Dave’s pretty comfortable but not particularly interesting. John ends up winning the most votes, which was pretty obvious.

John sends Sam & Nicole to the elimination room. Sam takes it well. Shay sends Katie & Luke because they need to be there least. Joshua is dumb and says he considered sending Jasmine & David due to lack of growth. Valid point or not, there’s no need to risk making enemies like that.

Sam gets the first question right, and Katie gets her much harder question right as well. Sam gets his second question right, and Katie again gets a much harder question but misses it this time. Nicole gets her first question right, and Luke gets his right as well (again, much more difficult). Nicole gets probably the hardest question her and Sam have gotten all along correct, so Luke and Katie have been eliminated. I’m calling foul based on these questions. Sam & Nicole got very simple questions, whereas Luke & Katie got questions that confused both beauties and geeks alike. Anything to keep a twist alive I suppose.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Lost on Sci Fi, G4

First G4 nabbed the Heroes rights, now it’s Lost’s turn.

According to Hollywood Reporter, Sci Fi Channel will air Lost in a 4 hour primetime block, possibly on Monday nights, and will also stream a limited number of episodes from its website.

G4 will air the show in primetime Monday-Friday, has exclusive weekend cable rights, and will also stream shows from its website.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 4

In Heroes Season 2 episode 3, Peter didn’t want to find out his true identity, Micah went to live in New Orleans, Sylar returned powerless, Kensei became a hero, Claire and West got closer, and Noah got the message that he’s going to die.

Claire’s dad is afraid she’s met a boy. He’s right, but of course she’s not going to tell him that.

Molly continues to have nightmares.

Alejandro and Maya get a ride and come upon a man lying in the middle of the road. When they turn him over, we’re greeted with Sylar.

Micah has gone to live with Nana (Nichelle Nichols) and new hero Monica (Dana Davis).

Angela Petrelli confesses to the murder of Hiro’s father Kaito. She begs Parkman to just let it go, since if he lets them dig, it could lead to the heroes being found out.

Claire tells West she can’t see him any more. I was gonna give this plan a few days, but West gets her to agree to see him later that night.

A finally clean-shaven (but not straightened out) Nathan comes to the hospital to visit his mother and confronts her about confessing. She tells him to backup her story as well.

Sylar tells Maya and Alejandro he was robbed and his name is Gabriel. Maya tells him they’re on their way to see Dr. Suresh, and he says he knows him. She believes it’s a miracle.

Monica takes a management test and gets her hopes up. Her boss tells her she’s not qualified because she’d need to be ready to work anywhere in the state. He says being tied to her home prevents that. She’s afraid she’s being punished for being selfish by always praying for a way out rather than praying for the community.

Claire lies to go see West. Of course, nobody believes this lie, and her father follows her. West flies her away before she can get caught, though. Her request on where to go, when he offers to take her anywhere, is to sit on the Hollywood sign. When they get there, she says she’s afraid, but he says he can help her because he feels the same way. She jumps off the sign as a literal leap of faith, and he catches her, whether she can heal herself or not. It’s pretty obvious this isn’t ending any time soon.

Nathan shows Parkman a picture containing all the people who are being picked off one by one. Parkman’s father happens to be one of the people in the photo.

Back at Micah’s new home, he rigs the TV to get a pay-per-view wrestling match to help out his cousin. So much for laying low with his powers.

Parkman asks Molly to help him locate his father. When she sees the picture, she freaks out because his father’s the man in her nightmares.

When he stops at a newsstand, the driver of the car finds out Maya and Alejandro are killers. He tells his new buddy “Gabriel” what he’s found out and says they need to ditch them. Sylar gets in the car and warns them the cops are being called. Maya gets upset and starts to use her power, which allows Sylar to figure out they both have power. Then he steals the car and takes off, leaving the driver, who’s dead thanks to a brick being bashed in his head, behind.

When she gets home, Claire takes West’s advice and tells her father she’s doing something else she hates instead of being with a boy. She says she tried out for cheerleading and made the squad. Then the Haitian shows up and tells him they have go to to Texas.

Monica’s closing the restaurant when a guy with a gun forces his way in. She uses a move she learned while watching wrestling on him. She still has no clue what’s going on or why she was able to do it, though.

Molly agrees to help find Parkman’s father. While she’s helping, she gets caught and then collapses. Parkman hears her thoughts: screaming for help.

As usual, keep reading dingoRUE for spoilers of next week’s episode throughout the week, and don’t forget to check out our Heroes site.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Heroes Season 2 episode 5 Fight or Flight, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

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Pamela Reed’s Jericho Contract Not Renewed

SyFy Portal is reporting that Pamela Reed, who plays the mom, Mrs. Gail Green, on Jericho has not been offered a contract for additional Jericho episodes beyond the current ones. She will be in at least one season 2 episode, but after that, she will be following in the footsteps of Johnston Green, who died in the last episode of season 1.

“The average age of actors on that show is under 40, and those of us over 40 are gone,” the 58-year-old actress said.

Prison Break Schedule Change

Update: Prison Break season 4 has moved to Mondays at 9/8c on Fox.

Prison Break will not be shown tonight, as it will be preempted by baseball. Episode 5 Interference will air next week Monday October 22 instead.

Update: for those of you who are wondering, Episode 6 has also been preempted by Game 5 of the World Series (which never ended up airing). Instead, we will be seeing both episodes 6 and 7 next week November 5th.

Update: Prison Break Season 3 is currently on hiatus but will return to its current time slot on January 14. dingoRUE will continue to provide coverage during this time as it becomes available, with a return to live recaps once the show is back.

Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 8

In Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 7, one of the luckiest Survivors ever, Lisa, who skated by for weeks with everybody complaining about her being lazy, finally bit the dust and was voted out as she should have been in episode 3.

With Hein’s assurance, Bajau eats the last of the goat, despite the fact that it’s got maggots crawling around in it. Over on Iban, Dyke manages to catch a stingray. Both he and Hein are safe for the foreseeable future because they are able to provide. After the merge, however, one of them will be easy enough to sacrifice, most likely Dyke.

For the reward challenge, tribes must swim out into the ocean and retrieve puzzle pieces. The last swimmer on each tribe will solve the puzzle. Reward is a feast: pork chops, potato salad, chicken, vegetables, and beer. Lorette sits out for Bajau. Grant takes a bit of a lead over Amanda in the first round. Hein extends the lead in round two but injures his ankle in the process. Irshaad and Mandla both decide not to take their masks with them, costing each of them time. It costs Mandla more, though, as he gives the lead to Iban. Dyke laps Mandla and begins work on the puzzle. Angela gets back and starts jumping up and down when she thinks she’s won, directing Dyke’s attention her way. She didn’t have the right answer but was close enough to give Dyke an idea of what he needed to do. With that information, Dyke manages to solve the puzzle and wins reward.

Hein continues to hobble around on his sprained ankle. He’s better off just resting and recovering. The tribe seems to be trying to help him out, but they’re not really equipped to do the work. Grant sees this as an opportunity to get rid of a threat. After waking up the next morning, he says his foot’s 75% better, which is problematic for Grant, who’s been playing a stupid game all along anyway.

Irshaad’s strategy is to get close to Dyke. Amanda and Angie seem to want to just get closer to each other, but the problem is neither of them are particularly strong, either physically or strategically.

The communique says strength is king and two people must go, so both tribes go with their default choices. Bajau picks Mandla and Grant (because Hein is injured), and Iban picks the two guys Dyke and Irshaad. They’re all taking this literally, and luckily for them that’s how it was intended to be taken. The challenge is to dive through the hole in the rafts, untie and retrieve a treasure chest, saw through a mast underwater, and also retrieve the flag. Bajau takes an early lead and never looks back. Bajau wins immunity. Angie will be happy, as she was looking forward to a loss.

Irshaad has accepted his fate as the person to be eliminated. The girls are definitely not going to to keep Irshaad around, and Dyke’s not going to risk a tie for Irshaad. This does make them extremely vulnerable and weak when it comes to challenges, however.

Votes:
Irshaad
Irshaad
Angie
Irshaad

Irshaad has been eliminated by a vote of 3-1. The girls got what they wanted, but they’re just lucky next week is the merger. The interesting thing about this is that it does tie things 4-4 between ex-Iban and ex-Bajau, oddly enough.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 9.

Life Is Wild Episode 2

In Life Is Wild episode 1, the family moved to South Africa to save the oldest son Jesse from his destructive path and also attempt to unite the stepfamily as one new family. There was some progress, but it’s obviously going to go up and down for years.

It’s time for the kids to go to their new school. The first test is to find someone who speaks English. Katie does bump into Oliver when she arrives, though she also has a couple of girls looking for a catfight watching her interaction with him. But one of them, Lauren, pretends to be nice. After class, Tumelo asks Katie to ask her father if he can be his apprentice, in exchange for help in Zulu class.

It’s not long before Jesse gets into trouble, fighting with another boy. Chase also gets into trouble, refusing to answer to his real name and preferring to be called by his adopted African name (and he gets stuck with a teacher unwilling to humor him). Mia follows suit, as her lion gets loose in the classroom.

Jo’s on a mission to convert the lodge into something that actually functions, but Art’s fighting her every step of the way. Still, I get the impression she’ll get her way regardless. She goes to spy on the competition and finds out Art is right and that they need something totally different. Her theory is to convert the lodge into an environmentally friendly lodge, an expensive proposition that gets Jesse to believe they’re going to stay there for more than a year, which he’s right about if the show doesn’t get cancelled.

Oliver invites Katie to a concert. Her new “friends” tell him the lie she told them: that she already has a boyfriend. Of course, it’s not long before Jesse tells them truth and says she doesn’t actually have a boyfriend. Lauren and Emily butt in and weasel their way into being third and fourth wheels, as Lauren, who used to date Oliver, is hoping to win him back.

Jesse skips detention to go hang out with Oliver. Obviously, that doesn’t go over well, so his mom tells him that he has to go to detention and on top of that can’t have the job he found (which he wants because of a girl) while he was skipping it.

As Oliver warned her, Katie’s unable to get anything done while hanging out with Lauren and Emily.

The wildebeests start collapsing one by one. Colin has no idea why.

Oliver advises Jesse to just go over to the girl he’s been after so she can shoot him down and they can just go home. As usual, he doesn’t have much luck, but he does inquire about the job in the process of being shot down. He pretends to have cleaned up his act so that his parents will let him get the job.

Lauren tricks Katie and gives her directions to the middle of nowhere instead of to the concert. Wow. Shocker. She manages to find her way home but is filthy when she arrives. Tumelo cheers her up by taking her to his favorite place, a place where he can see how much better things have gotten since apartheid ended. Emily tries to apologize and says she didn’t know what Lauren was up to, but Katie doesn’t care. But she does tell her brother Oliver what happened, allowing him to patch things up with Katie.

Jo’s discussing Mara and how they spray the grass green. Colin discovers that this is what’s causing the Wildebeests to get sick.

Colin has some bagels, cream cheese, and the New York Times shipped in for Katie so she has some comforts from home, and they let Jesse get the job.

As we can come to expect, everybody’s happy at the end of the episode. That should last until about 10 minutes into next week’s episode.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Life Is Wild episode 3, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on The CW.