Crowned Cast/Schedule Revealed

Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants will premiere December 12 at 9/8c on The CW, following the season finale of America’s Next Top Model 9. The show will then assume Top Model’s current time slot.

Mother/Daughter Names and Hometowns:

Ada & Christian: Dallas, TX

Andrea & Amanda: Albuquerque, NM

Angela: Orange Park, FL & Tenia: New York, NY

Annette & Alana: Hayworth, CA

Brenda & Heather: Parkersburg, WV

Gina: Ft. Worth, TX & Hollis: New York, NY

Jill: Wilmington, DE & Nicole: Newark, DE

Melinda & Rachelle: Chandler, AZ

Moya & Jenileigh: Duarte, CA

Pamela & Felicia: Tonawanda, NY

Patty: Orlando, FL & Laura: Nashville, TN

Bionic Woman Episode 7

In Bionic Woman Episode 6, Jaime and Tom pretended to be married, which rekindled the romance they were trying to pretend they didn’t have.

Jaime’s too busy flirting with Tom to notice the guy she’s after has shown up. He gets in his car and drives off, but it’s still not fast enough to get away from her. She runs, jumps in front of him, causes an accident, and grabs the case she was after.

Becca wants to cook for Tom, who Jaime insists is not her boyfriend.

Antonio is concerned about Jaime’s cell phone chatting with Tom and the exposure risk it created due to the messiness of her mission being accomplished.

They’re after a rifle that can see 3.5 miles, which was used in attempt to take out President Rudan, a ruthless oppressive dictator, who they want to protect because the evil they know is better than the one they don’t.

Jaime’s not enjoying or getting anything out of her therapy sessions with Ruth. Shocker.

Tom comes over for dinner. They should have gotten their stories straight beforehand, as they’re not answering anything the same. Then again, Becca already knows Jaime’s lying to her. During dinner, Jaime gets called and pulled away for work. Tom sticks around, though, which can’t be not awkward. He eventually offers to take them out for dinner at a restaurant next week, then he gets called away as well.

Jaime spots a sniper, who starts shooting but doesn’t connect with his target. Antonio wants to get the president out of the country, but he refuses to cooperate. Tom shows up and questions why Jaime’s there without any protection or a gun. He and Antonio continue the little tiff they have with each other.

Ruth gets a plant for her office. Apparently that’s supposed to make Jaime comfortable being psychoanalyzed.

Becca really likes Tom, who’s a lot better than the losers Jaime normally dates.

Antonio goes on a mission by himself and tells Nathan to just let Jaime sleep. So of course Nathan calls Jaime and tells her to get down there. As she’s leaving, she finds two people spying on her, who tell her she’s going to have to ask Tom if she wants to know why. When she arrives on the scene, she finds out Antonio’s been communicating with the assassin. Not sure what to do, she goes to Jonas.

Tom’s excuse for having Jaime followed is that he officially told the CIA she’s his girlfriend, which requires an investigation.

In dealing with the Antonio’s desire to assist the shooter, Jonas feeds him false information. This doesn’t go over as well as they’d hoped, and Antonio pulls a gun on Jaime when they get to the race track. He says he’s not working with the assassin, but he does know her. He’s trying to talk her out of it, but he can’t take her down because she’s saved his life more than once. The problem now is that they’ve been fed false information and don’t know where the president actually will be.

Jaime hears a gun and jumps up on the building where it is. She can’t stop the shot but does prevent it from actually hitting anyone. The shooter wants revenge for all the wrong the president’s done. She pulls a gun on Jaime for getting in her way. Jaime tells Antonio to take the shot, but he resists. When a shot’s fired at Jaime, though, he takes the bullet himself, then does end up taking the shot after that. She’s the one who broke his heart, which Jaime’s been prying about to try to figure out why he is the way he is.

Antonio later dies in the ambulance, which leads Jaime to believe she’s not cut out for this.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Bionic Woman episode 8, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Kid Nation Episode 9

In Kid Nation Episode 8, the town got fed up with being bored and had a talent show, blue district girls started to get as lazy as those in other districts, and Divad continued to believe she was worthy of a gold star but nobody else was.

I hadn’t realized this before Laurel mentioned it. 4 of the people who have gotten gold stars are from green district.

The pioneers have a suggestion: mix up the districts. I don’t see what good it would do. I do get Zach’s argument that yellow district could use older people, though. The two oldest council members hate the idea; the other two are willing to give it a shot.

Emily has no interest in doing any work. She says it’s because she hates her district.

Anjay wants not Taylor but someone like Taylor, Emily, primarily because he thinks he needs to prove himself. Zach says his district is just a bunch of girls, including the boys. Anjay wants to break up Blaine and Greg. Laurel doesn’t want to split up her very strong district. The town hates the idea.

Guylan tells his district he needs intellectual people. He invites Nathan (ex-blue) to the district. Anjay invites Emily (ex-red) as planned. Zach takes Blaine (ex-blue). Dumb idea. Greg’s more upset than Blaine, who’s happy to be out of Greg’s shadow. Laurel sticks to her guns and keeps green district the same. The town doesn’t like this.

Red district, as a whole, is upset with Nathan coming over to their team. They make it clear they don’t like him. He says he was happy with blue district but at least seems to be willing to give it a try. At their religious ceremony, Mike realizes he’s a hypocrite for not accepting Nathan just because he’s different. He apologizes and starts to patch things up.

Greg’s back to being an asshat like he was the first few episodes. Now he’s just looking for a fight. Olivia, who hates Anjay even more since he so easily beat her in the election, joins in on the attack.

Laurel says it’s too bad if people don’t like her decision and their own leaders should have stood up for them, too.

The showdown is a rock pulling challenge. Whoever crosses first wins, but in order to get reward, they must get a total of at least one ton. Yellow district’s got some muscle now, and Blaine takes over for them. His buddy Greg’s in control for his team. Blue district easily crosses the line first to become the upper class. Yellow are the merchant class. Green takes third, followed by red in last.

Blue: 480 pounds
Yellow: 460 pounds
Green: 420 pounds
Red: 485 pounds
Total: 1845 pounds

As had been supected, blue took a light load considering they’re the strongest district. Yellow pulled what could be expected of them. I’m not so sure the goal of 2000 pounds was particularly well thought out, as it doesn’t appear it was even possible. Guylan suggests that green was mostly concerned about upper class, which offends Sophia. Considering how far ahead blue was the whole time, this seems like a baseless accusation, though it wouldn’t surprise me if some people were indeed at least trying to get a class higher than what they would have gotten otherwise. She swore at him, and other people said they’d say the same. He gets really upset by this. She later apologizes, which he appreciates but says he wouldn’t run for town council again.

The reward they didn’t win was a choice between beds for everyone or a kid lounge that couldn’t fit everyone.

Hunter gets up early every morning and works while everybody (except Nathan) is sleeping.

Blaine goes around and gets his district working. They’re all sleeping, and he tells them that’s why they’re known as the lazy district. Yellow’s starting to get upset with Zach, who’s getting more of an attitude as time goes by.

Emily, who had been lazy with her old district, is showing some signs of improvement.

Taylor’s friend Randi is upset and wants to leave. As he was on a previous episode, Greg was around to cheer her up, talking to her, carrying her to bed, and tucking her in.

Morgan nominates Blaine, who people are a lot more impressed with now that he’s on his own, for the gold star. Sophia nominates Hunter. The rest of the town is split between those two.

Anjay wonders why he didn’t give Greg away and keep Blaine because Blaine’s behaving so much better.

Randi’s the next one to decide she wants to leave due to homesickness. Taylor blames Zach for this. Huh?

Blaine is awarded the gold star. I’d think it would have made more sense if they picked Hunter and let Blaine sweat it out for another week, but he does seem to be doing a great job now that he’s with yellow district. He’s the only person who approves of the job the council is doing. Most people are upset, including Laurel’s formerly very loyal green district. Everybody’s ready for another election.

DK, Blaine, and Greg throw their hats into the ring. Sophia says “Oh my god. We’re all gonna die.” Michael wants to run against Laurel.

What do you think? Is the town council doing a bad job, or is the town just whining too much?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Kid Nation episode 10 Let Me Talk, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

House Season 4, Episode 7 – Ugly

Last week, House and his team did “whatever it takes” to treat a nine-time racecar champion. This week, the team is faced with a sixteen-year-old kid with cranial facial deformity who was about to undergo plastic surgery (in Dr. Chase’s operating room) and unexpectedly goes into a heart attack. House and his team needs to discover what’s wrong with him before he could receive plastic surgery and live a “normal life”.

Since the plastic surgery operation will be paid by a production company, a film crew follows House and his team around with a complete backstage pass to the case. Although House is not OK with the cameras, Cuddy thinks it would be good PR for the hospital.

In the lecture room, Amber, Cole and the rest of the remaining applicants felt that the sudden appearance of Dr. Terzi was an unfair decision that House made. They asked her if she was directly hired or is she competing with the rest of the team.

House wants his team to think hard (without being distracted by the cameras). While discussing the case with the team, Dr. Terzi suggests a stupid theory and House did not dismiss her idea. House then tells Wilson that he thinks Dr. Terzi is stupid for leaving her career.

Kutner and Taub asks the kid about drug use, but since no scarring was found on his heart, he was negative for using any kinds of drugs, even if he said he used coke, LSD and acid. Kenny, the patient, then vomited blood.

Cuddy finds out that House is keeping the cameras out by conducting diagnosis in the MRI and operating rooms.

In the mean time, Taub wants to make House to look bad in front of the cameras by not telling House he’s wrong about his theories. Dr. Terzi again makes a not-so-intelligent remark about the case and House again did not dismiss her. House tells Wilson that Terzi is making him stupid.

Since there are no tumors on the patient’s stomach, house is sure it’s JRA (juvenile rheumatoid arthritis) and tells the team to give the kid steroids. Taub tells the father about JRA and the steroid treatment, but back-stabs House telling that he can cure Kenny by simply stopping his heart for a second and he could continue his plastic surgery.

While the camera crew was interviewing Cameron about House and her reason for leaving the diagnosis department, House was at a plastic surgery clinic where Taub used to work, disguising himself as a patient needing consultation. House finds out that Taub quit from the firm due to personal reasons. Digging deeper, House discovers that Taub was screwing around with the nurse and as the partner finds out, he quits without contest and signs a “no-competition agreement” with the firm just to keep his marraige.

Taub and House still debates about the appropriate treatment, but Cuddy decides on siding with House. He then tells the kid to take steroids for the JRA and he’ll be okay.

House and Wilson sneaks into the editing room to view the crew’s tape. They watch how Dr. Terzi suggests stupid remarks and why House acts stupidly around her.

In the meantime, as House and Taub visits the patient to see if he’s OK for the plastic surgery, House sees Kenny’s little finger twitching. As it turns out, the team is now faced with another symptom: involuntary muscle movement.

Thirteen suggests it might be lime disease, Taub still insists on his theory, but Taub gets his way this time. They stopped the kid’s heart and he can now continue with the plastic surgery.

At the operating room with the film crew, Chase and other surgeons, Thirteen goes to watch the surgery since she believes House is right. She discovers that the patient had rashes above his hairline and no one looked closely enough to see it was lime disease. The team shaved the patient’s head and becomes positive that it’s lime disease.

Back at the lecture room, the remaining applicants along with Foreman and Terzi was ready for firing time. House lets Taub stay, but admits he has judged and treated Dr. Terzi unfairly. He then fires Terzi and asks her out for a date.

The film crew gave Dr. Cuddy a copy of the documentary. She and House watched the tape and was shocked to see that the production edited everything, making House a “goody goody doctor” and the “savior” of a 16-year-old’s life. As the narrator says, “House, one of those rare doctors”, he stands up shocked and horrified about the tape, eager to complain to the film crew NOT to let anyone see the film.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of House Season 4 episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on Fox

Heroes Season 2 Episode 8

In Heroes Season 2 Episode 7, Peter found himself in a time where the virus that Suresh is so against administering has wiped out most of the world’s population. Hiro made his way back to the present, as did Kensei (as Adam).

Peter doesn’t know any Adam, who says it must be the Haitian’s fault. When he has a flashback about his brother, we see what happened to Nathan and the long haired Peter after they took off to the sky at the end of season 1.

DL’s alive. He just barely escaped being killed by the bullet.

At Alejandro’s wedding, Maya finds his new bride having a fling with her alleged ex. He threatens her, and she kills them both with her new power. Upon going outside, she realizes the rest of the people at the wedding are dead, too.

Peter brings Nathan into the hospital to be treated for the wounds he sustained while he was about to explode. As he’s walking away, Elle and Bob show up, and she uses her powers to knock him out. Bob tells Peter he’s an old friend of his parents. They’ve temporarily disabled his powers.

Bob’s taking care of DL’s medical bills and wants to help Niki get rid of Jessica, with the catch being she must leave her family and enter the program.

Elle cuts Peter’s hair. She did a surprisingly good job. Then she gives him pills she calls Haitian pills.

Here’s where Adam comes in. He says hi to Peter from the next room.

Three months ago…

Micah wants to be a vigilante and pick up police radio calls. DL tells him he wants to be a hero but with the new job he’s got. Niki just dumps the pills she’s got down the drain.

Adam’s got a spot on assessment of Peter, who now thinks he’s dangerous and is willing to be left in there locked up forever. Peter doesn’t want anything to do with Adam but after a month, he does finally give him his name.

Two months ago…

Peter wants to know Elle’s story, since it’s been two months and he doesn’t know anything. He thinks she just wants to be in control. She’s willing to tell, and it’s not pretty. Following some destructive behavior in her childhood, she’s been locked up in that building for 16 years, isolated from the world. Adam advises to keep his distance from her.

Adam gives Peter some more truth. They’re not trying to cure him. They’re just trying to keep him locked up, like Adam has been for 30 years.

Angela asks Heidi to keep secret that Nathan’s supposedly got a mental health disorder.

Niki thinks she can handle her newest personality, Gina, which she invented when she went to LA when she was younger. Doesn’t look like it.

Bob denies Peter’s request to see his family, which leads him to the truth. Adam says he’s not really dangerous… he can save the world. And that’s why he’s locked up.

DL, now a fireman, runs through fire to save a little girl. Micah’s proud he really is a hero.

Peter finds out he can walk through walls, and he grabs Adam and takes off.

Maya’s been tracked down by her brother, along with a cop. So of course she kills the cop. While trying to calm her down, Alejandro figures out how to use his powers.

While she’s away, Niki heads to a club and picks up a guy. DL shows up and hits the guy. As they’re leaving, the guy shoots DL. That explains what happened to him.

Three weeks ago…

At the funeral, Niki decides to get some help and leaves Micah with Nana.

Adam’s blood can save Nathan. He and Peter go there, and he puts some blood in the IV. His skin starts to heal immediately. Adam gives Peter a plane ticket and plans to meet in Montreal. Elle and the Haitian want a piece of Peter, though. She shocks him, and the Haitian chases after him, cornering him where he was found in episode 1, then removing his memory, telling him to go start a new life.

Peter now remembers everything. It’s time to save the world.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 2 episode 9 Cautionary Tales, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

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The Bachelor 11 Episode 8

In The Bachelor 11 episode 7, Brad narrowed down his choices to the final two: Jenni and DeAnna. We’ll find out who the winner is next week, but this week, the women tell all.

We start off with all the cattiness, of which there was no shortage. First up is a montage of people calling others bitches, and of course you can’t do one of those without featuring DeAnna and McCarten. Then there’s Solisa being a tramp.

Jade says she loved everybody… except DeAnna and McCarten. McCarten said they were just more forward/mature. She whines that people were hateful behind her back, but they let her know they couldn’t stand her to her face as well. She appreciates that they wasted so much energy on her.

As if we didn’t spend way too much time on this the first time, it’s now time to relive Hillary’s drama queen exit. She says they should have served her PMS medication or something, and that she just missed the really obvious signs that he just wanted to be friends. She wishes he kept her for one more week and did the hometown date before deciding (would have saved him from Bettina’s family).

Speaking of Bettina, we next take a look at her journey on the show, starting with his initial reaction and no doubt the reason he actually took her to the final three, his immediate physical attraction to probably the best looking woman on this season. Then we look at the worst family visit in the history of family visits, where her entire family hated him because a good looking self-made millionaire isn’t good enough for their little girl who never should have divorced her first husband in the first place. She defends saying her date with him was boring, which I never really understood the need to make it such a big deal to begin with. I suppose that this is a game after all, though. She says that, after watching the show, she’s surprised she even got a rose after the hometown dates. Then she turns this around and says she was turned off by him because of his behavior on that date (huh?). She says he was defensive. Rightfully so.

A member of the studio audience asks what I was wondering: whether Bettina’s hometown date upset Hillary. She responds yes and that her family only wants her to be happy, not caring whether someone owns bars or graduated from college.

Sheena’s up next. She didn’t expect to be eliminated when she was and was devastated by it.

Now it’s Chad’s time to finish up his 15 minutes of fame. I thought the twist was rather lame myself, even if it was amusing to watch. He still likes Sheena, more now than he did before.

Hillary tells Brad she wishes he were a little more up front about them being just friends. I can see where she would think he was dancing around it, even if it was still pretty obvious. He tells her he still cares for her… as a friend.

Bettina asks why the heck he gave her a rose after being so judged by her family. He says it was just about her, not them.

America gets to help choose the next bachelor, by going to ABC’s website or by calling 1-866-739-3150 to suggest someone.

To close off the night, we get a look at the journeys of the two finalists, who he’s been close to since the beginning.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Bachelor 11 episode 9, which airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 8

With the two hour block last week, you probably thought someone was going to get out of prison in Prison Break Season 3 episode 7. Try as they might, that didn’t happen. Well, Mahone arranged to be moved from prison, but nobody actually broke out. While Michael and Whistler did get out the window, the weather dependent plans were spoiled by some clouds. Lechero, afraid he was losing power, told Scofield he was going to get him out of there whether he liked it or not. I don’t think that will be a problem.

McGrady gets dressed up for a visit from his father.

Lincoln tells Michael LJ’s still alive and that they have 4 more days. Michael’s upset Lincoln used him.

Susan’s told that it needs to be ended today. Bang and burn. She says that it should be reconsidered, but she gets ignored/threatened. She informs Whistler of the plan and tells him he’s either going to cooperate and be ready by 5, or she’ll leave him there to rot. It’s pretty clear from the hectic pace of the planning stages they’re not as prepared for this as they probably should be.

Sofia gets a call from someone who says he’s Whistler’s landlord. She goes to visit him.

Mahone’s still crazy and flashing back to Oscar Shales, who he killed and buried to prevent some lawyer from getting him off unfairly. He tells Lang he can’t testify in his current state, so he needs some drugs.

Michael seems to know something’s up with Whistler but can’t quite put his finger on it. Nothing to be worried about, though. Just the small matter of Whistler wanting him dead, at Susan’s request.

Lechero reveals a secret buried underneath Sona, an underground tunnel that had been used to transport prisoners. After the riots, the tunnel was blown up. Scofield suggests they can’t dig out, but that they can dig up.

While visiting Whistler’s landlord, Sofia starts to snoop around. For starters, his name’s not even James Whistler. The call was intercepted, allowing Susan to find out where she was headed, so she shows up to tell her not to get in the way.

Whistler pretends to be claustrophobic, but Michael’s not dumb enough to buy it. The fact that Whistler keeps looking at his watch isn’t helping matters any.

Lincoln and Sucre rent a cabin and come up with a plan that involves recording gunshots.

Good thing Michael knows McGrady’s father’s coming today. He asks him to have his dad pass a message along to Lincoln. McGrady does as he’s asked. The message is don’t go home for dinner, a code they used when they were younger, meaning to watch his back. While McGrady’s visiting with his father, Whistler also gets a visitor, Sofia. He asks her to stay away from Lincoln and to just go home and stay there. She asks about the apartment, but he denies knowing anything.

Disregarding the warning from Whistler, Sofia’s first stop is Lincoln. Susan, who of course is having her monitored, considers this a violation of her instructions, and says to take them all out. Lincoln breaks the news to Sofia that the passport with another name is proof her boyfriend’s a liar. Lincoln calls Lechero’s phone, which Sammy answers. The men watching Sofia pull a gun on her, but Lincoln pulls one on them in return. They beat up one guy, but the other captures Sofia and tells him to put down the gun like he did with LJ. Instead of dropping the gun, this time, he shoots the guy. Nice aim.

Mahone’s been dragged off to court, too quickly to get his drugs. He testifies that he killed as he was told so he could protect his family. Then he asks to go home.

Michael continues to get more suspicious about Whistler. He gets a message from Lechero to call his brother, and during the conversation, he realizes that the Company’s breaking Whistler out on their own and doesn’t need them any more. Whistler climbs on a roof and waits to be picked up by a chopper, which is firing on the military men standing by. Scofield gets there in time to start kicking his ass. Whistler manages to jump on the helicopter’s ladder, and Michael grabs onto him and holds on. Eventually, he manages to force him to let go, and both of them fall onto the roof of a building.

Here we go again. The alarm sounds, and all prisoners are forced out into the yard and on their knees.

Mahone’s told that they have to take him back to Sona. I guess this is supposed to be a surprise.

Scofield is the first one to be confronted. He claims to be innocent. He’s informed he causes too many problems in Sona, so he shouldn’t be there. They escort him out of the prison.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Prison Break season 3 episode 9 Boxed In, which airs in January when Prison Break returns to Fox.

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dingoRUE Schedule Change

I had planned to do live recaps of both Prison Break Season 3 Episode 8 and Heroes Season 2 Episode 8 tonight as always. Unfortunately, the hotel room (just the room… the rest of the hotel is equipped for about 70 channels) I’m in doesn’t have either Fox or NBC (yet it does have Telemundo, Dr. Phil, and a Disney Channel movie that doesn’t look any good). I plan to work on recaps for both shows tomorrow.

However, I do still have access to ABC, so The Bachelor 11 Episode 8 recap should be able to be posted as scheduled. So much for that theory. Add in a power outage, and I’ll have to work on this later as well.

In the meantime, check out the previews for Prison Break and Heroes, posted earlier in the week as usual.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 8 Preview
Heroes Season 2 Episode 8 Preview, Part 2

Prison Break Season 3 Episode 8 Preview
Prison Break Season 3 Episode 8 Preview, Part 2