The New Normal: Part 4

As the semester comes to a close, I wonder if anyone cared that I had this generic sentence at the beginning of the blog to try to show how clever I think I am?

NBC has ordered a full season of The New Normal and it really has me thinking what their entire strategy is. They obviously want to go back to a traditional sitcom base and move away from what gave them critical acclaim for almost a decade now. Their primetime strategy clearly shows as shows such as 30 Rock and The Office finish up their final seasons, yet these were the shows that partially saved them from their disaster of have Friends and Frasier leave in back to back seasons. NBC picked up a full season of Guys With Kids and are changing Up All Night to a multi-camera show, even though it has been on for two seasons already. Guys With Kids is one of the worst shows I have watched in the last few years. There is nothing good on that show. They are trying to move towards multi-camera sitcoms and have it more of an original base, yet they keep Go On and The New Normal. The New Normal is nothing but a rip off of Modern Family and they clearly do not care about it. NBC wants to be traditional, but they decided to pick up a show that is a carbon copy of a hit non-traditional sitcom from another network. They are trying to move away from shows that brought them critical acclaim, but are going to end up using these shows to help bridge the gap between good content and terrible generic primetime nonsense. Parks and Recreation and Community are praised for how good they are, yet it seems NBC wants nothing to do with them. Also, Whitney is a terrible show. Whitney Cummings is not funny. She is the creator of 2 Broke Girls and Whitney, both of which could disappear right now and I could completely care less. Neither show is even remotely funny.

Either way, congrats to all of the shows who got picked up for a full season and did not get cut. I'm very happy that Revolution is successful because NBC could use a good show like that to fill the gap they've been looking for in the sci-fi kind of genre. The New Normal is a lot better than what I was expecting coming into this semester. It has very good chemistry between the stars of the show and I hope it last for at least a couple seasons.

The New Normal is on Tuesdays at 9:30 Eastern on NBC

Around the World in 80 Plates: Part One

Is now the time to mention that you can only cook an ingredient so many different ways before I realized I've already tried this before?

As you can tell from this title, this blog is discussing the current reality competition Around the World in 80 Plates, which is on the Bravo network. The show follows 12 chefs competing in a culinary race across 10 different countries in 44 days. The show is hosted by chefs Curtis Stone and Cat Cora, two individuals who made their fame on the Food Network. The format of the show seems like a rip off of Celebrity Apprentice, which makes this show all the more reputable. Everytime a team wins the competition for the week, they get some sort of reward for their hard work and dedication. The whole idea is to not only recreate, but reinvent the menus for world-renowned restaurants. Each of the contestants have a cooking background of some sorts. Like all other television cooking shows, this does nothing for the cooking genre. No matter what the content of the show is, if it is reality programming, it all has the same kind of atmosphere. You can only have so many shows that consist of cooking something different to be "unique" only to win a competition after betraying your friend you have such a close bond with. If I never watch another reality television program for the rest of my life, I would die a happy man. If I type any more about this idiotic nonsense, this blog will turn even more into a rant then it might already appear to be.

I would tell you when to turn in, but the first season is currently over.
http://www.bravotv.com/around-the-world-in-80-plates