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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11/15: Big Brother casting call Dec. 1
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With the writers strike in full force, CBS is bringing out its sturdy summer reality show “Big Brother” for a possible winter tryout early next year. And that means the network needs conniving, self-aggrandizing people willing to be placed under cameras for weeks at a time for a shot at $500,000.
The show has about as much nutritional value as the filling in a Hostess Twinkie but it’s been a consistent ratings driver, averaging about 7.5 million viewers over the summer, pretty good for that time of year. If by some miracle, the strike ends soon, CBS can always postpone it back to the summer so the network has not set a specific launch date.
The casting call is from noon to 3 Saturday Dec. 1 at America’s Mart, 240 Peachtree Street 1st Fl. Rm. A. CBS has the application to download online here.
11/15: Star’s Sullivan and Holly going part time
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Star announced its new morning show from Indianapolis, Mikey, Shannon and Marco to replace Steve & Vikki, that also meant no full-time slots for either Tommy Sullivan and Shannon Holly. (It didn’t help Shannon that the new gal is also named Shannon.)
GM Mark Kanov said today that both Sullivan and Holly will be working on a part time basis from now on and are free to seek full-time radio jobs elsewhere (though Sullivan does have a six-month noncompete. I’m not sure about Holly’s situation.). Tommy Sullivan started as Star 94’s mascot back during the Reagan era when the station was still 94Q. He eventually became a night-time jock when he groomed Ryan Seacrest in the early 1990s. He joined the morning show as the stunt guy in the mid-1990s and has been there ever since. He and Shannon have been hosting the “best of” clips of Steve & Vikki. Sullivan still has his gig on “Atlanta & Company.”
Nudge might end up handling mornings temporarily. The Indianapolis trio arrive December 1 but currently are not scheduled to go on air until January 2. They could go on earlier. There’s no firm word on who their traffic and/or news persons will be. (Rob Stadler is under contract with Star 94 through 2008 but it’s unclear what his role will be next year.)
And the Star 94 Jingle Jam at Gwinnett Arena December 10th with Avril Lavigne, the Jonas Brothers, Coblie Cailat and Elliott Yamin is sold out, the station announced today.
For those of you who are going, here are the times each act will be playing, though this is subject to change. It’s a four-hour event:
Elliott Yamin 7:00p - 7:25p
Colbie Caillat 7:45p - 8:15p
Jonas Brothers 8:35p - 9:20p
Avril Lavigne 9:50p - 10:50p
Welcome to the Project Runway blog!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The high: the dramatic gray jersey number that took top honors.
The low: The split-personality teal wetsuit whose back door hatched what appeared to be a cheap magician’s bouquet.
Welcome to Season 4 of “Project Runway,” where contestants flung themselves headlong into their first challenge - literally - in Bryant Park tents.
Job one was to design an outfit that reflected the contestants’ design personalities. The results included a couple cutesy dresses worthy of sorority rush, an egg-shaped shift with no distinct personality, a genie costume, and a plain black suit.
The cameras only offered fleeting glimpses of most of the outfits (go to “Rate the Runway” at www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/index.php to see the finished products). It’s just as well, because Week 1 is better served for pigeonholing personalities and determining who’s going to be this season’s troublemaker.
At Mary’s, the East Atlanta Village bar that hosts a weekly “Project Runway” viewing party (“We watch and then we talk [trash] during the commercials,” says the friendly host, Jarod Jones), resentment was already building against Christian Siriano, the Generation Y designer with an impressive resume and a lopsided haircut, and “interdisciplinary artist” Elisa Jimenez. Her grass-staining stunt and ill-timed power nap mark her as a potential problem child. Naturally, the producers may keep her around for yuks.
But this week’s auf was the luckless Simone LeBlanc, whose blah-colored dress-and-jacket combo offered a perfect storm of poor fit, poor workmanship and poor innovation. On the other hand, Rami Kashou impressed the judges with his drapey goddess dress, which billowed around the model as she walked down the runway.
We asked Ray Dudley, a local theatrical designer, for perspective. Dudley says he wasn’t wowed by any of the designs he saw on Episode 1, although he found Rami’s dress to be edgier than most draped dresses. Still, he agrees that Simone should have been the first to get the pointy-toed boot.
The last word: Costume designer Chris March’s zany theatrical getups gave way to a fluid, bias-cut purple dress with a complicated but feminine neckline.
What’s your reaction to Episode 1? Did you see any designs that indicate who’s going to last, or who’s going out of style? Who shows the most promise? And most importantly, who’s going to get on your last nerve?
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