Bravo used to not air new programming on Oscars night. Yet tonight we get Part One of The RHOA Reunion, and a new episode of Married to Medicine. With the low ratings RHOA has been pulling this season, I’m surprised they wouldn’t hold the first episode of the reunion for a night when there is not so much going on.
If you are done with Bravo, and not into the Oscars, here are some other options.
The two hour premiere of Naked & Afraid XL begins at 8 pm ET on the Discovery Channel. The one on your TV, where normal people watch stuff. 🙂 I love this show. And this XL season the returning “legends” of the show will be in the swamps of Louisiana, naked and afraid for a mind-blowing SIXTY DAYS. Honestly, I am not sure if anyone will be able to do it. Crocodiles are everywhere, storms are frequent, and food is in short supply because the alligators eat pretty much everything. I’m super excited to watch this.
Lots of New Stuff On TLC Tonight!
On TLC, also from 8-10 pm ET 90 Day Fiance Happily Ever After returns. I believe we are going to see Angela go on a cosmetic surgery vacation to have lots of weight removed as well as God know what other kind of work. She actually looks great. But Michael is very against the surgery. He likes a big woman and he is worried about the dangers of extreme cosmetic surgery. I will be taping the second showing from midnight until 2:20.
Aso, on TLC tonight there is a new reality show called Extreme Sisters. I would not have paid attention to it until for some reason TMZ did a whole long story on it. I’m shocked that a show could get that amount of advertising. But it is a slow day. It’s about five pairs of sisters who are way too close. The TMZ article focused a set of Australian identical twins who both have the same boyfriend. They may even all live together, I’m not sure.
Considering how much of a clusterfuck the Oscars have been lately, it seems like the other networks have finally realized there’s no reason to delay their own shows just for an Oscars ceremony that fewer and fewer TV viewers actually want to watch.
Other than perhaps TLC and a few other channels, cable TV overall is still in a freefall. The TV market is just so much more fragmented, especially now that more of us have more streaming options.
I’m just streaming podcasts on Spotify right now. I might binge some YouTube travel videos later to feel better.
I just went on a short errand and there was talk show thing on the radio and they had asked if people would be watching the Oscars tonight. All of them appeared to be Republicans (it’s a republican show) and they all said it was just a bunch rich attention seeking people. Or things like I thought Hollywood was “canceled” it was all very negative like a few of the comments about it here.
I like recording it and zipping through to the most important awards. I also like the preshow arrivals and the dresses and guys in tuxes and Ryan Seacreast (who apparently “quit” the Oscars even though I believe he and Kelly will still do a show from there, so that’s weird to me if he is already going to be in LA for the Oscars for the morning talk show. ) and I don’t even mind Giuliana .
That said, the pandemic versions lack almost all the things I tune in for. And I enjoy seeing the creative arts celebrated. So I peek in from time to time as my DVR allows. 🙂 I may even put it on in my bedroom so I can peek in and out from time to time. I hope to see the opening and the end and some of the preshow stuff.
Everyone seems more hostile than usual during this pandemic, and I get it. But the people calling in to the radio station were quite brutal.
My guess is, even if Oscar viewership has fallen some, as viewership of everything on cable is falling some, prolly due to the great quality/variety on streaming channels, there are still more people who are watching it (and even having Oscar parties now that we can all get vaccinated and so many have), than that right-wing radio show would have you believe. I tune into one of them on the radio in my town now and then for kicks and giggles, and to keep a finger on the pulse of what the right is thinking and doing now, and it’s always so damn negative about everything! Then I remember- the Republican party (rightly or wrongly) is known as the “party of no”.
I think there would be more views if we were out of this fucking pandemic. But the pre show has been pretty good so far. But I am only halfway paying attention. Lots of things to report tonight and trying to prep for RHOA.
I love the local talk radio. When my oldest child was in preschool, I loved listening to the local AM radio station while driving and waiting in the pick up line. I wondered why only men called in voice their opinion. Then I realized, women are too damn busy to do that. I wanted to call in multiple times to give my opinion, but it is 12 pm and I have shit to do. I am in the pick up line, I got to go to the store, I can’t be on the damn phone venting to the local radio station. Then I turned it off.
Good point, LA!
So glad I follow you on Twitter now. I saw this a few minutes ago and I think I’ll bypass the reunion for naked & afraid xl. I wouldn’t have known it started if I hadn’t seen this tweeted. Thanks!
It is such a good show. And this season looks like one of the best ever. The XL seasons are the best of the best and always longer but 60 days seem practically undoable.
I couldn’t do 21 days lol.
I couldn’t do 7 days much less 21 days. 60? Couldn’t pay me enough. I’m too much of a p*ssy.
I watched the preview footage today and one guy fell out of a tree into the swamp. The swamp that is FULL OF GATORS! Production called for a medic so he was probably hurt. These people are insane. I think one of my favorite guys is on this season his name is Bulent. He can’t get along with anyone. So he did his whole season solo and lived way better than everyone else. He’s amazing at hunting and fishing (sometimes just with his bare hands!) and ate like a king while everyone else was starving. What can I say? I always like the asshole. 🙂
Oh my god, I could not stand Bulent! He seemed like a lazy fuck on the last XL. Still haven’t watched the new, thank god for on demand.
Bulent is the best one out there! Sure he is an asshole but he basically built himself a condo for one and Ate big kills every day! I love him. This also is why I am single. I tend to pick men like Bulent. 🙂
Me too! And I get grossed out easily, and I’m a “scaredy cat punk”, so I wouldn’t be caught watching one of those shows if they were the last thing on TV (and I have a serious TV addiction).
Ha! you are missing out. I don’t like scary stuff either but I love Naked and Afraid. Their biggest issue is usually food and weather. But there are snake bites and some scary times with animals sometimes. ESPECIALLY in Africa. But it’s not like scary to watch really.
So I have a funny story about Naked and Afraid. For many years I was a general manager for a well known fast food restaurant parents loved the play area. One morning a parent was upset because Naked and Afraid was on the play area TV. So apparently my overnight cleaning crew was watching tv while cleaning the floor and accidentally took the remote. The tv was mounted about 25 ft up and I couldn’t turn it off or unplug it. It was an episode of the show with no butts blurred out and a Sunday morning breakfast crowd full of kids. Took me several hours to get the remote. Most parents thought it was funny but some left dressed in their church clothes
LOL. American kids are so sheltered. I’m looking at a lot of buttcracks right now. All they blur anymore is frontal nudity below the waist and maybe female nipples. I don’t understand why they were given animal skins for the first time since I have been watching and didn’t use them to keep the mosquitos from biting. And the first thing I would do would be to cover myself in mud for the same reason. Those mosquitos looked like hummingbirds.
it’s 60 days? wow wow wow. I saw the previews, and this is hard core. One of my biggest nightmares is being stuck in the Everglades, between the bugs, the snakes, the alligators, omg terrifying. Putting your feet into dark murky water. (shivers) I cant wait. I may change the channel bc. the oscars are unbelievably boring so far.
Yeah I am not going to be able to tear myself away from this. I don’t want the episode to ever end. If they had them all released at once? I’d be up for days.
well apparently, you should not rub mud on your man parts due to some sort of nurtia poo and keep your nuts dry.
90 day will be my show of choice, I’ll skip the Oscar’s like I do every year! I missed that last round but who can’t wait for Angie’s weightloss surgery, lol! Plus if anyone watches Fear the Walking Dead is on so yeah, who needs fancy dresses and most likely politically charged speeches.
I’m excited by 90 Day too. But I’ll be recapping RHOA before I can settle in to any of the other options. Because, REUNION.
I’ll need it to sort out the new girls storylines, other than insert Bolo’s penis here🤪
I just want to see Brad Pitt.
90 day for me!! Yay!!
YES, Brad Pitt
Best eye candy ever.
LOL Audrey 😊
I think because the Tell all was last week, and not a break between, 90day fiance will be good.
At 7:00 on Hbo eastern is Mere of Eastown.
Just a off topic kinda, in the RHOA marathon they didn’t show Kenya in her Halloween costume, so when she was sitting outside talking to LaToya, the camera didn’t show her, just sound of her voice talking.
They must have gone back and changed it, after the actual episode.
Must note that on 90day fiance seeing Elizabeth and her sister physically fighting and throwing drinks, I hope that it is not what is to come.
We don’t need nonsense.
The Oscars changed for me when all the speeches became political. If someone’s speech is not political then they are criticized for not making a statement. Its unwatchable now
I m not about to be lectured by over-privileged, Uber wealthy people who got that way either through nepotism or just reciting and emoting to words that were written by others. Having said that, I freaking love Naked and Afraid and this XL should be off the chain. Suzanne is one of my favs, along with EJ, and already they’re butting heads. I haven’t watched the entire episode so will finish it now. Also, Gary’s last partner loved him and he and Matt came to respect and get along on that same episode. Super stoked for this one.
I must have missed the lectures. I was watching Naked and Afraid. I wish I didn’t erase it so I could watch it again. They were already really suffering on the first couple of Days. I don’t think they showed Bulent yet. I’m sure he is fine though.
I always forget about Naked and Afraid. I generally just watch it when I scroll by it on the guide. As for the Sisters, I can’t decide which is scarier. Sharing the same boyfriend for years or one having to have a tooth pulled and the other wanting to have a healthy tooth pulled so they’ll match. Scratch that: it’s the teeth.
Y’all, I am half watching Extreme Sisters while working on a couple future posts and it is BIZARRE. SO BIZZARE.