Word: cbs
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...always saw Keith and Tina together, drawing a generational line in the sand when it came to surviving. It'd be dull, even distasteful, but there's also a delicious irony in it. I mean, how many bags of Doritos is Keith gonna sell for CBS...
...wasn't that some kind of cool car? Yes, the Vexin' Texan kept right on ridin' in the penultimate week of "Survivor II" (but don't panic - there'll be an extra week of Doritos and Budweiser commercials when CBS sops up the last bit of ratings with the homecoming-themed "Back from the Outback" in two weeks!). For outracing his tribemates through a sort of Greatest Hits obstacle course (I think these guys are running out of new ideas, aside from putting Probst in blue this week), he got a Brand New Pontiac Aztec, With a Tent That Goes...
...show on the air if it's not owned by the parent company). But The WB's whining is a little disingenuous. "Buffy" is a big hit by the standards of a little network. But it's a niche show nonetheless: It would never go to NBC, ABC or CBS, and if it did, those networks, which need a huge tune-in to keep a show afloat, would either kill or ruin it fast. That leaves Fox - still in the middle zone between the giants and the netlets - and UPN. By The WB's reasoning, then, it would be unethical...
...look for moral uplift in Boot Camp (Fox, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a military-training Survivor look-alike that prompted a lawsuit from CBS (since swiping hit concepts is unheard-of in the TV business). But while it is derivative and goofy--the screaming "drill instructors" put the "camp" in Boot Camp--it also shows a kind of olive-drab heart. Its major structural difference from Survivor is the most telling: the "recruits" conduct grueling reward challenges, not in teams, but as one unit. It's the most literal example of a widespread reality-show theme: that ordinary folk (including...
...Outback Internet Cafe? Good product placement for the iMac, but horribly treacly viewing, as CBS dragged the contestants' families in for a lifeline-style Outback trivia game to hand out the week's reward - which was neither food nor shelter but a half-hour "private chat" for Tina and her family. (And a $500 shopping spree, courtesy of the good folks at - well, I'm not telling. Take that, capitalist pigs.) Nothing like Internet-homesickness - set of course to a tinkling piano score - to make rugged survivalism cuter than a well-worn teddy bear. This is what...