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...simply read these first two paragraphs. NBC Monday announced its upcoming season schedule for advertisers at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Two of the most prominent announcements were the return of "The Apprentice" and the debut of "The Contender," a boxing reality show also from "Apprentice" and "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett. NBC has been trying and failing for several years to find new hit sitcoms and dramas, but it's had the most success instead with reality shows. It seems that TV viewers are finding new scripted shows boring, overfamiliar and repetitive. If only somebody could figure...
...Though made over the past two years, the film has scenes that seem ripped from recent headlines. Last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq and, to the cheers of his military audience, defiantly called himself ?a survivor? (a word traditionally reserved for those who have lived through the Holocaust or cancer, not for someone enduring political difficulties). In the film, a soldier tells Moore?s field team: ?If Donald Rumsfeld was here, I?d ask for his resignation...
...need and demand for survivor support services and technical assistance in the form of training and outreach is very real yet it remains to be decided how these issues can be addressed effectively given the current single funding source for the Office,” the report stated...
...with coming from Britain. Being new to a culture can make your observations more acute. Also, he was filled with determination and confidence that he would be a success, even while he was selling T shirts in California's Venice Beach. His reality-TV shows, starting with Survivor, have changed the television industry. He has made a great contribution, not just in entertainment but in the educational arena as well. The Apprentice shows that business is competitive; there is strategy involved; there are responses to certain situations that are better than others. Watching these interactions can give the viewer helpful...
There’s always meant to be another exam or extracurricular activity to demand our attention, and admitting that we regularly watch Survivor or The Sharon Osbourne Show shatters that illusion. It’s allegedly a disservice to ourselves for not working harder, as well an affront to all those other students who might—call a doctor—start to wonder whether they’re structuring their lives correctly...