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March 10th, 2010
"Sons of Tucson" premieres Sunday, March 14 at 9:30/8:30c on Fox.
CLICK HERE to see which cities Ron Snuffkin will be peddling through. March 8th, 2010
The Amazing Race: Race Clue One – Fly to Germany The cowboys Jet & Cord, the first to arrive at the Pit Stop on the last leg of the race are the first to leave at 10:57pm on this next leg of the race. The race clue sends the teams over 8,000 miles away to Frankfurt, Germany. Once in Frankfurt, teams are to catch a train to Hamburg and find Jungfernstieg Street for the next race clue. With eleven hours before the first plane takes off, all teams will start out on even ground. Detectives Louie & Michael, who are tired of coming in next to last, decide to partner up with the winning cowboy team of Jet & Cord. They are the first race teams to land in Frankfurt and are soon on the train to Hamburg. The Amazing Race: A New Roadblock – An Intersection When the cowboys find the race clue in Frankfurt it reveals a new twist in the game – an Intersection challenge. An Intersection is where one member of two teams has to pair up to complete a race challenge (Roadblock). In this Intersection challenge, the newly formed partners have to make their way by metro to Hamburg Harbor and perform a 150’ tandem bungee set up in the middle of the city. While Caite & Jordan are on a train heading in the wrong direction, Michael & Jet are ready to take the big leap. The bungee instructor suggests that Jet remove his cowboy hat. His response is, “It’ll stay on. We’re good.” Now I know you are wondering if the cowboy hat stayed on so I will tell you, yes it did. Michael commented on this remarkable happening prompting Jet to say, “A real cowboy’s hat never comes off.” Once the Intersection is complete teams are given their next race clue which cannot be opened until they return to their partners. The next race clue sends teams to the Kaiser Wilhelm statue at Altonaer Rathaus. Detectives Louie & Michael are this week’s winners. The Amazing Race: Soccer or Sauerkraut? The race clue found at Wilhelm’s statue is a Detour. Race teams have to choose between Soccer and Sauerkraut. In Soccer, race teams have to find a 100-year-old soccer stadium and kick 5 penalty kicks through five targets suspended in the goal. In Sauerkraut, race teams have to find a specific restaurant and eat a bowl of sauerkraut before the band finished playing the sauerkraut polka. Over on the soccer field, baseball coach Steve made hitting the targets look easy while Joe struggles to even kick the ball with his previously injured knee. This caused Joe & Heidi to decide to switch Detours just as the cowboys arrive. When the race teams finish their Detour challenge they are given their next race clue sending them to Haifisch Bar to share a glass boot of beer. The Amazing Race: A BIG Boot of Beer Louie & Michael keep their lead as they are the first to race into the bar and Michael begins downing the beer. After the first big swig, he grimaced and noted, “That’s nasty.” Since Michael was the lion that downed the sauerkraut, Louie picked up the slack this time, chugged the remaining beer and received their next race clue. The Amazing Race: The Pit Stop – The Indra Club The race clue sends teams to the Pit Stop for this leg of The Amazing Race, the Beatles-Platz, a monument honoring the fab four. From the monument, race teams had to make their way through Hamburg’s red-light district to find the Indra Club where the Beatles first played in Hamburg. From worst to first, detectives Louie & Michael were the first to arrive at the Pit Stop and won a $5,000 Discover card for their efforts. After all the troubles of the day, Jordan & Jeff stepped onto the finish mat in last place expecting to hear bad news. However, Phil informed them that this is a non-elimination leg of The Amazing Race and they are still in it. But, for the next leg of the race they will have to complete a Speed Bump which is a challenge only they will have to complete. The Amazing Race: Final Order of Finish 1. Louie & Michael (Detectives) 2. Steve & Allie (Father & Daughter) 3. Joe & Heidi (Married Couple) 4. Jet & Cord (Cowboy Brothers) 5. Carol & Brandy (Dating Couple) 6. Dan & Jordan (Brothers) 7. Brent & Caite (Dating Models) 8. Jordan & Jeff (Newly Dating) 9. Eliminated Third – Monique & Shawne (Mom Attorneys) 10. Eliminated Second – Jody & Shannon (Grandmother & Granddaughter) 11. Eliminated First – Dan & Adrian (High School Sweethearts) The Amazing Race 16: We Are No Longer in the Bible Belt aired Sunday, March 7 at 8pm on CBS. [Sources: The Amazing Race, Gunkee] March 8th, 2010
To catch up on this seasons’ excitement, read “Bullrun: Corona to Mojave Airplane Graveyard”, and “Bullrun: Mojave Airplane Graveyard to Eagle Field” Bullrun Starting Leg: Eagle Field to The Duck Pond (by Palo Alto Airport) As the Bullrun teams rested overnight at Eagle Field, someone was up to nasty deeds stealing teams’ maps. Now Bullrun teams are scrambling to find new maps. Early on, Teams Mini Cooper and Lexus decide to form an alliance. On the way to the Duck Pond, Team NSX switches it up from last week when they were buddies with Team Lambo, and teams up with Team Challenger. Once teams find The Duck Pond, their next Bullrun clue sends teams to Howard’s Landing in Walnut Grove, CA. Team Challenger won this round of Bullrun. Bullrun Landmark Leg: Howard Landing, Walnut Grove, CA At Howard’s Landing, Bullrun teams discover they have to cross the river on the ferry to reach checkpoint #2 on the other side. The first two teams to arrive at the landing and cross the river are Bullrunners BMW and Lambo. Team Lexus and other Bullrun teams arrive at the landing just in time to see teams BMW and Lambo making their way across the river on the ferry. Everyone thinks this makes them just a ferry crossing behind the leaders - but they are wrong. Team Mustang notes the time is 6:58pm when they arrive at Howard’s Landing and points out a sign that is slightly hidden in the weeds stating that the ferry drivers’ supper break is from 7:00 – 7:20pm. While Bullrun teams start jockeying their cars for position in order to get on the ferry first, a member of Team Mini stood in front of Team NSX’s car so they could not move their vehicle allowing the other Team Mini member to put their car in front of Team NSX. In response to this move Team NSX states, “What comes around goes around.” Is that a threat? Yes, indeed it is. While all the other Bullrunner teams are focused on getting the attention of the ferry driver, NSX notices the maps on the front seat of Team Mini’s car. He grabs them, throws them into his car and, without thinking about what he is doing pushes the lock button and closes the door with the keys still inside. Meanwhile, Team Lexus is trying to body frisk the other teams looking for the missing maps. While Team NSX is trying to figure out how to unlock their car, all the other Bullrun teams cross the river on the ferry. (All except Team Viper, who is still lost.) Bullrun Final Checkpoint: Howard’s Landing to Sacramento Rail Yard Finding Sacramento is easy for all the Bullrun teams. Finding the Sacramento Rail Yard is not; seems like the Rail Yard is not listed on anyone’s map. All the Bullrun teams are talking to each other but no one is having any luck finding the final checkpoint. All teams are trying to get directions from locals and driving in circles not very far from each other. Finally all teams find their way to the final checkpoint. It is too close to call who the winner is of this Bullrun round. Teams will have to wait until morning to find out. Bullrun teams are gathered for the announcement of the winner of this leg of the race. Team Challenger comes in first with a time of 6:15:21. Team Viper is in last place and Team Hemi Cuda in second to last place and will automatically be thrown into the Elimination Challenge. Team Challenger chooses Team Lambo as the third team to go to the Challenge, but Team Lambo shows everyone what an immunity card looks like. Team Challenger’s second choice is Team Hummer. Bullrun Elimination Challenge: Heist The Rules: Bullrun drivers will navigate their way to the warehouse, busting through the Bullrun glass barrier to get inside. Once inside, the driver must stop in the designated area while the passenger exits the vehicle to retrieve a briefcase found in one of three lockers. Once the passenger is back in the vehicle with the briefcase and buckled up the driver may continue on the course and bust their way through a locked gate to get outside. When they get outside, the driver must negotiate a sometimes muddy dirt track and avoid the pursuing cops. The fastest two vehicles completing the course and stopping in the designated finish box wins and avoids elimination. The first to tackle the Elimination Challenge is the 1972 Plymouth Barracuda with a new 6.1 Hemi engine. Team Hemi “drives it like they stole it” with only one small snag when the passenger had trouble buckling back in. Second up is Team Hummer in their 2009 stock Hummer. They are surprisingly fast through the Challenge course and show the other teams why they should be afraid of them on a dirt course. The last to take on the Challenge is the 2008 Dodge Viper with a 10 cylinder twin turbo. The third team should have an advantage by having other teams go ahead of them so they could see the mistakes to avoid. But Team Viper must not have been paying attention to the other teams when they went through the course. The driver’s first mistake is to turn the wrong way to enter the course, and then he babies the Viper through the Challenge course. Is he afraid of scratching it or what? It is obvious to viewers that this driver has never really “driven” the car as he fishtails all over the place and slows down for bumps in the road. It’s no surprise that Team Viper finishes the Elimination Challenge in last place with a time of 2:05 and is thus sent packing. Team Hummer came in first at 1:33 and Team Cuda is still safe with a time of 1:39. Bullrun Leaderboard: Eagle Field to Sacramento Rail Yard 1. Team Challenger – 6:15:21 2. Team Lexus – 6:37:46 3. Team BMW – 6:41:00 4. Team Hummer – 6:42:25 5. Team Mustang – 6:43:02 6. Team Mini Cooper – 6:45:43 7. Team NSX – 6:57:53 8. Team Lambo – 7:04:12 9. Team Hemi Cuda – 7:14:24 10. Team Viper – 8:20:19 - Eliminated in Round Three 11. Team Corvette – Eliminated in Round Two 12. Team VW – Eliminated in Round One Bullrun: Round Three aired Thursday, March 4 at 10pm on SPEEDtv. [Sources: Bullrun, SpeedTV, Gunkee] March 6th, 2010
This week there are 8 new TV series premiering, 4 season premieres and 1 special event. Click here for updates. [Source: Gunkee]
<It’s the battle of the Italian Beef Sandwich on “Food Wars”, March 9 at 10pm on the Travel Channel. March 5th, 2010
Read more in “Survivor Villains Slip, Slide, and Roll to More Victories” [Source: Gunkee] March 1st, 2010
[Source: Gunkee] <Cowboys Jet & Cord were disappointed when there weren’t real horses to ride in a challenge. March 1st, 2010
To catch up on this season of Bullrun read “Bullrun: Corona to Mojave Airplane Graveyard” and to learn more about the show itself read “What is Bullrun?” [Source: Gunkee; photo credit: SPEED ©SPEEDtv] < Team Lambo is given the green flag to begin the Bullrun road rally race. February 28th, 2010
This week there are 14 new TV series premiering, 6 season premiere and 1 special event. Read “Spring TV Schedule Weekly Updates for February 28-March 6, 2010” for updates to this week’s schedule. [Source: Gunkee] < Patrick Warburton plays Jeff on "Rules of Engagement" February 26th, 2010
The Heroes finally work as a team by wrangling escapes chickens and then winning their first immunity & reward challenge by skunking the Villains. The Villains are still acting villainous, while one in particular is turning on the charm. Read all about it in “Russell Hantz is at it Again in Survivor": Heroes vs. Villains” and “The Heroes Finally Win Immunity on ‘Survivor’” [Source: Gunkee, Pamela Gifford] February 26th, 2010
Read a recap of the forty-two new shows premiering in the spring of 2010 at “New TV Shows Debuting Spring 2010.” To see the complete spring TV schedule featuring new series premieres and season premieres visit "2010 Spring Schedule". Visit my home page here for weekly schedule updates of series and season premieres. [Source: Gunkee] |
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