Back when the news of ABC’s new singing competition first broke, fans weren’t sure what to make of the news. Another singing competition in an arguably over-crowded landscape? That doesn’t stop anyone. Since the announcement, ABC has made a change to one of the stars that will be singing with the show’s contestants. John Legend, joining Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles, and Robin Thicke,will be replacing Lionel Richie for reasons that have gone unexplained.

Take a look at what else summer Reality TV has to offer

Duets doesn’t premiere until May 24 at 8/7c, but ABC finally unveiled the contestants that will be performing alongside the aforementioned stars for the show’s first ever title. Check out the contestant photos and bios below. Will you be watching? Who will YOU be rooting for?

It’s that time of year again, folks! May is a busy month for TV, as your favorite shows come to an end, summer fare begins to creep up on us, and the networks unveil their major plans for the upcoming season. In the last week especially, we’ve been breaking news left and right regarding which shows will be coming back next season or which shows will be seeing the TV abyss. The question remains where each show will fit in the puzzle that is forming the best primetime schedule. Now, we have our answer.

Finishing up the Upfronts presentations, where networks present their new fall schedule to advertisers, is CBS. Below, you’ll find the schedule CBS hopes will keep them a cut above the rest as a premiere network. Notable adjustments to the schedule include the move of Two and a Half Men to Thursdays, pairing with Big Bang Theory. The Mentalist joins Sunday’s lineup and 2 Broke Girls snag the coveted Monday night slot. So read on below for the full schedule and catch sneak previews of the new shows. Let us know what you think about it. Of course, as the fall season nears (late this summer), we’ll be back with our TV preview feature.

Shows not returning to CBS’s schedule: CSI: Miami, How To Be A Gentleman, NYC 22, Rob, Unforgettable

Note: Rules of Engagement still on the bubble.

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All times are EST
New shows denoted in red

MONDAY:
8pm ~ How I Met Your Mother
8:30pm ~ PARTNERS
9pm ~ 2 Broke Girls, new time
9:30pm ~ Mike & Molly
10pm ~ Hawaii Five-O

TUESDAY:
8pm ~ NCIS
9pm ~ NCIS: LA
10pm ~ VEGAS

WEDNESDAY:
8pm ~ Survivor
9pm ~ Criminal Minds
10pm ~ CSI

THURSDAY:
8pm ~ Big Bang Theory
8:30pm ~ Two and a Half Men, new night & time
9pm ~ Person of Interest
10pm ~ ELEMENTARY

FRIDAY:
8pm ~ CSI: NY, new time
9pm ~ MADE IN JERSEY
10pm ~ Blue Bloods

SATURDAY:
8pm ~ Crimetime Saturday

SUNDAY:
7pm ~ 60 Minutes
8pm ~ The Amazing Race
9pm ~ The Good Wife
10pm ~ The Mentalist, new night & time

Partners:

Vegas:

Elementary:

Made In Jersey:

Once certainly didn’t hold back with this week’s season finale. They pulled out all the stops! In Fairytale Land we pick up with Charming on his mission to save Snow White. None other than the Huntsman himself, who is dearly missed, helps Charming escape from Regina’s castle. And yep, she’s pretty ticked.

Charming soon finds himself faced with Rumpelstiltskin who has stolen the ring Charming has for Snow. In total Rumpel fashion, they make a deal. Charming will place an egg that contains a powerful true love potion into the belly of a beast. That beast ends up being the dragon-form of Maleficent. Charming succeeds and Rumpel returns the ring, thus Charming sets out to find Snow.

Unfortunately Snow is already “dead” and the dwarves have her placed in a glass coffin. But Charming wants his last goodbye. With true loves kiss, the curse is broken and Snow awakes. The two embrace and determine to take the kingdom back…together.

Meanwhile in Storybrooke, Henry is rushed to the hospital after eating the poison apple turnover Regina made for Emma. After the doctors find nothing wrong, Emma realizes all the stories are true and Regina confirms the curse. With the love both have for Henry, they join forces to save him.

They discover from Mr. Gold that the last remaining magic is locked away in the beast. Regina has kept her in a dungeon in her true dragon form and they send Emma down with her father’s sword. Emma tries shooting the dragon, but ultimately embraces the sword and defeats it. However, Mr. Gold tricks Emma into giving him the potion and he runs away.

The two women rush to the hospital after receiving phone calls, but it’s too late. Henry is dead. Emma and Regina are both upset. Emma gives Henry a kiss on the forehead with an ‘I love you’…and the spell is broken! Henry wakes up and not only is the curse on him broken, but the memory curse is broken as well. Everyone starts to remember. Charming finds Snow. The doctors all remember. Granny and Red. Suddenly the Evil Queen isn’t so safe anymore.

In a little bit of a side story, Jefferson (aka The Mad Hatter) is angry at Regina for not holding to her deal of reuniting him with his daughter. So he finds Belle, who Rumpel loved and thought was dead, and sets her free. He tells her to find Mr. Gold, which she does. Rumpel is in disbelief, but overjoyed. He brings her along with him and she remembers loving him when Emma breaks the curse. They arrive at a well and Mr. Gold throws the potion into the well. Cue the purple smoke taking over the town. Apparently magic is returning…and Regina seems pretty happy about that.

So, what did you think?! It was a pretty packed episode! Loved the dragon fighting…and that it was father and daughter in two different worlds! Also I’m a big fan of the whole breaking the curse thing. Granted, there’s still a lot more to it, but the fact that everyone is remembering shows that the writers aren’t going to draw it out forever. I’m PUMPED for next season. Lots more magic to come! Leave your comments!

It’s that time of year again, folks! May is a busy month for TV, as your favorite shows come to an end, summer fare begins to creep up on us, and the networks unveil their major plans for the upcoming season. In the last week especially, we’ve been breaking news left and right regarding which shows will be coming back next season or which shows will be seeing the TV abyss. The question remains where each show will fit in the puzzle that is forming the best primetime schedule. Now, we have our answer.

Check Out NBC’s Fall Plans

Continuing with the Upfronts presentations, where networks present their new fall schedule to advertisers, is the Alphabet Network. Below, you’ll find the schedule ABC hopes will keep them competitive as a premiere network. Notable adjustments to the schedule include Revenge claiming the old home of Wisteria Lane and comedy blocks 3 nights a week, including a possible TGIF comeback. Nashville, country themed musical soap, snags the coveted spot on Wednesday night. So read on below for the full schedule and catch sneak previews of the new shows. Let us know what you think about it. Of course, as the fall season nears (late this summer), we’ll be back with our TV preview feature.

Fox’s 2012 Fall Schedule Announced

Stay with us as CBS unveils their TV plans tomorrow.

Shows not returning to ABC’s schedule: Charlie’s Angels, Cougar Town, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, GCB, Missing, Pan Am, The River, Work It

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All times are EST
New shows denoted in red

MONDAY:
8pm ~ Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars
10pm ~ Castle

TUESDAY:
8pm ~ Dancing With the Stars Results
9pm ~ Happy Endings, new night & time
9:30pm ~ Don’t Trust The B—- in Apt. 23, new night & time
10pm ~ Private Practice

WEDNESDAY:
8pm ~ The Middle
8:30pm ~ Suburgatory
9pm ~ Modern Family
9:30pm ~ THE NEIGHBORS
10pm ~ NASHVILLE

THURSDAY:
8pm ~ LAST RESORT
9pm ~ Grey’s Anatomy
10pm ~ Scandal

FRIDAY:
8pm ~ Shark Tank
9pm ~ Primetime: What Would You Do?
10pm ~ 20/20

FRIDAY: (starting November)
8pm ~ Last Man Standing, new night & time
8:30pm ~ MALIBU COUNTRY
9pm ~ Shark Tank, new time
10pm ~ Primetime: What Would You Do?, new time

SATURDAY:
8pm ~ Saturday Night College Football

SUNDAY:
7pm ~ America’s Funniest Home Videos
8pm ~ Once Upon a Time
9pm ~ Revenge, new night & time
10pm ~ 666 PARK AVENUE

The Neighbors

Nashville

Last Resort

Malibu Country

666 Park Avenue

It’s that time of year again, folks! May is a busy month for TV, as your favorite shows come to an end, summer fare begins to creep up on us, and the networks unveil their major plans for the upcoming season. In the last week especially, we’ve been breaking news left and right regarding which shows will be coming back next season or which shows will be seeing the TV abyss. The question remains where each show will fit in the puzzle that is forming the best primetime schedule. Now, we have our answer.

Check Out NBC’s Fall Plans

As Upfronts week continues, it’s Fox’s turn to share their plans on TV domination. Below, you’ll find the schedule Fox hopes will continue to keep them as one of TV’s leading networks. Revamping reality, sticking with the tried and true, giving genre fare one more chance, and working in a new full night of comedy, Fox hopes they have a winning formula. Notable changes to the schedule are the time slot changes of Glee (moving to Thursday) and Touch (moving to Friday). So read on below for the full schedule and show previews. Let us know what you think about it. Of course, as the fall season nears (late this summer), we’ll be back with our TV preview feature.

Shows not returning: Alcatraz, Allen Gregory, Breaking In, The Finder, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Napoleon Dynamite, Terra Nova

Stay with us as ABC unveils their TV plans tomorrow.

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All times are EST
New shows denoted in red

MONDAY:
8pm ~ Bones, new time slot
9pm ~ THE MOB DOCTOR

TUESDAY:
8pm ~ Raising Hope, new time slot
8:30pm ~ BEN AND KATE
9pm ~ New Girl
9:30pm ~ THE MINDY PROJECT

WEDNESDAY:
8pm ~ The X Factor

THURSDAY:
8pm ~ The X Factor, Results
9pm ~ Glee, new night and time

FRIDAY:
8pm ~ Touch, new time slot
9pm ~ Fringe

SATURDAY:
8pm ~ Fox Sports

SUNDAY:
7pm ~ Fox NFL OT
8pm ~ The Simpsons
8:30pm ~ Bob’s Burgers
9pm ~ Family Guy
9:30pm ~ American Dad

The Mob Doctor:

Ben & Kate:

The Mindy Project:

With Survivor: One World coming to an end, rumors and specultation arise regarding the next Survivor to hit our TV sets in just a few months. A recent photo posted on a Philippines message board, where Survivor 25 is being filmed, showed three separate dive boards, each a different color. The picture sparked the rumors and Jeff Probst confirmed it during tonight’s finale.

Now, the question remains … which 3 previous Survivors will we see on Season 25? Now, there haven’t been that many cast-offs evacuated due to medical reasons, so the speculation won’t be that difficult. The question on everyone’s mind after this season is will Colton Cumbie be back? The following tweet from previous Survivor spoilers might set rest to the fear of Colton’s return. “Everyone knows Skupin, Penner and Swan are there now, so you get the idea.” Word also arose that Russell Swan hinted that we might see him back on the show at some point. Now, with these unconfirmed tweets, we can only speculate. Will Survivor really pass up on the opportunity to bring Colton back? That’s unlikely.

Survivor fans on Twitter might now recall one of the million tweets Jeff posts during each episode that referred to the medically evacuated contestants after Colton’s dismissal from the game. Probst tweeted that “Skupin was evacuated in episode 6, so was Jonathan Penner, so was Russell Swan and tonight so was Colton.” Probst might be Survivor’s host, but questions arise whether that stat really came from his brilliant mind or if the “historical” aspect of it all was recently on his mind due to the filming of Survivor: Philippines.

So, folks, who do you want to see return? Will you even watch as this redemption theme continues to be played on Survivor? Are you over returning cast-offs? What’re your thoughts? Sound off below!

No official word from NBC about this, but with the announcement of The Voice returning this fall, the internet is buzzing that we may possibly get new coaches in the spring as the current coaches can’t obviously handle that much commitment with their careers, as well. The Voice will return this fall with coaches Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green. A third hour has been added, as The Voice has landed a Tuesday slot at 8/7c.

NBC Unveils it’s Fall 2012/2013 Schedule

NBC chairman, Bob Greenblatt, was confident that The Voice could withstand running twice a year, especially if the show’s format was tweaked to keep things fresh. Greenblatt told The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m not worried about it running out of steam. But we’re constantly looking at the format and the way the show lays out.”

According to Greenblatt, the fall’s tweaks will include the possibility of extending the show’s blind auditions and getting to the LIVE shows sooner than before. “Nobody likes to have a dip in the ratings,” he says. “And I think we’re going to be smart about how to change that.”

The Voice: Who Won, Levine v. Aguilera

*IF* this is at all true, I really hope they scrap this idea. The appeal of the Voice is it’s original and different way at approaching a musical competition. I think if they overload our TVs with it, in an oversaturated landscape with musical competitions anyways, it will lose it’s appeal to viewers. As we learn more, we’ll report it. Until then, what do you think about this possibility? Would you watch the show twice a year?

It’s that time of year again, folks! May is a busy month for TV, as your favorite shows come to an end, summer fare begins to creep up on us, and the networks unveil their major plans for the upcoming season. In the last week especially, we’ve been breaking news left and right regarding which shows will be coming back next season or which shows will be seeing the TV abyss. The question remains where each show will fit in the puzzle that is forming the best primetime schedule. Now, we have our answer.

Kicking off Upfronts week, where networks present their new fall schedule to advertisers, is NBC. Below, you’ll find the schedule NBC hopes will bring them back as a premiere network in the ever changing TV landscape. Renewing a few fan-favorite sitcoms, bringing back a questionable sitcom, giving network satire one final season, and unveiling a very interesting reality landscape, NBC hopes major strides will be made next season. Notable adjustments to the schedule include holding Smash for midseason, moving Communities to Friday and working on adding a few more sitcoms to their fare. So read on below for the full schedule and catch sneak previews of the new shows. Let us know what you think about it. Of course, as the fall season nears (late this summer), we’ll be back with our TV preview feature.

Stay with us as Fox unveils their TV plans tomorrow afternoon.

Shows not returning to NBC’s schedule: Are You There, Chelsea?, Awake, Bent, Best Friends Forever, Chuck, Free Agents, Harry’s Law, The Playboy Club, Prime Suspect, The Firm

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All times are EST
New shows denoted in red

MONDAY:
8pm ~ The Voice
10pm ~ REVOLUTION

TUESDAY:
8pm ~ The Voice
9pm ~ GO ON
9:30pm ~ THE NEW NORMAL
10pm ~ Parenthood

WEDNESDAY:
8pm ~ ANIMAL PRACTICE
8:30pm ~ GUYS WITH KIDS
9pm ~ Law & Order: SVU
10pm ~ CHICAGO FIRE

THURSDAY:
8pm ~ 30 Rock
8:30pm ~ Up All Night
9pm ~ The Office
9:30pm ~ Parks & Rec
10pm ~ Rock Center with Brian Williams

FRIDAY:
8pm ~ Whitney
8:30pm ~ Community
9pm ~ Grimm
10pm ~ Dateline NBC

SATURDAY:
8pm ~ Encore Programming

SUNDAY:
7pm ~ Football Night In America
8pm ~ Sunday Night Football

SUNDAY: (post-Football/Winter 2013)
7pm ~ Dateline NBC
8pm ~ Fashion Star
9pm ~ Celebrity Apprentice
10pm ~ DO NO HARM

Revolution:

Go On:

The New Normal:

Animal Practice:

Guys With Kids:

Chicago Fire:

As reported in our forum HERE on Monday, apparently there was more to The Voice finale than meets the eye. I personally had missed Monday’s episode but luckily had it recorded, so, I sat down to watch them both, back to back last night.
After reading about the tension between Adam and Christina during rehearsals Monday, it made both shows much more interesting. It was reported, by a source supposedly close to Christina, that Ms. Aguilera was quite upset at the song choice Adam was said to have picked for his finalist, “99 Problems” by Jay Z. In it, the lyric goes “I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one”, which I guess Christina took as a reference to her.

Maybe it was, but then, do you blame Lucca and Adam?

According to said source, Christina threw a fit, called it ridiculous and was highly offended. All in all, she got NBC to tell Adam  and Tony that they would have to change the song lyric from “bitch” to “chick.” Adam was not pleased saying changing the song lyric would be a death sentence. He blew up during the coach’s rehearsal… (yes, the coach’s were supposed to sing together last night) and called her a “f***ing c***.” Christina then went to production saying Adam should be fired, that she is tired of Adam being treated as “the golden boy” and she is “sick of being treated this way.” The source went on to say that “If America knew how disgusting he (Adam) was, they would be appalled.”

Adam’s fit put a halt in rehearsals supposedly, locking himself in his trailer saying he won’t do anything until this gets figured out. Christina called him “incredibly immature.”

After watching the shows, it pretty much matches the vibe.

First show, Christina critiqued Tony on his “99 Problems” song (in which he neither said “bitch” or “chick”) called it degrading to women. Ahem. Christina… really? First, why not tell that to Jay Z. Tony Lucca didn’t write it. Secondly, why not cover up those breasts a bit, or put on pants at least, before you start discussing degradation. Or better yet, here is Christina’s version of NOT being degrading to women:

Adam of course responded, telling her that it was a metaphor for life’s problems, rather than an attack on women. After a bit of a back and forth, Adam then took off his shirt to reveal a pink sparky “team xtina” shirt. Oh Adam, stop mocking poor Christina! Can anyone say awkward?

Here is the video if you missed it, including Christina’s critique:

A bit later in the show, while Tony was thanking not just his, but ALL the coaches including Christina, as the camera panned over to them, you can see Christina texting or what not on her phone rather than paying any attention to him. Way to take the high road Christina.

On to the next night. First notable, there was no coach performance. Looks like that got scrapped. Second notable… Hall and Oates jammed out their famous tune”Rich Girl” in which the word “bitch” is said over and over and over, and yet NBC allowed it. I guess Christina didn’t have a problem with it then?

Third most notable… where the hell were Christina’s pants? Did Adam take them?

Since, Christina has supposedly apologized to Lucca, but it appears the fight continues. Just a few hours ago there was another veiled tweet from Adam saying “Ignorance has this unique way of making me want to both laugh AND cry simultaneously…” Was that yet another jab at the diva? One will never know.

My personal opinion? Christina seemed to have a problem with Lucca from the get go. Just about every week was another diss from her. Was there some unsettled Mickey Mouse business going on there? Did she have a crush on him back then and he didn’t return the favor? Was he mean to her back then?

Regardless, it’s time for Christina to grow up a bit. Not everything is about her, and what is, really, shouldn’t be able to penetrate her. She has a great voice and a huge career. Why something so trivial would put her in a huff is beyond me. She takes herself way too seriously. In fact, she hasn’t been that easy to work with in the past. Little things, like before rehearsals at the Grammy’s a couple of a years ago, she was chewing gum which she proceeded to toss on the floor and have a P.A. come clean it up. It really is little things like that show you the kind of person someone is. Way too seriously, or, true diva, you decide.

Course wishing her to grow up a bit might not be what I want. Turmoil on set between Adam and Christina, while  Cee Lo just smiles and Blake tries to stir the pot a bit is a lot more fun than just watching them all kumbaya over their contestants, isn’t it?

Stay tuned for more information on the whereabouts of Christina’s pants… That one has me fascinated.

Oh and congrats Jermaine! Sorry it became all about this and not about you. Nice win though!

The Yak got the chance to chat with The Amazing Race 4th place winners Vanessa Macias and Ralph Kelley. Keep reading to see what they had to say!

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The Yak: Would either one of you race again?

Ralph: Absolutely!
Vanessa: The more time that passes the more I feel I would. I kind of initially said no hands down because I got beat up, but yeah I think from watching the past weeks it becomes more and more easier to think about doing again.

The Yak: Vanessa last night was the interview you had done on KENS (CBS News affiliate) pre-taped a while ago because you had said no to doing any reality and one of the readers here wanted to know if you would consider Big Brother because she felt you would be awesome for that?

Vanessa: No (to the pre-tape) I have never seen Big Brother so I don’t know if I would be good at that or not. I think I would go crazy in a house with no communication or ties to the outside, isn’t that the whole premise?

The Yak: Yes

Vanessa: No I would go crazy!

The Yak: I know you guys had broken up and you said in the last interview at the end of The Amazing Race that you hoped things would move forward as long as there were no rubber chickens in your way, and yet on the KENS interview, you had said it was just a matter of hours after the plane touched down and you had broken up so did the rubber chicken follow you?

[Laughter]
Vanessa: The proverbial rubber chicken.
Ralph: Damn rubber chicken!
Vanessa: Those chickens… the rubber chicken of life got in our way. I couldn’t reach up and catch that one.

The Yak: Do you think it may have been different without the stress of the race?

Vanessa: There is no way of knowing if this was the demise or what.
Ralph: The bottom line is we got to experience the incredible and amazing race around the world and we did almost what we wanted to obviously. The goal was to win the million dollars but wanted to be on every leg and we were so close. We had a little hiccup as far as Vanessa’s ankle is concerned, otherwise I think we would have been in the final 3 and we had a great time and neither one of us could have done it without the other one.

The Yak: Vanessa I have to say you were amazing last night with the Japanese game show, that you persevered and you succeeded in accomplishing that, you were awesome.

Vanessa: [laugh] I wish I was 30 minutes more awesome. I appreciate it but I just wish… it was heartbreaking to know that if it wasn’t for that, if I had just stepped it up a little harder, I wouldn’t have let our team down.

The Yak: You could see that you were hurting but you kept going. Nobody can ask more than that of themselves.
What was your favorite challenge?

Ralph: The watermelons…No I am just kidding!
[Laughter]
Vanessa: Mine was dressing the elephants. How many times can you say you dressed an elephant and got to sit on him.
Ralph: in India! I enjoyed any challenge. I thought it was cool that Vanessa got to go skydiving in Argentina.
Vanessa: Yeah.

The Yak: Now that wasn’t the first time you have been skydiving because didn’t “Daring Vanessa” get to jump out of a plane?

Vanessa: Everybody wants me to jump out of a damn plane and I am terrified of heights but anybody that has done it realizes you don’t have a frame of reference you are kind of looking at a giant game board, that nothing seems real and in Argentina the fountains are just gorgeous and I think we went a little higher than we were suppose to. It was really neat and it was a once in a lifetime opportunity that maybe I hope to do again… ha ha…

The Yak: Did you have any viewing parties in the bar in Boerne?

Ralph: No, none at all. When we first got cast I had the bar but since then I have removed myself from that situation.
Vanessa: The first time I watched it I had the proceeds go to SAU and it was a great way to have a party anyhow and could raise some money for somebody!
(Both shared they were watching with family and friends mostly!)

The Yak: Ralph, how did your daughter like seeing you on tv?

Ralph: She loved it, I would get the report from her every Sunday night and she watched a couple of them with me. Then I would get the report from her on Monday from when she went back to school and all of her friends, it was fun!

The Yak: Mark had said his son was being asked for his autograph and he was in his glory; is your daughter going through that?

Vanessa: How cool!
Ralph: [Laughs] No, my daughter has a really good group of friends and they are all fine and good girls. They thought it was really cool that every Sunday they could go and watch Vanessa and I do the whole dancing monkey entertaining everybody. It didn’t make her anymore popular.
Vanessa: She is popular in her own right. She is beautiful and just a great girl.

The Yak: What country was your favorite to visit?

Ralph: It is a toss up between Tanzania and Japan for me.
Vanessa: It was definitely Tanzania and I wouldn’t mind having the chance to live in Argentina. I think that would be beautiful too.
Ralph: You better get used to eating ham and cheese.
[Laughs]
Vanessa: There is stuff other than ham and cheese OMG! I just can’t order it! What he is talking about is that for the first few legs in South America all we had was ham and cheese and every time I tried to order anything else they would just give me ham and cheese and I don’t really eat pork so I have had my fill of ham and cheese for my entire life. I am all ham and cheesed out!

The Yak: What plans do you have now work wise? Are you going to write about your experiences?

Vanessa: I don’t know… if I have 2 seconds to hold my own that is how I would spend it right now. I am working with the San Antonio Talons in the front office as the Director of Corporate and Community Partnership and I am also game day dancing around doing the dancing monkey stuff! I am also volunteering with various charities so my time is at a premium right now so if I have the chance I am going to travel a little bit.

The Yak: On the show you and Rachel did not get along, have you resolved any of that after the show was over?

Vanessa: [Laughs] No chance for that! After shooting we were nice enough to each other…
Ralph: Cordial.
Vanessa: Yeah and outside of that I will not call her up to happy hour!

The Yak: Are you keeping in touch with anybody that you did race with?

Ralph: I stay in touch with the twins, I just got back from seeing Elliot. I keep in touch with Dave and Rachel, Joey and Danny and Art and JJ, those are kind of the teams we bonded with.
Vanessa: I am just not good at keeping in touch with people but you are good at it!

The Yak: Is there anything if you had it to do over again you would do differently?

Ralph: I think Vanessa said it before, she would have pushed to go do the fast forward. We knew there were 2 teams in front of us that could have taken the fast forward so we opted to stay safe as we could and move another leg. Looking back on it I don’t think I would do differently, lots of the last place finishes were due to bad luck.
Vanessa: I think if we would have taken the fast forward, I was gung-ho, I was ready to shave my head and I wouldn’t have sprained my ankle. You can’t repeat and there are lots of different frames of life between there and reasons for the decisions we did make and reasons we didn’t make the decisions we did. In hindsight I would have pushed for the fast forward but that is it. I am grateful I am not growing out a crew cut right now!

The Yak: Now if you were to race again is there something different you would do in prepping yourself to go to the race?

Vanessa: Workout, I would probably cut back on the nutella coffee and workout.
Ralph: There is really nothing you can do to truly prepare except be in the best physical condition you can because you don’t know what they are going to throw at you, you don’t know what challenges. Thank God the Bollywood dancing, watching JJ and Mark try to tackle that, I was glad I didn’t have too! You don’t know what they are going to throw at you so it is a crazy question to answer. Sleep when you can– on the airport floor or eat, shower, not shower for 3 days it is mentally, emotionally and physically taxing and there is really no way to truly prepare for it.
Vanessa: Exactly, but you could be more physically fit especially when you are running around with a physical anomaly like Ralph. He is just a specimen of people and you know there is me (boo hoo) it is a little uneven there when I am wheezing after taking 4 steps and he is carrying all of Japan you know!
[Ralph was chuckling in the background!]

The Yak: Did you do any prep work in languages like phrases before you left?

Ralph: Not really.
Both: We talked about it.
Ralph: But we didn’t really do it in the course of the conversation. How many languages or where do you even start since there is no way to know where you are going.
Vanessa: You would be guessing blindly and waste your time learning things you wouldn’t be using anyhow. You know we both have a strong grasp of Spanish but are not fluent by any stretch of the imagination.

The Yak: Is there anything you would like to share with the readers?

Ralph: It was a wild hair and we went and applied and we got a lot out of it, it was a great experience. Thank you to CBS and anyone watching the show.
Vanessa: It was phenomenal and if anybody has questions, a lot of people stop me at Talon games and if I have 2 seconds to spare I will answer them.

The Yak: Thank you very much for chatting with Yakkity Yaks and congratulations, you did a great job!

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Thanks again Vanessa and Ralph!

What do you think about what they had to say? Leave us a comment below, then come on in and join us in the FORUM where we are discussing all of our favorite reality shows!

The Yak got the chance to chat with Art Velez and JJ Carrell, the second place team after 12 legs of The Amazing Race! Congratulations on how far you made it. Keep reading to see what they had to say!

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The Yak: Would you run the race again?

JJ: Absolutely! If Bertan and Elise called us right now we would pack our backpacks and go. Right Art?
Art: Yeah but we need to get more leave saved up in our bank!

The Yak: What was your favorite challenge?

Art: I think JJ’s was Bollywood and mine the Hawaiian sled [deep laughter]

The Yak: How many attempts did it take you to get down on the sled?

JJ: We were trying to figure that out it was between 40-50.

The Yak: That was a little sled, the girls definitely had an advantage for their smaller center of gravity. What was that about a 1 x 6?

Art: Yes and a big guy like me didn’t fit to well between two toothpicks. It was about 8 inches wide by 10 feet long.
JJ: But when we saw Dave and Rachel we were like wow we are still in it. The Hawaiian warrior lady that was down by me turns to me and says Hawaiian women warriors always really dominate in this. I was like you’ve got to be kidding me and then the second time there she goes and slides right down. She said the sleds are made for women and if you go online and watch the Hawaiian sledders, all the men just eat it constantly. But Art did good he finished it when he could have just quit.

The Yak: You get kudos for your persistence.

[Laughter]

The Yak: What was your favorite city or country to visit?

Art: I think it was Japan and Bavaria but Japan was pretty awesome. The water, the people, were just really beautiful.
JJ: I think Bavaria, it was Christmas time and it was snowing and Germany is so beautifully pristine and clean and orderly. But of all the places that we went and there were some spectacular places but the greatest place was Hawaii, it was absolutely breathtakingly spectacular. I thought that was interesting that we travel almost 40,000 miles and end up back in the United States and I consider it the most beautiful place I have ever seen.

The Yak: You must have really jammed getting up and down the building in Japan?

Art: When we got to the building… when I was doing the Japanese game show I ended up hurting my foot. I jammed it and had like turf toe so it hurt really bad. When we get up to the building I was already walking with a noticeable limp so it took us a while to find the clue there because we went up to the top and thought we were going to have to look out into the city but eventually we found it on the computer monitors. But we got there pretty quick.

The Yak: The towers was one challenge that the men seemed to have an advantage over the women?

JJ: I am not real good with heights so it was horrific for me but Art did it with his 4 star training in war patrol and so he loved it and was joking thinking it was a good time and I thought I was going to die at any moment.
Art: When we got up to the top of the building the wind started blowing pretty good so you were getting whipped around pretty good up there.
JJ: The Amazing Race it’s such an understatement to say it’s amazing. They challenged us from things we felt comfortable with to things that were so out of our wheel house, so out of our comfort zone but it was always exciting and felt like an incredible competition. Art and I always felt this and I hope you can portray… it is just the Amazing Race production itself, the people, is a first class run organization. We never felt like a piece of meat or the dancing monkey. We always felt like we were really important to them and our well-being and our needs were taken care of, there is nothing I can say that could really articulate what a great organization they are and the behind the scenes and everything they do is just first class. Wouldn’t you agree Art?
Art: Absolutely!
JJ: It was an incredible experience and we would have loved to have won. We are very competitive and it still stings us to this day but to be able to run the whole race and experience from the application process all the way to seeing Phil tell us the world is waiting… and to run onto the red carpet with him at the end it is pretty special. I know there have been 20 seasons and 200+ teams and I know 190 something of them would have killed to be in the spot Art and I were. I think as time goes on we will appreciate it more deeply and have fonder memories than we have now just because of the sting of being so close.

The Yak: Now post show have you resolved your differences with Rachel and Dave?

JJ: I have had a couple emails with Rachel just concerning the get together but it is just too far gone. Don’t you think Art?
Art: Yeah it was a strategy we had come up with a long time ago and it was something it was decided between that we going to do, so when someone doesn’t follow through on what they say they will do it is just upsetting because we had a certain plan in place but it worked out and it is what it is.
JJ: I don’t foresee any get together soon. Do you agree Art?
Art: Yeah.
[Laughter]

The Yak: They had a little different take on that.

JJ: There is a lot of back story on that that you can’t show on tv. We supposedly had an agreement between me, Art and Dave during a kumbaya moment. This was a strategy that Dave concocted that we agreed several legs prior and it was kind of a security agreement between Vanessa/Ralph, Dave/Rachel and Art/I because we knew that we would get u-turned if one of the teams were ahead of us because Dave/Rachel and Art/I were doing so well and we knew that Big Brother hated Vanessa. So we kind of knew they were going to u-turn so it was kind of security to help if any of us 3 got way back in the pack somehow and that right at 5:30 in the morning before we left Dave and I had a “is it still on, yeah it’s still on, so okay I’ll do it man you got my word” …there are no hard feelings I just don’t… it is what it is, right Art? I think they deserved to win. They overcame a colossal mistake and still won the race, they deserve all the credit and the right to claim winner of The Amazing Race.
Art: Absolutely! Rachel was a rock star. She killed a lot of those challenges like when I watched her do the game show thing she was jumping and still running and keeping her balance. I was like you got to be kidding me because there is no way I was going to jump and stay on my feet. I was jumping falling and rolling and so was everyone else. She had athleticism and the stuff she was doing, I was impressed! She is a special gal that one!
JJ: Yeah pound for pound she was the toughest competitor on that 20th season.

The Yak: On the 11th leg the first place prize was a trip for 2 to New Zealand and both of you had expressed in your pre-show interviews that was a place you would like to visit. How bummed were you about that?

Art: As soon as we saw that Sunday night I was like oh man you have got to be kidding me!
JJ: Yeah so we didn’t know, we didn’t talk to Dave and them afterward. It was a quick turn around for the next flight so when we saw that on tv Sunday I turned to Art and I was like your kidding me! That was the only place I really, really desired to go and haven’t been. We were close man, that was ours too it seemed to be, we took the wrong challenge a couple of times there right Art?
Art: Undoubtedly.
JJ: Ultimately we just wanted to be in the final 3 because that was the only one that matters. Our strategy worked the whole time except the second leg in India where we came in fourth. We really believed we should be in the top 3 every leg and we believe we could win every leg but being in the top 3 put us in a position to win it and garsh dang if we weren’t in a position to win it for about an hour but it just didn’t happen. I guess that is the beauty and the difficulty of life sometimes, life is exuberant and awesome and sometimes it is rough and that builds character in your life.

The Yak: Has being on The Amazing Race made it more difficult to do your job?

Art: No for the most part the things that we do are in the hour of darkness, when we are out doing the work we do, it is not out in the public and as border patrol we are in places people wouldn’t go anyway. If anything it has made things a little more lively with our crew and not more difficult except when we go to meetings and people want to take pictures.

[Laughter]

The Yak: Bopper had shared with us that he was not going to hold you guys to sharing the money from your first place leg. What is your take on that?

JJ: That is his money, that was our agreement, right Art? That’s what we decided. The back story is that I was on that 18 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires and I was talking to Bopper about his daughter. The next night Art and I talked about it and everything he has gone thru and if we get fortunate enough to win a money leg why don’t we split it with Bopper. Art said that was an awesome idea, let’s do it, so we had made that decision prior to the leg and when we finally got first in Italy it was in the morning and we had no idea where Bopper and Mark were. This was something we decided no strings attached. You can say many things about Art and I but our word is solid and that money is Bopper’s to take her on vacation or get her out of there for a while, but whatever he does, it is his money.

The Yak: That is very generous of you. Is there anything you would like to share with the readers?

Art: It is the fact that people enjoy the race, it is everything that you see and so much more that goes on in it and people need to realize it is tv and when you have strong people on competing that is the way it is it is… a competition for a million dollars. It is a way to change your life and to not know the things that go on with the sleep deprivation and the travel and the no food and no water, it wears on a person’s body, wears on a person’s soul, it wears on their mind, so the things that happen there is pretty much because people are at the end of the rope and it is fun and that is what makes it The Amazing Race.
JJ: The only thing I have to say is The Amazing Race crew, cameramen, sound guys and all the people behind the scenes are a first-class operation.

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A big shout out and thanks to Art and JJ for taking the time to chat with us and congrats on the 2nd place win!

What do you think? Leave us a comment below, then come on in to the FORUM to discuss The Amazing Race and all of your favorite Reality Shows!

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The Yak got the chance to chat it up with The Amazing Race 20 winner, Dave and Rachel Brown! Keep reading to see what they had to say!

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The Yak: Congratulations on the Browns’ for winning and busting all kinds of TAR records! They are the first team to have won 8 different legs in a single season. They also are the first to have made it to the finish line mat TWICE in one finale and win!

Dave: Good and bad.
Rachel: laughs

The Yak: Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad!

Dave: Exactly.

The Yak: Would you do it again?

Rachel: Absolutely! It was so unbelievable to see all the sights.
Dave: In a heartbeat.

The Yak: Now aside from the million dollars one of the goals in your pre-show interview was to reconnect, did you succeed?

Dave: Yes Rachel and I were definitely able to improve our communications even though it was edited or shown as such we kept supporting each other through the race and just spending quality time and time in general with each other. It was such a rarity in the previous 24 months I had been gone nearly 18 and Rachel travels frequently for work as well. Being able to spend time with each other was just nice.

The Yak: Now out of all the trips you won for all your first place legs we want to know which will you take first?

Dave: We are both excited about New Zealand.
Rachel: Yeah, it will be so incredible.

The Yak: Rachel how many times did it take you to go down with the sled?

Rachel: It only took two. The first time I slid down on my back and it hurt so bad that it made me so determined not to wipe out again so the second time I made it.

The Yak: You rocked it!

Dave: She completed it in 2, she killed it. I think between the sled and Bollywood dancing, which obviously her past as a dancer, she has been dancing since she was 3 years old! While shaking JJ’s hand I made a comment to him… I don’t know how long you have been here with Art but I guarantee we will complete this task within 3 shots and they couldn’t believe it!

The Yak: You looked beautiful doing it too!

Rachel: I don’t know about that but the guy told me when I said it hurts so bad when I wiped out (on the sled) was just put oil on your back that will help when you fall so I oiled and lubed myself up! [Laughs]

The Yak: Which was your favorite challenge?

Dave: My favorite was in Japan, the Sumo with the photographs. It took me out of the race and something I really enjoyed. I was able to mingle with the locals and get a feel of not just the culture but the people themselves having the opportunity to meet and work the social aspects of it. There were no other challenges that were as social or speaking to the locals as that one.
Rachel: Argentina skydiving hands down it was such a cool experience.
( Dave has yet to skydive so Rachel was happy to be the first to accomplish that and this spring the couple will be going to skydive together!)

The Yak: What was your favorite place to have visited over the coarse of the race?

Rachel: Hands down Tanzania was so beautiful! The animals and the people… no doubt about it the most amazing experience.
Dave: Tanzania was so surreal, serene, tranquil and majestic. The country is absolutely gorgeous. Rachel absolutely loved the “bamboons”!
Rachel: [Laughs ] shush! The kids there were so cute on the side of the road they waved to us and everyone was just do friendly there.

The Yak: Dave, how hard was it for you to sit in the back seat of the helicopter?

Dave: [Laughs] I would much rather be at the controls then be a passenger but it was pretty enjoyable. They had me up on headset so I could speak to the pilot, it was about a 45 minute flight to the North shore. I would much rather be in the cockpit rather than the cabin.

The Yak: How long did it take you to get across to the island since you had to do it twice?

Rachel: [Laughs] The paddle boating, Dave was fast so it motivated me and I would say 10-15 minutes each way.

The Yak: Now how happy were you to see the gators there to drive back to the dock?

Rachel: Oh so happy!
Dave: We see Art and JJ there and realize that we are still possibly vying for first place and then when we are in the gators driving back I see fresh tracks and again we hadn’t seen brendon and Rachel so we didn’t know if they already drove out to the final so we kind of began to second guess ourselves whether we would be coming in first.

The Yak: JJ didn’t tell you! Naughty boy!

Dave: Exactly!

The Yak: What is next for you guys besides taking your trips?

Rachel: We go back to work tomorrow. We are excited to get back to normal life.
Dave: The monotony of normal life sounds pretty good right now and having a Sunday evening where we are not completely enthralled with the race and everything it has entailed over the last few months will be kind of nice.

The Yak: Have either of you been keeping in contact with the other teams?

Dave: I have more so than Rach. I am in touch with Bopper, Elliot, Ralph and Joey especially.

The Yak: I think Bopper and Mark have kept in touch with most everybody, they are the Mr. Congenialities of TAR 20!

Dave: On the race itself I actually pulled Bopper aside and told him you know America is going to love you all, he couldn’t believe it, is just the way he is, it is his personality.
Rachel: They are America’s Sweethearts!

The Yak: Any other reality shows in your future?

Rachel: No.

The Yak: Perhaps Dave you would want to do Survivor?

Dave: I wouldn’t mind.

The Yak: Did you work it out with Art and JJ after the show?

Rachel: Oh yeah after the show wrapped we all got together had a great night and put our differences aside.
Dave: Again from our standpoint we never had any animosity towards Art and JJ and we couldn’t believe the response to our decision. They were emotionally invested at the time and I think that actually benefited Rachel and I as a team so I appreciated that.

The Yak: Anything else you would like to share with the readers?

Dave: We appreciate the support and Rachel and I really to love each other and no pun intended but it was really amazing!
Rachel: We always wanted to be on The Amazing Race and we just applied!

The Yak: Thank you so much and congratulations on an amazing win Rachel and Dave!

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Well, what do you think? Are you happy Rachel and Dave won the Race? Leave a comment below!

In Fairytale Land we pick up on the story of Snow and Charming where he had been taken away by the king right after reuniting with Snow. The king is intent on killing him, but Regina shows up and persuades him to hand James over to her. She can use him to destroy Snow White.

Snow storms the castle with help from the dwarves, Granny and Red, and the fairies. Snow is fierce and takes out a lot of guards. Once she reaches the dungeon, she finds a mirror with James in it. He tells her that Regina took him and Snow vows to rescue him.

Snow meets up with Regina where Regina grew up. Regina reveals that it was Snows fault that her mother killed her one true love. She says the only way for James to be freed is for her to eat the poison apple, willingly. And as the story goes, Snow eats the apple and falls into a deep, deep sleep. All of the others arrive and believe her to be dead, sacrificing herself to save James.

Meanwhile in Storybrooke, Henry talks Emma out of kidnapping him and leaving town. But she’s on a bit of a roller coaster. She doesn’t want to stay because she doesn’t want people counting on her. She just wants to run. Mary Margaret calls her out on it.

Regina tries to make a deal with Mr. Gold to get rid of Emma, because apparently killing her would break the curse. Hmmm…interesting. But Mr. Gold isn’t having it. So she enlists the help of Jefferson, aka The Mad Hatter. She wants him to go back to Fairytale Land with his hat, but that requires magic. Luckily she has a little stowed away. However, it isn’t enough…just enough to reach in and grab something. Naturally she grabs the poison apple.

Emma talks to Regina about how she needs to just leave and how Henry will be safe staying with Regina. It seems like a truce. But as Emma is leaving, Regina gives her a turnover…an apple turnover.

Once back at the apartment Henry shows up and continues on with trying to convince Emma after finding out that August had failed. When he discovers Regina gave Emma an apple turnover, he snatches it and bites into it…falling to the ground.

Wow. So Henry’s been hit by the poison apple?! True loves kiss broke the slumber the first time…but I don’t know that Henry has a true love just yet!

What did you think? Feeling the episode or not so much? Pumped for the season finale next week? I sure am! Let’s see some fireworks!

Kat Edorsson the 22-year-old Timeshare rep from Orlando, Fla. was blindsided on the 12th episode of Survivor One World. What made the blindside so unique was that Kat was anticipating an exciting fun blindside! She said blindsides can be fun. Kat now wants everyone to know that she’s really embarrassed about that comment and laughingly tells us that she has definitely changed her mind! “No, blindsides are not fun nor are they exciting, I take back everything I said!” Kat cried all of the way to the Ponderosa. Her eviction hit her hard. Many of her tears had to do with the fact that she adored living on that island. She considers herself an outdoor girl, loves camping and roughing it and doesn’t want to go back to her everyday life.

The Yak: What has the reaction been for you online after everything that happened last night?

Kat: Great question, um. I’ve had a lot of love ya know, Kitten always has some love. I’ve had a few here and there that say “ OMG, You’re so stupid, how can you be so naïve and selfish?” What am I gonna do? Everyone has their own opinion on how I played the game. I just take it all and roll with it.

The Yak: The last couple of episodes it seems that you were really enthusiastic to cement your place in Survivor history by making a big move. What were some of the moves you wanted to make and did any of them end up being successful for you?

Kat: Ultimately my biggest mistakes were when it came to the reward challenge and things like that. But if I were ever going to make a move, mind you they never showed me being strategic. I did start an alliance very early on and was loyal to that alliance. I wasn’t as open minded as I should have been. Like to Troy, entertaining his idea to his alliances, etc. I wasn’t really entertaining the idea but I should have been more open to it. I had so much heart in the game and I wanted to do so well, all I wanted to do was kick Kim’s ass in the challenge and so I see myself trying to beat Kim. Ultimately, say I had won immunity that night. If I was going to make a big move I could have chosen to go with Tarzan, Christina and Alicia or I could have gone with Kim, Chelsea and Sabrina. If that was ever going to be a move, that was the move that I was gonna make. What would be more beneficial for me? So you know, again, we can never say that I did make a big move because I didn’t win. I wasn’t strong enough that day.

The Yak: If you could go back and do the reward challenge again would you take the same people?

Kat: (Laughs) Absolutely not. I hate that people said I was selfish, because I completely sympathize with everybody. The reward challenges are death, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this but if you watch them, you don’t want to be the person who chooses who gets to go with you, you want to be the person who’s chosen. So when I chose Kim and Alicia it was such a terrible decision because I didn’t know how Sabrina and Chelsea were going to react and I didn’t know they were going to be so sour about it. I guarantee you this. I look selfish because I didn’t take Christina and Tarzan, that was Sabrina and Chelsea’s excuse, and I love these girls. They know for a fact that if I took one of them instead of Alicia they would have not been saying anything at camp about me the next day. So yes, I did make a really bad mistake because Alicia was part of my final three. Why would I take her? I don’t know I was not thinking strategically and that was my million-dollar move that I completely messed up.

The Yak: Looking back and seeing yourself through the eyes of the viewers, do you think you are too naïve?

Kat: Um, I wouldn’t want to say naïve, I really don’t. I mean joking around everyone doesn’t want to hear this but I am only 22. I don’t want to say it’s naïve, that’s a negative word and actually I’m a very positive person. In survivor you actually have to trust somebody. What I did is trust somebody with my whole heart. I trusted all these women with everything I had. In Survivor you shouldn’t play that way. In real life you shouldn’t do that, especially to a stranger that’s not your family. I treated them like they were my family. I would do anything for these women. Unfortunately it didn’t pay off in the end and it made me look very naïve for believing what Kim said to me and getting completely blindsided. You saw my face! I mean my face was like “no way this is happening to me right now!” My eyes were like Oh My God! Nobody wants to see Kat cry, nobody does, and it’s not good. There’s not a mean bone in my body. So if I were to say that I was naïve, I think I made naïve decisions but I don’t think that I’m naïve. I think I was playing the game that I really wanted to play; I was playing as hard as I could. I just unfortunately didn’t see what was happening right in front of my face at that particular moment. So, that decision I made was a little bit naïve, yes.

The Yak: Why didn’t you try and make a move with Troyzan the week before and try to vote Kim out or another strong female?

Kat: No of course, the episode shows me crying hysterically because Troy wouldn’t leave me alone. (laughs) The silver fox was in action. I was like “old man, leave me alone!” My decision for not being more open to what he had to say had nothing to do with Troy and the fact that he basically was telling me what was about to happen. If I would have went with Troy, if I had voted with Troy to send Christina home, my alliance would have found out that I betrayed them which means I would have had to take on all of them. Honestly when you’ve gotten that deep into the game when you’re so loyal? Kim said to the viewers that I am her final 3, I was her best decision. The only reason she couldn’t keep me anymore is because the majority flipped. My whole alliance flipped on me so ultimately if I would have went with Troy I would have been gone today anyway. Now look at me I’m gone! It’s so sad.

The Yak: Were you more upset that you got voted off before Christina and Tarzan or that you were blindsided, which one is worse?

Kat: (laughing) I would have to say that it has to be that I got voted off before Christina and Tarzan. Troy makes this big thing about the fact that people who deserve to play are people who are in the game right now but that’s not how Survivor works. Survivor’s deceitful. Troy says Survivor’s like an ex-wife who’s very deceitful and doesn’t understand how to play or how to get along. The fact that Tarzan and Christina were there longer than me broke my heart! If you asked Christina that day, “Christina what game are you playing?” she probably wouldn’t be able to tell you what the game is called.

The Yak: Knowing what you know now, would you still vote for Kim to win the million dollars?

Kat: I can’t say but knowing what I know now and the type of game she’s played and how she’s bamboozled everyone I think she has a fantastic shot to win the game. I do think Kim is playing a fantastic game.

Kat is enthusiastically looking forward to the reunion. She’d love to do Survivor again. Thanks for speaking with us Kat, good luck to you!

The TV season marks another year in the books as the 2011-2012 season comes to an end within the coming weeks. The end of one season kicks off the start of another. With that, enter the year’s most “guilty pleasure” season. As we enter a new chapter in television, we here at the Yak decided it was finally time to preview the new fare that the major networks will be offering us this summer – fare that you’ll be obsessed with, sacrificing your family for and, in some cases, denying your affection for. Don’t worry, we don’t judge! In addition to our Summer Reality Television Preview, be sure to check the calendar on the right side of this very page for all the upcoming season finale dates and sumer premiere dates in the coming months! We’ve got a lot of fun things planned in the summer with upcoming reality shows, especially everyone’s guilty pleasure, Big Brother! Stay tuned for all of our upcoming coverage … the Yak will be your go-to spot for summer TV coverage. Until then…enjoy the time you spend with your friends and family.

Keep Up With Dates for Upcoming Season Finales

3, July 22 @ 9/8c on CBS!

CBS has ordered “3,” a new unscripted series about three women’s search for love, for broadcast this summer on the CBS Television Network.

“3″ is a new dating series in which three single women of different ages, life experiences and backgrounds meet for the first time with a common goal – to find true love. As they search for a partner, they will share their lives and emotionally support one another during the dating and decision-making process.

“’3′ is a relationship show that won’t perpetuate a fairy tale myth about dating,” said Jennifer Bresnan, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, CBS Entertainment. “Without any typical game play, it intimately documents the search for love and the reality of dating – the anticipation, the excitement, the rejection. Along the way, we’ll see personalities who are real, and flawed and simply human.”

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