Congrats to Sandra on her win - the "reunion" show was ok - not a whole lot new was learned except maybe that according to Jeff - none of them knew about Jon's lie about his grandmother until after the fact.  Also according to the Jury members, if Lill had taken Jon instead of Sandra she would have won (of course we don't know that for sure - they can say whatever they likeat this point).  Rupert was in good spirits and since I really liked him on the show it was nice to see him.

The final show...  mini-recap on the fly..

Segment #1: Recap of everything leading up to this show.... 
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Segment #2: Jeff brings the survivors breakfast, delivers letters from home - no competition - they just get to read them.  Jon plots to secure a spot in the final three (uses Lill's emotions over the letters against her).  Lill plots as well.  Matter of fact - all four plot.  Lill, Sandra Jon agree to vote off Darrah.  Darra, Sandra and Jon agree to vote off Lill.  Treemail - immunity challenge teased.
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Segment #3: Immunity challenge at the tribal council - ut oh - its complicated... the Jury gets to compete in the immunity challenge.  Pirate trivia.  The five member jury gets to compete as a group.  If the jury wins there is no immunity.  ...... Jury wins immunity (won the quiz).  Voting proceeds with everyone eligible after discussing the letters, strategy, plotting, etc.  Jon's vote not revealed.... Lill votes for Darrah..... Darrah votes for Lill.... Sandra's vote not revealed.  Darrah voted out 3-1.  Darrah's parting words - calls Jon and Lill 'snakes.'  Says that Lill pretends she doesn't know the game but she does.
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Segment #4: They all agree that it was best to vote off Darrah.  Lill seems to think it was all Darrah's idea to vote her off.  Treemail arrives in the middle of the night.  Immunity challenge begins around sunrise.  The three remaining Survivors arrive on a beach and pay final tribute to the survivors that were voted off by putting their extinguished torches on a wooden 'pirate' ship on the beach and igniting it after saying something nice about their former tribemates (oohhh the drama - zzzzzzz).  Boy - if you need to take a bathroom break - that would be the perfect time.
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Segment#5: Final challenge - the three survivors are set on individual rafts - if their butt or knees touch the raft they are eliminated.  All three assume crouching positions with hands on the rafts in front of them.  Sandra loses her balance and is eliminated (around 15 minutes in).  Jon tries to work a deal with Lill and she refuses.  30 minutes in - Jon continues to try to talk Lill into it - Lill explains she does aerobics (stamina, balance, etc).  2 hours in - Jon STILL tries to bargain with Lill.  John almost falls.  2 hours 45 minutes Jon loses it.  Lill wins immunity - she looked like she could have gone for hours more.  Segment ends with Lill being told she has the afternoon to decide whom to take with her to the final tribal council.
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Segment #6: Jon and Sandra push Lill to have themselves brought along with her to finals.  Jon uses the "everyone hates me" angle (just like Will in Big Brother II), Lill is concerned that Sandra has a lot of friends on the Jury.  Sandra thinks Lill will take Jon, Jon thinks Lill will take him.  Cut to tribal council.  Rehash of the torch burning (ho hum), recap of the immunity challenge - Sandra talks of how strong Lill was.  Lill discusses the things she has to consider when choosing the person to go with her to the finals.  Lill chooses to vote out Jon and bring Sandra with her to the finals.  She said before the vote she was voting to keep the person she felt she could beat.   Jon leaves - parting words about how he was proud of himself, made it far, glad his grandmother is at home watching, glad he was the last man voted out.
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Segment #7: Sandra and Lill reflect on the past - Lill explains why she took Sandra (gameplay and fairness).  Morning comes, many pretty images as we prepare to see the final two go up against each other....  (BORING!!!!).  Sandra points out she has never received a vote.  Sandra feels it will be a 3-4 vote.  More images and mood music.  Now we see the various Jury members talking to the camera about their feelings on voting and the two remaining people (with still more music and images of Lill and Sandra rowing).  FINALLY we see the tribal council...  Sandra makes her opening statement, then Lill and we go to commercial.
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Segment #8: Q & A session with the Jury. 
Ryan points out Sandra was 'out of the game' for 8 days.  He asks Sandra about 'riding' coat-tails. 
Rupert asks Lill about he violating the rules of scouting that she lied, asks he if she was ever truthful him, she replies that until Burton came to her she was.  Sandra explains to Rupert that she did not know he was going to be voted off when it happened. 
"T" asks both why the other does not deserve to win.  Lill says she felt there were times Sandra disrespected people and she did ride 'coat tails.'  Sandra says Lill voted for every person on that Jury and she didn't.
Christa asks Lill why she hid behind the "Boy Scout Oath."  Lill said she didn't, she was stuck in the uniform and has spent 16 years in the scouts.  She asks Sandra about her 'crazyiest' scheme - Sandra discusses when she and "T" listened in on Burton and Jon.
Burton asks on a scale of 1-10 where they stand with their survival skills.  Sandra gives herself a 5.  Lill gives herself a 7 (better skills).
Darrah asks them to explain how they made it to the final 2.  Sandra says she was not the biggest fish - she was always willing to give up her vote to continue on.  Lill says she was never seen as a threat and she followed along, but she also used her own head.
Jon - asks if he can vote 'none of the above' - then to the ladies - asks Sandra how she feels she represented "Puerto Ricans."  Sandra feels she did fine.  Asks Lill how she represented Boy Scouts - calls her on her 'truthfulness' - Lill says the game has noting to do with honor or integrity - she would not have worn the uniform given the chance.  She says she does not represent the Scouts very well.
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Segment #9:  Sandra's final statement - she feels she didn't lie or deceive - that she was who she was, she expressed herself openly even when she cussed people out.  Lill - says the Boy Scout's uniform was an easy target - she would not wear it if she was given the chance again.  She points out that it is one night, she will be going back to the 75 kids she helps and will explain that it was just a game.  Voting commences - 1st vote revealed - Rupert votes for Sandra.... "T" votes for Lill.  Those are the only two votes revealed during voting.  Jeff comes back and announces he will see them "on the other side" - cut to a sound stage (no pretending this time as with other Survivors).  Jeff reveals the votes.
Sandra wins 6-1. (I am not re-capping the 'reunion show')

Jon Dalton	Lillian "Lill" Morris	Sandra Diaz-Twine	Darrah Johnson

Two 'teasers' from the Survivor Newsletter about the final show:

• Letters from home bring a Survivor to tears, but one tribemate sees it as an opportunity to turn the rest of the tribe against that person. 
• A twist in the final stretch brings an unexpected battle for the Final Four.

Wednesday:  No, I didn't watch much of Trista & Ryan's Wedding, I just couldn't get into it.  I did see the part where they claimed the wedding cost something like 3.5 million $ (much of it was supplied as a form of product placement I'm sure).  Maybe some people enjoyed the whole show but for me it was just ho-hum and wondering if they will last the year to make the million dollars they were promised my ABC (a better question is will they make it 2 years).

From Tuesday:  Yes, I watch The Simple Life, sad but true - and I even enjoy it.  Now I don't buy for a minute that its "reality" - I suspect the director/producers were prodding Paris and Nicole into doing most of the suff they do at their various jobs.  But its good for a chuckle.

Jason	Melana	Adam

Jason and Melana will be on Jay Leno tonight - not sure about Adam.  I am sure Adam will make out swell as lots of ladies will be knocking on his door - just hope he can weed out the ones that only want to meet him because of his 'fame' and $$$.  As I said earlier - the second season is in the can and was previewed last night - it will premire on January 5th.

That all being said..  back to "reality" -

Tonight you can catch episode #2 of "The Simple Life" where we will see Paris and whats-her-name (ok - its Nicole Richie - but I had to look up her name) will go to work at a fast-food place.  For those completely out of the loop - Paris has been all the talk with the internet-release of a 2 minute sex-tape of her and an ex-b/f.  Today comes this word via the Chicago Sun-Times, 

"MORE OF PARIS? No comment from her people, but one of my best Hollywood sources swears there's yet another Paris Hilton sex video -- beyond the "girl-on-girl" tape we've already heard rumblings about.   The hotel heiress turned reality TV star reportedly was filmed romping with two hunky Abercrombie & Fitch models, and "it's a LOT hotter than that pretty boring tape she made with Rick Salomon," according to the source." (Link)

Other than that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy would be the remaining "reality" show to catch - two episodes are tonight wrapped around a new edition of "Celebrity Poker" on Bravo.  Oh, and a new episode of Rich Girls on MTV. 

OOOOOORRRRRRRR  you could just scrap Reality TV for the night and tune into the classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on CBS.

Happy viewing!!!

Tommorow Night: Trista & Ryan's Wedding<sniff sniff> apparently the wedding was this past weekend.

This runs through Dec. 12th - a new deal revealed each day - and you can use any of the ones already revealed (Free shipping, discount on "Trading Spaces" items, etc).	Just what it says - runs through Dec. 15.

Preceeding that is a Christmas edition of Fear Factor.

Animal planet has  day 9 of King of the Jungle and MTV has the
Real World/Road Rules Challenge. 

January & February will be chock full of reality shows:

The 8 edition "Survivor All-Stars" will premire after the Super Bowl on February 1st.  Applications for Survivor 9 are being accepted through Jan 27th (see Casting).

Celebrity Mole 2 will premire January 14th on ABC.

Meredith Phillips
Did you watch Bachelor 4 with Bob?  Remember Meredith who took Bob to her grandmother's grave and then was eliminated? Well she will supposebly be the next Bachelorette which premires Jan 14th.

America's Next Top Model 2 will premire on UPN on Jan 13th.  Adrianne Curry won the during the 1st season of this show.

Trump 'Apprentice' debut set for Jan. 8th on NBC.  Link to complete story.

Average Joe 2 was filmed before Average Joe 1 was even on the air - so be prepared come Jan 5th for the second edition (The 1st series ends tommorow night).  A few new things - the show was filmed in Hawaii - 18 guys to start instead of 16 -   and 8 "studs" come in later as compared to 4 from the 1st go round.  Link to complete story.

On another note - Joe Millionaire star Evan Marriott will host the Game Show Network's new relationship show, "Fake-a-Date," which will premiere in March.  Link to complete story.

Added some show info (King of the Jungle) and casting links and show info for Extreme Makeover - Home Edition. 

I am also updating the show links on the right and other pages.  I plan on uploading the TVCH BB4 Live Feed archives soon to go along with the archives from BBI,II and III.

Survivor - Adios Christa.  Yup - she's gone - I am hoping the previews are right and the girls band together and toss either Jon or Burton.  We shall see.

I spent this evening watching shows and updating my "Shop" - I have tracked down many new items that you can get out there including Bob's (Bachelor IV) new CD and his book, Clay's (American Idol) new single as well as the holiday CD fromt he AI folks, and a couple new Trading Spaces and Survivor items including a book by Ty.

Top new show I have watched the last couple of weeks has to be "Average Joe" - although I wasn't pleased when they brought in the 3 model type guys to mix things up.  Now its down to one average guy and one of the models.  This week Melana dressed up in a 'fat' suit and posed as her cousin.  The end result was that she booted one of the average guys (Zach) because of the way he made fun of her weight.  I suspect that in the finale next week she will pick the non-average guy - but they just might be leading us on that thats the way its going to end.  Either way there is no "commitment" at the end of this show.

Survivor has seen the loss of Ryan, Rupert and Tijuana - Jon REALLY irked some folks by pretending his grandmother had died - the ploy worked and gained him some sympathy.  Hey the guy is playing the game with the same cold-heartedness that a certain member (and eventual winner) of Big Brother II did - namely Will.  I am sure Jon told CBS of his plans to lie about his grandmother if he was cast and they ate it up.  So don't put all the blame on Jon.

The Bachelor IV is over - and word is that Bob and his choice are already broken up.  Boy that didn't take long.  By the way - Bob has a CD out:

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Meanwhile Trista and Ryan from Bachelorette are planning a wedding.  ABC will pay them a cool million if they stay married for a year.  I saw tonights show which included the "Bachelor" party and its pretty ho-hum if you ask me.  A lot of scripted drama from the looks of it.  I doubt I watch the final show next week which is supposed to have the wedding.

Lasty I just watched the 1st two episodes of The Simple Life - if you have seen MTV's Rich Girls then you will not see anything new on this show.  If you haven't you might check it out.  It really just goes to show that some people are REALLY IGNORANT about the majority of the population :)

Actually I also watched Extreme Home Makeover (or whatever its called) - more on that show soon as I didn't even know it existed until tonight (tonight was the premire).  Briefly - its a cool show (think of Monster House) with Ty from Trading Spaces as one of the main people.