Survivor: South Pacific
Coach and Ozzy is kind of a mismatched pair to come back. It should have either been two players who know each other and have a grudge, like Rob and Russell last season, or Coach vs. Phillip in a battle of the crazies. Kind of annoying that, in Survivor's true exploitative, Russell-loving fashion, they have to put "RUSSELL HANTZ'S NEPHEW" next to Brandon's name instead of his occupation, because they still have to mention Russell as much as possible. And while Cochran is a dweeb, I will support him because so am I.
Up All Night
Overlooked this one when I was listing the new shows I might watch this season, and since there's not much else on this week I decided to check it out. I liked it, it has a similar sense of humour to the other NBC comedies, though they should've put it in their Thursday block instead of Whitney, which looks terrible and doesn't fit with the others at all because it's a laughtrack show. But anyway, I like Will Arnett and Christina Applegate, and they have good chemistry and both get to be funny. That's always a plus since wives tend to be "the straight character", but then this show was created by a woman, so the stereotypes of both "the unfunny woman" and "the stay-at-home mom" have been nicely subverted/modernized (the father stays home all day while she is the career woman). Maya Rudolph is also fun as an obvious Oprah/Ellen hybrid. Bottom line is that it was funny enough to have future potential, and in my opinon is a better alternative to what I've seen from Raising Hope, last year's other breakout dysfunctional baby-raising sitcom.
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