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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003)
Bad Title, Tired Show, Stupid Network
I have seen this show and it was an interesting spin off of "Extreme Makeover" when it launched, but it has since grown tired. Ty Pennington, a known carpenter, doesn't bother to pick up an hammer or screw gun to help the crew when time is growing short but just picks up his amplified bullhorn and tries (horribly) to coax them along. For Christ's sake Carpenter Boy, pick up a wrench and help out! ABC is the poster child for running niche shows to the point of burning out and this is one of them. The new, long-titled "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That?" will kill off this franchise. Viewers don't care about how it was done, they only want to see the gushy reunion of family and house. I'm making myself sick...I gotta go.
So, this show is nothing but a shameless vehicle for pretty boy Ty. HOw sad.
That's Funny (2004)
It's not that funny
This program should be titled "America's Funniest...Revisited" as that's pretty much all it does: revisit videos from the Vin Di Bona home video vault. "That's Funny" is a half-hour collection of videos from "America's Funniest Home Videos" and it's short-lived sibling program "America's Funniest People" (which you can tell by looking at the early 90's styles in the cheesy mall segments) hosted by Rondell Sheridan who, in a nod to the original AFV with Bob Saget, does corny voiceovers to nearly every video and not done well. The only difference is there is no contest for the best video, it's your basic video clip show. The migraine-inducing colorful set looks to be crammed in a corner of a 40x40 studio in California.
Unless you like this stuff, don't bother watching. You'd be better off watching the new episodes of AFV on ABC.
Gimme the Mike (2004)
A completely local talent competition
Similar to "American Idol" except this is produced by local television stations across the country and stays at the local level. The concept is distributed by Post-Newsweek Television. Here is how it breaks down: The market-exclusive program auditions locals at area malls or at the studio. >From that pool of 500+, 35 are chosen (30 primary contenders plus five alternates) by the station producers to go on to the televised semi-finals. Each week for 6 weeks, five singers face-off in front of a panel of judges to be scored on a 40-point scale. The winner each week earns a spot in the final 5. The home audience gets to choose a wild card singer out of the 4 remaining singers. The five wild cards compete to find one to move on to the finals as well. In the finals, one will walk away with a grand prize package and recognition as a local singing sensation.
KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, WDIV/Detroit, WNBC/New York, WPXI/Pittsburgh, WJXT/Jacksonville, and KMWB/Minneapolis are a few of the many stations who have produced local versions of "Gimme The Mike!" Shows have been produced on location at casinos, theaters, and in the studio.