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« Ashton Kutcher Warns Twitter Hacker: “I’m Coming For You!” | Home | Next Great Baker Recap: Heavy Metal Brings The Claws Out » January 16, 2012 08:12 PM by Candace Young Tonight, Chris Harrison promises explosive drama on The Bachelor . This comes hot on the heels of the news that The Bachelor hit an all-time low in ratings with last week’s episode. Keep reading for the highlights of Ben Flajnik’s dates in San Francisco, including a bachelorette who opts out of a one-on-one date, and a mystery woman who shows up looking for a rose… Ben Flajnik’s bachelorettes have traveled to San Francisco tonight on The Bachelor. The show opens with Ben and his sister Julia having a candid conversation about what it’s like for him to being on the other side of things. He mentions a few of the girls by name – most notably Courtney (the model!), whom he refers to as ‘down to earth’.  Hmm. Julia seems anxious to marry Ben off, but is also wary of him being burned again a la Ashley Hebert on The...

Home > Comedy > BBC announce ‘Holy Flying Circus’ September 29th, 2011 by Sarah. No comments In 1979, Monty Python’s film Life Of Brian caused outrage around the world. Nuns with banners picketed cinemas, councils banned the film without even seeing it and the religious group Festival of Light organised a concerted campaign against the film, trying to get it banned. Against this backdrop Michael Palin and John Cleese found themselves facing prominent society figures Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark in a television debate in front of a live studio audience to defend their film against charges of blasphemy: but who won? Written by Tony Roche (In The Loop, The Thick Of It) Holy Flying Circus is a fantastical re-imagining of the controversy surrounding the release of Life Of Brian. Witty and humorous in tone, the comedy drama incorporates surreal cutaways including puppetry and animation in telling its narrative. Richard Klein, Controller BBC Four, comments: “This i...

Tonight, a six-part reality series on PBS explores circus life as goes behind the scenes of the Big Apple Circus, a one-ring, European-style circus. The series, called simply Circus , was created by the same people who produced last year’s Carrier , which took cameras on board an aircraft carrier. The series finds its cast members in transition, from the retirement of its founding artistic director to the hot gay twin juggler who’s ending their act by heading off to medical school while his brother stays behind. It’s simultaneously an overview of circus life today and a more intimate portrait of its cast members, though a different kind of intimacy than, say, Bravo’s unscripted series offer. The pace is slower than a typical reality show, but that’s part of its charm, and the first hour tonight builds to a pretty dramatic series of events. (The six-hour series airs two hours over each of the next three Wednesdays; check your local PBS listings for times.) What really stands out to me ...