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Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

August 5th, 2008

High School Musical 3 - The Hype Has Started

High School Musical 3 is not due out in theaters until October 24, 2008, but Disney already has its marketing machine in full gear!
The official web site is up, trailers are on YouTube, you can even pre-order the High School Musical 3: Senior Year soundtrack. It also seems that every other commercial or music video […]

By char -- 0 comments

July 7th, 2008

The Baby Borrowers

I wasn’t planning on watching The Baby Borrowers. Not because I thought it was stupid premise for a show or because I felt like children were being exploited. No, I wasn’t planning on watching just because I don’t have time. It’s opposite So You Think You Can Dance and I’m not missing out on my […]

By Christine -- 3 comments

June 21st, 2008

Disney’s Camp Rock

Disney’s Camp Rock premiered last night. Were you plastered in front of your television with your tweens like we were? My eight-year-old daughter liked it, but she think High School Musical is better. My thirteen-year-old son said Camp Rock is better. What did your kids think?
I enjoyed the movie. The acting was good (for a […]

By Christine -- 2 comments

March 31st, 2008

High School Confidential, Episode 3: Jessi

In the third episode of High School Confidential we met Jessi. Jessi was “terribly, terribly shy” when she was a child so her mom put her in acting and she loved it. Her parents were engaged, but split up before Jessi was born. She never met her father.
When asked what she expected from her first […]

By Christine -- 2 comments

March 26th, 2008

High School Confidential, Episode 2: Courtney

In episode 2 of High School Confidential, we met Courtney and her family. Courtney was a good girl who relied on her faith to help her make the right decisions. She was a cheerleader and a soccer player with hopes to play soccer in college.
As they interviewed Courtney before she entered high school they asked […]

By Christine -- 1 comment

March 25th, 2008

High School Confidential, Episode 1: Lauren G. and Cappie

Have you been watching the show High School Confidential? It is the brain child of Sharon Liese, a single mom of a twelve-year-old daughter. The show documents the lives of 12 girls from the start of their freshman year in high school until their graduation and everything in between. All twelve girls attended Northwest High […]

By Christine -- 2 comments

February 28th, 2008

New Reality Show Refueling the Mommy Wars?

Yesterday morning I heard an ad on the radio for a new TLC reality show called, The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom - where the show’s premise is to secretly take a stay at home mom away from her family for a week to pursue her dream career again.
Immediately after I got home I […]

By char -- 8 comments

February 26th, 2008

TV Free Week Status Report

Our family is going TV free this week and 48 hours into our exercise, I can honestly say, this is just too easy! Now it helps that the biggest TV watcher in the family (Daddy) is out of town this week, but the kids have not argued, begged or really even seemed to have missed […]

By char -- 3 comments

February 24th, 2008

We’re Going TV Free This Week

During a family game of Wii bowling last night, I was absolutely appalled at my daughters’ behavior. The two of them were shaking their booties, taking verbal digs at each other, and spouting out semi-inappropriate sayings. The more I observed, the more I realized the source of their content - TV!!
So I decided that we […]

By char -- 12 comments

January 22nd, 2008

Are We Making It To Easy For Our Kids?

As I was surfing the news sites today I came across an article about kids television viewing habits. Kids today are seeing things on TV I didn’t get to see until I turned 18 and could pay for my own movie ticket or TV. Ok, maybe not 18, but I definitely wasn’t watching any horror […]

By Christine -- 10 comments