Just What We Need

Just What We Need: Another Way for Men to Hit on Women by Roxanne McDonald

Then again, the new Vh1 show, “The Pick-up Artist,” might just do some damage to the already extant repertoires of the boyz in bars.

As the pick-up pros at The Seduction Bible tell it, the most important dynamic for the PUA (pick-up artist) is not some clever routine but a “deep inner game.” It is not planning

[though it surely involves plotting], but is improvisation, cum a natural ability to connect with women.For a demonstration [fictional], check out the movie, The Pick-up Artist, with Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role. For lessons for you guys and entertainment and education for us women, we should tune in to the Vh1 premier of “The Pick-up Artist,” airing August 6th.

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Vh1 Top TV Shows We Lie about [not] Watching

Vh1 Top TV Shows We Lie about [not] Watching by Roxanne McDonald

And [not just] from this writer and TV freak’s less than humble and scathingly truthful point of view….

Okay, so I watch shows you might not want to fess up about watching, never mind being hooked on. And so the following accolades include those for those very shows that many won’t even admit to watching and liking…. But, hey, the numbers say otherwise:

THE OLD SHOWS

Flavor of Love

With a Nielsen rating of in conjunction with an audience of 5.9 million by the finale of season one of “Flavor of Love” and a season 2 premiere audience of 5.9 million, the finale of the second season had pulled a staggering 7.5 million—making that episode alone the most watched non-sports cable show of the TV week that week (according to E! News).

The show to watch for African Americans aged 18 to 49, “Flavor of Love,” Vh1 said, was its highest rated telecast ever. Until New York came along, that is….

I Love New York

The VH1 reality competition show that spun off not only “Flavor of Love” but “The Bachelor” and then, of course, “The Bachelorette” pulled in 4.4 million viewers, earned a 2.55

Nielsen Media Research rating for its 9PM ET/PT premiere, according to Multichannel News and Reality TV, and was cited as the number one Vh1 show (highest rated in the history of Vh1 programming).Surreal Life/Fame Game

I don’t know if this is connected to Nielsen ratings, but at TV.com, the stats hold fairly strong for “The Surreal Life”: Popularity Rank is 495, but that’s out of 16,518 voters; and the Ratings Rank is 1,992 of 16,518.

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Vh1 Games for Everyone

Vh1 Games for Everyone by Roxanne McDonald

It may be common knowledge that a great number of television shows—especially reality TV shows—have adjunct games on their corresponding websites. But I discovered Vh1 games and game matrices just in time.

With the advent of “interactive” TV, which I am for the most part opposed to, I was still delighted to find a more standard kind of interactivity—the acceptable kind where TV viewers and/or pc users can “compete” against or in favor of the celebreality stars of their choice.

For “I Love New York,” Vh1 has the I Love New York Premonition Matrix, wherein one can place pictures against captions that read New York’s Favorite, Mama’s Boy, or Not Good Enough—casting your premonitory vote.

For “Surreal Life Fame Games,” Vh1 has brought us The Fame Games Matrix, where you decide whether the celebrities belong on the A-List or the C-U-Later List by putting them “in their place”—rating current episodes; and the Celebrity Ugly Stick, in which you intentionally make one of three celebrities “get ugly,” so he or she can win the Ugly Award.

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