what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 16th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
Oxygen: Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too at 11p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
CW: 90210 at 8p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p
NBC: Parenthood at 10p
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p [REUNION PART 1]

AND:
FOX: American Idol at 8p
ABC: Lost at 9p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 9th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
Travel: Food Wars at 10p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
CW: 90210 at 8p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p
NBC: Parenthood at 10p
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p [SEASON FINALE]

AND I DON'T WATCH THESE, BUT YOU MIGHT:
FOX: American Idol at 8p
ABC: Lost at 9p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 2nd.

Dear Olympics,

You had a good run. Now get outta here and give me my shows back.

With love,
meL

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
NBC: Parenthood at 10p (Lauren Graham returns to your living room!)

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p

AND OF COURSE:
FOX: American Idol at 8p
ABC: Lost at 9p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 23rd.

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p

AND OF COURSE:
NBC: The Olympics!
FOX: American Idol at 8p
ABC: Lost at 9p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 16th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERE:
MTV: 16 and Pregnant at 10p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p

AND OF COURSE:
NBC: The Olympics!
FOX: American Idol at 8p
ABC: Lost at 9p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 9th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERE:
FOX: Past Life at 9p

TONIGHT'S FINALE:
NBC: The Jay Leno Show at 10p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p

AND OF COURSE:
FOX: American Idol at 8p
ABC: Lost at 9p

Tonight: Bad Girls Club

Why I'm Losing Interest in Bad Girls Club:

It all started out as pure curiosity. As with most shows I randomly TiVo, I think of it all as research. But the last few weeks I've started feeling less interested in watching Bad Girls Club. It has turned into a less love / more hate relationship. It's very stressful watching girls - no, women - fight and yell at each other over every little thing. And it definitely isn't the most relaxing way to end my evening. However, I know what I'm in for when I hit play: skanky outfits, dirty dancing, screaming, pushing, clubs, drunken everything... It's a buffet of class-less quotes. Top it off with rather intense hard rock / metal in the background of the scenes, and say hello to a rising blood pressure. It's tiring, and I suppose if you've seen one BGC episode, you've seen them all. Especially since we've seen every inch of that Bad Girls House. I'm bored.

What I've realized this week is that "reality" shows are more interesting when various locations are involved. I think that's why Tyra always scoops up her models and takes them to another country. Or why Real Housewives have weekend getaways. The change of scenery gives viewers something interesting and different to look at, rather than a repetitive series of events and visuals. If I wanted to see the same thing again and again, I'd quit paying for cable just stare at my own walls.

Bad Girls Club needs a destination. Take me to Hawaii (a la ANTM), or Miami (a la Real Housewives of Orange County), or San Francisco (a la The Bachelor this week.) Those are the escapes I'm looking for in my not-so-real reality television.

So... Why Am I Still Watching Bad Girls Club?

As we were reminded in the beginning of tonight's episode, last week Annie "won the respect of her fellow bad girls." She finally fought back, and it was all too satisfying to watch. It's pretty amazing casting; There's a reason ratings are so high. These girls are absurdly immature and self-centered. And even while they're being completely ridiculous, they come to realizations about things that should be very simple and clear. But since they're so challenged in the *good head on her shoulders* department, these realizations are pretty impressive.

This week, Natalie wanted to party. Go figure! After she explained how she lost her partner in crime party girl Flo, she noted that maybe she should stop being a bitch - because karma might get her too. Yet she then proceeds to pursue a new man even though she has hardly broken up with her current. She's a "hard to please type of girl" with a list of rules for the new suitor. Well, alright then Natalie. I almost forgot that it is all about you.

Annie was her hysterical self, tampering with Kate's foods, and "giggling like a little girl" when Paul dumps her for making out with another girl. To that Annie said, "If you're doing it for a free drink / sorority style, that's one thing..." Oh, the standards.

Natalie took out only the pretty girls about twenty minutes into the episode. This started a fight that lasted through the entire second half of the show. The fight is between Flo and Natalie (who states her angry questions like strange poetry: "why. is. every.body. mad. why. are. you. mad." She basically explodes onto Flo before she can even pick a fight. Flo replies, "I'm gonna sit back and watch you self-destruct." The irony is... that's exactly what I'm doing every Tuesday night, continuing to tune in, just to see what in the world they will scream about next.

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 2nd.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
ABC: Lost at 9p
TLC: 19 Kids and Counting at 9p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p

OTHER NEW EPISODES:
FOX: American Idol at 8p (guest judge: Victoria Beckham); Kitchen Nightmares at 9p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 26th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
HBO: Jimmie Johnson: Race to Daytona at 10p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p

OTHER NEW EPISODES:
FOX: American Idol at 8p (guest judge: Katy Perry)

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 19th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
Bravo: Millionaire Matchmaker at 10p
USA: White Collar at 10p
A&E: Paranormal Cops at 10:30p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p

OTHER NEW EPISODES:
ABC: Scrubs at 9p; Better off Ted at 9:30p
NBC: The Biggest Loser (Couples) at 8p
FOX: American Idol at 8p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 12th.

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
FOX: American Idol at 8p

LAST MONDAY'S PREMIERES:
NBC: The Biggest Loser (Couples) at 8p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Bravo: Tabatha's Salon Takeover at 10p

Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p

what to watch tonight: Tuesday the 8th.

HOLIDAY SPECIALS:

ABC: Charlie Brown Christmas at 8p; Disney's Prep & Landing at 8:30p

TONIGHT'S PREMIERES:
ABC: Better off Ted at 9:30p
Syfy: Outer Space Astronauts at 9:30p
MTV: Teen Mom at 10p

TONIGHT'S FINALES:
NBC: The Biggest Loser at 8p
Syfy: Scare Tactics at 9p

TiVo SEASON PASS:
Bravo: Tabatha's Salon Takeover at 10p
CW: 90210 at 8p
Oxygen: Bad Girls Club at 10p

This week: Bad Girls Club

Curiosity struck me yesterday after hearing that the Bad Girls Club premiere on Tuesday was the show's highest rated premiere ever. (And by rated, I mean, Nielson ratings. Lots of viewers, and yet, not me! Insert curiosity strike here.) Honestly, I didn't even know much about the show prior to watching. My assumption: a show about girls. bad ones. the club part just being a nice little title addition. My assumptions were pretty much correct. It's a Real World-esque setting. Seven girls picked to live in a house. All with self-proclaimed [generally] socially unacceptable bad habits... And very loud voices.... And a major bone to pick with almost anyone... [Bad Girls Club airs on Bravo's sister network, Oxygen, which is also the home of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.] After spending my very first hour with the BGC I got to wondering: what would make a girl sign up for a show like Bad Girls Club? Well.. Here's the checklist I've created based on viewing just one episode. Ladies - please refer to this list when Oxygen starts casting for the next season. Then you, too, can accomplish all of your cat-fighting dreams.

You know you're a BAD GIRL when...

• You meet a girl and automatically size her up: "Oh, I could take her."
• You've "never NOT cheated on a boyfriend."
• Your response to a girl wanting to learn to use a stripper pole is: "You don't know how to do it already??"
• Your RSVP sounds something like, "Bitch, ya, I'm comin' to the club."
• You lack in the problem resolution department: "She does not want me to hit her. I will KO her."

Seriously, this show makes the Top Model house look oh so cuddly. I'm just glad I don't have to be in the same room as them to watch.