Archive | November, 2012

Sneak Peek of the Week of November 18th, 2012

18 Nov

November 18, 2012

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! (I hope that picture did not make you lose your appetite.)

It is all about the turkey this week, as Allen Keyes looks at some really bad ways of cooking your Thanksgiving feast. On Tuesday the Teutuls are back, and what is more American than families feuding over the holidays? Then on Wednesday and Thursday I’ll celebrate with some real turkeys: a pair of Classic reposts reaching all the way back to 2007. But it is back to the new on Friday, with an Imponderable featuring that most American of traditions, the practical joke. Then on Saturday we’ll have a special Saturday Comics featuring Thanksgiving. Can a turkey outsmart Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck? We’ll see. Happy gobble gobble!

AMERICAN CHOPPER HAS BEEN CANCELLED

17 Nov

November 18, 2012

This story is from the New York Post:

‘Chopper’ outta gas after decade

  • By MICHAEL STARR
  • Last Updated:  11:58 PM, November 16, 2012
  • Posted: 11:14 PM, November 16, 2012
The Teutuls have built their last bike — at least for TV audiences.American Chopper” is ending its 10-year run next month, according to ew.com.

“After 10 years and 233 episodes of incredible, riveting reality television, ‘American Chopper’ will be ending its run,” Discovery/TLC Networks president Eileen O’Neill said in a statement.

“This series was one of the very first family-based programs on television.”

The series, a favorite of “Late Show” host David Letterman, was initially centered around Orange County Choppers, located in upstate Newburgh, NY, and featured father Paul Teutul Sr. and two of his sons, Paulie Jr. and Mike.

“American Chopper” launched in 2002 on Discovery, before moving to sister network TLC in 2008 .

It was renamed “American Chopper: Junior vs. Senior” in 2010 after a feud between the two Pauls spurred Junior to open his open his own nearby bike shop called Paul Junior Designs.

The show then moved back to Discovery.

Last summer, as The Post exclusively reported, the two Pauls — who had been estranged for three years and enmeshed in legal battles — agreed to build a bike together, which was the basis of this season’s “American Chopper.”

The final episode, airing over two nights, will feature a four-way “bike buildoff” including Jesse James.

It’s called called “Chopper Live: The Revenge” and airs Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 10 and 11, from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.