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How Big Brother’s New Twist Can Bring Back the Spirit of The Mole

Apparently if you renew a reality show for enough seasons, it starts to turn into other reality shows. Big Brother , the CBS summer series where housemates evict each other and compete in backyard stunts, is stealing an idea from ABC’ s deflated reality series The Mole and throwing a “saboteur” in the house who will pose as a player but will “disrupt the lives of fellow contestants” and “earn additional rewards as long as they go undiscovered, fulfilling fan-inspired tasks.” Should the network go even further in its Mole pilfering?

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How Big Brother’s New Twist Can Bring Back the Spirit of The Mole

REVIEW: Actors Might Give Up on Eclipse, But Fans Won’t

It’s all too tempting to look down on the Twilight movie series — based on Stephenie Meyer’s explosively popular series of novels — as quickie pictures designed to herd in large audiences of indiscriminate, ticket-buying, Robert Pattinson-and/or-Taylor Lautner-loving teen- and tweenage girls. And with the exception of the first movie in the series, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, that’s exactly what they are. The real horror isn’t simply that these movies are bad — plenty of us were raised on, and loved, junk movies and crap TV. It’s that the folks at the top don’t think teen and tween audiences deserve better. The latest installment, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, directed by David Slade ( 30 Days of Night, Hard Candy ), while admittedly an improvement over last year’s barely coherent New Moon, only adds insult to injury. Nothing so grand as a real eclipse, it’s more just a massive blind spot.

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REVIEW: Actors Might Give Up on Eclipse, But Fans Won’t