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Undiscovered gems on TV

Two shows saw for the first time tonight (and for where-the-heck-is-the-remote type reasons, on the same channel: SciFi), and which are worth watching -- albeit for spectacularly different reasons:

• Who Wants To Be A Superhero. With Stan Lee (yes, that Stan Lee). These people are serious. This is train-wreck delusion beyond even Jerry Springer, but it has heart, and it doesn't actually pretend to be serious (to the point where it actually stands not only as a parody of itself but as a parody of all current reality-show lunacy... in that serious/parody/lunacy sense, it seems currently rivaled only by Scrubs).
• Mind Control with Derren Brown. This guy is a modern-day Houdini with a large dollop of The Amazing Randi on top. To put it another way: he's David Blaine without the mystique.

Highly recommended.

Print | posted on Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:05 PM