Have you heard about Dead Set?
It has Davina McCall in it as well as some well known ex Big Brother UK housemates — the basic gist is that out in the real world people have begun to rise from the dead and go on a killing rampage, your basic Zombie tale, only those inside the Big Brother house are unaware of the horror that is going on outside. It sounds freaking awesome, aside from the tie in to Big Brother which is always going to score points with me, it just seems like the sort of perfect Halloween night viewing I enjoy.

I am actually going to a Halloween party the night it airs, my fiances boss is throwing it and I am semi helping him plan it…I say semi because he has it all basically down pat, he runs a catering business so already knows how to throw a bash…but I am chipping in with ideas and design tips and the like, as I am known as ‘The creative one’ in our circle. To be honest I’d be totally lost without sites like Celebrations.com to help me out, but shhhh, don’t tell my friends that. You can get expert advice and tips, share ideas with the rest of the community and even get information about what the celebrities have been getting up to at their soirees! I love their idea to paint pumpkins rather than carve them, that will save a whole world of time and effort

I am so telling him about that and to put Dead Set on the big telly next time I speak to him

After writing in the last entry that I don’t like medical based reality shows, I realised I don’t actually like medical shows full stop. Medical soap operas are ten a penny, Casualty, Holby City etc to name but two…and they have never floated my boat. I put this down to the fact they are depressing and I am squeamish, but you know what? That doesn’t make sense, because I love my Cop shows…which are just as gory and depressing.

Police Camera Action, Traffic Cops, Cops with Cameras — you name it, if it’s a cop show I can’t get enough. I am forever watching reruns of these shows that seem to air constantly on obscure cable channels in the wee small hours of the morning.

My conclusion/Explanation for liking one and not the other? I don’t have one. Hmm.

One genre of reality TV I have never really gotten into, is shows from hospitals and following ambulance drivers and the like, medical reality. I guess I am a little bit squeamish, and seeing people with nails stuck in their feet just doesn’t do it for me!

Have you heard of Sudden Cardiac arrest, as the name suggests it’s something that happens without warning and apparently kills over 300,000 people every year. You can learn more about it at InsideCardiacArrest.com!

Firstly, I am impressed. The last few seasons at this point I have wondered if it is worth continuing as the talent factor seemed low, but this year I already love several of the acts and there’s only two or three who have ‘Early Boot’ written all over them.

I also feel I should disclose I have a total girly crush on the lovely Cheryl Cole — not in a sexual way you understand, she just makes me happy on the inside because she’s beautiful and sweet!

Dani has the worst set of acts, Cheryl has the best, some of Simon’s will do well because they are hot boys and Louis….poor Louis, why has he not retired yet?

Best performances of the night were Alexandra, who I never rated too much throughout the audition process and sweet little Diana who has a divine voice — though I did agree with Dani’s criticism that the performance with the hands was a bit..err..creepy.

Worst performances were Daniel, the guy who…let’s be honest…is only on the show because his wife died in tragic circumstances. He’s a cruise ship singer at best. And Rachel, awful styling, awful song choice, awful voice and just bloody awful attitude — I strongly dislike her. Also poor Scott, probably the worst performance on X Factor ever, good on Simon for admitting he made a terrible song choice for him and good on the public for giving the lad a second chance.

I also didn’t rate Laura too much, it wasn’t atrocious but the comments from the judges confused me as they were singing her praises and calling it the performance of the night. I think it was sketchy and her styling was way off…Cheryl made this gorgeous young creature look about 2 stone heavier than she is by pouring her into a dress that was clearly too small for her!

I was surprised by the bottom two, both of the girl groups. Neither wowed me, but neither were terrible either…except for Girl Bands name…I mean really, why did no one change that god awful name as they progressed in the competition? Based on their second performances I really felt like Bad Lashes deserved to stay — they are at least memorable. Girl Band should be renamed Girl Bland!

Overall, great start to the live shows

…I am having celebrity dancing overkill at the moment.

I watch both the original UK version, Strictly Come Dancing, as well as the USA version, Dancing with the Stars and for the first time both are airing at the same time — firstly I don’t even understand how Len and Bruno are doing it, flying back and forth between the UK and America every week until Christmas is surely going to take it’s toll sooner or later?

It’s too much for me though, really. I don’t even like dancing all that much, I just watch the show because I like reality tv, I like the hosts and judges and I like to see celebrities do things that are outside of their comfort zones.

The dancing I can take or leave. I know, strange right?

Here’s the dealio at the moment:

Saturday: UK version dancing
Sunday: UK version results
Monday: American version dancing
Tuesday: American version results

I think I am going to have to drop one this year, and hope that next year they are back to being on at differing times!

…more like The Amazingly Hard Race Asia. Seriously this season has been hardcore so far, if the tasks on the USA version look arduous you should see this show. The legs seem to last for days without breaks, the things they have them do seem genuinely difficult and frustrating, the direction and travel seems difficult and heck some of the tasks are darned dangerous.

I would not have been able to do the 25 hour coach journey they did in the second episode. I would go crazy doing 25 hours in the comfort of my own car, but on a small, cramped, bumpy, dirty, smelly and ancient old coach….no thanks.

I definitely would not have been OK with the race to the final pit stop in the 3rd episode, where not one, not two but three of the poor blighters crashed their rickshaws into bikes or even cars! Dangerous dangerous dangerous.

There’s no way I would have eaten the ‘mens bathroom smelling’ tofu soup they had to get through in the latest episode. Especially not with other people all around me gagging and throwing up.

It’s no wonder that we’ve had two teams essentially quit already, by not bothering to complete the final task and taking a four hour penalty. That’s not fun to see…it doesn’t often happen in the American version of the show, that’s for sure.

So Stacey and Bradley broke up, again. What’s new?

I couldn’t believe my ears a few weeks ago when I realised that Stacey is only meant to be around 18 or 19.

How many 18/19 year olds do you know that have been married, divorced, remarried, had several affairs including one with her husbands father, had one abortion and is already trying again?

Mind you, this is soap land. I must remember that…in soap terms that’s actually a pretty quiet 4 years.

In other tonights Eastenders news…what was with that Ronnie and Christian dance? Were they trying to be ironic? Back story, it’s school reunion time, Ronnie doesn’t want to go because she wasn’t popular school, Christian convinces her to go and pretend he’s her husband, off they pop, song comes on that poor old unpopular Ronnie would never have dared dance to back in the day — cue Christian leading her onto the dance floor for some seriously cheesy and Dirty Dancingesque moves…that everyone else in the place deems fit enough to stand around in a circle clapping and cheering at.

Please.

I have been thinking about this blog over the last few days and realised that I don’t love it, why? Well I already have not one, but two personal blogs, I don’t need a third — when I created the site the idea was to make it more niche, but the niche was going to just come to me in a flash and it never did.

Until today. The new month must have inspired me.

So, Jeoberpta.com is now to become….drum roll please….my TV related blog! I am going to talk about what I watch on TV each day. Now, I am not promising in depth, thought provoking reviews — though they may indeed happen some times, it’ll most likely mainly me having a rant about how stupid todays Neighbours was (and fyi, it was!) and moaning that certain hotties I happen to have a crush on cannot be mine.

But it’ll be interesting. I watch TV from around the world…mainly home grown UK stuff, but also lots of American and Australian shows among others. My main genres are reality, soaps, comedies and documentaries, but I like a bit of everything.

So come along for the ride