On Demand Weekly

On Demand Weekly presents SoundWatch, a new weekly column on the latest in music entertainment available on demand, one of the most popular VOD categories.


What's Hot Now On Music Choice On Demand - Top 10 Music Videos (week ending 4/3/11)

EMAIL EXCLUSIVE

Every Thursday, media savant T Tara Turk goes deep inside cable TV to reveal Video On Demand's Hidden Gems so even the busiest of our readers can get the most out of On Demand TV. Tell Tara what VOD shows you think deserves her attention.

Design Star (VOD Hidden Gem)
By T. Tara Turk

There are few things worse than realizing you’re too little too late. It’s how I feel when I hear about the price of gold and I curse myself for not trolling pawn shops to melt them down. Hey, every little bit helps in this economy.

That “too late” feeling crept up on me when I was watching “Big Rich Texas” on the Style Channel. Given all of the interwoven (that includes the wigs along with the fake friendships) on all of the other so-called female based reality shows like “Real Housewives” (pick a city), “Basketball Wives” (though few are wives), “Love and Hip Hop” (don’t even get me started again), it would seem like Dallas would have been the first stop on the crazy train to get it’s own reality show of that nature.

But it wasn’t. Bravo’s Housewives is going on six years now and we’re just now getting “Big Rich Texas” which is too bad because now the show seems a bit like it’s trailing behind the b*tch hoopla. One thing you’ll note on episode one, like RHOB and RHOOC (acronyms since we go way back), most of the women are blond and almost all reinforce the stereotype of catty, clawy, greedy and fake women.

.

To read the rest of the review and learn our DEMAND IT, RISK IT or SKIP IT grade, sign up for On Demand Weekly's Free Email Newsletter

 

 

- T. Tara Turk


T. Tara Turk is a novelist/playwright/screenwriter, living in LA with her boyfriend and dog - all three successful TV addicts. You can find her at www.ttaraturk.com or follow her on Twitter @ttaraturk.

 

 

 

 

More VOD Hidden Gems...