Admittedly, going a few weeks without new TV programming has the effect of making us starved for entertainment,  but this week's Project Runway and Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency were delicious morsels.

  Continuing from the previous episode Janice had to deal with a couple of her models' prudish behavior on nudity. When these two, Michael and Dominique, pulled out their Christian cards and confronted Janice as though it was some religious intervention it was laughable. The idea that a Models for Jesus support group even exists made for an unintentionally funny scene where they gathered, held hands and prayed. 

  It wouldn't be a good episode  (for us anyway) without some good male eye candy and we got a full plate here. Andrew Christian underwear came to Janice to get some models for a shoot so we got to see the dudes parade around shirtless and almost naked.  They chose 4 guys including real couple Shaun and Paul--who need to tone it down a little. No, we're not talking about their gayness or their being a couple. We're talking about their strange almost artificial looks. This is more obvious in Paul who needs to throw out the lip gloss and self tanning products  and get his L'Oreal color chart hair  to a different level. Shaun has a great bod and look, but he's so close to looking like a pornster we wouldn't be surprised if he was. Surprisingly Rodrigo, who IS a former pornster, doesn't have that look.  Best moment in the photo shoot? When Danny stripped naked and the underwear executive commented he had too much hair on his ass and it needed to be shaved for the picture. Paul practically leaped into action and took care of the hairy dilemma--on camera! We didn't see into Danny's crack but the shot of Paul taking razor to glutes wasn't blurred either---we sure do love cable!

 The second male moments came when other models (male and female) were auditioned for the game show Temptation. Before the audition, a former game show model gave the kids a few lessons and whether she knew it or not it was EXACTLY like that Geena Davis SNL sketch from years ago. In the sketch, Geena is training models how to act on a game show--hilarious. As it turns out the Temptation producers weren't looking for that old style robotic model. They were looking for friendly, but not smarmy--nor tattooed. They wound up deciding against the too young girl prospects and choosing only two guys---super-hot Christian (he definitely wooed the ladies!) and Michael (the prudish bible boy who didn't mind being chosen by going shirtless!)

 Then there was a disastrous beach shoot for another swimsuit company where Janice and the company president locked horns. Janice WAS cranky here, but the other woman was a little creepy with her desire to get the girls to look a certain way and her insistence on including Janice in the shoot. This one ended on a cliffhanger with the photo shoot on the line. Also next time: boozy behavior threatens one model and the secret of one models bruises.
 
  A sweeter time (literally) was had on Project Runway. The challenge featured the designers being trooped down to the Times Square Hershey Chocolate mega store. There they had a limited time to grab any store merchandise they wanted to create an outfit. Looking like something out of Willie Wonka, the contestants rummaged through the store like (pardon the obvious metaphor) kids in a candy store.

 Back at the work rooms the designers literally de-constructed their finds--all except Jillian who made the gutsy decision to create an outfit out of bright red Twizzlers. This would turn out to be a very stressful choice although she did pull it out at the end.

 Most of the other designers used candy wrappers and cloth from the store's oversized plush candy mock-ups displays and  chocolate brown became the color of the day. Christian, whose witty and pithy remarks are always a crack-up, took the brown cups from the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and sewed them onto adress so that it looked like brown ruffles.
     
Crybaby Ricky at last broke out of his boring mode to create a silver Hershey's kisses fantasy. Sweet P had aanother hard time "making it work". Chris March held imself back from drag queen costumery to create something very basic and wearable. Talented Rami created an outfit using lots of wrappers and  his exquisite design and sewing skills to create something that had elements of vinyl fetsh wear (we wonder what exacty is in Rami's closet!) and----it won him the competition.

Then there was Victoria and Elisa. Victoria managed to create something that was simply hideous and not very well conceived. We expected that from coo-coo Elisa--and we got it in the form of a dog-shit brown velvet dress with silver puffy sleeve-like things. During the course of the show, she revealed she had survived being hot by a car and being in a coma (as though the show was trying to explain her wackiness). It wasn't touching enough to humanize the space cadet and when she was eliminated at the end , it almost came as a sigh of relief. 
                 
 As for the judging portion of the show, we're glad that Chris March stood up for himself when it appeared he was going to get chewed out for his simplistic design---even though he has been chastised every which way for his previous "costume-y" designs.  It sure didn't go unnoticed by us anyway that guest judge designer Zac Posen is a bit of a hottie. 

  Speaking of fashion we were a little sad to see the Goth couple get eliminated last Sunday on Amazing Race (which is still far and away our favorite reality show) Now only four couples are left:

  Nathan & Jen--They  bicker so much we can't even imagine how they even found each other in the first place. 
   By the way, is it just us or does Nate look like he could be on FratMen or Sean Cody?

  Ronald & Christina--Control freak/semi-abusive dad and his strong but enabling daughter. How we 
  would love it if his hernia spilled out on the tarmac.

  Nicolas & Donald--The grandfather and grandson team has lasted with surprising strength. They act like
   old buds together--it's kinda touching.

  TK & Rachel--The hippie couple are our favorites. Very sweet and supotive of one another. But OMG---TK needs major makeover-- dreadlocks on white guys? UGH!

  We sure can't overlook Survivor: Micronesia. Seems like just a few weeks ago  (oh wait it was) were were talking about Todd Herzog, the winner of Survivor: China. Now we're a month away (Feb 7) from the new and unique season of Survivor. We're back to 20 contestants again ---half are fans, the other half are former contestants. And what a crew! We'll have more on this bunch on future blogs, but we did notice lots of similarities on the veterans' side. First they've got the two creeps Johnny Fairplay & Jonathan Penner. The two guys who made BIG blunders James &  Yau-Man, a few that came SOOOO close like superhuman Ozzie.