Tabatha Coffey of Shear Genius is making over America
Well, she’s making over America one salon at a time. The former Shear Genius contestant will be saving America’s hair stylists in Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. She’ll visit salons on both coasts that are in dire need of her direction. Coffey has just a week to work her magic.
This is the “hair version” of Kitchen Nightmares. The press release goes on to say that her comments are mean and jarring. The salon owners and employees probably won’t like her at first. But they’ll realize that it’s her passion and intensity that “drives her sincere quest to turn these salons around.” After one week with Coffey, who started as a salon assistant when she was 14-years-old, we’ll see dramatic results. Coffey will also recommend people to be fired and tell some of the better stylists that they should raise their rates. Kitchen Nightmares, right? I’m not saying I wouldn’t give this a try though. I like Kitchen Nightmares.
Tabatha’s Salon Takeover premieres Thursday August 21st at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo.
Hey ESPN, I really hate your Wimbledon scoreboard
As longtime readers of TV probably know, I’m a tennis fanatic. I hate summer with a passion, but I’m happy for the season during four weeks: the two weeks of Wimbledon (late June/early July) and the two weeks of the U.S. Open (late August/early September). If you need me those two weeks, I’ll be in front of my TV and a fan, drinking cold liquids.
Of course, it’s not all popcorn and roses. There’s something that really irritates me about ESPN’s coverage of Wimbledon that’s going on right now, and I see it every single time I look at the screen (which I find you have to do if you want to watch the matches). It’s that damn scoreboard at the top of the screen.
Now, usually, TV networks show a tennis score like this during the match:
Federer 4 5 4
*Roddick 6 7 5
30-15
(Yes, that’s right, Roddick is serving for a straight set victory over Federer. This would never happen in real life.)
That’s pretty easy to follow, settled into the lower right or left hand corner of the TV screen, the asterik denoting who is serving. But here’s what we have to put up with ESPN, placed at the top of the screen:
1 Federer >6 Roddick 30-15 4-6, 5-7, 4-5
Huh?
Sure, you figure it out after a while (everything is read left to right), but after 20 years of the networks doing it a certain way, it’s still not easy. I think the mind of the tennis fan is designed to process the score in a certain way. Just give us the scores next to the players names so we don’t have to look on each side and line things up in our minds. I assume ESPN wants more room for their scroll at the bottom of the screen, but I really think they should go back to the old way of doing it, even if they don’t have the score on the screen non-stop.
Even Andy doesn’t like it. I mean, look at him in the pic looking up at the top of the screen thinking “that’s really bothering me.”
I really hope USA Network doesn’t adopt this when the U.S. Open starts.
No Idle Time for Cook & Caldwell
American Idol David Cook confirmed to News that he and fellow Idol alum Kimberly Caldwell are still an item, and even got the blessing of Fox’s president of entertainment, Kevin Reilly.
“It’s great, he’s a catch and so is she,” Reilly tells E!
Reilly and Cook were attending the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation’s annual Taste for a Cure Benefit in Beverly Hills.
Cook says that his season two Idol contestant squeeze Caldwell is doing well and “doing her thing,” shooting the miniseries Memories of Murder on Catalina Island. But with Cook gearing up for an Idol tour starting July 1, how will they keep the fires of passion burning?
“Email, text, all of that is pretty much going to be my life for the next few months,” he says. Need to know more? Watch the exclusive video above for a bigger dose of Big David.
Reporting by Matt Donnelly
Snoop Does Country, Twang You Very Much
Not everybody loves country music, but heck, it’s Fridaywho doesn’t love a little medicine to make it all better. That’s why we’re serving up of a heapin’ helpin’ of “Buy My Medicine,” Snoop Dogg’s latest ode to inebriation.
With an assist from the always-smokin’ Willie Nelson, the track finds the Snoop D-Oh-Double-G casually rapping over pedal-steel guitar swirls and country-style strummin’ about sending someone out to the “drugstore.”
But this is also an anthem of true love, passion and the eternity of ardor, as this sample lyric so deftly demonstrates: “Girl, my love’s gonna last just as long as my high, and I’m high all day, every day.”