TV Party for Wednesday, August 10th

Another Wednesday, another night of TV reality. At 8 chose between T-Boz and Chili surprising a group of semi-finalists in their quest to replace Lisa Left-Eye Lopes on “R U Tha Girl with T-Boz and Chili” on UPN, and Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” – NOT featuring Paula Abdul – where the contestants are cut down to just 16, meaning that thankfully an end is in sight. At 9 ABC brings you another episode of Brat Camp. It's almost Christmas, and the first 40 days are drawing to a close. The question on everyone's mind is: Who's going to make it home in time for the holidays, and who will be left behind? We know some will, because the series isn’t over and if all the kids got to go home there wouldn’t be much to broadcast, now, would there?

If you’d rather leave all that behind you, how about one of the best movies of the last few years? At 8 tonight Oxygen is showing the Nicholas Cage masterpiece “Adaptation”. Cage plays Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing--and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (also played by Cage). While struggling to adapt The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean and John Laroche, the orchid poacher and the subject of Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.Finally, at 10 it’s time for that crazy magic sideshow, A&E’s “Mindfreak with Chris Angel.” Chris is indeed a freak, and one who sets his sights on spectacular escapes and odd magic tricks. In tonight’s episode, “Buried Alive”, Chris teams up with rocker Rob Zombie to re-enact his own funeral and attempt one of the most dangerous escape stunts in magic history. The "buried alive" demonstration proved fatal for "The Amazing Joe Burras", a magician from Fresno CA., but was done successfully by Banachek and Lance Burton, both of whom are helping Chris put his own spin on things: Rob Zombie manacles Chris into a coffin, then lowers him six feet under on the haunted house set of Rob's movie "Devil's Rejects". The grave is then filled with earth and Chris must escape the manacles and slither out of the coffin. Fun, fun, fun!

That’s your TV Party for Wednesday, August 10th, for Northwest Indy Radio I’m Scott Chicken