Watching Showtime

With the massive amounts of sickness that have been flying through my house, it’s taken me longer than I’d like to put up the contest winners here, but I’m FINALLY doing it! Prizes are being mailed out tomorrow, also a bit later than I’d have liked, but again with the sickness (and excuses).

Winning the Tracey Ullman giveaway is Angelo. He’ll be getting the promo disk mailed out to him, along with some Tudors schwag cuz he’s waited so long!

And winning the L Word Fantasy Challenge is SuzyQ! She mastered the game, bested even me, and will be getting an L Word shirt sent out, as well as an Amazon gift certificate e-mailed to her.

Congrats to you both, and for the rest of you, keep an eye out on the blog, because I’m always running new contests!

Well, it’s L Word wrap-up week here at Watching Showtime, and I’ve got a lot planned for you. Not only do we get to discuss what we loved and hated about this season, we get to predict what will come for next season. I’ll announce a winner in our L Word Fantasy Challenge contest (after you all tell me your point totals), and we’ve got a guest post to look forward to. In the midst of all that, we’ve also all got to switch gears for the season premiere of The Tudors, which comes to us on Sunday night!

So let’s get this week started off right. What were your final point totals for The L Word Fantasy Challenge? Remember, even if you haven’t been sharing your points throughout the season, you can still list your totals here. The one with the highest point total wins an L Word tee shirt and a $25 Amazon gift card! You have to also list your Fantasy Team name here, however, so if I want to I can check to be sure you were actually playing (not that I think anyone would cheat. I’ve just got to cover my bases).

Remember that comment contest that closed last Friday? Well, after taking several days to figure out how to give an ITunes gift certificate via e-mail (you’d think I’d be more tech-savy than that, but it bested me for almost a week!), I have sent the gift to our winner … Dee! This amazing lady has tons going on, so it was a pleasure to gift her with some music to help keep her mind off her growing belly! (of which i’m not at all jealous. really. ignore the greenish tint to my skin.)

Anyhow.

Sorry it took so long to update, but I wanted to be sure she got the gift cert. before I posted about it! We’ve still got the Fantasy Challenge contest going on, and it’s looking like SuzyQ might just be our reader-winner so far, so if you want to step up and challenge her, now is the time!

So this week I did not do as good as I thought I would. Ah, well. Better luck next time I’m sure. I’m still disappointed Helena hasn’t made a re-appearance!

I clocked in this week with a piddly 31 points, pushing me back to 46th place. My total score? 259. Bring it on SuzyQ! And for those of you who are playing but haven’t yet weighed in, now’s the time to do so, and rescue me from all the shit-talking that’s about to commence!

for the rules and a list of prizes, check out this post.

oh, and I’ll be announcing the winner of the comment contest shortly!

Reviews have been written, the show has been watched several times over, and I finally got the time to check on my Fantasy Challenge scores from week four. Coming in with a decent 84 points for the week, my total is now up to 228 total points, bringing me into 18th place overall (not that I know how they tabulate that, but whatever).

What were your scores for the fourth episode? And what are your picks for next week? Mine are Bette, Alice, and Shane!

Don’t forget, you can still join in on the fun until the last full week, and for a full list of the “rules” of the game and the prize I’m giving away to the winner, check out this post.

And don’t forget (also!) about the comment contest I’m running all week!! We’re celebrating the return of non-spammed comments in style!

It looks like the commenting issue is fixed now, and to celebrate I’m running a week-long contest. All you have to do to be entered is comment to this post, letting me know what your favorite Showtime character is. Doesn’t matter the show, doesn’t matter if the show is even still on the air (think QAF). Just your favorite Showtime character. And be sure you’ve entered a valid e-mail address, so I can contact you.

The contest will run from today (Monday) until Friday at 5pm CST. At that point I’ll randomly select a winner from the comments and e-mail them, officially announcing the winner here next Monday.

What will you win? A $15 gift certificate to ITunes!

So start commenting!

Have you signed up yet for the L Word Fantasy Challenge? It works much like fantasy football does, except you pick three L Word characters per week, and then tally up scores based on things like hook-ups, fighting, saying I Love You, and more. I’ve already got my team planned out, and I’ll be sharing my scores here every week! I’d love to hear who you picked, and see how your scores are going. And at the end of the season, whomever has the highest score? They’ll win an Amazon gift card worth $25! So head on over and sign up, then comment here with your sign-on name and your three team members for this week. Then after the episode we’ll all come back and share our scores. If enough people play, there might even be weekly prizes!

For now, my sign-on is “craftyone77″ and my three picks for this week are Shane, Jenny and Alice! Have fun!

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Ha Ha! I totally said I’d post the winner on Friday, and then I got all hung up and forgot. But after a lengthy process of narrowing down the many many entries (snort!) i was left with two winners! Because I didn’t want to choose between the two, I’m giving you each something. Winner number one (Dee) will get the soundtrack, along with a Tudors tee sent to me by Showtime to use in a giveaway as well. Winner number two (jennifer) will get two promo dvds, one for Dexter and one for Brotherhood!!

Ladies, shoot me an e-mail (robyn.charles@gmail.com) with your addresses so I can get these mailed out to you.

And for everyone else out there reading, be sure to stay tuned, as there will be more and more giveaways at random times!

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With the second season of Dexter less than a week away, some of you may need to catch up on some of season one. With that in mind, here’s the quick links to all the reviews I’ve written in the last few months. Enjoy!

“Dexter” - episode one

“Crocodile” - episode two

“The Popping Cherry” - episode three

“Let’s Give The Boy A Hand” - episode four

“Love American Style” - episode five

“Return To Sender” - episode six

“Circle Of Friends” - episode seven

“Shrink Wrap” - episode eight

“Father Knows Best” - episode nine

“Seeing Red” - episode ten

“Truth Be Told” - episode eleven

“Born Free” - episode twelve

Don’t forget about the Dexter Soundtrack giveaway!

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With the new season of Dexter just a few short weeks away (or is it just one?!?!?), I’ve got a little giveaway for you all. The people at Showtime were kind enough to send me out the soundtrack from the first season! Now you, too can have all the creep-tastic music at your fingertips … and just in time for Halloween!

All you have to do to win is comment to this post between now and Friday at noon CST. I’ll pick the winner after I eat and post it Friday afternoon! Get to commenting!

As we get ready for the premieres of the third season of Weeds, the second season of Dexter, and the first season of Californication, as well as continuing to fall in love with Meadowlands, I wanted to offer up one last Tudors-related contest. This will be a simple comment contest … just comment below anytime between now and Friday July 13 at midnight (CST) to be entered to win a men’s size Large Tudors tee shirt.

it’s a bad picture, i know, but i didn’t want to take it out of the plastic and get kitty hairs all over it! So there it is …

Stay tuned for more Meadowlands posts, some episode/season reviews for Weeds, and a few Dexter-licious photos coming up soon!

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That’s right, the first season of the Tudors. On DVD. Not a pirated copy, people, a real, Showtime-sanctioned copy. Why? Because I’m amazing!!!

In light of my amazingness, I’m running a contest so that one of you lucky readers will win this copy of the first season, months before you can buy it in stores. While the contest won’t officially begin until Monday morning, I’ll post the rules now, so that when the official thing goes live everyone knows how to play fair.

The Rules:

Stand by for posting of questions Monday and have a great weekend!

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Well, since there was only ONE entry to the “name that episode” post earlier in the week, Fred is the winner.

Fred, shoot me an e-mail to “robyn.charlesATgmailDOTcom” with your address so I can send you out your tee-shirt.

Maybe next time more people will want to participate …

And now it’s time to name that episode! Remember, the rules are simple. All you have to do is comment to this entry between now and Tuesday at 5pm CST. One episode title per person only, please. I’ll choose a winner at 5pm CST, who will win a Tudors-inspired tee-shirt. I will also pick a runner-up, who will win a Tudors key chain.

So start thinking, choose your best title, and comment fast before yours gets taken!

okay, people, i’m here! so so sorry about not posting yesterday; there were bomb threats all over our city and stuff pretty much stopped for several hours. that said, i couldn’t make it to a computer.

so i’m here now, i have tons to say about both Penn and Teller and about This American Life, but first i wanted to say this …

don’t forget to get your brains in gear for the “name this episode contest” running this sunday. as soon as The Tudors is over, start sending me your titles … the full rules are here.

okay, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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