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We finally got around to watching MTV's "I'm From Rolling Stone", the Almost Famous-meets-The Hills-meets-The Apprentice reality show about six twenty somethings who get "the internship of a lifetime": a summer associate position at Rolling Stone. One lucky hopeful will win a year-long contributing editor position. Um, does anybody still read Rolling Stone?

If "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," then the folks over at Bravo's Top Chef sure have some huge brains. Because this season reeks of inconsistency. And it's starting to piss us off. Major, major misstep, Tom, Gale, and co. (Let us state up front: it's only because this show can be, is often, and should always be so freaking good that these missteps get to us). Let's give credit to some of elimination-style reality shows--we've seen episodes of The Apprentice and Rockstar where the judges weren't afraid to make a bold move and eliminate more than one contestant. But never -- NEVER -- have we seen a show like this wimp out and send NOBODY packing.

Man, we loved last season of Top Chef. So much so, that we're gonna keep writing about it, even though it's made the move to Los Angeles. Top Chef, for those who don't know, is a show on Bravo that's basically The Apprentice with less jargon, more food, and a lot less suckage. And it used to be based here in our fair city. Alas . . . In any case, it airs every Wednesday night; due to our inability to write quickly, we've committed to posting reviews of the prior week on the day that the new episodes are set to appear, to hype lovers of food-based TV for that night.

We're still recovering from two weeks of finales glut, not to mention a three-day weekend full of way too many episodes of "The Dog Whisperer," (episode after episode, all Cesar seems to do is convince dog owners to take their pets on nice long walks while saying "Tssst!" and using their "hands as a mouth, for biting." And yet, we can not look away!!). Anyway, all that TV watching has turned in to a big blug. Here's what we can remember: "Lost," WTF? "Alias," seriously, WTF? Yay for Harold, and the Hippies! Meh for Danielle . As for "The Apprentice," poor Donald Trump. The ratings for his series are in the crapper, and the finale doesn't happen till next week, when audiences will be way past getting excited over finales. We hope the series gets fired in the next year.

The Olympics are finally over, and television is returning to its regular line-up of tired reality shows and midseason replacements. We're stoked.

The most exciting thing on TV last night was the season finale of "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart." Which is to say, there was nothing exciting on TV last night.

Thursday is going to be very tough night for us this season. Before the month is over, there will be nine shows vying for our primetime eyeballs including, "Alias," "The OC," "The Nightstalker," "Survivor: Guatemala," "The Apprentice 4," "CSI," "ER," "Reunion,"and "Everybody Hates Chris." Phew! Let us catch our breath....

We're up to our armpits in television this week watching new shows and falling back into the warm embrace of returning favorites. But tonight is probably the night we've been looking forward to the most.

The Fall TV season has officially begun, and we've been programming our TiVos and setting Season Pass priorities with the research and concentration usually reserved for complex algebraic equations (a subject which we admittedly flunked in high school). Needless to say, we're both parts excited and exhausted, so let's just get started with our look at some of the week's premieres. (Luckily, Sunday has already passed, and we're hoping you overlooked the series premiere of "The War at Home" on Fox, which was truly a painful thing to behold.)

We ranted about the City's lack of any free access to NBC months ago, but it looks like KNTV might finally be nearing the completion of that tower they've been promising us for years. If that's true, cable-less and dish-less viewers will be able to change that dial old-school style to channel 11 and bask in the glow of the Technicolor Peacock once again, maybe as soon as next week.

First off, if you're a motivated A-type, or a B-type on meth, then you should head down to Beau Bonneau casting today (or Monday) to try out for "The Apprentice." We think even the faintest opportunity to take a peak under The Donald's hairpiece is reason enough, don't you? Call 415.249.9383 and leave your name, two phone numbers, your education, your employer and tell them why you could "make it in the boardroom." For sexy fun, check out tonight's Candye Kane and Big Burlesque, featuring the Big Bottom Revue, at the Center for Sex and Culture, doors at seven, show at eight.

On last night's episode of "The Apprentice" Magna won the Home! Depot! challenge by building a box. And letting little kids rub their paint covered hands all over it. Makes sense to us. So what if Net Worth's kitchen cart was shinier and more challenging? If there's one thing this show proves again and again it's that success in business is all about thinking INSIDE the box. And in some cases, it's just about thinking OF a box.

While SFist would like to say that the continuing decline in the quality of some of our favorite reality programming has caused us to drop these shows and get on with our lives, we have to admit that just isn't the case. Sure, we were heartbroken by the ending of last week's "Amazing Race," where the most intolerant, bitchy, and all-around unworthy team beat out probably the two nicest people to ever compete on the show. And the last seasons of "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" just plain sucked. But still, but still, we watch. And you know what? This season of "The Apprentice" is actually pretty good, and it has almost made us forget the last season even happened. So can you blame us if we're just a wee bit hopeful for the Thursday premiere of "Survivor: Palau"?

If you think you have a knack for tasteful flower arrangements, baking the perfect pie, and obstruction of justice, then fire up that glue gun and head on down to KNTV in San Jose tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. to an open casting call for "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart."

Nothing like getting fired right before the holidays, huh? Okay, we know The Apprentice was filmed months ago, but a local film programmer and staff weren't so lucky. Neither were Tim Hudson or Mark Mulder. And the Governator is aiming to be the Grinch who stole your lunch break. In other words, business as usual.

Kelly Perdew beat out Bay Area lawyer Jennifer Massey in last night's 16 hour finale of The Apprentice. The fight for a position as one of Donald Trump's many lackeys ultimately came down to a battle of the bland versus the blonde. Bland won, muttered "I like Vegas, but give me the job in New York, so I can be closer to you, Lord Donald," and promptly fell asleep. Oh wait. That was US who fell asleep.

The season isn't what it used to be, and by that we mean the TV season. Once upon a time, shows began in the fall and ended at the beginning of summer. But these days you've got shows beginning in the summer, and even the spring. Some fall shows don't premiere until January, and other fall shows are ending this month. It's enough to drive a couch potato to the great outdoors!

SFist is the first to admit that we subscribe to a sh**load of magazines. The upside of this is tons of fun reading for the N Judah, gym, and plane ride. The downside is the crazy amount of promotional email we get from our various pubs. (Yes, we've tried the "unsubscribe" option at the bottom of all of these email. No, it doesn't work.) Check out this email we got to some random yahoo account we think we gave to Vogue after setting it up to respond to a missed connection we though might be us. Turns out it wasn't, but we didn't want to waste the email address, and so, Vogue.

Boo yeah! San Francisco's repping large on this season's Apprentice -- with not one, not two, but three 415 area contestants vying for the affection of Donald Trump.