SyFy’s special effects show “Face Off” is back, hosted by McKenzie Westmore of “Passions” fame. This show really is a guilty pleasure. It’s “Project Runway” meets sci-fi/horror make-up. I love it, though I often don’t agree with who they send home each week. The show just started back up, you can catch it on On-Demand.

Speaking of “Project Runway,” I was really excited about the “All Stars” series, until I found out there is no Heidi, no Tim, No Nina and no Michael. What’s the point? I haven’t seen it because I’ve been on vacation, but I’m sure Lifetime will have a marathon soon enough.

Over to Bravo is “Tabatha Takes Over.” No longer doing just Salons, she’s expanded to all sorts of businesses this season. I just love her take no shhhhhhh attitude. Love Tabatha!

Starting up soon will be “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” yet another guilty pleasure. Just love how down and dirty these drag queens get.

I only watched a little of the premier of “American Idol” last night. I usually enjoy the auditions, but this year other TV is winning me over. I’m sure I’ll get caught up in Idol-Mania soon enough, only to wonder why yet again. I’m not sure what the point of the show is anymore, as the people who win more often than not don’t go on to great careers . . . .

After episode two of “Pan Am” I’m thinking people at ABC might not only be having doubts about canning “Brothers and Sisters,” but here is hoping they may be giving having this be “Desperate Housewives” final season. The ratings for the second episode went downnnnn. For me, the best story they had going was the mystery surrounding Bridgett, and they resolved it in the second episode! I’ll keep watching, but other things might start taking priority when the networks no doubt beging shifting things.

Have you tuned into “Dirty Soap” on E! O M G! This show is just more drama than you’ll see on any soap. The Kirsten Storms vs Farath Fath (Belle vs Mimi) drama alone is worth tuning in for! But then you also have Farah and Nadjia (Mimi and Chloe) facing off with their mother or mother-in-law-to-bes over the men in their lives. OMG it’s just such a sick and twisted show!

“Ringer” I’m still loving, it’s my most new favorite show so far . . . that may change this month with the onslaught of fairy tale shows and “American Horror Story.” I do wonder how long they can take the premise. I mean eventually the truth that Siobhan is alive and Bridget has been impersonating her will be exposed.

“Fringe” . . . Oh I still love you, but you make me scratch my head. With Peter gone, I guess we are just supposed to figure the Broyles on the other side never died? Cause he was back with no explanation this week! I do feel my initial thoughts were right, half of the season will be with Peter missing. Grrr!

I am really starting to get into “Secret Circle.” The latest episode with a guy from their parents past coming to end the new circle, and the titillating fact that Cassie’s mom might not have been all that good . . . putting some friend into a cationic state was just great. Why did she do it? What do the evil parents want? I’m really starting to like the show!

“90210″ . . . what can I say about you? Naomi is the only thing worth watching for anymore. Eventually Silver and Adrianna are going to have a huge WTF moment over the fact they fought over Navid . . . one of the biggest tools on the show. I don’t care about Dixon’s recording job, I don’t care about Liam’s bar, I only marginally care about Annie and her money woes. This show is probably not going to be around for another season.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Logo is on Season 3 and is a guilty pleasure. It’s “Project Runway” meets “Drag” basically, and it’s so much fun. This season though, it’s so bitchy! They found some bitch bitch queens who are down right nasty to each other. Loves it!

Then there is “Tabitha’s Salon Takeover” on Bravo, just don’t call her a bitch! I love this show because I love watching Tabitha give these salon owners hell. There is something about the show . . . . especially when after all her hard work she returns weeks later to find the salon’s still a $h!thole!

My new favorite though is SyFy’s new show “Face-Off.” If you haven’t been watching this one, you need to! It’s “Project Runway,” but with full body make-up effects. The first week they made creatures, this past week they had to body paint someone to be worked into an artistic backdrop somehow, and next week they are doing aliens. The show is fantastic, and again has it’s share of drama filled contestants. Also for soap fans, “Passions’” McKenzie Westmore (Sheridan Crane) is the host.

Tonight on Logo is the premier of “RuPaul’s Drag U,” where real women get schooled in proper drag etiquette and more. Yes the concept is taking real “frumpy” women and giving them drag makeovers. The commercials for tonights show say you’ll learn how to make a proper ghetto drag queen corset. I know you all need one of them!

July 29th isn’t far off, and is the premier of the new season of “Project Runway.” You can head over to Lifetime TV and meet all the new designers. Yay for a local from Philly!

Right after “Runway” is the premier of “On The Road With Austin And Santino.” Yes two of the most memorable “Runway” designers now have their own show. I’m not sure how Austin Scarlet and Santino are going to get along honestly. I think they might kill each other, or Santino will kill Austin.

“Shear Genius” ended with the underdog Brig winning the whole thing. I literally stood up and yelled “YES!” when she won. I loved her final performance, it was different and unique. I think mostly I was just so sick of “The Wonder Twins” just constantly talking down about her and thinking their $@#$@ didn’t stink at all. I also didn’t enjoy Jonathan Antin as one of the judges this season, he too thinks his #$%#$ doesn’t stink. He was the only one who didn’t like what Brig did, so again that helped in my love that she won.

Seth Aaron meanwhile won “Project Runways.” Honestly as long as Mila didn’t win, I was happy. I was somewhat surprised by Emilio’s reaction that he in fact didn’t win. He looked as if he was about to cry, yet at the same time go postal as he thought he should have won the whole thing. He was too certain of himself, and again, lead to his downfall. Honestly though, his collection was colorful, but boring. He got too caught up in putting out something that was marketable and forgot part of this was also a SHOW. Had he put more out of what he had done throughout the season, rather than something marketed to the everyday woman, he could have won it all.

Finally “RuPaul’s Drag Race” crowned Tyra Banks as the season 2 winner. This was a world of NO for me, as I loathed her through the whole show. She’s another “My @#$@#$ don’t stank” person, but unfortunately her stanky @#%@#% took the prize. After seeing the reunion show though, I’m somewhat glad that Raven didn’t win. She was just fairly nasty on it to numerous contestants! I really wanted JuJuBee to win, but it wasn’t meant to be. “RuPaul’s Drag School” is airing this summer though, which could be fun!

* In spite of trying, I still haven’t gotten back into “Dancing With The Stars.” I think Shannan being voted off early didn’t help, and Kate sticking around as long as she did just irked me. I would turn it off half way through when “RuPaul’s Drag Race started.” As for “American Idol,” I watch it sporadically, but

I did watch and look forward to being able to watch this season without “Heroes” interfering. The last few seasons that’s been some big competition. Though I will admit, I ended up turning it off near the end to watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” That show is like crack, bitchy snarky crack!

As for my quick thoughts though, I enjoyed it. I at least know most of the contestants this time around. The last few seasons I felt they were really reaching. I am guessing Buzz will go home this week, but he’s such an American hero that the votes might save him. The same with Jake the Bachelor, I think girl will vote to keep him on cause they think he’s all that (even if they hate the woman he chose).

I really liked seeing Shannan, I’ve always loved her as an actress. Neicy Nash was fun as well, love her too. The Pussycat Doll I guess I have my normal issues with, but even more so here. Before they hit it as a music act they were a dance/burlesque act in Vegas. I think that’s a bit unfair!

CBS hasn’t released any details on the cast yet, but the same student posted other photos of probable teams she saw at the airport as well.

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The show is pretty much what you’d expect, a bunch of drag queens competing for the crown. However each week there are different challenges. One week it was to make an outfit out of thrift store goods. Another week it was to put together girl groups and lip sync to a selected song (but they had to do the hair and costumes). Last week was an Oprah challenge, they not only had to put together an outfit that represented what Oprah was, but do an interview (Tori Spelling and husband Dean were the guests).

It’s amusing, and the guest stars and judges are just insane. As I said Tori and Dean were on once, for the lip sync challenge they had Kelly Williams from Destiny’s Child. It’s become a guilty pleasure that I have been tuning into every week. It’s no “Project Runway” for sure, but it’s a damn good substitute!

Yazmar.com has posted a rumor flying around that for the U.S. version, they’ve apparently signed both Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston to appear together on the show, which begins airing in January 09. Oh my lord, talk about some serious drama! That’s worth buying the feeds for!