TV: Bravo’s Top Design Starts This Month
14 Comments Published by Joel January 5th, 2007 in Decor. Share This
The only reason anyone would call Top Chef a guilty pleasure is because it’s on Bravo, the network for big homos. [Clarification: Which is to say that anyone calling it a "guily pleasure" is an idiot.] Top Chef is one of my favorite programs, pitting talented people against each other in their chosen profession, a formula that should be par for the reality course (but for some reason isn’t). Combining cooking (or fashion, like on Bravo’s Project: Runway) with brutal competition offers a little something for everyone, mincing hetero and butch queer alike.
We finally got around to watching the most recent episode last night—way to own utterly, Mikey!—and noticed that Bravo will be cutting another show from the same mold: Top Design, with Todd Oldham as host. Interior design is a field that seems to be filled with far more pretenders than cooking, so I’m interested in seeing if the show will be able to keep up the same “Wow, these guys are good” thoughts I get when watching Top Chef, or if we’ll get a lot of people turning tying scarves around lamps.
After the jump, a frightening (purported) video submission from one Kelly Ryan, who as far as I can tell, did not actually make it onto the show.
Top Design [BravoTv.com]
i’m way excited. i fucking love PRW, and i’m hoping that this will be even close to as good. i’m not a huge top chef fan, since cooking just doesn’t interest me, but fashion and home decor sure as hell do. HGTV’s home design show was major crapper, so i’m hoping that bravo can fix their mistakes.
i liked the first season of top chef queer eye. all the other shows are too fruity.
everyone looks at me funny when i say that i think queer eye is less gay than all the other shows.
Is it just my browser, or is there an RSS feed icon stuck in ths middle of this post when you view it on the home page?
I’ve never watched any of these shows. Only because I know I’ll get hopelessly ensnared in them and my life will be consumed by TV.
That, and my wife will keep calling me a fag. Though, I did bring up perfume blending last night thanks to this damn site. :)
I’m not sure if I’d be comfortable hiring her to design for the interior of the shit house back at grampa’s farm.
T&D: Yeah, it just started doing that. No idea why!
“homos”
“mincing”
“queer”
“fruity”
“fag”
Wow. Why is that humor at the expense of gays is still acceptable? Would the same post and comments with derogatory and stereotypical terms for African Americans or Jews instead of gays be published here? I doubt it.
Don’t waste your rebuttals because I’m unsubscribing from Dethroner now.
Nobody made a joke at the expense of gays there, sister. Unless you’re trying to make one about gays not being able to read.
hes just a troll let him pass
He’s so sensitive! Steven, please piledrive my ass.
I just caught Top Chef for the first time the other night (after watching Wired Science) and I have to say, I liked it a lot. I’m kind of pissed at myself for not watching it sooner. I won’t make the same mistake with Top Design. I always liked Todd Oldham’s stuff he used to do way back in the day on House of Style.
I also have to agree with andrew that Queer Eye is way less gay than a lot of the other shoes. My ex used to make me sit through episodes and episodes of Trading Spaces, and that shit was gayer than 8 guys blowing 9 guys. QE, despite the advertising, doesn’t try to make the dude look gay, it just tries to help him pick out clothes that actually look good on him, and help him get his crappy abode up to speed.
I don’t know why I said “shoes” in that reply. “Shows” is clearly what I intended. Carry on.
ugg. i HATE queer eye. carson is a fucking minstrel show. watching him queen it up and playfully flirt with the straight guys is like a shot in the gut.
I couldn’t even finish the video. Design? PLEASE!
a) You sub-contracted your video (must be a new niche with all the reality fodder out now). And, greeenlighted the final cut.
b) You are wearing the 70’s sunglasses. Original.
I don’t know what I just watched, but I wish I hadn’t.