{"id":4244,"date":"2011-02-17T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2011-02-17T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:33:11","slug":"tv-show-round-up-jeopardy-human-planet-survivor-redemption-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"TV Show Round Up:  Jeopardy, Human Planet, Survivor: Redemption Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been watching on the telly this week:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jeopardy: IBM Watson Episodes<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/watson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4243\" title=\"watson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/watson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/watson.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/watson-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I normally never watch the game show <em>Jeopardy<\/em> but I was drawn in by their recent IBM Watson series.\u00a0 You might recall about ten years ago when IBM created a computer named Deep Blue that played a series of chess games against the grand master Gary Kasparoff.\u00a0 Well, this series of <em>Jeopardy<\/em> pits former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter against a computer named Watson.\u00a0 It&#8217;s both fascinating and creepy to watch.\u00a0 Although I must say, it was a missed opportunity by IBM to not give Watson a face.\u00a0 It would&#8217;ve been even better watching him destroy his competition with a big emoticon smiley face on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"629\" height=\"384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WFR3lOm_xhE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Human Planet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For anyone who enjoyed the BBC Nature documentary series <em>Planet Earth <\/em>and <em>Life<\/em>, I highly recommend this latest series <em>Human Planet<\/em> where the crew turn their attention to humans who live in extraordinary environments.\u00a0 Episodes are divided into varying terrain themes (jungle, desert, mountain etc.) rather than geographical regions.\u00a0 The highlights of the program are the gorgeous high quality videos and an uncanny ability on the part of the creators to uncover some truly mindblowing footage of what people do to survive.\u00a0 Whether its children catching tarantulas with their bare hands in the jungle, eskimos hunting whales under ice or tribesmen building treehouses twenty metres above the ground, this series has a near endless ability to educate and amaze.  My favourite episode by far has been the jungle one.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"629\" height=\"384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2HiUMlOz4UQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Survivor: Redemption Island<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/phillip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4245\" title=\"phillip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/phillip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/phillip.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/phillip-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, the latest season of Survivor is only one episode old and already it feels better than last season.\u00a0 This time around, the casting crew have really delivered an intriguing batch of contestants who range from savvy newcomers who have studied the game on tv, starstruck pretenders who flock to the big stars, war veterans, NFL players and a hilariously entertaining crazy man who somehow slipped through the show&#8217;s mental health checks during the casting stage.\u00a0 I believe Phillip is the first player in Survivor to have a question mark listed after his occupation as it is highly likely that his ongoing claim of being a &#8216;former federal agent&#8217; is completely bogus.\u00a0 Phillip does, however, run around the island acting as if life is his own personal episode of <em>24<\/em>.\u00a0 He insists on calling himself Agent Shepard.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t talk to people, he interrogates them.\u00a0 Even when they are people trying to form an alliance with him!\u00a0 His instability lead to a memorable first tribal council.\u00a0 Perhaps the best opening tribal in the show&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>I know some people didn&#8217;t like seeing Boston Rob and Russell Hantz return onto the show but I certainly don&#8217;t mind having them back.\u00a0 It was great seeing Russell get up to his old tricks by forming an alliance with a young girl on Day One and Boston Rob showed major cajones with his powerplay at the tribal council.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;re in for an entertaining season ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been watching on the telly this week: Jeopardy: IBM Watson Episodes I normally never watch the game show Jeopardy but I was drawn in by their recent IBM Watson series.\u00a0 You might recall about ten years ago when IBM created a computer named Deep Blue that played a series of chess games &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[784,786,785,158,787],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-tv","tag-human-planet","tag-jeopardy","tag-phillip","tag-survivor","tag-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}