After almost four months of competition and over 200,000 acts, America’s Got Talent concluded with Neal E. Boyd winning the $1,000,000 and a show in Vegas. Beating out Queen Emily, Donald Braswell, Nuttin’ But Stringz and Eli Mattson, the opera singer was crowned the winner of the shows third season which had an extended run thanks to the summer Olympics. With the top ten returning for a combined performance and the “best of the worst” performing as well it was a packed hour show. In the end Neal Boyd took home the win over Eli Mattson by only one half of one percent of the vote difference.

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Recently MSNBC.com ran a story calling the Olympic summer games the “most legendary” reality show. For one I never heard anyone call the Olympics a “reality show” and secondly I don’t agree with it. Of course NBC is broadcasting non-stop coverage of the Olympics and of course it is real and unscripted, but is that all that is needed to classify a show, or event, as reality television? It just doesn’t make much sense to me as sporting events are never seen as reality TV yet the Olympics are? Below I’ll give my reason for not understanding MSNBC.com’s classification. Do you agree or disagree? Leave a comment and let us know!

One of the main reasons the author of the MSNBC article claims the Olympics are reality TV is because they are unscripted. I can see why that comparison was made but like I said, sporting events are unscripted and they are no where close to being reality TV. Of course the Olympics do give more background information on those performing, but so do other events such as the X-Games and other more general contest and events. Hell even shows such as the news can be unscripted at times but I wouldn’t consider that a “reality show”. What I’m trying to get at is that the Olympics may be unscripted but they lack editing. Reality shows are known for editing events and conversations into a storyline while the Olympics generally show what is happening either live or uncut. It’s just hard for me to see how the two can be compared based on editing, unscripted yes, editing: no.

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Celebrity Circus returns with another death defying episode. They claim the most dangerous act ever performed on the show will be on tap for the latest run, but will it impress? Things start off right away with the reveal that Stacey, Christopher and Rachel (yay) are safe and not going home. It’s down to Wee Man, Antonio and Janet but Wee Man is somehow safe, confusing the hell out of me! He sucked last week and really deserved to go home.

Chris is first and after last weeks fire act, he realized that he has to do some acrobatics to get on the judges good side. His act for this week was the bungee, something hard for him to do with a broken arm. Since Stacey already did the bungee, of course the judges will base his performance off of their golden child. Although he looked somewhat uncomfortable on the bungee, Chris did a good job as he spun his way through the performance. This time he included a trapeze bar in the mix which did add an interesting touch but the judges were mixed. Of course they compared him to Stacey, the British guy did, but the other two loved him and that’s all the matters! Two 9s and a 6, which was great, but still the stupid British guy screwed him over!

Stacey is up next and I’m sure the judges will all love her. Her stunt is Blu’s downfall and that is the Spanish Web. In her practice package Stacey freaks out, a bit divaish? Blu did the same and she left, maybe the same will happen for Stacey. For once I’m impressed and feel she finally did a great performance. But for some reason the judges disagree? Um what’s going on. For some reason the judges have a false vision of Stacey and I’m not sure why. She spun well and it was very entertaining but of course the British guy loved her. Why am I not surprised? Two 7s and a 10 give Stacey the same score as Chris (and by the way how in the world is she 41!?!?!?)

Next up is the lackluster Week Man. I have a feeling he got through on his fame and fans calling in since he didn’t deserve to stay. The Flying Strap is his act and this time he has to act a bit as a story has been added for once. Although then hanging onto the straps Wee Man didn’t do too much. Of course he flipped a few times and flipped again, but that’s about it. I wasn’t impressed but the judges thought he did much better compared to last week. They liked the theatrical part of the show and that’s enough to give him a thumbs up. His score ends up being a 7 and two 8s, much better then the 4s he got last week!

Rachel is up next and she’s performing the most dangerous act of the show! I hope she does well since she’s afraid of heights and that’s the whole part of her performance. She’s doing the high wire that includes a trick that in the past killed someone, the pyramid. She’s walking, dancing and pyramiding on the the high wire and things were sure interesting. To make sure things stay safe, Rachel is was a safety wire and I don’t blame her. Although she’s safe, the others on the pyramid with her aren’t. They silence the audience and begin, tethered together are Rachel and two helpers. She’s balancing on a pole between the two in a very tense moment. Amazingly all three make it across safe. Although it wasn’t too thrilling it was exciting and risky! The judges thought she did a great job considering she was afraid of heights and gave her two 7s and an 8.

It was then time to reveal if Antonio or Janet would leave. Janet was the one selected to leave, probably because knows who the hell she is! She thanks the trainers and it was then up to Antonio to perform. His act is the Chinese pole, which is two poles next two each other that you can leap from and grab onto. Antonio’s act was pretty good once again but the judges seemed somewhat bored. They didn’t think he controlled himself well on the pole and lacked theatrics. Although those were mentioned they say Antonio was the only one who could have done the Chinese poles so it was a rather unbalanced judging for him. The votes were then made giving Antonia Sabato Jr a 7, 8 and 9.

With all the performances done only five remain and its a tie for the bottom as wee Man and Rachel share the bottom spot. Next week promises death defying acts and thrilling performances. All of them tonight were great so I’m sure it won’t disappoint!

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