Here are today's contestants:
- Tanya Iyer, a student originally from Lisle, Illinois;
- Brent Wilson, a manager research analyst from Toronto, Ontario; and
- Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jamie is a 10-day champ with winnings of $272,810.
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| For All Mankind |
⭐🚀 For All Mankind (Apple, 12:01 AM) SEASON FIVE PREMIERE. 'Picks up in the years since the Goldilocks asteroid heist. Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system. But with the nations of Earth now demanding law and order on the Red Planet, friction continues to build between the people who live on Mars and their former home.'✔️
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Has anyone ever completed step 9? First of all, AA demands that you drop everyone you know who drinks or who was part of your life while you were drinking. Guess what? That includes all of the people who you need to make amends to. You piss them off, you cut them out of their life. They are probably grateful. Now you come back claiming to be better. They don't want to see you. They don't want to hear you. You can't change what happened. Don't even think about trying to get them to join the cult.
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Here are today's contestants:
- Jeff Bienstock, a musical theater writer from Brooklyn, New York;
- Donna Vaughan Singer, a radio news anchor from Long Island, New York; and
- Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jamie is a nine-day champ with winnings of $245,802.
My Notable Opening Nights essay on the March 26, 1987 opening of Fences will come at a later time. I'm working a six-day week this week, and I'm just hella-tired right now. My apologies.
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The designers take on a Joe Fresh challenge, where each is assigned a timeless wardrobe staple to inspire a transformative look.
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We're getting really culty now. Before it was just about personal mess and GOD. Now we've got other people involved. Next thing you know we'll be selling flowers in airports. (Watch Airplane! if you don't get that.)
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Let's look at the obvious, anyone that I remember harming? They do not want to hear from me.
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Tonight's Top Pick is the season finale of Love Story, depicting the events leading up to and after JFK Jr., Carolyn, and her sister Lauren's fatal flight when the married couple were traveling to Rory Kennedy's wedding. Are there really any other couples that would warrant the Love Story treatment? Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have been done to death and The Crown has covered most of Queen Elizabeth's kin.
Linked to the Feast of Annunciation, and originating in Sweden, it's the day of the våffeldagen.
Traditionally they used an iron that makes four heart shapes.
The difference with a Belgian waffle is using whipped egg whites for a lighter, thicker waffle.
And then, of course, there's chicken. With spicy honey sauce.
Here are today's contestants:
- Tallulah Pollard, a recent engineering graduate from Mount Airy, Maryland;
- Thayer Warne, an editorial director from Denver, Colorado; and
- Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jamie is an eight-day champ with winnings of $222,203.
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Play ball! Here's what's on television for tonight, Wednesday, March 25!
Our Top Pick tonight is the premiere of Bait (Amazon Prime Video, 3 a.m.). Written and starring the Oscar-winning Riz Ahmed, an actor finds himself entering an existential crisis has he gets in the acting big leagues. The full 6-episode season drops.
Elsewhere, the MLB opens the 2026 season, Fear is no longer a Factor, Uma Thurman is Pretty Lethal, Shrinking has daddy issues, Survivor has bad blood, Abbott has no homework, Jim Belushi goes K9, Anaconda don't want none, Scrubs finds romance, and the Law goes Southern.
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Step 7 is really the same as Step 6 except we've now reached the point of no return. Alcoholism can be defined as loss of control. If this isn't volunteering control then I don't know what is.
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Can I have a volunteer?
Here are today's contestants:
- Pranit Nanda, a commodity trader from Houston, Texas;
- Abigail Marcolini, a book store clerk originally from Scottsdale, Arizona; and
- Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jamie is a seven-day champ with winnings of $195,203.
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Cult. When you reach AA you're weak, vulnerable, likely hopeless. And they demand that you give up what little you have left.
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Don't. Maybe most needs to go but you need to be judicial. The people that helped before need to be thanked. The people who were crabs in the bucket need to be pushed away. Don't know bucket crabs? One crab needs to be watched. Once you've got two or more you are set. One of the crabs will always climb up the side of the bucket and could easily escape but the other crabs grab ahold and drag the crab back to the bottom.
For the second straight week, NCIS is the Tuesday Top Pick. There's a good-ish reason for the repeat: NCIS is airing its 500th episode. Once again, let's go to the numbers for scripted series: Law & Order has aired 538 episodes to date, while Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is at 588 episodes, and The Simpsons is at 805 episodes. Grey's Anatomy, with its 463rd episode airing Thursday, is just ahead of Family Guy, currently at 455 episodes. Meanwhile, the Chicago series are all somewhere in the 200s.
Here are today's contestants:
- Erin Howard, a community membership facilitator from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts;
- Max Genecov, a clinical psychology Ph.D. student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
- Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jamie is a six-day champ with winnings of $162,203.
