VH1's World Series of Pop Culture, Top Chef and What Else I'm Watching This Summer

My friend Kryss Peterson and her team, The Carleton Banks Dance Academy, made it to VH1's World Series of Pop Culture.  The second season of this series is hosted by the adorable Pat Kiernan, whose lovely wife Dawn is a former colleague of both Kryss' and mine.  But no strings were pulled here, Kryss is a bona fide pop culture smarty pants - she's cracked Entertainment Weekly's Pop Watch HeadScratcher more than once.

Check her out in the promo - she's the fetching gal in the argyle sweater shouting out Tattoo's signature line from Fantasy Island. 

Here's a viewer drinking game suggestion - every time Kryss' team answers correctly and/or does the Carleton Banks dance, take a drink.  Hopefully by the finals you'll be drunk enough to join Lindsey Lohan in rehab.  So be sure to check the show out when it begins airing on July 9th.

In other TV news, I'm covering Top Chef at BlogHer.  Check out my recaps of the 4 Star All Stars prequel and the season 3 debut. 

This summer is not so strong for the TV watching this year.  I'm looking forward to The Closer (starts tonight) and Psych returning.  I'm bummed that Rescue Me is moved to Wednesday and opposite Top Chef since my DVR is dead and I haven't gotten a new one.  So You Think You Can Dance, My Life on the D-list, Entourage and The 4400 are on my schedule but I think that's it.  Maybe I'll try to pick up Eureka in it's 2nd season - it looks fun but I hate having missed season 1.  Got any hot recommendations for something I should be watching?