What's On Planet Green: Supper Club
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 06.10.08
Last week, our parent company, Discovery Communications, launched Planet Green, the first ever 24-7 TV channel dedicated to green living. With more than 200 hours of original green lifestyle programming, Planet Green is a fresh conversation about what it means to be environmental. We've been bringing you clips from the new shows and encourage you to use our channel finder so you can watch Planet Green in your home.
We've featured Wa$ted, Mean Green Machines, Hollywood Green, and Renovation Nation. Today we're bringing you the scoop on Supper Club. For those of you that watched the Planet Green premier last week, you're probably familiar with what it's all about, but as the guests change each week so does the conversation. Haven't you wanted to be a fly on the wall at a Hollywood dinner party?
Catch a sneak peak below the fold.
Each week, Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron hosts a fabulous evening alongside a celebrity chef who cooks up a green meal, while four special celebrity guests with completely different backgrounds (think politicos to activists to athletes) break bread and discuss the latest news and events in the green movement.
View the Supper Club trailer at the Planet Green website.
To view the full lineup of Planet Green, visit the weekly schedule.
I have to say, I watched the first episode of this show and was very disappointed. The discussions were fairly shallow, and the guests that believe strongly in the green movement all but completely squelched out the only guest who disagreed. God forbid we let someone how disagrees with a viewpoint actually SHARE why they feel that way.
What a waste of airtime. This kind of behavior only helps to solidify the bad stereotypes associated with environmentalism.
I saw that first episode, and I thought it seemed pretty interesting. The dinner creation wasn't really my cup of tea, although I got excited when Marilu Henner said that meat and dairy should never be consumed. The discussion was lively, although I hope its not the same issue each week, with just a rotating group of people. Having folks on both sides helped...
I'd really be into seeing a group of normal people dish it out though. Having celebs and media personalities can be entertaining, but I'd rather hear what folks from "the real world" have to say. Kind of like that "Will it play in Peoria" bit some new channel has.
I love the format and the guests of Supper Club. However, just like Oprah and a hand full of others who have been fortunate enough and talented enough to realize success power and wealth they tend to brag about their status in a disturbingly tongue in cheek way while the fuming trail of these telling and gaseous remarks carry the nauseating aroma of pungent egotistical hypocrisy to the degree that it completely defeats the purpose of the show in its entirety. It also seems very staged and PC adnauseum as well. There is not doubt some of the guests still use private aircraft and though they may have their hearts in the greenest of places their consumption is simply less conspicuous when in fact they more than likely have Eco-footprints the size of states or entire territories and are as guilty as anyone living in excess on the planet. I believe the format of the show has merit but I think they need to "can the crap" open up and confess a bit more than they do. Bill Zimmermann, San Diego