The Girls Next Door: Crossword puzzle NOT written by Will Shortz

"The Girls Next Door" (E! Entertainment) is the ultimate in guilty-pleasure television. It follows Kendra, Holly, and Bridget; Hugh Hefner's three (now ex) girlfriends who live with him in the Playboy Mansion. The girls spend their days posing in Playboy photo shoots, playing with their tiny pet dogs, and getting up to all sorts of crazy hijinks like hosting the Midsummer's party or visiting the Playboy club in Las Vegas.

The girls are beautiful, the perfect epitome of the All-American: blonde, blue-eyed and buxom. However, the content of the show is about as nutritious as a pack of Sour Patch Kids and three cans of Coke. After watching two episodes back to back, my brain feels similar to the consistency of frosting on store-bought cupcakes.

The show stopped production after the three girls and Hef broke up. Reruns are still being shown on the E! channel, and their website is still in its full glory (http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/girlsnextdoor) Its new media content is as vapid as the actual show.

When visiting the site, viewers are asked to find the differences between these photos: (http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/girlsnextdoor/quizzes/diffgame/index.jsp) It's just like the "find the differences" game you played in the kid's section of the Sunday comics, but with a sexy twist! If you're a "Girls Next Door" buff, you can attempt to complete their very own crossword puzzle: (http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/girlsnextdoor/puzzle/index.jsp) I wish I could have posted the comparison pics and the crossword puzzle, but they were both embedded into the website using Flash. Sigh.

The point is, the new media content of "The Girls Next Door" has little thought put into it, which makes me wonder how much the show's production staff cares about their viewers. Not very much, apparently. Perhaps viewership was dropping off towards the show's end?

The Biggest Loser: Losing weight, one Tweet at a time

OK. So. Twitter.

I have a Twitter. You're welcome to follow me there: http://twitter.com/lisettevoytko

I like watching NBC Universal's "The Biggest Loser". As horrible as it may sound, it makes me feel better about myself when I'm feeling down. When I'm in a good mood, it's an inspirational kinda feeling about people who are changing their lives.

The show has its own Twitter, but you can't actually find it on Twitter (I tried). Instead, you can find their Twitter through their webpage on NBC.com. It really doesn't make sense.... you can follow the individual Biggest Loser contestants through Twitter, but there is no official Biggest Loser profile through the actual Twitter website.

At the risk of sounding trite, "The Biggest Loser" has committed an ultimate Twitter fail.

The idea behind Twitter is, according to their website, "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

So maybe Twitter wasn't meant for a television show. It doesn't really fall under the realm of friends, family, or co-workers. And maybe shows like The Biggest Loser are struggling to stay relevant by attempting to follow social networking trends that may or may not apply to them.