STEAMPUNK'D
GSN, 10:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: If you don’t have a firm grasp on what “steampunk” is, this new reality competition show may not help much – because the definitions, like the artistic aesthetics of the contestants, are all over the place. Basically, it’s a melding of past and future, and Steampunk’d challenges its invited artists to create not just fashion, but to design and furnish entire rooms in a slowly evolving “Manor.” They pull inspiration and material out of the “Punkyard,” divide into two teams, and, in tonight’s opener, have three days to design and build a steampunk kitchen with some working elements and a costumed occupant. The challenges are closest to Project Runway, the oil-and-water team dynamics to The Apprentice, and after watching one episode, I’m not sure I’m hungry for more… though steampunk, as a design, truly is imaginative and interesting. So maybe. Jeannie Mal (pictured), a better embodiment of steampunk than anything else in the opener, hosts.