Canadian Idol's Anna-Belle Olivia-Denis got bounced out of the competition last week.

It's a hard and fast rule of reality television that the weakest competitors are not always the ones that get eliminated first. But how do three able-bodied treasure hunting men get defeated by a girl on crutches?

And how do two cute Quebec chanteuses get beat by a teenaged hippie? How does an intelligent, ambitious girl get turfed out of a supermodel competition?

Wait, maybe that last one answers itself.

Canadian Idol (Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Wednesday at 9:30 p.m., on CTV): Have the French forsaken Canadian Idol? Seems so, with all three Quebec-born female singers landing in the girls' bottom four last week, along with a Calgarian Ani DiFranco lookalike. The two most obviously French singers -- Montreal's Anna-Belle Oliva-Denis and Saint-Jerome's Valerie Jalbert -- were bounced.

On the guys' side, Koz and Nathan got turfed, with Sheldon and Rob James also in the bottom four. Apparently McMaster and James fans are also not watching Idol. If any still exist.

Notable among the performances were Thornhill's Nancy Silverman simultaneously channeling Alanis Morissette and Jann Arden, Newfoundlander Craig Sharpe sounding more like a girl than some of the women, and judge Zack Werner telling Sheldon that "it's cool to represent yourself, just like Ben (Mulroney) is representing himself with Ben's homoerotic cavalcade of commentary." Okay then.

Tonight through Wednesday it'll be more performances, more eliminations and more, uh, commentary.

Treasure Hunters (Tonight at 9 p.m. on Global and NBC): While the Fogal family continued to play dishonourably last week (leading to the invention of the phrase "we just got Fogaled"), Jessica of the Grads team stepped in a hole while her trio was portaging, badly twisting her ankle.

But the Grads persevered, alternating between carrying their canoe and Jessica, and ultimately beat out the Brown family to avoid elimination. The Browns were saddled with a water-fearing and (let's be real) severely overweight member who more or less literally sunk their chances on the canoe leg of the trek. Nice fellas nonetheless.

Tonight, the eight remaining teams pair up to find the third of the seven artifacts as they travel through America's Colonial past. This is starting to feel like The Amazing Race: Family Edition. Are they ever going to leave the U.S.?

Hell's Kitchen (Tonight at 9 p.m. on CITY-TV and Fox): Last week the chefs did their first-ever lunch service, for a restaurant full of hyperactive, Silly String-wielding kids. Hell indeed. They managed to fill all the orders, but that night's dinner didn't go as smoothly, with Chef Ramsay calling it the worst effing service he's ever effing seen, effing eff!

Once the man who swears more than Ozzy was done blowing his gaskets, it was doughy ol' Tom turning in his apron. Tonight, the feud between Sara and Rachel escalates, someone gets booted out of the kitchen and as-yet unnamed "celebrities" visit the restaurant for dinner. Hope it's not some effing nobodies from another effing Fox reality show.

Canada's Next Top Model (Wednesday at 8 p.m. on CITY-TV): Tenika learned a hard lesson last week: The modelling world is no place for someone who is articulate, intelligent and ambitious. Begone!

She won't be missed by Sisi, as the two got into a heavily-bleeped out yelling match last time. Curious that the word "bitch" was bleeped when they can drop uncensored s-bombs at will. Perhaps it was for dramatic effect? Ya think?

This week, Jay Manuel is back as guest judge and Andrea starts bawling about something. Deja vu on both counts.