reality blurred + archives + October 1 to October 7, 2000

week of October 1, 2000

chickens rescued by Bob Barker.
chickens rescued by Bob Barker. In a fitting endcap to Big Brother, Price is Right personality Bob Barker has arranged for United Activists for Animal...
Today Show discovers location of Survivor 2.
Today Show discovers location of Survivor 2. Although NBC's Today show correspondent Kerry Sanders found the top-secret location of Survivor 2, the competing network didn't...

Richard: "People were not capable of knowing me."
Richard: "People were not capable of knowing me." Survivor's winner talks to The Advocate about his approach to the game ("Who cared if one of...
Big Brother's finale ratings beat the Olympics.
Big Brother's finale ratings beat the Olympics. The ratings are in, and Big Brother's finale beat NBC's Olympics coverage on Friday night. But as Inside.com...
Eddie's girlfriend may dump him.
Eddie's girlfriend may dump him. Big Brother's winner may have $500K, but he might not have a relationship anymore. TV Guide reports that Eddie and...

Playboy ventures into reality TV arena.
Playboy ventures into reality TV arena. Playboy's VP of programming, a woman oddly enough named Andrea McBurnett (Mark Burnett's alter ego?), are selling three...
Mark Burnett: Gore, Bush are "crazy" if they try to b.s. the public.
Mark Burnett: Gore, Bush are "crazy" if they try to b.s. the public. Tonight is the first presidential debate, and Survivor's executive producer Mark Burnett...

Eddie: winning was "a walk in the park."
Eddie: winning was "a walk in the park." Oh, oops. We, the viewers, thought being so excruciatingly boring was rather difficult. Our bad! + also:...
FOX plays it safe and pulls a sexy bachelor from the pageant.
FOX plays it safe and pulls a sexy bachelor from the pageant. Before Monday's two-hour Sexiest Bachelor in America pageant, FOX dropped a 23-year-old man...
Damon, Affleck helm Project Greenlight.
Damon, Affleck helm Project Greenlight. The Academy Award-winning pair responsible for Good Will Hunting is teaming up for Project Greenlight, which is now being...

William Morris Agency pushing RealityRun.
William Morris Agency pushing RealityRun. The agency that represents the creators of Survivor, Big Brother and Who Wants to be a Millionaire is trying to...
Gina Gershon stars in "Island of Death."
Gina Gershon stars in "Island of Death." The Snoops star will play the lead in "an audio drama" that will air only online. E! Online...
Danny: "She was afraid I was going to tongue her."
Danny: "She was afraid I was going to tongue her." The Real World New Orleans star Danny Roberts had a guest spot in last night's...
Media Jammers gets inside the habitrail.
Media Jammers gets inside the habitrail. The leader of the group that started the banner craze successfully worked his way inside the Big Brother...

Rudy tours the Supreme Court.
Rudy tours the Supreme Court. As the guest of a high court marshal, a friend from the Navy, Rudy recently got a VIP tour of...
Josh: "Why dress up every day and wear lots of clothes?"
Josh: "Why dress up every day and wear lots of clothes?" The second-place Big Brother winner tells TV Guide that he often didn't wear a...
Sunday MSNBC documentary explores reality TV.
Sunday MSNBC documentary explores reality TV. This Sunday at 9 p.m. EST, MSNBC Reports presents the "Reality TV Survivor's Guide," a one-hour documentary about "the...

need a hit of reality? try "Sufferer: A Survivor Parody."
need a hit of reality? try "Sufferer: A Survivor Parody." 16 people watch reality TV for 39 hours. Who will survive--er, suffer? This parody of...
a "sex party" on the island?
a "sex party" on the island? "Sources" say that there was a lot more sex on the Survivor island than CBS would like us to...