reality blurred + archives + July 8 to July 14, 2001

week of July 8, 2001

Bands on the Run ends tonight.
Bands on the Run ends tonight. Flickerstick or Soulcracker will walk away with the grand prize tonight during the 10:30 p.m. ET finale of VH1's...

Survivor 3 cast arrived yesterday.
Survivor 3 cast arrived yesterday. Taping will begin for Survivor 3 sometime in the next two days now that the cast has arrived, and 118...
France's Loft Story ends.
France's Loft Story ends. After two months, which were highlighted by protests and an attempt to free the contestants, France's Loft Story is over, with...
Flickerstick wins Bands on the Run (which continues next week).
Flickerstick wins Bands on the Run (which continues next week). Flickerstick beat Soulcracker in the final battle of the bands, making them the winner of...
Big Brother 2's debut draws far fewer viewers than last year.
Big Brother 2's debut draws far fewer viewers than last year. The (alleged) changes apparently weren't enough to give Big Brother 2 a victory over...

critic: lip-synched O-Town performance "a skin-crawling horror" and reminiscent of Milli Vanilli.
critic: lip-synched O-Town performance "a skin-crawling horror" and reminiscent of Milli Vanilli. Troy J. Augusto rips into O-Town for lip-synching a recent performance in Hollywood,...
US Big Brother pushes searches to number 3 on Lycos.
US Big Brother pushes searches to number 3 on Lycos. The debut of Big Brother 2 and thus searches for it pushed the phrase--which could...
Road Rules 10 debuted last night.
Road Rules 10 debuted last night. The first episode of MTV's Road Rules 10: The Quest aired last night (I apologize for not posting about...
Survivor 3 will be monitored by CBS program practices executive.
Survivor 3 will be monitored by CBS program practices executive. This time, Mark Burnett is not alone. CBS has sent a watchdog to Africa to...

another take on O-Town's first concert of their tour.
another take on O-Town's first concert of their tour. There were only four spotlights for the five who look like "male cheerleaders spun out on...
USA greenlights murder mystery.
USA greenlights murder mystery. USA Network has ordered 13 episodes of Mystery Mansion, which sounds suspiciously like FOX's upcoming Murder in Small Town X. The...
Australian animal rights group wants unedited pig killing footage.
Australian animal rights group wants unedited pig killing footage. Australia's division of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wants to see...
man shot to death near new Real World Chicago house.
man shot to death near new Real World Chicago house. Whether or not the cast has moved in to The Real World Chicago house is...
Justin with knife to Krista's throat: "Would you get mad if I killed you?"
Justin with knife to Krista's throat: "Would you get mad if I killed you?" Drama overflowed last night in the Big Brother 2 house. Reports...
report: Justin has been removed from the Big Brother house.
report: Justin has been removed from the Big Brother house. After the events of last night (see below), Justin was apparently been expelled from the...

instant celebrity: life after the UK's Big Brother.
instant celebrity: life after the UK's Big Brother. A reporter from The Guardian tracks down and followed the stars from last year's version of the...
fallout from Justin's eviction continues; ratings go up a bit.
fallout from Justin's eviction continues; ratings go up a bit. Tuesday's episode was seen by 8.3 million viewers, slightly over last week's debut. Also, the...
MTV threatens to cut off Sun-Times access for publishing house location.
MTV threatens to cut off Sun-Times access for publishing house location. The Chicago Sun-Times has covered the fatal shooting and other crimes ("In the last...
Survivor, American High, Bands on the Run, Road Rules get Emmy nods.
Survivor, American High, Bands on the Run, Road Rules get Emmy nods. The Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and four true (at least, by...

Flickerstick has already produced the video for Smile.
Flickerstick has already produced the video for Smile. Hollywood.com talks to the winners of Bands on the Run--and to the loser. Flickerstick says they had...
Making the Band finale is tonight.
Making the Band finale is tonight. Making the Band ends its second season tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET as "the band is about to crash...
Sheryl out; Justin calls his critics "idiot[s]"; jury will vote for winner.
Sheryl out; Justin calls his critics "idiot[s]"; jury will vote for winner. By a vote of 5 to 3, Sheryl--who head of household Mike nominated...
Shapiro says alcohol might be the next thing kicked out of the house.
Shapiro says alcohol might be the next thing kicked out of the house. After incidents like Justin and Krista's drunken make out/knife play incident, Big...

despite controversy, Big Brother 2 ratings are still not very strong.
despite controversy, Big Brother 2 ratings are still not very strong. Thursday's episode of Big Brother 2 was just .2 of a ratings point ahead...