reality blurred + archives + November 4 to November 10, 2001

week of November 4, 2001

Mark Walberg: a "victim of editing."
Mark Walberg: a "victim of editing." The host of Temptation Island 2 tells Zap2it.com that the experience is "really emotionally draining" for him. Mark Walberg...
a Road Ruler's part in a web hoax.
a Road Ruler's part in a web hoax. Remember ourfirsttime.com? The Internet Entertainment Group is being sued by the producer of the web-based event, which...
head of reality TV at BBC says reality TV is "not something I really feel exists."
head of reality TV at BBC says reality TV is "not something I really feel exists." Conrad Green--who helped make both Big Brother and Popstars...
relatives of WW1 veterans criticize BBC's upcoming The Trenches.
relatives of WW1 veterans criticize BBC's upcoming The Trenches. Next year, BBC2 will air The Trench, a reality TV show that finds the 20 cast...

USA's Mystery Mansion on hold.
USA's Mystery Mansion on hold. Citing budget issues, USA is pulling a planned reality TV show: Rocket Science Laboratories' Mystery Mansion, which was essentially Murder...
Inside Fear DVD, video out today.
Inside Fear DVD, video out today. MTV's Fear hasn't been on the air for a while, even though a second season was ordered. But MTV...
conflicting report: Real World Chicago wrapped production last Friday.
conflicting report: Real World Chicago wrapped production last Friday. Contradicting an earlier report that said the show could wrap yesterday, three weeks earlier than planned,...

Spain airing Operacion Triunfo.
Spain airing Operación Triunfo. Spain's TVE debuted Operación Triunfo last month (roughly "Operation Success" or "Operation Triumph"), which follows 16 musical hopefuls--a la Popstars....
The Real World 12 will be shot in Las Vegas, Road Rules in the South.
The Real World 12 will be shot in Las Vegas, Road Rules in the South. MTV has announced the location for The Real World 12,...
Amazing Race has been renewed.
Amazing Race has been renewed. Preproduction on The Amazing Race 2 began weeks ago, but CBS waited until yesterday to confirm that the show had...
Temptation Island 2--and Temptation Island 1 wedding--debut tonight.
Temptation Island 2--and Temptation Island 1 wedding--debut tonight. Temptation Island 2 debuts tonight on FOX at 9 p.m. ET, but first, one couple from last...

Playboy TV's reality TV show 7 Lives Xposed is in its third week.
Playboy TV's reality TV show 7 Lives Xposed is in its third week. Playboy's erotic reality TV series 7 Lives Xposed re-airs its third episode...
Shannon and Andy get married.
Shannon and Andy get married. After 50 minutes of "suspense," Temptation Island: The Wedding concluded with a fast, live wedding. The happy couple was not...
"don't miss the first 15 minutes"!
"don't miss the first 15 minutes"! Something big is happening tonight on Survivor Africa, and coincidentally, it's happening in the first half-hour--during Friends, which has...

Big Brother's Kent: reality TV "has been overexposed and deluded [sic]."
Big Brother's Kent: reality TV "has been overexposed and deluded [sic]." Big Brother 2's Kent Blackwelder thinks he knows what's wrong with the reality TV...
Krista and Mike Boogie split up--because of The Amazing Race 2?
Krista and Mike Boogie split up--because of The Amazing Race 2? The relationship born in the Big Brother 2 house has, shockingly, broken up. Krista...
Wednesday Temptation Island 2 debut brings 8.9 million viewers.
Wednesday Temptation Island 2 debut brings 8.9 million viewers. The show with the unfortunate--or maybe accurate--acronym (think about it; spell out "2") "was the highest-rated...
winners of Soapstars' contracts extended for another three months.
winners of Soapstars' contracts extended for another three months. The five winners of ITV's Soapstars--a reality TV show in the UK that followed people auditioning...
tribes switch three "best" members; Silas voted out of his new tribe.
tribes switch three "best" members; Silas voted out of his new tribe. Jeff Probst revealed the long-awaited surprise on Survivor Africa, and it did not...