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Monday, Sep. 13, 2004

strong Surreal Life 3 debut leads to fourth season, Flava Flav, Brigitte Nielsen series.
strong Surreal Life 3 debut leads to fourth season, Flava Flav, Brigitte Nielsen series. VH1 was so impressed with the ratings for the first season...
Apprentice 2 debut was the lowest-rated episode in Apprentice history.
Apprentice 2 debut was the lowest-rated Thursday episode in Apprentice history. Although Donald Trump will surely find a way to speak of The Apprentice 2's...
ABC's The Benefactor debuts tonight.
ABC's The Benefactor debuts tonight. ABC's The Benefactor debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET, as 16 people try to impress Mark Cuban so he'll give...
CBS pushes back Amazing Race 6 debut.
CBS pushes back Amazing Race 6 debut. CBS has already pushed back the debut of The Amazing Race 6 once, from Sept. 26 to Oct....
Making the Band returns for third season with P. Diddy forming an all-girl group.
Making the Band returns for third season with P. Diddy forming an all-girl group. Although the musical acts born on the first two seasons of...
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy wins Emmy even as ratings show "stiff decline."
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy wins Emmy even as ratings show "stiff decline." Queer Eye for the Straight Guy won an Emmy for Outstanding...

did crew walk out on NBC legal series?
did crew walk out on NBC legal series? The as-yet-untitled legal reality TV series produced by former reality TV-hater David E. Kelley may have hit...
Pop Idol creator sues Simon Cowell for copyright violation over his series X-Factor.
Pop Idol creator sues Simon Cowell for copyright violation over his series X-Factor. The creator of Pop Idol, which launched Simon Cowell's notoriety as an...
critic Heather Havrilesky: reality TV offers a "chance to glimpse something true."
critic Heather Havrilesky: reality TV offers a "chance to glimpse something true." Salon's TV critic Heather Havrilesky writes a thorough, well-argued, well-supported, possibly definitive defense...
current eBay auction bid for dinner with Survivor's Rupert Boneham: $15,600.
current eBay auction bid for dinner with Survivor's Rupert Boneham: $15,600. As of 9:30 a.m. ET this morning, someone is willing to pay $15,600 for...

American Candidate producer reveals on-set lingo for reality TV shows.
American Candidate producer reveals on-set lingo for reality TV shows. Slate editor and American Candidate producer/writer Kevin Arnovitz dishes today in Slate about some of...
Ruben agrees to a makeover; Clay and Ruben's dressing room demands revealed.
Ruben agrees to a makeover; Clay and Ruben's dressing room demands revealed. American Idol 2 winner Ruben Studdard is about to release a new "contemporary...
Amazing Race 5 heads into final episode.
Amazing Race 5 heads into final episode. Stop reading now if you missed last night's episode of The Amazing Race 5 and plan to catch...
Cowboy votes to evict his half-sister Nakomis; he, Drew, Diane are final three.
Cowboy votes to evict his half-sister Nakomis; he, Drew, Diane are final three. The non-twin part of the Big Brother 5 "Project DNA" twist found...

Bachelor 4's Kelly Jo waiting for contract to expire so she can exploit her fame.
Bachelor 4's Kelly Jo waiting for contract to expire so she can exploit her fame. The Bachelor 4 dumpee Kelly Jo Kuharski now has more...
Bravo picks up Bobby Brown series; Gene Simmons is juggling three offers.
Bravo picks up Bobby Brown series; Gene Simmons is juggling three offers. Bravo will debut Being Bobby Brown next spring, following "Brown, his wife, pop...
Canadian Idol 2 concludes tonight.
Canadian Idol 2 concludes tonight. Tonight, either Alberta's Kalan Porter or Saskatchewan's Theresa Sokyrka will be named the next Canadian Idol. The competition itself will...
Senators reject FOX's request to have Paris and Nicole intern on the Hill.
Senators reject FOX's request to have Paris and Nicole intern on the Hill. A third season of The Simple Life is apparently trying to find...
CBS' Survivor Vanuatu debuts tonight.
CBS' Survivor Vanuatu debuts tonight. The ninth season of the Show that Changed it All starts tonight as CBS debuts Survivor Vanuatu at 8 p.m....

Simon will return for Idols 4 and 5.
Simon will return for Idols 4 and 5. Have no fear: American Idol 4--and, for that matter, American Idol 5--will both include the allegedly acerbic...
Kalan Porter wins Canadian Idol 2.
Kalan Porter wins Canadian Idol 2. 18-year-old Kalan Porter won Canadian Idol 2 last night, beating Theresa Sokyrka. There were "over 32 million [votes cast],...
Survivor men lose, eat one of their young.
Survivor men lose, eat one of their young. The women beat the men during Survivor Vanuatu's first challenge, leading the older guys to turn on...
Bradford fired for giving up immunity.
Bradford fired for giving up immunity. One of the changes to the game for The Apprentice 2 gave winning project managers immunity in the boardroom...
Burnett sued for stealing Apprentice idea.
Burnett sued for stealing Apprentice idea. The latest trend in reality TV, besides stealing ideas from other networks, is suing producers for stealing your reality...

Drew dumps Diane for Cowboy.
Drew dumps Diane for Cowboy. The final two houseguests on Big Brother 5 are Drew and Cowboy, fifty percent of the group known as the...