Monday, Aug. 22, 2005

• Growing Up Gotti's third season debuts tonight; Victoria had cancer
  The third seasons of Growing Up Gotti debuts tonight at 9 p.m. ET as A&E airs the 29th episode focusing on whatever it is that...
• Princes of Malibu's fakeness "was meant to play funny," producer says
  The summer's fakest "reality" series, The Princes of Malibu, has cost its stars a lot because the play-acting didn't pay off as they'd hoped," the...
• Trump will produce Chinese Apprentice
  China is getting not one but two Apprentices, although one will be a knock-off and the other will actually be produced by Donald Trump. Wise...
• Martha jokes that she wanted to dismiss apprentices with "Your ass is grass!'
  If an interview Martha Stewart conducted with Newsweek is any indication, her season of The Apprentice is going to be cra-zy. For starters, Martha said...
• Bo Bice leaves Idol tour after emergency surgery due to intestine blockage
  Bo Bice "has successfully undergone an emergency medical procedure that was urgently needed to save his life," a message on his band's web site said....

Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005

• Despite some hits, summer ratings are down
  Network ratings this summer "are down a collective 10% among adults 18-49 vs. last summer -- and 15% in viewers 18-34," Variety reports. While dramas...
• RTVStar.com offers exposure to reality TV casting producers
  For $24.99 a year, a new web site is offering a way to get your face in front of multiple reality TV show casting directors....
• Team Kaysar refunds donations after PayPal account suspended and copycat sites emerge
  Rewarding four reality show cast members with $500,000 viewer-donated cash awards is turning out to be more difficult than it seems. TeamKaysar.com's PayPal account was...
• WGA filing second lawsuit against a network and reality show producer
  Earlier, the WGAw sued ABC, CBS, The WB, and TBS and several production companies. Tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. PT, the Writers Guild of America West...

Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005

• Rock Star's results show ratings, web site traffic grow
  Rock Star: INXS will air a special one-hour results show tonight, after which only seven contenders will remain. Perhaps that's because the Wednesday night results...
• ABC Family's Kicked Out debuts tonight
  ABC Family brings family values to reality television tonight when it debuts Kicked Out, a series that finds parents kicking their slacker kids in the...
• FOX may never air Ivana Young Man
  FOX commissioned and produced a series starring Donald Trump's ex-wife, Ivana Trump, but the series may never air. Ivana Young Man finds Ivana helping a...
• Beau nominates Howie and Rachel
  Okay, Big Brother 6 has officially reached its boring stage. Perhaps it's that each group is just going after the other, or perhaps it's that,...
• Victoria Gotti only had a cancer "scare," and reportedly used the cancer story to promote her show
  Victoria Gotti now says she only had a cancer "scare" late last year, not breast cancer, as she told the Daily News Sunday. She says...
• Project Runway returns in December and will include a familiar cast member
  Project Runway 2 will debut on Bravo late this year, on Wednesday, December 7. Sometime between now and then, probably rather close to the debut,...
• Martha's daughter, chairman of the board will serve as her advisors
  Yes, yes: By now the whole world knows that Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart will fill the Carolyn role on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. Never...
• Writer's Guild helps 10 producers sue FOX, Rocket Science Laboratories
  As expected, the WGA has helped file another class-action lawsuit against a network and a production company. According to a press release, "ten reality-TV writers...

Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005

• Charla leaves, Jerri Manthey joins Battle of the Network Reality Stars
  Charla has left the reality TV whore-fest known as Battle of the Network Reality Stars. After being saved by a twist last week, The Amazing...
• Biggest Loser 2 teams revealed
  The cast of The Biggest Loser 2 has been unveiled, and they'll compete as teams of men versus women. The 14 competitors "includ[e] a stand-up...
• America's Choice returns Thursday
  CBS is once again giving Big Brother 6 viewers a chance to affect the show, as America's Choice returns this Thursday. However, we won't be...
• Rachel leaves; April is HOH; America's new Choice is lame
  It's Thursday evening, and thus it was time for more insipid questions from Big Brother 6 host Julie Chen. Tonight, she asked Ivette who would...

Friday, Aug. 26, 2005

• Martha reveals her theme song, first task
  Judging by the rate at which we're receiving information about The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, we should know who won by the time it debuts. Yesterday,...
• Big Brother 6 will have another double elimination week next week
  If all goes well, we should lose two more hamsters next week, as CBS is planning another double elimination. Someone who reads Us Weekly tells...
• L.C. working at Teen Vogue for possible Laguna Beach spin-off
  Laguna Beach might spin off a reality series set at Teen Vogue, and to test out the idea, L.C. is working in the magazine's West...

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