reality blurred + archives + August 28 to September 3, 2005

Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005

Fall 2005 reality show schedule
This fall, most of the prime-time network reality TV shows will seem very familiar. The major broadcast networks are all staying with the familiar, bringing...

BBC reality show challenges sexually active teenagers to abstain for six months
A new BBC reality series will see what happens when sexually active teenagers stop being horny and start abstaining. The series, called No Sex Please,...
Dutch Big Brother includes pregnant woman who will deliver during the show
The new Dutch Big Brother, which debuted yesterday, includes a pregnant woman who will give birth after about six weeks in the house. The baby...
Cast member once dated the son of Martha's Apprentice adviser
One of the contestants on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart once dated the son of one of Martha Stewart's two advisers. Bethenny Frankel "dated Brian Koppelman,...
Kill Reality house hosted orgies, and Clay Aiken repeatedly called Reichen
Radar has a report on the drunken antics of the Kill Reality cast at their Malibu house. Apparently, the craziness that airs on E! is...
Kaysar-themed banner flies over the Big Brother house
Yet another banner has flown over the Big Brother 6 house. TVgasm has a photo of the banner that makes the Loch Ness Monster photo...

Starting Over shows momentum; producer "hoping this season is a real breakthrough year"
Starting Over is getting ready to begin its third season, and it'll do so with "some recent momentum: season-to-season growth in key adult female demos,...
Clay Aiken thinks jokes about him are "funny" "half the time," but gay questions are "insulting"
Clay Aiken has a sense of humor about the jokes that often make him their target. And they're not all that unfamiliar. "I spent years...
Martha's catchphrase revealed; Appentice Kelly recommended former colleague
Page Six reports today that it has learned Martha Stewart's Apprentice catchphrase, which was being kept secret. Martha will reportedly fire people by saying (highlight...
House located; neighbor sues to shut down Real World Key West production
The Real World Key West house has been located, and it's at 32 Driftwood Drive in Key Haven, just east of Key West. But the...
Laguna Beach up to an average of 3.1 million viewers
Laguna Beach's second season is averaging 3.1 million viewers every week, up from 2.2. million last season. The New York Times reports that the growth...
Zombies at American Idol auditions scream, "Television rots your braaaaaaains!"
Fifteen actors dressed as zombies descended upon the American Idol 5 auditions being held at the University of Texas at Austin last week. UT grad...

April says viewers "are all pieces of shit" because America made Ivette cry
I take back what I said about the second America's Choice question being lame and not impacting the game. I was very, very wrong, and...
Trump selected Apprentice 4 cast because he hated Apprentice 3 cast
Donald Trump says he was pissed off during the production of The Apprentice 3, and that lead to changes for the upcoming fourth season, whose...
Toni Ferrari has "suffered severe trauma," "negative backlash" from fans
Toni Ferrari, star of Paradise Hotel, Love Cruise, and Kill Reality, is currently "dealing with the negative backlash from viewers who take the programs way...

China's Idol draws more than 400 million viewers even as its democratic voting raises questions
China's version of Pop Idol, known as Super Girl 2005, concluded last Friday with a three hour finale. 21-year-old Li Yuchun won the contest, and...
Situation Comedy pilots online for voting; did The WB pick up or rip off one of the shows?
Bravo's sit-com creation series Situation: Comedy will select its winner based upon a viewer vote. And although the episode during which the pilot presentations are...
VMA afterparty antics make the gossip pages
Laguna Beach has now officially transcended normal reality TV fame and launched into the reality TV famewhore stratosphere. New York Times features are one thing,...
Professor "pissed off" that discussion was edited to be about Tommy Lee's penis
Even some of the real parts of NBC's heavily staged reality show Tommy Lee Goes to College are fiction. The English professor featured in Tuesday's...
Michael says fake blog is "brilliant"; Kaysar says he "did get a few laughs out of" TeamKaysar.com
A long, long time ago, someone launched a blog that was allegedly written by Michael, the Big Brother 6 houseguest. Alas, it was not real,...

Situation Comedy voting ends tonight
Bravo airs the penultimate episode of Situation: Comedy tonight at 7 p.m. ET, and voting will close just before midnight. After I linked to two...
James is evicted; Howie is HOH for second double-elimination week
And then there were six hamsters remaining. James' last-ditch effort to avoid eviction didn't work, which was surprising, because he's played both sides of the...
Memphis audition for American Idol 5 cancelled
As a result of the "the extensive disaster relief efforts currently being coordinated in" Memphis after Hurricane Katrina, FOX is cancelling the American Idol 5...

Laguna Beach surf shop gets 20 calls a day for Stephen
Around 20 people call the Laguna Surf And Sport shop every day, looking for Laguna Beach star Stephen. While Surfing Magazine was at the shop...
Beau is evicted; Ivette becomes HOH; Holly returns and makes us go deaf
As the sidebar notes, I was going to take the weekend off, but if Julie Chen can show up to host the special Saturday double-eviction...