reality blurred + archives + June 5 to June 11, 2005

Monday, Jun. 6, 2005

Joyce was a cast member of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Amazing Race 7 winner Joyce Agu was a recurring cast member of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She hid this from producers because, as she...
Landon's penis gets a lot of attention.
Having previously earned attention for the contents of his shorts, The Real World Philadelphia's Landon is again facing scrutiny below the belt by the world....
The Scholar debuts tonight.
ABC sticks with the feel-good reality subgenre with tonight's 8 p.m. ET debut of The Scholar, a competition featuring needy high school "Seniors from economically...
Will Tina Wesson guest star on Lost?
Survivor Australia winner Tina Wesson has been cast in ABC's hit drama Lost--that is, if an IMDB listing is to be believed. Tina will appear...
VH1 buys all six seasons of Top Model, plus NBC's Tommy Lee Goes to College.
More cable networks are getting into the reality repeat game, as VH1 has purchased the exclusive rights to air all six seasons of UPN's America's...

Blow Out returns tonight; Fire Me, Please also debuts.
CBS imports another British reality show (Sack Race) as it debuts Fire Me, Please at 9 p.m. ET. The series concept is simple: Two morons...
rebranded Queer Eye returns tonight.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy returns for a fourth season tonight at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo, and the show has undergone a tiny...
Survivor casting at open calls.
Survivor is shaking things up a bit and making a number of stops around the country to cast for season 12 of the show. For...
Project Greenlight may return; Feast will be released in January.
Project Greenlight 3's horror/slasher/alien film Feast now has a release date: January 20, 2006. No word yet about how wide the release will be. More...

Popular Iraqi reality show is "considered a key tool in fighting the insurgency."
There's a new reality show in the Middle East, and it exists as more than just entertainment. Airing for an hour every night on Iraq's...
Fire Me, Please is the worst new show of the summer, and a lie.
Rarely do I care enough about a truly dreadful show to give it space, but CBS' new Fire Me, Please deserves unrelenting scorn and condemnation....
Dancing With the Stars, Hit Me Baby 1 More Time lead summer shows.
Ratings for the first full week of summer reality TV show two new shows leading the pack, and a few others doing pretty well. A...
The Real Gilligan's Island 2 debuts tonight.
Starting at 9 p.m. ET, TBS takes two more groups of Gilligan's Island cast lookalikes and drops them off on an island for The Real...

Amazing Race DVD reportedly out Sept. 20; GSN airing reruns starting July 11.
It's official: The first season of The Amazing Race is coming to DVD. We already knew that a DVD was in the works because of...
Road Rules RV for sale.
If you're lamenting the cancellation/hiatus Road Rules, there's an eBay auction for you. The RV from the final season, Road Rules X-treme, is for sale....
Trista out of Dancing with the Stars, despite shameless vote-whoring.
Trista Sutter became the first, um, "star" to go home on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Along with her dance partner, Louis van Amstel, she...
Tommy Hilfiger's The Cut debuts tonight.
Tommy Hilfiger launches his own reality line tonight with The Cut, which debuts at 9 p.m. ET with a 90-minute episode. Those fearing it's a...

Carrie Underwood goes to Nashville.
American Idol 4 winner Carrie Underwood is embracing her roots in Nashville this week. Saturday, she'll appear on the Grand Ole Opry radio show; yesterday,...
Hit Me Baby adding three more episodes.
NBC's summer reality success Hit Me Baby One More Time is adding more episodes. The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan reports this morning: NBC is adding...
Inferno II's Tonya and Landon hooked up, "Karamo faked his ousting."
Apparently The Real World/Road Rules Challenge is a little more lax with its rules than its parent shows. For one, the cast now apparently openly...
Key West location under consideration for next Real World.
The 16th season of The Real World has yet to debut, but reality blurred has learned that the 17th season of the show may be...