reality blurred + archives + September 18 to September 24, 2005

week of September 18, 2005

18.41 million watch Survivor Guatemala debut; show's doctor says it was "the toughest one to date"
Last Thursday, 17.78 million people watched the barf-fest known as Survivor Guatemala. The show had a "6.4 rating/19 share in the adults 18-49 demographic," which...
Julie Chen really is a robot; April really is self-centered
TVgasm has perhaps the most amazing montage of Big Brother footage ever assembled. This is even better than the Scott and Jase: The Love Below...
Amazing Race wins its third consecutive Emmy; Donald Trump wins Emmy Idol
The Amazing Race won its third consecutive Emmy in the Outstanding Reality Competition Program category. The show beat American Idol, The Apprentice, Project Runway, and...
Florida Keys, home to the next Real World, are being evacuated because of Rita
The cast and crew of The Real World Key West, which is now in production, are sitting in the path of a storm that may...
Kaysar says Friendship "will be held accountable for their actions outside of the Big Brother house"
Kaysar has joined CBS' Revenge of the Houseguests, um, "blog" (please), and he has some biting yet well-written criticism for the gang that calls themselves...

Tampa Real World auditions resemble a drunken dance party
"It's getting harder and harder to find people who are unspoiled, so to speak, people who don't have an agenda. ... It's a turn off...
Tonight: Big Brother 6 and Rock Star: INXS conclude, and Dancing with the Stars' dance-off begins
Tonight's a busy TV night, so make sure the DVR has plenty of room on it. Since when did Tuesdays get all the action? From...
Surreal Life 6 cast includes Sherman Hemsley, Alexis Arquette, and Florence Henderson (sort of)
Sherman Hemsley and Alexis Arquette headline the cast of The Surreal Life 6, which is really scraping the bottom of the C-list barrel. Poison guitarist...

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart debuts tonight
Martha Stewart made her return to television last week with her daytime show, but her most anticipated show debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET. That's...
J.D. Fortune is INXS' new lead singer; show rebounded with strong music because it was not Idol
INXS' new lead singer is J.D. Fortune, a 32-year-old from Toronto who lived in his car before appearing on Rock Star: INXS. Previously, he was...
Maggie wins Big Brother 6 and the feed watchers go back to whatever lives they have left
Maggie, the emergency room nurse from Las Vegas won Big Brother 6, narrowly beating Ivette by one vote. Thus, she wins $500,000, while Ivette takes...
Battle of the Network Reality Stars ends tonight, followed by Bravo's All-Star Reality Reunion
After the crap, literally, that went down between past reality cast members on Kill Reality, Bravo's Battle of the Network Reality Stars never had a...
Nelly, Tom Sizemore, Robert Blake, Toni Ferrari are all shopping reality shows
Two celebrities and one quasi-celebrity are shopping reality series about their lives. Cornell Haynes Jr., also known as Nelly, will show us his life in...

A loft, a conference room, and a cigar: it's Martha's Apprentice
And there it all was: The same dramatic music as the non-fired cast members walked back to the loft; the almost-traditional, expected dismissal of the...
The Apprentice 4 debuts tonight opposite Dancing with the Stars dance-off results
Donald Trump's The Apprentice 4 will debut tonight at 9 p.m. ET, opposite the results show for ABC's Dancing with the Stars dance-off. First, at...
Project Jay may be expanded to 12 episodes
Bravo previously announced a one-hour special titled Project Jay that would catch us up with Jay McCarroll, the winner of Project Runway. But while Bravo's...
Kaysar says all-star Big Brother is probably coming "soon"
An upcoming season of Big Brother may be the long-rumored all-star season. In a chat with Joker's, Kaysar says that he's been approached about doing...
Only 7.7 million people watched Martha Stewart's Apprentice
The fast overnight ratings are in, and they don't have good news for Martha Stewart. Her Apprentice was watched by only 7.7 million viewers. That's...

NBC's Three Wishes debuts tonight
The only truly new network reality series debuting this fall begins its run tonight as NBC airs Three Wishes at 9 p.m. ET. The show...
John O'Hurley wins Dancing with the Stars dance-off
Surprise, surprise: John O'Hurley won the Dancing with the Stars dance-off, besting the other team with an advantage of just one percent. He and Charlotte...
Rock Star INXS may return (with Queen? Van Halen?), and may lead to Canadians on other US reality shows
Rock Star: INXS executive producer and creator Mark Burnett "is negotiating with CBS to produce a second edition of Rock Star next summer," the Calgary...
Real World Key West cast will open a tanning salon, relocated to Palm Beach for Rita
Rather than screw up somebody else's business, the next Real World cast will open its own business in Key West, reality blurred has exclusively learned....