week of August 20, 2006

Monday, Aug. 21, 2006

• Fall 2006 reality show debut schedule
  Just like last year, the networks are playing it safe this fall, only returning new series to their lineups. The CW will kick off its...
• NBC's Treasure Hunters concludes tonight
  NBC's summertime series Treasure Hunters concludes tonight at 9 p.m. ET. It had the misfortune of airing opposite Hell's Kitchen 2 and being a bit...
• Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts debuts on HBO tonight
  Spike Lee's four-hour documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts debuts tonight on HBO. The first two hours air tonight at 9...
• Mike Boogie and the coup d'etat
  On Thursday, Mike "Boogie" Malin was revealed to be the winner of the coup d'etat power, which he declined to use both then and during...
• Howie evicted from Big Brother 7 and confronts new HOH Mike Boogie on his way out
  Well, well, well. Who would have ever thought Chicken George capable of making Big Brother 7 interesting again, if only for a few minutes? George,...
• Survivor Cook Islands tribes rumored to be separated in a new way
  Update: This rumor has been comfirmed. The full details are here. Rumors circulating on the Internet suggest that the tribes for Survivor Cook Islands will...
• America's Got Talent beats So You Think You Can Dance in total viewers, but loses among 18-49s
  The summer's two biggest reality shows both came away winners from their final week. NBC's America's Got Talent drew the largest number of viewers, but...
• Kathy Griffin loses an Emmy to Extreme Makeover, while The Amazing Race wins two Emmys
  Kathy Griffin has lost her bid for an Emmy. Her Bravo show lost to Ty Pennington's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which sucks but should provide...

Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006

• Bravo's Work Out concludes tonight
  The first season of Work Out concludes tonight on Bravo. If you've missed it, Bravo airs the entire season today starting at 4 p.m. ET,...
• Howie: "I really hate" George, and hate "Will and Boogie 10 times more than I hate Busto"
  Howie is "in the tropics" in the sequester house, and he's still pissed off, even having had a while to cool down after leaving the...
• Geniuses win $3 million on Treasure Hunters
  The Geniuses lived up to their name on the Treasure Hunters finale, taking home the treasure, although not by much. While the Geniuses were initially...

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006

• Janelle nominated by but allied with Chill Town; fights with James but wins the veto
  Toward the beginning of last night's Big Brother 6 episode, Mike Boogie explained what happened with the coup d'etat power. By that, I mean, he...
• Survivor Cook Islands' four tribes are separated by race
  As rumored, the 20 cast members on Survivor Cook Islands are divided into tribes by their race. The tribes consist of white people, African-Americans, Asian-Americans,...
• Jeff Probst says 85 percent of racially split Cook Islands cast was recruited
  After Survivor decided to cast a more ethnically diverse group, and then split them into tribes by race, the show had to recruit most of...
• Survivor Cook Islands cast includes at least three actors, 13 people from California
  CBS has just unveiled the site for Survivor Cook Islands, following this morning's announcement of the season's big twist. And while the cast may be...

Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006

• Howie says "a lot of" Big Brother 7 houseguests "cheated" with "illegal ... pregame alliances"
  Safe inside the sequester house, about to be joined by James, Howie Gordon says that his "eviction was a result of pregame alliances." "That was...
• Taylor Hicks sues former producer for selling old songs on iTunes
  Taylor Hicks is suing to stop songs he recorded five years ago from being sold on iTunes. According to The Smoking Gun, "Hicks charges that...
• Mark Burnett says "maybe that taboo (of race) could disappear through" Survivor Cook Islands
  Survivor executive producer Mark Burnett is responding to reaction about the 13th season's casting. He told the New York Times, "I know it's going to...

Friday, Aug. 25, 2006

• James gets Howied and Erika is the new HOH for yet another double-elimination week
  At one point during last night's episode of Big Brother 7, James told us, "I will never completely trust anyone until this show is over,...
• MTV will air two Hawaii-set reality shows: Living Lahaina and Island Fever
  MTV is starting production on two new reality series in Hawaii this week. Living Lahaina "features a group of friends who work as surf instructors...
• Mikalah Gordon assaulted during a robbery in Las Vegas
  Mikalah Gordon was robbed and assaulted by four men in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning. Mikalah "was taking a break from recording music when a...
• Two bouncers stabbed in bar fight where Jeff Fraza was watching his Contender loss
  Two bouncers were stabbed in a bar fight that broke out at a viewing party for The Contender 2 that Jeff Fraza attended. At River...
• New York City politicians will rally today against Survivor Cook Islands
  It took just one day after CBS announced that the Survivor Cook Islands cast would be separated by race for politicians who know not of...
• Critic says "it's about time" Survivor "make[s] race a front-and-center discussion, after years of shrugging [it] off"
  Among those people freaking out about Survivor Cook Islands' tribe organization is not Eric Deggans, the St. Petersburg Times' media critic. Instead, in his column...

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