reality blurred + archives + January 8 to January 14, 2006

week of January 8, 2006

Nick and Jessica's Newlyweds house available for $3.75 million
The house featured prominently in Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica is for sale now that Nick and Jessica are getting divorced. "The five-bedroom, 6,500 square-foot Mediterranean-style...
"Average American couple" wants our help to be cast on The Amazing Race for no discernable reason
Campaigning to be cast on a reality show via the Internets is nothing new. However, the phenomenon has apparently reached such a saturation point that...
Ratings for Dancing with the Stars 2 up from first season's debut
The second season of ABC's hit summer series had a successful debut on Thursday. Dancing with the Stars 2 was watched by 17.46 million viewers,...

The Bachelor 8 debuts tonight
ABC's ancient reality series The Bachelor 9 debuts tonight at 10 p.m. ET. The eighth season leaves the United States for Paris, where Dr. Travis...
PBS' Country Boys debuts tonight
Many of us watch reality TV because it's outrageously fun to watch a bunch of twits clamor for camera time while trying to navigate some...
Ashley Parker Angel's There and Back debuts tonight on MTV
Making the Band, network television's first reality series, makes a comeback of sorts tonight with There and Back: Ashley Parker Angel. The new MTV series,...
Survivor Panama cast split into four tribes
The cast of Survivor Panama was revealed this morning, and for the first time, they'll be divided into four tribes of four. In addition to...
FOX picks up Simon Cowell's Duets, which merges Idol and Dancing with the Stars
Simon Cowell is executive producing a new talent competition series for FOX, Duets, that sounds like a combination of American Idol and Dancing with the...
Ethiopian Idols is the country's most-watched show
On Ethiopia's state-run television station, Ethiopian Idols has "fast won the highest ratings" even though "most of the 77 million people cannot afford a TV...

Randal will start working for Trump in February, posts statement about the finale
Apprentice 4 winner Randal has posted a statement on his web site about the controversial finale. At the end of his post, he notes that,...
Ashley's girlfriend disses O-Town and Jacob shows off his monkey on There and Back's debut
Ashley Parker Angel's new MTV series There and Back debuted last night, and it was overly self-conscious. The show used narration and bizarre editing techniques,...
Gauntlet 2 turns into near-pornographic, "big, giant Andy Warhol wet dream"
Over the years, it's been fun to mock the challenges producers on The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, mostly because they seem like something a drunk...

Jury selection begins for Richard Hatch's trial, which starts tomorrow
Richard Hatch was in a US district court yesterday for jury selection in his trial, which starts tomorrow. Last year, he "was indicted on 10...
BET plans Lil' Kim reality show Countdown to Lockdown, and show that follows a drum line
BET is planning two new reality shows, including a previously revealed show that followed Lil' Kim before she went to prison. Lil' Kim: Countdown to...
Olympics predicted to affect Idol 5 only slightly because only old people watch the games
Just like last year, everyone's wondering if American Idol 5's going to tank or explode with 10 times as many viewers as it had in...

Directors Guild nominates reality TV directors for awards
The Directors Guild of America has, for the first time, nominated reality TV shows as part of their annual awards. Among comedies, dramas, musical variety,...
Beauty and the Geek 2 debuts tonight
The WB pairs eight hot, socially smart, intellectually dumb women and eight ugly, socially inept, intellectually smart men for Beauty and the Geek 2, which...
Bachelor's "psycho" doctor blames editing but will sell "my eggs are rotting" t-shirts
The crazy-ass doctor who appeared on Monday's debut of The Bachelor 8 and announced to the world that her "eggs are rotting" is planning to...
Richard Hatch will testify; lawyer says "he is the world's worst bookkeeper"
Richard Hatch didn't pay taxes on his $1 million because "he is the world's worst bookkeeper," his lawyer said during opening statements in Richard's trial....

Cable networks plan new reality shows
It's the time of year when cable networks reveal their plans for upcoming series, and their recently-announced shows include plenty of reality series. Bravo will...
Idol 5 contestants "have more attitude"; Kelly Clarkson won't let her songs be used
American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe talked to the press yesterday, and said that, the contestants "have more attitude this season." Specifically, some contestants quit...
Anderson Cooper's peter problem
Mole host Anderson Cooper may have left reality TV behind for CNN fame, but even at his new job, he's still keeping us entertained. Anderson's...
Mark Burnett testified against Richard Hatch
Survivor executive producer Mark Burnett testified for the government, against Richard Hatch, in court yesterday. After opening statements, Burnett was one of the witnesses to...