week of March 5, 2006

Monday, Mar. 6, 2006

• Barry Bonds gets an ESPN reality show; Sarah Ferguson asked to host
  ESPN2 will air a series that focuses on Barry Bonds' "pursuit of Hank Aaron's career home run record," according to the AP. The show will...
• ABC's Miracle Workers, Spike TV's Pros Vs. Joes both debut tonight
  ABC looks for another feel-good reality hit when it debuts Miracle Workers tonight at 10 p.m. ET. The show follows "an elite team of medical...
• Fuel reportedly offers Idol's Chris Daughtry a job as its lead singer
  Update: Fuel officially offered Chris a job as their lead singer. American Idol 5 frontrunner Chris Daughtry impressed the judges and the public with his...

Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2006

• Tiffany says no to Ashley at the altar as There and Back loses its magic
  The ratings for There and Back have been growing, making the show the third highest-rated show on cable last week. That's impressive, especially because the...
• MTV's 8th & Ocean debuts tonight
  MTV's first new series to use Laguna Beach's format debuts tonight at 10:30 p.m. ET, after The Real World Key West. 8th & Ocean follows...
• Bravo renews Project Runway for a third season; casting begins this month
  Perhaps the least surprising news of the month came late yesterday, when Bravo announced that it had renewed Project Runway for a third season. Last...
• Sarah and Travis officially announce their breakup
  Perhaps disingegrating faster than any other post-Bachelor union, Travis and Sarah's relationship is officially over. (Not that the news comes as a surprise.) Once again,...
• Trump jokes about dating his daughter Ivanka because of her "nice figure"
  Joe Simpson once praised his daughter Jessica's breasts, making him the inaugural--and lone--member of the Creepy Reality TV Dad Club. He'll be joined by Donald...

Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2006

• The Amazing Race 9 speeds up as Jeremy and Eric lust after Danielle and Dani
  Last night's episode of The Amazing Race 9 was this season's first one-hour episode, and that helped bring the race back to its roots. The...
• UPN's Top Model 6 debuts tonight
  UPN debuts America's Next Top Model 6 tonight at 8 p.m. ET. This may be the last season to air on UPN proper, before the...
• FX's Black. White. debuts tonight
  In an episode of Diff'rent Strokes that aired Feb. 20, 1980, Dana Plato, as Kimberly Drummond, dresses in blackface after she "discovers her new friend...
• Project Runway 2 concludes and Top Chef debuts tonight on Bravo
  Project Runway 2 concludes tonight at 10 p.m. ET, when either Chloe, Daniel, or Santino will win the competition, perhaps only to turn down the...

Thursday, Mar. 9, 2006

• Real World Austin house still being converted
  Having just arrived in Austin, I checked into my hotel, walked outside, and realized that I'd accidentally booked myself into a hotel that's essentially across...
• Idol's former finalists have poor record sales, and "labels are reluctant to sign 'Idol' runners-up"
  American Idol's top 12 finalists often hope to turn their exposure on the series into success recording and selling albums. But that hasn't exactly happened...
• Bachelor 8's ratings improved throughout the season
  Although the post-show news that Travis and Sarah broke up may have left Bachelor 8 viewers sobbing into their pillows about the death of love...
• Chloe Dao wins Project Runway 2
  Chloe Dao won Project Runway 2 in what's being called an "upset" or at least a "surprise." Even Chloe reacted with surprise when she won...
• Project Runway 2's finale is Bravo's most-watched show ever with 3.4 million viewers
  Last night's finale of Project Runway 2 on Bravo was watched by 3.4 million viewers, "making it the most viewed single telecast in the 20-year...

Friday, Mar. 10, 2006

• Chloe won't move to New York, will be mentored by Banana Republic by phone
  In an interview with her hometown newspaper, Chloe Dao "remains firm that she won't move to New York" but says she still plans to take...
• Black. White. debut ties the record for highest-rated cable debut in 18-49; Top Model sets record
  FX's social experiment Black. White. pulled in 3.98 million viewers overall on Wednesday night. With a 2.1 rating among people ages 18 to 49, the...
• American Idol 5 loses three teenagers, is down to its top 12
  Three teenagers, Ayla Brown, Will Makar, Gedeon McKinney, and one non-teenager, Kinnik Sky, were eliminated from American Idol 5 last night, leaving the show with...
• Osama bin Laden's niece signs with an agency to shop her own reality series
  Osama bin Laden's niece, an American who's never met Osama, is shopping a reality series about her "quest for stardom." ReganMedia signed the woman "to...
• Project Runway cast members offer x-rated sex advice, discuss sex with show groupies
  If Project Runway withdrawal is starting and you don't know what to do with yourself, try having sex. And if you don't know how to...
• Flavor of Love marathon, finale air Sunday
  Occasionally a great reality TV show slips by. VH1's Flavor of Love is, from what I've heard, one of those shows. It's the third VH1...
• Tommy Lee rumored to be fronting Rock Star 2, says he'll be back on TV soon
  If the next Rock Star won't star Van Halen, which group will front the second season of the CBS series? If rumors are correct, it...

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