reality blurred + archives + March 19 to March 25, 2006

Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006

The Surreal Life 6 debuts tonight
VH1 debuts the sixth season of The Surreal Life tonight at 9 p.m. ET, opposite the cliffhanger-continuing episode of The Sopranos. In the house this...
Uruguay reality show accident leaves seven dead, others limbless
Seven people died and others were severely injured while participating in a feel-good reality show in Uruguay. The show is called A Challenge to the...

Carville and Matalin will advise high school president candidates on Lifetime show Election
Lifetime is planning a political reality series, but unlike Showtime's American Candidate, the participants will actually be running for office: high school president. Election will...
Bachelor 9 casting producer says the show is still looking for a male or female lead
Producers looking for Bachelor 9 participants in Aspen told a newspaper that the series may be another Bachelorette if they find a woman instead of...
Flavor of Love finale sets record for VH1
With just under 6 million viewers, the finale of Flavor of Love last week "outperformed all the recent reality hits of sister network MTV including...
Tim Gunn says Kara "could have won the whole thing," calls Daniel Franco "a charlatan," "a poseur"
In a wide-ranging interview with The Advocate, Tim Gunn smacks down Project Runway and Project Runway 2 cast member Daniel Franco, the one guy to...
Cingular made a max of $4.15 million from text messages from American Idol 4
Cingular's exclusive text message vote contract earned as much as $4.15 million for the company last year, the Boston Globe reports. Basically, the paper did...

Nicole Richie "irritated a local family" during Simple Life 4 production by swearing at their 11-year-old
FOX dumped The Simple Life 4, but E! picked up the show and production continues; the new format basically rips off Wife Swap, which keeps...
"Newly designed" Road Rules will return to MTV
Buried in the newly launched web site of Bunim-Murray's recently announced M Theory company, which exists to repurpose and develop new content for the Internet...
Trump finally fires Apprentice 5 annoyance Brent
Brent Buckman was finally fired last night on The Apprentice 5; Trump didn't even send the candidates out before giving Brent the boot. It was...
Blow Out returns, The Real Housewives debuts on Bravo tonight
Jonathan Antin returns to Bravo tonight at 9 p.m. ET for a third season of Blow Out, the show that follows him as he's a...
The Bachelor 9 is looking for anyone desperate enough to date on TV
The Bachelor 9 is now looking to cast yachters--men, specifically, which contradicts previous statements that the show was seeking either a male or a female....
American Idol is also "a learning lab" the contestants call "star school" or "boot camp"
Behind the scenes of American Idol 5, the contestants are getting an education of sorts. No, not this type of education, but one that teaches...

The Amazing Race 9 reaches Germany and the product-whoring starts
Teams traveled from Moscow to Germany on last night's Amazing Race 9, and that's when the product placement began. Highlights from the episode:Leaving Red Square,...
StarStyle sells products seen on American Idol, Real World
A new web site sells products that have been featured on reality shows, but unlike eBay auctions for actual memorabila, the site instead offers new...
Tough Enough's Maven joins Surreal Life cast; Big Brother 5's Scott shows off his poopy pants
I finally got around to watching the debut of The Surreal Life 6, and although the cast seems boring on paper, it was. But the...
FOX's Unan1mous debuts tonight
Following American Idol 5 tonight, FOX debuts a new reality series that has the potential to be completely awesome or totally horrible. The premise of...
DialIdol returns, predicts Elliott Yamin will be out tonight
DialIdol has returned, and the site now sports a new logo and a disclaimer that says "DialIdol.com and this web site are NOT affiliated in...
Paula blames her crazy behavior on Simon
Paula Abdul has an explanation for her recent crazy behavior on American Idol 5: it's all Simon's fault. And no, Simon is not a friend...

Danni was told during casting, "so you're a conservative and probably a Republican. So you hate Jews."
Survivor Guatemala winner Dannie Boatwright reveals some of the questions that casting producers asked her while she was being considered for the show. They started...
Kevin Covais leaves Idol 5 despite DialIdol prediction, Vote for the Worst endorsement
Kevin Covais left American Idol 5 last night. But the biggest surprise was that, besides showing that voting grandmothers have less pull than teenagers, Kevin's...
Rolling Stone casting journalists for its MTV reality show
MTV's previously announced Rolling Stone reality series has finally started casting. The show still doesn't have a name, but it will be a sort of...
Paula Abdul says she isn't mean to contestants because "I have a vagina"
Day two of Paula Abdul's weird explanations about her behavior on American Idol brings a bizarre confession: Paula's vagina apparently has a lot of influence...

HBO developing reality Sex and the City
HBO is developing a series that would be a reality TV version of Sex and the City. HBO "is finalizing a deal for an unscripted...
Project Runway left out Zulema's lesbianism even though, she says, "Everyone here's fucking gay!"
This season especially, Project Runway's use of recorded voice-overs and editing tricks were especially apparent. Despite that, I still clung to the idea that the...
Unan1mous does better post-Idol than any show since The Swan
FOX's premiere of Unan1mous was watched by 16.04 million viewers. While the show lost about 11 million viewers from its lead-in, American Idol 5, which...
Santino invites viewers to his house for a yard sale
You know you're a reality star who's show has ended and whose fame is fleeting if you're inviting people to come to your house and...
Laguna Beach Kristin's made-over Isuzu Trooper for sale on eBay
No stranger herself to eBay auctions, Kristin Cavallari's former SUV is now up for auction on eBay. The vehicle was featured on the Laguna Beach...