Monday, Nov. 13, 2006

• MTV polling viewers about which Road Rules cast members should return
  As part of the new viewer-controlled Road Rules, MTV is asking viewers which cast members should return for the 14th season of the show. Most,...
• Cliffhanging cliffhanger in Helsinki on The Amazing Race
  Traveling from Madagascar to Finland, the teams on The Amazing Race 10 had to ski or slog their way through mud, and rappel face-first down...
• Contender format sold to Thailand as kickboxing competition; other countries to come
  Mark Burnett has sold The Contender's format to Thailand, where it will air not as a boxing competition, but as a kickboxing competition. The spin-off...
• Top Model 8 will reportedly feature bigger but not plus-sized models
  Next season's Top Model cast will be a bit bigger than normal: not in numbers, but in size. An unsourced report on TMZ.com says that...
• Olympian Apprentice candidate says show is "L.A. style" and "totally new" with "new twists"
  The Olympic athlete selected by viewers to appear on The Apprentice 6 says that this new season is "a totally new Apprentice." Hockey player Angela...
• Clips of Oscar 'Ozzy' Lusth having sex on Playboy TV appear online
  Besides a number of actors, Survivor Cook Islands also has a former reality TV star and a porn star, all bundled up into one contestant....
• Bianca Ryan's record released Tuesday, when her "media blitz" begins
  America's Got Talent's first-season winner, Bianca Ryan, releases her self-titled debut album today. She's 12. It's okay to hate her a little. Although she's not...
• Jennifer Hudson had to learn to be "a bitch" for her role in Dreamgirls
  This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly has a look at the upcoming film Dreamgirls, which stars American Idol 3 contestant Jennifer Hudson as Effie. She...
• Brad may be dating fellow Survivor Cook Islands cast member J.P.
  Brad Virata, who was kicked off Survivor Cook Islands last week, may be dating another male contestant on the show, J.P. In an interview with...

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006

• Saved by the Bell and the NFL face off as the Dancing with the Stars 3 finale begins tonight
  Dancing with the Stars 3 begins its finale tonight at 8 p.m. ET with a 90-minute finale. (Actually, excuse me: Because ABC programmers are dicks...

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006

• Laguna Beach's third season concludes tonight with a live reunion, online features
  Laguna Beach's third season, the one with the new cast, concludes tonight at 10 p.m. ET. MTV is calling the one-hour show "a live interactive...
• Nicole Richie is "ready to work" on The Simple Life 5
  Less than a month after checking herself into a facility to deal with her weight and delaying production on the fifth season of The Simple...
• Biggest Loser diet's calorie requirements are "pretty severe"
  How does one lose weight like the contestants on The Biggest Loser, who lose it via strict diet and intense exercise alone? You could buy...
• Dancing with the Stars 4 will debut in March, could face off against American Idol
  Before Dancing with the Stars 3 even concluded, ABC already informally announced plans for a fourth season of its runaway reality hit. Dancing with the...

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006

• Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke win Dancing with the Stars 3
  Fifty-eight minutes and eight seconds into the live finale of Dancing with the Stars 3, the winning team was finally announced: Emmitt Smith and Cheryl...

Friday, Nov. 17, 2006

• ABC renews The Bachelor for 10th season due to solid Bachelor 9 ratings
  Can a network squeeze even more life out of a dry, atrophied corpse of a reality show? Of course it can! ABC has renewed The...
• Finale of Dancing with the Stars 3 was the most-watched show this season
  Dancing with the Stars 3's finale was the most-watched episode of any series this television season. On Wednesday, 27.2 million people watched, slightly more than...
• Mario Lopez thinks he's "the better dancer"; rumor that Emmitt's win was fixed based on bad info
  Dancing with the Stars 3 runner-up Mario Lopez is not a happy dancer. And he's somewhat annoyed that, even though he says he's the better...
• Survivor race war update: twist leads Raro to vote out two more people of color
  This season of Survivor is shaping up to be the best season in years. The interesting part is, that has almost nothing to do with...

Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006

• Future cable reality stars: Hotel staff, father/sun gastric bypass surgeons, and Latin telenova stars,
  In recent weeks, a few cable networks have announced new reality shows that follow different personalities, from a father and son who perform gastric bypass...
• Amazing Race Asia debuts to strong ratings, is viewable online
  A year ago, the format of The Amazing Race was sold internationally, and last week, the first such version debuted on AXN. (A central European...
• The Real World Denver debuts Wednesday
  The 18th season of The Real World debuts Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET (there are also episodes scheduled at 8 and 9, although it's...
• Australian Idol's changes improve its ratings
  Australian Idol's fourth season has improved its ratings by making changes to series. As a result, "other markets are eyeing the core changes," which are...
• TV Land is bringing back WB's High School Reunion
  The WB is no more, nor is its reality series High School Reunion, which reunited people who used to go to high school together (even...
• Tim Gunn isn't signed for Project Runway 4, which can't be filmed at Parsons until June
  Bravo has yet to announce a renewal for a fourth season of Project Runway, but as it is the network's number one show, it's a...

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