week of November 26, 2006

Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006

• All-star Amazing Race confirmed, will feature Rob and Amber, David and Mary
  CBS confirmed last Tuesday what we already knew: The Amazing Race 11 will be an all-star race. The race "began last week in Miami and...
• Survivor race war update: Jonathan switches allegiance again as yet another non-white person goes home
  It's kind of tragic that the most recent episode of Survivor Cook Islands aired on Thanksgiving. Viewership was down by about three million viewers (likely...
• Taylor Hicks says American Idol, which he doesn't watch, "for me, is fizzling out"
  A few weeks away from the release of his debut album, American Idol 5 winner Taylor Hicks is already starting to distance himself from the...

Monday, Nov. 27, 2006

• Being nice and slow isn't exactly the best Amazing Race strategy
  Before I left for Costa Rica, I remarked to a friend that watching The Amazing Race had made me more excited and less apprehensive about...
• Tawny Kitaen charged with cocaine possession
  From the Not Really a Surprise Department came news last week that Surreal Life 6 cast member Tawny Kitaen was been charged for cocaine possession....
• Rosie O'Donnell outs Clay Aiken, sort of, after his spat with Kelly Ripa
  When I arrived back in the US this weekend, I bought the New York Times and, in a front-page story, found a report that kind...

Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006

• Mario and Karina vacationing in Mexico, spent Thanksgiving together
  Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff "are spending a Mexico vacation together after celebrating Thanksgiving with Lopez's sister in Houston," People magazine reports. "We're definitely overdue...
• Prince Lorenzo Borghese picks Jennifer, not Sadie, but doesn't propose
  The Bachelor 9 concluded last night, and Prince Lorenzo Borghese, the Italian prince who's never been to Italy, selected Jennifer Wilson instead of Sadie Murray....
• Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Ferguson want to be on Dancing with the Stars 4
  It's now time for celebrities to float their names as possible participants in Dancing with the Stars 4. Britain's Daily Express quoted an anonymous source...
• Bravo renews Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List for a third season
  Bravo has renewed My Life on the D-List, Kathy Griffin's docudrama reality series, for a third season. Six one-hour episodes will air next year. A...
• NBC orders fourth season of The Biggest Loser
  NBC began casting for The Biggest Loser 4 five months ago, but the network only today announced that the show had been picked up for...
• Next Bachelor is a navy medical officer
  Andy Baldwin, a 30-year-old "undersea medical officer for a special operations dive unit stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii" in the Navy is the star of...
• USA debuts The Great American Christmas reality movie tonight
  Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, USA debuts a reality TV movie titled The Great American Christmas. It also airs Wednesday at 4, Dec. 2 at...

Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006

• E! orders series about 20-somethings in Las Vegas produced by Ryan Seacrest, Laguna's producers
  A new E! reality show that follows 20-something people in Las Vegas will be produced by E! personality and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, and...
• Jen says she and Lorenzo are "still very happy and we're definitely together"
  Bachelor 9 couple Lorenzo Borghese and Jen Wilson have emerged from their ABC-ordered, relationship-killing isolation to reveal that their relationship has survived the time since...
• Real World Denver watched by less than half of Key West's viewers, but not according to MTV
  The debut of The Real World Denver last week was watched by 1.56 million viewers. That's 53 percent less than the 3.33 million who watched...
• Corkscrewed debuts tonight on Fox Reality
  Corkscrewed: The Wrath of Grapes debuts tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET on the Fox Reality Channel, and follows two of American Idol's producers as they...

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006

• Chris Daughtry had his own name tattooed on his back
  Back in June, Entertainment Weekly asked Chris Daughtry about his new post-American Idol 5 tattoo. When they asked him "why [he] wanted to do that,"...
• Bravo VP says comments about Padma Lakshmi's wardrobe may be anti-semitic
  Reading Bravo VP Andy Cohen's self-serving blog, which this week includes photographs of himself on the Top Chef set, is an uncomfortable experience. The subtext...
• NBC confirms The Apprentice 6's move to Sundays
  NBC is officially moving its Donald Trump reality series to Sundays for its sixth season. The Apprentice 6 will air opposite Desperate Housewives and Cold...

Friday, Dec. 1, 2006

• Survivor race war update: a second white person gets voted off the island
  Jonathan's betrayal of his alliance last week on Survivor Cook Islands led to an inevitable conclusion this week: another white person--the second of the whole...
• Real World's creator says Denver ratings reports didn't reflect MTV's "smart strategy"
  The executive producer and co-creator of The Real World says reports of low ratings for the first episode of the Denver season are "frustrating" because...
• Real World Denver house sold for $3.3 million, will become a "classy" restaurant and lounge
  The property that housed The Real World Denver kids last summer has been purchased for $3.3 million, and its new owners will "reopen it as...

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