reality blurred + archives + October 15 to October 21, 2006

week of October 15, 2006

Introducing the latest version of reality blurred
Welcome to the newest edition of reality blurred. As you'll see, fundamentally, the site retains the same features and layout, as a lot of changes...
The Amazing Race 10 changes the rules at its first non-elimination pit stop
I don't know what the problem is with this "football" being incapable of ending on time, but having now tuned in to The Amazing Race...
New Top Chef host turned down the job for season one
Padma Lakshmi, the new host for the second season of Top Chef, may be rescuing us from Katie Lee Joel's incompetence, but she's also partly...
Flavor rejects New York, freeing her to star in spin-off series Flavorette
Flavor Flav ended the second season of Flavor of Love the same way he ended the first season, sending New York home and selecting the...
Survivor 14 will be filmed in Fiji
For its 14th season, Survivor will film in Fiji, staying in roughly the same part of the world as the Cook Islands, Survivor Maps reports....
Top Model strike ends and story producers "are now seeking new jobs"
The Top Model 7 writers strike, which began in July, is now over. A spokesperson for the WGAw, which was sponsoring the protests, told TV...

Environmental renovation of a town will be featured in Leonardo DiCaprio-produced series E-topia
Leonardo DiCaprio is the executive produce and co-creator of a reality series that "will chronicle the eco-friendly reconstruction of an American town as it is...
Sara Evans will explain her departure tonight in a seven-minute pre-taped message
Sara Evans will appear on tonight's episode of Dancing with the Stars 3 to explain her departure, although it will be via a pre-taped, seven-minute...
Footage from designers' arrival at Bryant Park may or may not reveal Jeffrey's fate
Bravo has posted a few lengthy clips from tomorrow night's show, and one may offer a pretty big spoiler (read on and watch with caution)....
Amazing Race 11 will reportedly be an all-star season
Having failed to learn its lesson, CBS has reportedly ordered an all-star season of its third major reality show, The Amazing Race, its only marquee...
Almost half of TV shows shot in L.A. are reality TV
Of television shows produced in Los Angeles, nearly half are reality TV. At 41 percent of the region's TV production, the level is greater than...
Ruben releases third album, wants to be "take[n] seriously as an artist outside of 'American Idol.'"
American Idol's second winner, Ruben Studdard, released his latest album today. Fittingly, it's called The Return. Ruben isn't running away from the show. "Honestly, I...

Danity Kane will open Christina Aguilera's tour; three of them were injured in a car accident
All members of Danity Kane except D. Woods were in a car crash in Ohio last Thursday, but are now okay. According to MTV, "the...
Project Runway 3 ends tonight and Top Chef 2 begins
Tonight, Bravo ends the third season of its most popular series, Project Runway, and debuts the first episode of the second season of that show's...
Flavor of Love 2 finale watched by 7.5 million, and more viewers 18-49 than any other cable show in history
Flavor of Love 2's finale Sunday was watched by 7.5 million viewers, more than any other VH1 show in the network's history. That's 27 percent...
Project Runway models are not paid, receive only free food
The models who walk the literal runway on Project Runway, showing off the designers' garments, are not paid. Even worse, one model says the show...

Spielberg and Burnett's On the Lot now accepting submissions
Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett's forthcoming FOX series, On the Lot, is now casting, accepting short films from filmmakers. Anyone "over 13 years of age...
Chris Daughtry: Idol elimination "was the best thing that happened"
Chris Daughtry's shocking elimination from American Idol 5 was, he says in restrospect, "the best thing that happened." That's because, as he tells MTV News,...
Jeffrey wins Project Runway despite overspending his budget
Project Runway 3's winner is Jeffrey Sebelia. He was cleared of the charges leveled against him last week, but not all was well. First, the...
Jeffrey Sebelia: "I wanted people to hate me"
Jeffrey Sebelia's first post-Project Runway 3 win interview is online at BravoTV.com, and it's contains both expected and unexpected revelations. Refreshingly, he admits that what...

Sara Evan's Dancing with the Stars goodbye was the highest-rated regular episode yet
More people tuned in to Tuesday's episode of Dancing with the Stars 3 than any other episode of the show ever, except for the season...
Project Runway 3's finale was Bravo's most-watched show ever
Continuing the trend of Project Runway finales breaking records for Bravo, the third-season finale was the network's most highly rated show in its history. 5.4...
Survivor race war update: two go home, all the whites and just one Latino remain
The media may have dismissed Survivor Cook Islands' racial twist after the tribes merged, but as the weeks pass, racial divisions are still clear. Last...
RJ Helton: "just because I am gay does not mean I can't love God"
A week after National Coming Out Day, RJ Helton, a contestant on the first season of American Idol, said that he's gay. RJ, who placed...
Tim Gunn: with "Season 3, it was Bravo's intention to brand [Runway] as a summer show"
Before the season finales of the first two Project Runway seasons, Bravo had already begun casting for the next season. That has not happened this,...