Monday, Oct. 30, 2006

• Teams that stick together almost fall apart in Mauritius
  Today I'm going to start with the end of The Amazing Race 10, although there will be no spoiler. That's because I did not see...
• Tori Spelling will open a bed and breakfast on Oyxgen; Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson will do odd jobs on OLN
  Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott will be followed by cameras for a new Oxygen reality series. The show will watch "as they choose...
• Survivor Fiji begins production today; will bring $6 million, 230 jobs to Fiji
  Survivor Fiji reportedly begins taping today, and the results will benefit both American television audiences and some people in Fiji. The Fiji Times reports that...
• Bachelor producer wants the Pope to appear on the show
  It's bad enough that the producers of The Bachelor continue to subject us to season after season of this aging franchise. Executive producer Mike Fleiss...
• Denver cast was usually "very, very drunk," was not allowed to go to concerts, ball games
  With the Nov. 22 premiere of The Real World Denver less than a month away now, press coverage is building. And to be honest, most...
• Little People, Big World's Jacob Roloff injured after being "struck several times by a 2,000 pound block of concrete"
  One of the cast members of TLC's Little People, Big World was injured along with a family friend when he was "struck several times by...

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006

• VH1 will air six new reality series in its "Wild Life" reality show block
  Just as VH1 has given new life to aging celebrities in its Celebreality block of reality shows, the network will now create a similar primetime...
• Evan Marriott, the original Joe Millionaire, is "burnt from the whole thing"
  Three years after saying his 15 minutes were up, Evan Marriott, the star of Joe Millionaire, has apparently given up living in the shadow of...

Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006

• Parents Television Council ranks reality shows for kids but seems to ignore shows' content
  The Parents Television Council has conducted "an objective quantitative and qualitative analysis of the frequency and explicitness of foul language, sexual content, and violence present...
• Jay Manuel will host second cycle of Canada's Top Model
  After years of being Tyra Banks' bitchy sidekick, Jay Manuel is stepping into the big chair He'll host the second season of Canada's Next Top...

Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006

• Fox Reality's Reality Remix Really Awards winners announced
  Last week, the Fox Reality Channel took reality TV to its next logical step and held an awards show named after their nightly recap series....
• Official Project Runway soundtrack will be released Tuesday
  Songs from Project Runway have been avaliable online for some time: the series' composer has offered MP3s of the show's theme and runway show music,...
• AOL's Gold Rush concludes on TV next week; 10 million have participated so far
  AOL says that "nearly 10 million" people have participated in its Mark Burnett-produced, interactive online game/reality series Gold Rush, which will conclude next week. An...

Friday, Nov. 3, 2006

• Top Model 8 begins production next week without story editors
  Cycle eight of America's Next Top Model begins production next week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In a story about the ongoing dispute between the...
• Survivor race war update: A white person finally goes home
  Seven weeks after Survivor Cook Islands began, one of the tribes finally voted out a white person. The contestants eliminated up to this point were...
• Mo'Nique will host Charm School for former Flavor of Love women
  Flavor of Love is getting yet another spin-off. VH1 will air Charm School, a competition between women from both seasons of Flavor Flav's show. The...

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