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Monday, Apr. 9, 2007

One team gets left behind on Amazing Race 11
Teams bit into thousands of cookies, one team was completely forgotten, and another team got Yielded, yet overall, last night's episode of The Amazing Race...
BET casting for College Hill Interns, which will be shot in Chicago
For the fifth season of BET's College Hill, the network is following the lead of its older cousin The Real World and casting people who...
Little People, Big World returns tonight with accident, aftermath
TLC's docudrama Little People, Big World returns tonight with a one-hour episode at 8 p.m. that begins with the accident that injured Jacob last October....
Jackie Warner "didn't want to exploit" Doug's death on Work Out
Tuesday night's episode of Bravo's Work Out will apparently include the death of trainer Doug Blasdell, even though it occurred less than two months after...
Jason Wahler arrested for the fourth time; threatened cops with racial, homophobic slurs
Laguna Beach's Jason Wahler was arrested for the fourth time in less than a year this weekend, and this time, he used racial and homophobic...

UK and US fighters face off in Contender Challenge tonight
Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, ESPN debuts The Contender Challenge, a six-episode competition series that pits veterans from the show against UK fighters. The series...
Inferno 3 Challenge debuts tonight on MTV
For the 14th--yes, 14th--season of Real World/Road Rules Challenge, MTV takes 20 of its usual suspects to South Africa to compete in The Inferno 3....
Fantasia debuts on Broadway in The Color Purple having sold $6 million in tickets
Fantasia makes her Broadway debut as Celie in The Color Purple tonight, the first American Idol winner to take the stage in New York. (Other...
Big Brother 8 applications due Friday
CBS is currently casting for Big Brother 8, which was officially renewed in February and will air for three months this summer. Applications are due...
Paris and Nicole "gave the campers enemas" on The Simple Life 5
Five words you never wanted to hear from Nicole Richie: "We gave the campers enemas," she says of herself and Paris Hilton. They did so...

Bravo's Top Design ends tonight, and Shear Genius debuts
Bravo's Top Design ends tonight at 10 p.m. ET; either Carisa or Matt will win $100,000 and an awkward hug from Jonathan Adler. Perhaps because...
Violence erupts on MTV's Inferno 3 as CT is sent home for punching Davis
Less than 20 minutes into the first episode of The Inferno 3, the producers had to break down the fourth wall to kick CT off...
Goateed Sanjaya sings in Spanish and Simon says "it wasn't horrible"
American Idol's producers saved Jordin, Blake, and Sanjaya for last on Latin night, and that was a good call: As Simon Cowell said at one...
Top Chef moves to Miami Beach for season three this summer
Bravo revealed today that Top Chef 3 will air this summer and be set in Miami Beach. The new location is the show's third (it...
Bravo holding Project Runway 4 until fall
The fourth season of Project Runway will not debut until the fourth quarter of this year, Bravo announced today. That means October at the earliest,...

Matt Lorenz wins Bravo's Top Design
On the finale of Top Design, Jonathan Adler's eyebrows announced that Chicagoan Matt Lorenz won the competition. He gets $100,000 and a spread in Elle...
Haley Scarnato leaves after Idol wastes an entire hour of our time
After 56 minutes and 13 seconds of American Idol's first hour-long results show, Haley Scarnato was finally eliminated from the competition, and Phil Stacey earned...

CBS will air Jackson family-judged Pop Dynasty, a search for talented families
The Jackson Family wanted their own reality series, and now they have one, sort of. Jermaine, Tito, and LaToya will judge CBS' talent search Pop...
American Idol had its lowest 18-49 ratings in two years on Tuesday
The unremarkable performances on Tuesday's Latin-themed performance show gave American Idol its lowest ratings among people ages 18 to 49 in two years. The show...
Idol finalists are paid at least $921 a week, residuals as members of AFTRA
American Idol 6's 12 finalists are paid almost $1,000 per one-hour episode, thanks to the fact that they're union members. The top 12 transition "from...
Real World 20's search for cast with goals hasn't affected applications; casting extended
Damon Furberg, The Real World's supervising casting director, told reality blurred exclusively that the show's search for people with actual goals for its 20th season...