Sunday, Jul. 1, 2007

• ITV's author competition Bestseller may come to the US, is produced by Simon Cowell's brother
  Aspiring writers and authors will soon get their own reality show, one that sounds far too much like On the Lot. The UK series, called...
• Laguna Beach's fourth season will have a new cast, new school, and maybe a new name
  Some additional details about the future of MTV's Laguna Beach emerged last month in a piece about MTV's efforts to focus on fewer series. While...

Monday, Jul. 2, 2007

• ABC burns off final three Extreme Makeover episodes starting tonight
  ABC's Extreme Makeover will air its final three episodes starting tonight at 9 p.m. ET. These final constitute the show's fourth season, which is just...
• Project Runway publicists refuse to participate in E! True Hollywood Story
  Two reports say that E! wants to give Bravo's Project Runway the "True Hollywood Story" treatment, but that people close to the show won't participate....
• Deadliest Catch marathon, behind-the-scenes special airs on Discovery Channel today
  While broadcast and some cable networks regurgitate clones of clones of reality shows that are increasingly boring, many cable networks--especially those that have turned their...
• Estranged father, daughter are on Big Brother together; he once said he "wanted to slap the lips off her face" and "called her a bitch"
  Two of the Big Brother 8 houseguests--who are enemies or rivals in some way--are actually an estranged father and daughter. Dick, the 44-year-old single bar...
• Extreme Home Makeover recipients make $225K
  The first episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's fifth season this fall will feature a couple who collectively make more than $225,000 a year. Theresa...
• Hawaii state grant paid for land used by Extreme Makeover for Hawaii house
  There's more to the story about the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition house that was built in Hawaii for a couple that makes more than $225K...
• The Mole re-airs all this week
  Reality competition favorite The Mole is reairing all this week on the Fox Reality Channel. Two episodes air every night at 5 and 6, and...

Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2007

• Dirty Jobs marathon airs today
  One of the Discovery Channel's more engaging series doesn't follow the same kind of formula as its Deadliest Catch or the History Channel's Ice Road...
• Julie Chen's Big Brother strategy is to "[play] her role as straight as possible"
  After seven seasons, we finally have an explanation for why Julie Chen is so utterly wooden and devoid of personality, behavior that lead TVgasm's founders...
• Ice Road Truckers producer wants to film "guys working really hard at what they do"
  Ice Road Truckers, the show that follows crazy men who drive trucks over frozen lakes, has been a hit for the History Channel. The show's...
• Charm School finale watched by 4.1 million; it's "VH1's third-highest-rated series ever"
  The finale of Charm School on VH1 this past weekend, when Saaphyri won $50,000, was watched by 4.1 million viewers, according to The Hollywood Reporter....
• HBO's Coma, PBS' Standing Silent Nation documentaries air tonight
  Two networks debut new documentaries tonight, one of which focuses on hemp and American Indians, and the other which focuses on people in comas. Standing...

Wednesday, Jul. 4, 2007

• Bad Asses (and Derrick) win the Inferno 3; Gauntlet 3 taping in Mexico
  "I've done six challenges--the curse is broken," Derrick Kosinski said at the conclusion of Inferno III Challenge. The Bad Ass team won, easily defeating the...
• reality blurred is on summer hiatus until July 25
  It's the summer, and time for me to turn off the television and computer as I leave the country and travel for the next 20...

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