week of March 18, 2007

Sunday, Mar. 18, 2007

• Rock Star: Supernova group faces poor reception as fans ask CBS to renew the show
  AFter a concert last month in California, a music critic said the performance by Rock Star: Supernova, the lawsuit-created name of the group constructed on...
• A&E's Intervention back for a third season
  On Friday, A&E debuted the third season of its reality series Intervention. New episodes air Fridays at 10 and repeat during the week. The first...

Monday, Mar. 19, 2007

• Teams channel A Christmas Story, Benny Hill, and Hitler on The Amazing Race All-Stars
  Few episodes of The Amazing Race have provided such accidental amusement and pop culture references as last night's episode did. From sound effects at the...
• Dancing with the Stars 4 debuts tonight
  ABC kicks off a fourth season of its dancing quasi-celebrities show Dancing with the Stars tonight at 8 p.m. ET, with its ridiculously padded results...
• Vanilla Ice trashes the set on The Surreal Life finale, continuing an eight-year tradition
  Once again, an episode of The Surreal Life: Fame Games was marred--or perhaps enhanced--by Rob "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle acting like a four-year-old. After Verne...
• Simon Cowell: "we never show" people "who are going to sing badly on purpose"
  Simon Cowell's interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes aired last night, and besides his newsmaking comments that he sells more records than Bruce Springsteen,...
• Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List will be released on DVD
  Almost two years after its debut on Bravo, Kathy Griffin's reality show My Life on the D-List will be released on DVD this summer. "All...
• Dancing with the Stars trophies "are falling to pieces," Cheryl Burke says
  Two-time Dancing with the Stars champion Cheryl Burke says that the mirrored globe trophies she received aren't exactly prizes. "Both are falling to pieces, by...
• Krishtine wins I'm from Rolling Stone
  Last night from 11 to midnight, MTV burned off the final two episodes of I'm from Rolling Stone. The network pushed the show later into...

Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2007

• Work Out returns, Tori & Dean: Inn Love debuts tonight
  Bravo's Work Out returns for a second season tonight at 10 p.m. ET. The show again follows Jackie Warner and the trainers at her high-end...
• Report: Sharon Osbourne may replace Brandy as a judge on America's Got Talent 2
  Sharon Osbourne's publicist denied a report that she'll leave The X Factor, but another report says she may join America's Got Talent 2 in the...
• American Idol voting down almost 20 percent
  Compared to the number of votes cast last year during the first four voting weeks, viewer votes on American Idol 6 are down 19.5 percent....
• Tia Williams: "the most crucial element for American Idol success is hair"
  Prior to tonight's American Idol 6 episode, I'm thinking about two things: How much will the men suck tonight? And what will Sanjaya's hair look...
• Bunim-Murray forms documentary film company, will release Autism: The Musical
  The creators of The Real World are moving into more respectable territory with their new company, which will focus on documentary film. BMP Films "will...
• Spielberg and Burnett "are enormously thrilled with" On the Lot submissions
  Steven Spielberg and producer Mark Burnett "are enormously thrilled with the response we've had to the call for film submissions" for their upcoming reality series...
• Dancing with the Stars has its best debut yet
  The debut of Dancing with the Stars 4 was the show's highest-rated debut yet, as 21.8 million people watched. Variety notes that "ABC has not...

Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2007

• Bachelor 10 Andy Baldwin: "I'm totally in love"
  ABC's 10th Bachelor star says that he found his significant other on the reality series. "I came out with an amazing woman and I'm totally...
• American Inventor host, judges fired; George Foreman will judge second season
  Following an often dull and drama-less first season, one that lost viewers as it progressed, American Inventor 2 will look significantly different. First, all of...
• Sanjaya's singing makes a little girl cry
  While the performances on American Idol 6 were considerably better than they were last week, especially from the men, the star of last night's episode...
• Report: Producers tell Simon who to insult, banter with Ryan is planned
  A report in the upcoming issue of Star says that the banter between Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell is not spontaneous, but is instead "outlined,"...
• Idol producers noticed crying Ashley at dress rehearsal, gave her seats for the live show
  Ashley Ferl, who is today the most famous crying girl in the world, did not plan to attend the live American Idol 6 show last...

Thursday, Mar. 22, 2007

• This American Life debuts on Showtime tonight
  The groundbreaking public radio show This American Life comes to television tonight on Showtime at 10:30 p.m. ET (and repeats frequently). The series follows the...
• Stephanie goes home, Chris Richardson was in the bottom two, and Sanjaya was totally safe
  Stephanie Edwards was the second contestant eliminated from American Idol 6. She was joined in the bottom two by Chris Richardson, whose singing Tuesday was...
• Contender may move to HBO for its third season and focus on heavyweight boxers
  ESPN will soon air The Contender Challenge, a series of fights between veterans from the US show and UK boxers. But a third season of...
• Idol songwriting contest is "on the back burner"
  American Idol 6's songwriting contest, which is designed to let the public create and select the single performed by the winner, may not happen. The...

Friday, Mar. 23, 2007

• NOW: Top Model shouldn't be "making entertainment out of" violence against women
  Wednesday's episode of America's Next Top Model 8 featured the models playing dead for their photo shoot. They posed as corpses after they were given...
• Critic: Real World Denver's domestic violence cliffhanger was "a cheap ploy"
  I stopped watching The Real World Denver after its first horrifying fight, but that apparently wasn't the end of the possibility of violence on the...
• Discovery's $2 million per episode series Planet Earth debuts Sunday
  reality blurred doesn't typically cover nature documentaries, primarily because they don't include casts of people who get drunk and throw things or become racists. But...
• Crying Ashley Ferl is America's newest media obsession
  American Idol 6 has a new star, and she never even auditioned. Ashley Ferl, who was first introduced to the world as she bawled over...

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