week of May 13, 2007

Monday, May. 14, 2007

• Survivor China confirmed; will not be on islands
  During the Survivor Fiji reunion, Jeff Probst officially announced the 15th season, which will be called Survivor China. Probst offered few details, probably because production...
• Evicted Extreme Makeover orphans' lawsuit against ABC goes to trial tomorrow
  The lawsuit brought against ABC by five orphans who were featured in an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition goes to trial tomorrow. The Higgins...
• Earl wins Survivor Fiji with first-ever unanimous vote after Dreamz betrays Yau-Man
  Earl Cole won Survivor Fiji by a vote of 9-0-0, defeating Cassandra Franklin and Dre "Dreamz" Herd, the first time in the show's history that...
• NBC execs "haven't made a decision" about The Apprentice's future
  NBC's new schedule does not have a home for The Apprentice. But the show may still be renewed for a seventh season. NBC's Kevin Reilly...
• Paradise Hotel will return next year on Fox Reality and MyNetworkTV
  Four years after it originally aired, Fox's spectacularly trashy and fun summer reality series Paradise Hotel is being ressurected by the Fox Reality Channel, Broadcasting...
• Kathy Griffin falls in front of paparazzi for publicity
  Kathy Griffin fell out of a cab last week, and said this weekend that it was actually an intentional publicity stunt for the new season...
• Dancing partners Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff move in together
  Dancing with the Stars 3 runner-up Mario Lopez and his partner Karina Smirnoff have moved in together, People reports. An anonymous "source close to the...
• Hell's Kitchen 3 winner will be a "head chef," but the show has never given its announced prize
  In a press release announcing the 12 cast members for Hell's Kitchen 3, FOX revealed the third season's prize: "the coveted title of Head Chef...

Tuesday, May. 15, 2007

• Survivor Fiji has the show's lowest-rated finale yet, but the series remains a top 12 show
  Despite the dramatic Tribal Council during the finale of Survivor Fiji, the show was beaten in the 9 p.m. hour by ABC's Desperate Housewives, and...
• ABC spoils The Bachelor's outcome at upfronts
  One of the final two women on The Bachelor 10 reportedly outed herself as the show's winner a few weeks ago, and now the network...

Wednesday, May. 16, 2007

• Simon Cowell says Melinda should be in the finals after relatively boring final three perform
  Except for the part of the show when Jordan stood next to Ryan Seacrest and it looked like one of those forced perspective illusions where...
• Ratings for Real World Denver's "alcohol-fueled promiscuity" down from Key West
  The Real World Denver concludes tonight after 28 episodes of what The Denver Post's John Wenzel calls "little more than alcohol-fueled promiscuity." That behavior has...
• CBS will air Kid Nation, a reality Lord of the Flies for kids ages 8 to 15
  CBS has filmed a new unscripted show that Variety calls "a reality take on 'Lord of the Flies'" for a group of 40 kids and...
• Cheryl Burke loses Dancing with the Stars for the first time (and Ian's out, too)
  Dancer Cheryl Burke, who won the last two seasons of Dancing with the Stars along with her partners, has lost the show for the first...
• CBS renews Amazing Race, which will return in 2008
  CBS has officially renewed The Amazing Race, but only for one more season, which will not air until midseason. That's a change from the show's...
• American Idol hits season low ratings, gets beaten by FOX's House among viewers 18-49
  Another show has defeated American Idol in the ratings, and that show is the show that follows it on FOX. House was more popular than...

Thursday, May. 17, 2007

• Tori Spelling does not own the inn featured on her recently renewed Oxygen reality show
  Tori & Dean: Inn Love, the Oxygen reality series that follows Tori Spelling and her husband Dean as they open a bed and breakfast, was...
• Melinda Doolittle eliminated from Idol, leaving Jordin and Blake as the final two
  Perhaps the least likely final two combination became a reality on American Idol 6 last night as Melinda Doolittle, the one consistently amazing performer, went...
• Jaslene wins America's Next Top Model 8
  Jaslene Gonzalez, the model referred to by the judges as both a Janice Dickinson lookalike and a drag queen, is America's next next next next...
• Kelly Clarkson says her next album "is more intense"; BMG said "it's just too negative"
  Kelly Clarkson's third album, My December, will be released June 26, but although Simon Cowell calls her one of "the top five most important recording...
• Trading Spaces always required homeowners to pay taxes on materials and labor
  Trading Spaces changed a lot over its seven-year life--the host was eliminated, for example--but one thing that has not changed is that the homeowners who...

Friday, May. 18, 2007

• FOX will air Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares in the fall
  FOX is bringing Gordon Ramsay's original UK reality series to the US this fall. Kitchen Nightmares, which FOX previously announced would come to the US,...
• Melinda says she didn't "let loose" until "after I was eliminated"
  Melinda Doolittle, the most talented but least interesting American Idol 6 finalist, admits that she was kind of boring. "I think the first time I...
• VH1 airs Last Days of Left Eye documentary Sunday
  This Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, VH1 will air a documentary that concludes with the accident that killed Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in 2002. Last...
• Viewers are skipping Idol performance shows but tuning in for the results
  American Idol 6's continually lower ratings are no surprise, but week to week, there's been a trend that offers some insight. Variety reports that "the...
• Real World Sydney cast photographed, are working for Contiki tours
  The cast of The Real World Sydney has been photographed working at their new job for Contiki tours, which identifies itself as "worldwide travel for...
• Hell's Kitchen 2 contestant Rachel Brown dies
  Hell's Kitchen 2 contestant and chef Rachel Brown died last week, according to The Dallas Voice. She "was found dead in her family home in...
• Donald Trump quits The Apprentice for "a major new TV venture"
  NBC's announcement that the network has yet to make a decision about the future of The Apprentice prompted a response from its star: Donald Trump...

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