Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007

• Life and Death in Darfur airs tonight on BET
  Tonight, BET News airs an original half-hour special tonight that focuses on the crisis in Darfur at 10 p.m. ET. It's hosted by Jeff Johnson....
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's 100th episode airs tonight
  The 100th Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, airs tonight on ABC as a special two-hour episode starting at 7 p.m. ET. The show is currently in...

Monday, Nov. 26, 2007

• Amazing Race 12's new U-turn ends one team's chances
  The Amazing Race 12 spent a second episode in Burkina Faso, but there, it introduced one of two new game elements that are supposed to...
• Dancing with the Stars 5 finale starts tonight
  Dancing with the Stars 5 ends its run over the next two nights. Tonight, the three remaining couples--Melanie Brown and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Helio Castroneves and...
• ESPN commercials become Sundance Channel's Nimrod Nation documentary
  Tonight, the Sundance Channel debuts an "eight-part original documentary series from filmmaker Brett Morgen [that] profiles rural Watersmeet, Michigan, where everyone follows the progress of...
• Maksim says unlike Marie, Dancing cast did not "burden people with our personal issues"
  Maksim Chmerkovskiy, the dancer who's partnered with Melanie Brown on Dancing with the Stars 5, says that Marie Osmond is using her personal problems to...

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007

• Bravo orders pilot of series following former Real Housewives' Jo De La Rosa
  The Real Housewives of Orange County returned to Bravo earlier this month but without cast member Jo De La Rosa. But now, Bravo has officially...
• WGA survey of reality show writers says writers lose $38,400 a year in overtime
  According to a survey of 303 reality TV story writers and producers, "writing jobs in reality television are characterized by long hours, almost no benefits,...
• Twiggy replaced by Paulina Porizkova as a judge for Top Model 10
  Twiggy has been replaced by supermodel Paulina Porizkova as a judge for America's Next Top Model 10, five seasons after she replaced Janice Dickinson as...
• Judges turn on Marie Osmond during Dancing with the Stars 5 finale
  After the Dancing with the Stars 5 finale, Marie Osmond ended up in third place with the lowest score of any couple in the past...
• Sarah Jessica Parker's "fear was realized" about Project Runway's judging process
  Sarah Jessica Parker, last week's guest judge on Project Runway 4, is a fan of the show, but was surprised by the reality of the...
• World's Got Talent spin-off will united winners of Simon Cowell's Got Talent shows
  NBC is currently casting for the third season of America's Got Talent, and the winner of that season could join the winners of the first...

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007

• Byron called police but didn't want to press charges after fight with Mary
  Bachelor 6 star Byron Velvick called police after getting into a fight with Mary Delgado in their truck, which ended with Mary getting arrested early...
• Helio Castroneves wins Dancing with the Stars 5
  Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough won Dancing with the Stars 5, even though Mel B. and Maks were the "highest-scoring couple of the season," as...
• Mark Ballas injured during Dancing finale; Maks says he's "moving on"
  Sabrina Bryan's professional dancing partner on Dancing with the Stars 5 went to the hospital last night following their encore performance of the cha-cha. Mark...
• Jordin Sparks' album has the lowest first-week sales for any American Idol winner
  American Idol 6 winner Jordin Sparks' self-titled debut album has been on sale for a week, and it is officially "the lowest start and smallest...

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007

• Helio calls off his engagement, may be with Julianne
  Helio Castroneves and his fiancée have broken up. "I can confirm that Aliette Vazquez and I have called off our engagement and are no longer...
• Dancing with the Stars 5 finale is fall's second-most watched show
  On Tuesday night, 24.88 million people watched Helio Castroneves win Dancing with the Stars 5. That was "best showing on the night in seven years...

Friday, Nov. 30, 2007

• Logo plans transgender dating show and docudramas following gay basketball team, L.A. lesbians
  Logo announced three new reality series yesterday, a dating series and two docudramas, all of which will debut next year. Transamerican Love Story, which will...
• Winter 2007/2008 reality TV schedule
  The winter debut season has arrived, with networks airing series that will take us through the holidays and kick off the new year. The following...
• Rejected Bachelor 11 finalist Jenni back with her ex-boyfriend
  Bachelor 11 finalist Jenni Croft, one of the two women dumped by Brad during the finale, left the show and immediately reunited with her former...
• Sanjaya will perform Sunday in Seattle production of Black Nativity
  Sanjaya Malakar, the American Idol 6 finalist who helped make last season both watchable and a complete joke, will perform Sunday in two performances of...
• Brad is "disappointed" that he didn't get his "fairy tale romance"
  Brad Womack appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' show Friday to again defend his decision. Earlier in the week, Ellen called him a "jerk." But Brad says...
• New Mexico drops its Kid Nation investigation; second season may not happen
  The New Mexico Attorney General's Office began investigating CBS' Kid Nation in late August, but after looking into "the permit process, the 22-page contract between...
• MTV searching for Hills' 40 "biggest fan[s]" to appear on live season finale
  MTV is planning to really milk the finale of The Hills, its biggest and perhaps most fake series, when it concludes its third season a...

Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007

• Jessica Sierra arrested and charged with intoxication, resisting arrest, violating parole
  Jessica Sierra, the American Idol 4 finalist who was arrested in April for cocaine possession, has been arrested again. She "was charged Saturday with disorderly...

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