Monday, May. 19, 2008

• All-star Project Runway designers may reunite for competition
  Top Chef 3 was preceded by an all-star competition between finalists on its first two seasons, and now Project Runway will apparently do the same...
• Half of Idol's viewers are over age 35; text voters send an average of 38 votes
  Those people still watching American Idol 7 are older than one might imagine: More than half of its viewers are over age 35, and David...
• Bachelorette returns with DeAnna Pappas, who is "actually very happy" that Brad dumped her
  Tonight, ABC resurrects The Bachelorette for a fourth season after a three-year absence. DeAnna Pappas, one of the finalists on The Bachelor 11, will have...
• Fox will try to "accelerate" Survivor's demise by airing Moment of Truth, Hell's Kitchen against it
  Next season, Survivor will face a challenge that the show hasn't seen before, as Fox will air its two biggest non-American Idol reality shows against...
• Survivor lowers its age limit to 18 for most states
  As it starts casting for its spring 2009 season, Survivor is lowering the minimum age from 21 to 18 for most people. A CBS spokesperson...

Tuesday, May. 20, 2008

• Taylor Hicks will appear in Grease on Broadway this summer
  American Idol 5 winner Taylor Hicks is following his many Idol colleagues to Broadway, where he'll appear in Grease this summer. He "will begin performances...
• Gordon Ramsay "battle[s] with Fox" over contestants who are a "liability," has an ulcer
  This season of Hell's Kitchen may have its biggest prize ever, and has been rather entertaining, it still seems to be cast with a bunch...
• Kristi Yamaguchi enters Dancing with the Stars 6 finale with a perfect score
  Not since the first season of Dancing with the Stars has a woman won the competition, but that may end tonight if viewer votes match...
• David and David face off on American Idol 7's finale
  Finally, it has arrived: Not the epic showdown between the teenage vocalist and the 20-something rocker, but the final American Idol 7 performance show of...
• Rejects Zach and Thing 2 win Flavor of Love 3 and Paradise Hotel 2
  Two people previously rejected from their respective reality shows each won the show last night. Zach, who was kicked off of the first Paradise Hotel...
• Deadliest Catch captain Phil says what Ice Road Truckers "do is puny compared to what we do"
  A cast member of the original tough-job reality series, Deadliest Catch, says that the cast members one one of the series' knock-offs aren't comparable to...
• Semi-finalist Luke Menard has Hodgkin lymphoma
  Luke Menard, one of American Idol 7's semi-finalists, has been diagnosed with cancer, specifically Hodgkin lymphoma, and will undergo treatment soon. "Luke had a lingering...

Wednesday, May. 21, 2008

• Survey equates reality TV with the atomic bomb, capital punishment as worst ideas ever
  The UK's Museums and Galleries Month 2008 survey has found that people think reality TV is one of the worst ideas ever, alongside the atomic...
• Downtown Brooklyn penthouse may be The Real World's next house
  For its next New York location, The Real World is reportedly using a penthouse in a new downtown Brooklyn building that a producer confirmed is...
• Judges essentially declare David Archuleta American Idol 7's winner
  After American Idol 7 finalists David Archuleta and David Cook each sang three songs--including one they'd each selected from the songwriting competition's losers--during the finale,...
• Kristi Yamaguchi wins Dancing with the Stars 6
  Dancing with the Stars has its second female winner in six seasons, as Kristi Yamaguchi and her partner Mark Ballas won the competition. She beat...
• Co-executive producer, creator sues A&E over Dog the Bounty Hunter money
  A co-executive producer on A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter is suing the network for $5 milllion+, saying he hasn't been paid for the fourth season...
• New shows star cougars, teen idols, mamas' boys, Boy Scouts, millionaires, puking people
  Over the past few weeks, networks have announced a bunch of new reality shows that they plan to throw against the wall to see what...
• Miami Ink ending after three seasons because its stars are upset with the network
  TLC's workplace drama Miami Ink will end after its fourth season, which is currently airing, concludes. Its stars, Ami James and Chris Nuñez, "declined to...
• Andy Cohen promoted to senior VP at Bravo
  Bravo announced several promotions today, including bumping Andy Cohen to Bravo's senior vice president of original programming and development. The network also promoted Shari Levine...
• Sharon Osbourne will host Charm School 2, which stars Rock of Love's women
  In addition to I Love Money, VH1's all-star competition between its Love show cast members, the network has also ordered a second season of Charm...

Thursday, May. 22, 2008

• Six of 13 Making the Band 4 tour dates cancelled
  Almost half of the performances scheduled for Day26 and Danity Kane's joint tour have been cancelled. The tour was supposed to start May 18 in...
• Fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance debuts tonight
  Fox isn't giving us even one night to take a break from talent search shows, debuting So You Think You Can Dance 4 tonight at...
• David Cook wins American Idol 7 by 12 million votes
  David won American Idol 7, after receiving 56 percent of the 97.5 million votes cast Tuesday night. David Archuleta lost by a surprisingly large margin...
• Ratings rebound as American Idol 7's finale is up over last year's
  Although ratings slipped all season, viewers returned for the finale of American Idol 7, which actually beat last year's finale by about 1 million viewers....

Friday, May. 23, 2008

• Whitney: "I'm not really plus-size in real life, I'm regular"
  America's Next Top Model 10 winner Whitney Thompson became the show's first plus-sized winner, and while the show and modeling industry may not have a...
• David Cook's win and Idol's seventh season generates theories, speculation, more boredom
  So, American Idol 7 is finally over, the ratings are in, and now it's time to curl up into a ball and forget all of...

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