Sunday, Sep. 14, 2008

• Marie Claire staffers, at-risk young chefs, "hip and stylish" OC 18- to 25-year-olds, all get reality shows
  Several new shows have been announced recently, ranging from those that debut next week (an HP product-placement series on mtvU) to those that are just...
• The Island Challenge strands MTV alum with alcohol and a familiar game
  Last Wednesday, MTV debuted The Island, the latest The Real World/Road Rules Challenge season, which comes about six months since the last one ended. The...
• Kathy Griffin wins second Emmy, says "I'm not going to tell anyone to suck it"
  Kathy Griffin won her second Emmy Saturday night at the Creative Arts Emmys for her Bravo reality show My Life on the D-List. Accepting the...
• Solo: Lost at Sea follows a man as he attempts to kayak from Australia to New Zealand
  Monday at 10 p.m. ET, the National Geographic Channel debuts Solo: Lost at Sea, a one-hour documentary that follows Andrew McAuley's attempt to spend about...
• Jennifer Lopez's rep denies she skipped Project Runway because she didn't get a film part
  Jennifer Lopez, who was supposed to judge the finale of Project Runway 5 but was replaced by Tim Gunn at the last minute because of...

Monday, Sep. 15, 2008

• Jennifer Hudson engaged to I Love New York 2's Punk
  Oscar winner and American Idol 3 finalist Jennifer Hudson is engaged to be married to a cast member from I Love New York 2. Punk,...
• Ken Hoang: "I'm mentally prepared. I'm not going to choke; I'm not going to freak out"
  Ken Hoang has been watching Survivor since the "race war" season, Survivor Cook Islands, during which producers recruited 85 percent of the cast because of...
• Mark Burnett's new MTV series include Diddy's Starmaker, Bully Breakdown, and Rock Band
  Reality TV mastermind Mark Burnett is currently working on "10 series in various stages of posting and prepping, as well as five or six pilots,"...

Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2008

• Island Challenge production accused of leaving "a trash dump" behind in Panama
  Once again, MTV and Bunim-Murray have been accused of damaging the environment at a Challenge location. Previously, the production was accused of destroying a leatherback...
• Biggest Loser 6 debuts tonight with two-hour episodes, pairs of family members
  The Biggest Loser 6 debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET, and sticks with Amazing Race-style casting and pairs of overweight contestants with pre-existing relationships. Unlike...
• Real World Brooklyn cast photographed, described
  The cast of The Real World Brooklyn took a break from annoying their neighbors to attend a Semi Precious Weapons show at Rebel. They were...
• Marcus Lehman: "I am athletic, but I bring a certain amount of intellect and common sense"
  Marcus Lehman, a doctor and Cosmopolitan magazine's top Georgia bachelor in 2006, is intelligent and extremely articulate, and had perhaps the most casually confident and...
• Bunim/Murray says Island Challenge didn't cut trees, cleaned up trash
  Bunim/Murray, the production company that produced The Island for MTV, has been accused of trashing the Panamanian rainforest where the show was filmed, but a...
• Pirate Master won best theme song Emmy
  Pirate Master, the CBS series that aired part of its season on TV last summer before being cancelled and concluding its run online, actually won...
• Big Brother 10's Jessie's image used in gay get-out-the-vote ad
  A Washington state gay rights group has produced a poster encouraging people to vote, and that poster uses part of a shirtless photograph of Big...

Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2008

• Paloma Soto-Castillo: "I don't think you can compare...the next 39 days to my life outside of it"
  Paloma Soto-Castillo is a 24-year-old student who has missionary parents, so she's lived in different places. A year and a half ago, went to Kenya...
• First-ever unanimous vote gives Dan the Big Brother 10 win; Keesha wins juror prize
  The first-ever unanimous vote in Big Brother history gave high school teacher Dan Gheesling the win and $500,000. It's also the first season in many...
• Survivor viewers have the greatest emotional connection to the show, more than other shows
  Of the new shows debuting this fall, Survivor has a higher "emotional attachment index" than any other show, scripted or unscripted. That means "fans of...
• Big Brother 10 finale ratings up from season 9, down from 8
  Ratings for Big Brother 10 rebounded from last spring's pathetic edition, but didn't rebound to match last summer's ratings. Overall, 7.63 million people watched Dan...

Thursday, Sep. 18, 2008

• Jacquie Berg: "I kind of just want to sit back so that people can't judge me, good or bad"
  Like Survivor Gabon cast member Paloma Soto-Castillo, medical device salesperson Jacquie Berg was totally nice--and totally forgettable. I continually forget she's even on the show....
• Denise Richards' says It's Complicated has been renewed
  Denise Richards' dreadfully boring E! reality series It's Complicated has actually been renewed by the network, she says, despite an earlier report that it was...
• Amazing Race 13 advertising is on roofs near LAX and online boarding passes
  The Amazing Race's thirteenth season is being advertised in a place where travelers gazing out windows of airplanes are likely to see it: on the...

Friday, Sep. 19, 2008

• Crystal Cox: "I can't play under the radar because I'm 6'3"
  Olympic gold medalist Crystal Cox is "a fan since day one" of the show, and is super-excited about being on the show, and after applying...
• Jason Castro fan bought him a computer; family called "greedy, pathetic" for soliciting money
  American Idol 7 finalist Jason Castro and his family have reportedly been asking fans of his for monetary and other donations, and unbelievably, one fan...
• First three minutes of Survivor Gabon are online along with behind-the-scenes, spoiler footage
  One week before its premiere, Survivor Gabon's first three and a half minutes are online--including the pre-show teaser, the new opening sequence, and the first...
• Probst wants Emmys to be "riskier"; Bergeron wants nominees "to tell other people to fuck off"
  Sunday night, the five Emmy-nominated reality TV hosts will actually host the Emmy telecast. If a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live bit, which features Ryan Seacrest...

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