reality blurred + archives + June 21 to June 27, 2009

week of June 21, 2009

Camera operator bails as Whale Wars ship gets caught in ice
In the 16 years I've been watching reality television, I can never remember a camera operator putting down his or her camera and leaving because...
Win History's American Originals DVD megaset
The History Channel has offered a free DVD set to a reality blurred reader, and I'm happy to pass that along. It's the American Originals...
Survivor casting rejects man who walked 2,200 miles to deliver his video
Greg Insco walked 2,200 miles from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in order to hand-deliver his Survivor video to casting director Lynne Spillman, and then he...
Ryan Seacrest and Lindsay Lohan working on second-chance reality show
Ryan Seacrest and Lindsay Lohan are collaborating on a reality series that will give its contestants some kind of second chance. Friday night, he wrote...

Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey are "friends"; Adam's new old album; Stage Dad: the Jeff Archuleta Story spoof
Random news that spewed forth from the American Idol machine over the past few days:Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey each used Twitter yesterday to insist...
Kathy Griffin, Housewives table-flipping bring Bravo record ratings, but The Fashion Show's ratings are low
Bravo's answer to its loss of Project Runway has failed to catch on with viewers, but the opposite is true of both Kathy Griffin's My...
Andy Cohen knows he's a tool, but the L.A. Times doesn't
Starting July 16, Bravo VP Andy Cohen will host a weekly, midnight talk show about Bravo, because that's what the network really needs: more Andy...
Adam Lambert, Stephen Fishbach, JT Thomas among People's hottest bachelors
People has released its collection of America's hottest bachelors, and surprise, they're all celebrities, because we all know you're not hot unless you're famous. But...
Jon and Kate Gosselin file for divorce
People beats TLC's special announcement episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight with the news that "[d]ocuments to initiate a legal split were filed at...

ABC's The Superstars, NBC's America's Got Talent 4, Bravo's NYC Prep debut tonight
Three notable new series debut tonight, but they're pretty different. At 8 p.m. ET, in the wake of Susan Boyle, NBC debuts the fourth season...
Holly returns, leaves as an equal number of I'm a Celebrity cast members have quit and been voted out
Just when I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here 2 couldn't get any stupider, another celebrity quit, which means that with two days to go,...
Jon and Kate separating, will split time with their product placement-wearing kids
Thirty-six years ago, American was shocked and captivated by An American Family and its announcement of a divorce between the couple the groundbreaking documentary series...
TLC puts Jon and Kate on hiatus after record-breaking ratings make it the year's top-rated cable show
Following last night's record-breaking episode on which Jon and Kate were revealed to be divorcing, just six of 40 episodes of Jon & Kate Plus...
Danielle Staub's extortion, "drug, prostitution, and informant history" detailed
Hours before the already-taped Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion is going to air, The Smoking Gun has revealed that "federal court records provide a...
College Hill's Dorion Standberry nude pictures posted online
College Hill Atlanta star Dorion Standberry's phone stolen, revealing both pictures of him nude and with an erect penis and phone numbers of his celebrity...

Breakout star Sanjaya Malakar and Patti Blagojevich out as crapass I'm a Celebrity 2 comes to an end, finally
I wasn't going to write anything about I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here 2 today, waiting to just wrap it up tomorrow after it...
David Johnson sings to David Hasselhoff, "What must I do to proclaim my love to you?"
America's Got Talent 4 debuted last night, and unlike the dreadfully boring and pretty incredibly awful The Superstars on ABC, offered lots of entertainment in...
TLC president: Jon & Kate cancellation "not in anyone's mind"; will Deanna Hummel appear?
Despite its six-week hiatus, Jon & Kate Plus Eight isn't going to be cancelled, nor will its name be changed to one of the super-clever...
Stripping She's Got the Look model Laurie says God told her to take off her clothes
TV Land's She's Got the Look, now in its second season and hosted by Kim Alexis, is pretty much America's Next Top Model for women...
Damian Fahey: hosting I'm a Celebrity is "incredible"
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here 2 co-host Damian Fahey, responding to a question I posed on Twitter, said that hosting the show has...
Real World Cancun debuts as Washington bars ban, welcome Real World DC's drunks
The 22nd season of MTV's The Real World will debut tonight, and it leaves the country for the fourth time (after London, Paris, and Sydney)....

Big Brother 11 news and rumors: two tribes and two houses? cliques? a $0 prize?
Big Brother 11 debuts two weeks from tomorrow, and facts and rumors about the new season are floating around online. Last Friday, bloggers and...
Lou Diamond Phillips wins I'm a Celebrity 2, less shocking than co-host saying, "we'll see you next year"
After three and a half long weeks, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here 2 ended, and the best and most obvious choice, Lou Diamond...
Danielle Staub may run for Congress as a Republican, blocks sex tape release
You'd think that Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Danielle Staub is tired of public scrutiny after having her criminal past exposed in gritty,...
Farrah Fawcett documentary will re-air on NBC Friday, Oxygen Saturday following her death from cancer today
Actor and one-time reality star Farrah Fawcett died today after a 2.5 year battle with anal cancer, and tomorrow night, NBC will air documentary that...
American Idol 8's Michael Jackson performance episode will be rebroadcast Monday
Following Michael Jackson's death today, Fox will rebroadcast the two-hour Michael Jackson-themed American Idol top 13's performance episode on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET....

Fox's Virtuality follows astronauts being filmed for a reality show
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, Fox will air Virtuality, a two-hour movie co-written by Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore that is really a pilot...
Danielle reveals "disgraceful" act Caroline accused her of during N.J. reunion
After a dramatic season of The Real Housewives, it was a pretty boring two-hour reunion, even though Tuesday's was the franchise's most-watched reunion. The last...
Big Brother 11's divided house borrows from Netherlands' version's "The Battle"
Big Brother 11 will somehow divide its house into two tribe-like groups, I first revealed yesterday, and commenter Joey Ortega pointed out that such a...