Sunday, Jun. 28, 2009

• Big Brother feeds from Real will now allow rewind, monitoring of multiple live feeds
  Good news for those who obsessively sit at their computers watching other people live their lives for nine weeks: the Big Brother feeds and player...
• Pitchmen's Billy Mays died Sunday morning
  Billy Mays, the infomercial star who's currently on Discovery's reality series Pitchmen, died early this morning. He "was found dead this morning by his wife...

Monday, Jun. 29, 2009

• Huber wins Groomer Has It 2 after super-ironic Samantha Harris appearance
  Animal Planet's second season of Groomer Has It ended Saturday night, and 42-year-old Hollywood groomer Huber won the $50,000 cash prize, and the product placement...
• Len Goodman had surgery for prostate cancer discovered during Dancing with the Stars 8
  Dancing with the Stars judge Len Goodman had surgery for prostate cancer that was discovered during the spring, while he was on the eighth season...
• SYTYCD working on all-Michael Jackson tribute with Paula Abdul choreographing a dance
  Fox's So You Think You Can Dance may feature an all-Michael Jackson tribute show next week that may include a dance choreographed by Paula Abdul,...
• Big Brother 11's house revealed: a green theme with a swimming pool room
  The Big Brother 11 house--singular, not plural--has been revealed via the footage of the media day, emphasis not on the word "media." It has a...

Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009

• Gene Simmons says Adam Lambert "killed his career" by coming out
  KISS' Gene Simmons, who previously said American Idol 8 runner-up Adam Lambert should "shut up" about being gay, has gone even further, saying that Adam...
• Billy Mays died from heart disease; Pitchmen marathon, Mays tribute air Wednesday
  Pitchmen star and pitchman extraordinaire Billy Mays died of heart disease, according to a preliminary autopsy. He was found dead Sunday morning, and "[p]reliminary autopsy...
• CBS' There Goes the Neighborhood encloses families behind 20-foot wall; hosted by Idol's Matt Rogers
  CBS' neighborhood competition series Block Party has been renamed There Goes the Neighborhood, and for it, producers constructed 20-foot-tall walls around houses in Kennesaw, Georgia....
• Melissa Rycroft confirms engagement to Tye Strickland
  After being proposed to and then dumped on The Bachelor 13, and then being dumped by viewers on the Dancing with the Stars 8 finale,...
• Idol's Michael Jackson night repeat comes in fourth place, behind Bachelorette, Law & Order repeat
  Fox's first-ever prime-time rebroadcast of an American Idol episode drew an exceptionally low number of viewers, putting the show in fourth place--which would be shocking...
• Cowell reportedly offered $108 to $144 million to stay on Idol, but critic calls that "impossible"
  Simon Cowell's contract expires at the end of American Idol 9, so he's now in the middle of contract negotiations, which is why he's been...
• VH1 announces even more insane dating shows; other series follow aircraft repo man, bad drivers, Pepa and Chilli
  There have been a bunch of new show announcements recently, particularly from VH1, the network that is continuing to clone its culture-rotting dating series. Yes,...
• A month of comments: from insightful reflections to poop metaphors
  One month ago tonight, I stayed up all night to launch reality blurred's new design and give the world the ability to comment. The control...

Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2009

• 12-person Big Brother 11 cast announced, but not the 13th "mystery houseguest" (Sheila?)
  Big Brother 11's cast was announced this morning on the always-terrible Early Show, and although I suffered through watching that, it had less information...
• NYC Prep: PC's coming-out party and lots of awkward rich teenager moments
  Bravo's streak of docudramas about people we love to loathe continues with NYC Prep, a series that follows several prep school kids that doesn't have...
• High school clique twist confirmed for Big Brother 11; cast competing in four groups
  CBS has just confirmed the not-so-secret twist for this season of Big Brother: the 13 houseguests will be competing in tribe-like groups, as I first...
• Big Brother's Braden Bacha showed his penis, inability to act on gay TV show Dante's Cove
  Less than a day has passed since the Big Brother 11 cast was revealed, and we already have our first nude video of a houseguest....

Thursday, Jul. 2, 2009

• Cliques will compete for immunity; challenge losers punished; viewers vote for food restriction
  The Big Brother 11 clique twist was revealed yesterday, but more details are emerging, ones that make the show seem very, very familiar. In a...
• Six Survivor cast members "will share in" Darfur suffering by fasting for three days
  Five former Survivor cast members--Palau's Coby Archa, Kimberly Mullen, and Janu Tornell; Vanuatu's Scout Cloud Lee; and Australia's Michael Skupin--will fast for the next three...

Friday, Jul. 3, 2009

• America's Got Talent is summer's most-watched show again as scripted shows have more viewers than Wipeout, SYTYCD
  The return of America's Got Talent has given NBC summer's top-rated series, a familiar place for the show and an unfamiliar place for NBC, which...
• Ratings up as Bachelorette 5's Ed returns, Jake accuses Wes of having a secret girlfriend
  The Bachelorette 5 is nearing its end--there are two more episodes until the reunion, and then the finale airs July 27--and while Jillian Harris's quest...
• D.C. Real Worlders move in, get told to "go home"
  The Real World D.C.--or will it be The Real World Washington, D.C.?--cast moved in Thursday, and already the cast members encountered some residents who aren't...

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