Monday, Mar. 9, 2009

• Melissa Rycroft joining Dancing with the Stars
  Exactly one week after being proposed to and then dumped on national television, Melissa Rycroft will join another reality series on ABC: Dancing with the...
• Jeff Probst caught camera operator who had a seizure; Tom Colicchio performed Heimlich on author
  For the second time this year, a reality show personality has helped a person having a medical crisis. Last night at the Academy of Magical...
• Todd Herzog and Spencer Duhm are dating
  Survivor China winner Todd Herzog and the youngest Survivor cast member ever, Spencer Duhm, are dating. Todd confirmed the relationship in an e.mail to After...
• Xscape's Kandi Burruss joins Real Housewives of Atlanta, and so may Big Poppa
  The Real Housewives of Atlanta has added Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Kandi Burruss to its cast, presumably to replace fired cast member DeShawn Snow. Bravo...
• Eric Sanchez confirms naked "jerk session" pictures are real
  Amazing Race 11 winner Eric Sanchez has confirmed that photos of him naked and pleasuring himself are, in fact, real. Images of Eric masturbating in...

Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2009

• Melissa Rycroft rebounds on Dancing with the Stars' Jason-bashing premiere
  The addition of Melissa Rycroft to Dancing with the Stars 8 may be ABC's most brilliant move in a long time. For one, she can...
• Idol's 13th 866 number is a phone sex line; Anoop says producers apologized to him
  American Idol 8's first-ever top 13 perform tonight as the show settles in to its final round of competition. Performance shows air Tuesdays at 8...
• Kelly Killoren Bensimon arrested for assaulting "jilted lover"
  The newest Real Housewives of New York City cast member, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend. She "was arrested last week for...
• Ryan Seacrest says there's "a plan" for phone sex number, which he just discovered
  News that American Idol 8's top 13 presents a unique problem with the voting phone numbers--the next number in the sequence, 1-866-IDOLS-13, is actually a...
• Stacking wood and Chekhov challenge teams
  Episode four and The Amazing Race 14 is still going strong. Less time in airports, more time on challenges, more time to act like idiots--and...
• 13th finalist will get a different, non-sex number; Fox exec: "we knew" IDOLS-13 wasn't available
  American Idol 8 will introduce a special phone number for whoever performs last tonight, according to a show producer and the network's chairman, who said...
• Dancing has its highest-rate debut ever
  The premiere of Dancing with the Stars 8 was the highest-rated debut in the history of the series. Perhaps helped by the addition of Melissa...

Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2009

• Chopping Block's Marco Pierre White: "Maybe [viewers] want the screaming, the shouting, the swearing. But that's not my game."
  Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, NBC debuts The Chopping Block, but don't expect a series much like other network food competitions. The show, which was...
• American Idol will change "the entire theme and concept of the show" tonight
  Significant change is coming to American Idol, as Ryan Seacrest promised last night that something unveiled during the results show tonight will change "the entire...
• Judges may get a veto on American Idol; two will leave
  American Idol 8's big rule change may involve one-time veto power for the show's judges that allows them to overrule viewers' votes and keep an...

Thursday, Mar. 12, 2009

• MTV's fictionalized Pedro biopic film previewed by Real World Brooklyn cast
  On last night's episode of The Real World Brooklyn, the cast screened a fictional film based on the life of a previous cast member, Pedro...
• Heidi Klum: "people should be demonstrating outside of Harvey Weinstein's house"
  Although Project Runway 6 taped its finale at the end of last month at Fashion Week, there's no end in sight for the ongoing legal...
• Judges don't use new power to save Jasmine Murray or Jorge Nunez
  American Idol 8's judges now have the power to save an eliminated contestant, but they did not use it to save a contestant who they...
• How many finalists would judges have saved in the past?
  There's been some mild outrage over American Idol's new rule that was announced last night, which allows the judges to veto a finalist's elimination. Newsday's...
• Spring 2009 reality TV schedule
  Spring officially arrives next Friday, and networks now pretty much roll out new seasons of reality shows non-stop, but it's still time for a list...
• NBC will air new I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here nearly daily for a month
  This summer, NBC is bringing back I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, and will air the series almost every weekday for an entire month....
• Celebrity House 3 casting as Sober House ends; producer says it's "exponentially more challenging"
  Sober House, the more harrowing, compelling, and entertaining spin-off of Celebrity Rehab, concludes its nine-episode run tonight, even as producers are working on Celebrity Rehab...

Friday, Mar. 13, 2009

• JT loses a tooth and Spencer goes home, but not because of his challenge performance
  Spencer Duhm, the youngest cast member in the history of Survivor and the current boyfriend of a former winner, went home during last night's episode...

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