Sunday, May. 17, 2009

• Survivor Samoa will be the show's 19th season
  Survivor is returning to the South Pacific for the eighth time, as its 19th season will be filmed in the island nation of Samoa. It's...

Monday, May. 18, 2009

• Sixth season of So You Think You Can Dance casting, will air this fall
  The fifth season of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance debuts Thursday, and one week later, the network will start casting for the series'...
• Bachelorette 5's Jillian Harris will pick from 30 men, is irritated by questions about her sex life
  The Bachelorette 5 debuts tonight at 9 p.m. ET, and stars Jillian Harris, who was rejected during the last Bachelor by Jason Mesnick but the...
• JT Thomas wins $1.1 million after a unanimous vote, but was "really worried"
  In a near-repeat of the Survivor Gabon finale, the nice guy won $1.1 million in the finale, winning both the jury's vote and viewer votes...
• Ethan Zohn has cancer: stage two Hodgkin's lymphoma
  Ethan Zohn, the 2002 winner of Survivor Africa and all around amazing human being who used his winnings to start a charity, has been diagnosed...
• Producer says Paulina was fired due to the economy
  Paulina Porizkova was laid off from her job as a America's Next Top Model judge, according to its producer, who said the economy was to...
• Survivor Tocantins is the lowest-rated finale yet, though not by much
  JT Thomas' victory over Stephen Fishbach on the Sunday conclusion to Survivor Tocantins was actually the series' lowest-rated finale to date, although it beat most...

Tuesday, May. 19, 2009

• Shawn Johnson, Gilles Marini tied going into Dancing with the Stars 8's finale
  Dancing with the Stars 8 comes to an end tonight with a two-hour finale starting at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. So who will win?...
• Adam and Kris face off as rumors spread about Adam's duet with David Bowie, other guest stars
  American Idol 8 starts to wrap up tonight with a one-hour performance episode, followed tomorrow night by an epic two-hour waste of time leading up...
• Kris Allen says he doesn't want vote to be "about religion" after media speculates about Christian vote
  The morning of American Idol 8's finale performance episode, Kris Allen said he doesn't want votes based upon religion, an argument that's gotten increasing attention...
• Lou Diamond Phillips, Patti Blagojevich join I'm a Celebrity cast
  NBC's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here has its first actual celebrity cast member: Lou Diamond Phillips. The first seven cast members...

Wednesday, May. 20, 2009

• Survivor's runners-up: Erinn's changed life, Taj's hurt feelings, and Stephen's effective losing strategy
  To wrap up this season of Survivor Tocantins--which I think was a strong but not great season overall, in part due to the sort of...
• Melissa Rycroft rejected again as Shawn Johnson wins DWTS, barely beating Gilles Marini
  In a surprising outcome, Shawn Johnson won Dancing with the Stars 8, beating season-long favorites Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft. She joins Kristi Yamaguchi (who...
• Simon Cowell says Adam is a "worldwide star" and Kris is "incredible" after lackluster finale
  At the end of "the acoustic rocker versus the glam rocker," as Ryan Seacrest characterized the competition between Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, one thing...
• Real World Cancun's familiar cast members include friends, promiscuous people with drinking problems
  MTV has revealed the eight Real World Cancun cast members who will come to television screens June 24, although the first episode, or some part...
• American Idol 8 finale live blog: amusing ourselves during all of the filler
  reality blurred: Andy Dehnart covers/mocks the American Idol 8 finale...
• UK reality star Myleene Klass will host I'm a Celebrity 2
  The host for I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here 2 will be Myleene Klass, a UK TV personality who was the runner-up...
• Woman arrested for choking Simon Cowell's ex blames his behavior toward Paula Abdul
  After the American Idol 8 live performance episode on Tuesday night, a woman attacked Terri Seymour, Simon Cowell's ex-girlfriend, and was arrested. That woman, Janice...

Thursday, May. 21, 2009

• Fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance debuts tonight
  Tonight, Fox debuts the first of this year's two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. The two-hour premiere tonight at 8 p.m. ET...
• Kris Allen beats Adam Lambert in not-so-surprising upset
  In a Dewey versus Truman moment, the Associated Press sent out a one-sentence story to the wire tonight that said Adam Lambert won American Idol...
• Dominant American Idol's finale was second-lowest rated; season viewership down, too
  Ratings for American Idol 8's pee-in-your-pants shocker of a finale were down from last year, a reversal after ratings rebounded for last season's finale. That...

Friday, May. 22, 2009

• Survivor wrap-up: JT's historic win, creating the opening sequence, charity auction
  Survivor Tocantins is over, and it's been another strong season. From my first conversations with the cast to Ben Wade's firing to Coach Wade's elimination,...
• Nigel Lythgoe's homophobia inflamed when two men dance together on SYTYCD
  Nigel Lythgoe, the old bastard who used to produce American Idol until he quit, and went on to keep talking about American Idol even though...
• Clay Aiken hates Adam Lambert; Carrie Underwood is richest Idol; No Boundaries studio version is slightly better
  How big was Kris Allen's victory? We still don't really know. Access Hollywood claims that "a top FOX source told Access Hollywood that the vote...

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