Monday, Oct. 5, 2009

• Live with Flipping Out intern Trace, who needs a roommate in his Hollywood penthouse
  One of the new cast members on Bravo's Flipping Out, design intern Trace Lenhoff, is renting a room in his Hollywood penthouse apartment. I'm not...
• Boring Amazing Race 15 team eliminated during a slow episode in Vietnam
  Because The Amazing Race 15 actually started on time, and I didn't get to spend any quality time with Andy Rooney, there was a period...
• I Love New York's Rico, aka Sandro Padrone, is now doing porn
  Not that there's much difference between appearing on a VH1 dating show and doing porn, but I Love New York's Rico is now doing porn...
• Kate says kids "are angry" that TLC stopped production, says Jon took $230,000
  Appearing on The Today Show this morning, Kate Gosselin hit the next volley in the ongoing saga that is her life. Kate said that she...
• Amazing Race 15 places last in viewers 18-49, gets beaten by Extreme Makeover
  Without football overrunning and pushing 60 Minutes into its timeslot, and facing off against football and another reality series, The Amazing Race 15 did not...
• DJ AM's Gone Too Far will air next week; family hopes "it will inspire others to seek help"
  MTV announced this morning that the DJ AM-hosted intervention series Gone Too Far will debut next Monday night at 10 p.m. ET. It was originally...
• Bravo orders Top Chef 7, which is now casting; Padma Lakshmi is pregnant
  Top Chef has been renewed for a seventh season, which is unsurprising considering it's Bravo's biggest and best competition series now that Project Runway has...

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

• Fantasy Island becoming a reality competition where contestants fulfill hotel guests' fantasies
  Mark Burnett will borrow from Fantasy Island for a reality competition that will give a person who best fulfills hotel guests' fantasies a job at...
• Tom DeLay dances with stress fractures; says, "I'm insane or stupid"
  Despite stress fractures in both feet, Tom DeLay danced the samba and shook his ass while wearing a shirt emblazoned with a glittery Republican elephant...
• ESPN's 30 documentaries start tonight with Peter Berg's film about Wayne Gretzky
  Celebrating its 30th anniversary, ESPN is debuting 30 sports-themed documentaries about significant but perhaps forgotten events in sports from the past 30 years, and they...
• Fox subjecting us to Idol Gives Back again, even though it "may not raise as much" money
  After a blissful absence last year, American Idol will make us suffer through Idol Gives Back again next season. It will be during the top...
• Biggest Loser products will make $100 million this year; latest is The Biggest Loser Resort
  The Biggest Loser may have become almost unwatchable with its bloated two-hour episodes and annoying product placement, but it is a massive success: it will...
• Tom DeLay will quit Dancing with the Stars
  After dancing live last night on Dancing with the Stars 9 despite being injured, Tom DeLay "will withdraw from Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday's...

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009

• Tom DeLay drops out, but DWTS still sends Debi Mazar home to not appear on Entourage
  Tom DeLay would have been safe in the competition, but as expected, he dropped out of Dancing with the Stars 9 because of his injuries....
• Second season of The Mole now on Hulu, even though it's not on DVD
  My love for the first two seasons of The Mole will never die. Both season one and the first celebrity season are on DVD, but...
• Michael Vick wants his BET reality series to "change the perception of me"
  Michael Vick will star in his own BET reality series early next year. Such a show was rumored back in April, although as The Hollywood...

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009

• Tom DeLay watches Survivor, Big Brother; befriended Hollywood liberals while on DWTS
  Tom DeLay has been almost more entertaining in his exit interviews than he was on Dancing with the Stars, which he quit due to injury...
• Donny Osmond, Bethenny Frankel, Niecy Nash, and Nancy Grace grill Jon Gosselin
  The latest chapter in the Jon and Kate Plus Eight saga has taken a surreal turn, as The Insider subjected Jon Gosselin to a verbal...
• PETA request keeps chimpanzee off Dancing with the Stars
  On Monday's Dancing with the Stars, Tom Bergeron said a chimpanzee would appear on Tuesday's results show in the segment where various people tried to...
• New York and New Jersey housewives will debate which state is better for charity
  Next Saturday at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in New Jersey, Jill Zarin and Alex McCord will debate Teresa Giudice and Caroline Manzo about whether...
• Ultimate Merger needs men for Trump to play matchmaker with a "well-known bachelorette"
  Donald Trump is apparently going to star in a new dating reality series called The Ultimate Merger, which is now casting men who are willing...

Friday, Oct. 9, 2009

• Omarosa is the "well-known bachelorette" who will star in Donald Trump's Ultimate Merger
  The "well-known bachelorette" starring in Donald Trump's new reality series is Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who will apparently take time out of her seminary studies to be...
• Galu finally loses after Jeff Probst takes time off; Yasmin says, "I was ready to go"
  Galu's streak of winning, which started with Survivor Samoa's second challenge and continued through four straight challenges, ended last night as they lost a block-stacking...
• Locator's Troy Dunn: "when I fix a fractured family ... I've given them a little bit of what I feel like I have"
  The highest-rated show on WE is The Locator, which is currently airing new episodes air Saturdays on WE and has been renewed for a fourth...
• Next week: Animal attack survival stories, and ba-nanas die as Rachel Zoe says bye for now
  Here's what happened last week, and what to watch for next week: The Past During the first full week of October 2009, we got personal...

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