reality blurred + archives + February 28 to March 6, 2010

week of February 28, 2010

Images from Big Brother cast member Steven Daigle's porn debut now online
If it's been your dream to see a Big Brother houseguest have sex, and not under a blanket, that day has arrived. Otherwise forgettable season...
Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney get married
The Bachelor 13 stars Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney have done where few other Bachelor couples have: they got married. While I'm not quite sure...

Argentina hosts an impossibly weak episode of The Amazing Race
And that was the worst episode of The Amazing Race in more than a year. A series of weak challenges and tasks strung together by...
NBC resurrects The Sing Off and Last Comic Standing, which has new host Craig Robinson
NBC is bringing back two reality shows that no one really cared were gone: Last Comic Standing, which aired its sixth season in the summer...
Andrew Garcia, John Park lead Idols in social networking followers; Lee Dewyze gained more
American Idol is essentially a popularity contest with karaoke, but there haven't been many opportunities to quantify the contestants' popularity except for actual votes received....
Kim Zolciak is dating a woman, DJ Tracy Young
Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Kim Zolciak is dating a woman, which is a surprise because her mysterious relationship with an anonymous man identified...

Jake picks Vienna for their "magical spark"; Ali Fedotowsky is the next Bachelorette
As spoilers correctly identified, The Bachelor 14 ended with Jake Pavelka selecting Vienna Giraldi, proposing to her. He rejected Tenley Molzahn, who took the news...
DWTS cast: Kate Gosselin, Jake Pavelka, Evan Lysacek, Chad Ochocinco, Buzz Aldrin, Pam Anderson
Dancing with the Stars 10's cast was announced just before 10 p.m. last night, and the cast largely consists of people who are actually recognizable....
Men will perform tonight because of Crystal Bowersox's illness
The remaining male American Idol 9 semi-finalists will perform tonight instead of tomorrow night because one of the women is sick. Fox announced that "Due...
If I Can Dream now live, follows five people who dreamed of being watched 24/7 online
Idol creator Simon Fuller's latest series, If I Can Dream, starts today, but it's only online, both in edited episodes and 24/7 streaming. It follows...

Spring 2010 reality TV debut schedule
Hard to believe it's March already, and while the spring equinox and the technical start of the new seasons is a few weeks away, new...
Judges disagree on just how much American Idol men suck less than last week
The general consensus from the judges on American Idol 9 last night was that the men sucked less than they did last week. Considering Crystal...
Jersey Shore cast reenacts scenes from Oscar-nominated movies
The cast of Jersey Shore has been busy proving they are not actors by reenacting scenes from Oscar-nominated movies on TBS' Lopez Tonight this week....
Spencer Pratt can't talk after biting his own tongue
Spencer Pratt bit his own tongue while playing with his dog, and had to get stitches, he revealed on Twitter, complete with photographic evidence. His...
American Idol 9 drops individual Facebook, Twitter profiles for semi-finalists
American Idol 9 contestants' Facebook and Twitter profiles have been dropped and consolidated down to one account for all of them, perhaps because their number...

Sarah Palin and Mark Burnett shopping a docudrama reality series about Alaska
Sarah Palin and reality show producer Mark Burnett are visiting broadcast networks, pitching a docudrama about Alaska. That's according to a report in Entertainment Weekly,...
Judges all but declare Crystal Bowersox is the winner months before American Idol will end
If American Idol 9 concludes around the same time as it usually does, we have about two and a half months to go. But it...
The Bachelor will be a Wii video game in which you can date bachelor/ettes, sabotage dates
The Bachelor will become a video game for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintedo DS this summer, and that game will give players the chance...

Viewers vote out four non-white American Idol semi-finalists
American Idol 9 dropped four more semi-finalists last night, and coincidentally--or not--all of the contestants who went home were people of color: Michelle Delamor, John...
Survivor Heroes vs Villains has its first blindside, surprising even us
Usually on Survivor, the editors present us with one of two possible outcomes, and one turns out to be a big red herring. That seemed...
Next week: the first-ever Bachelor wedding, plus Top Model and Sober House return
Here's a look back at stories you may have missed from the past week, and what's coming up on reality TV next week. The Past...