Sunday, Jun. 20, 2010

• Japanese theaters pull The Cove after threats; whaling ban may be lifted
  No theaters in Japan are showing the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, which is about dolphin slaughter there, because the far right "activists' noisy rallies, online...

Monday, Jun. 21, 2010

• Neil Patrick Harris got Survivor China's immunity idol from CBS
  How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris received Survivor China's immunity idol as a gift from CBS for his 37th birthday last...
• Real Housewives of DC cast includes Salahis, Bravo's deception is confirmed
  Bravo confirmed last week that The Real Housewives of DC will air this summer and star Michaele Salahi, who with her husband Tareq Salahi became...
• American Idol lowers minimum age to 15, pandering to its teen audience
  Teenagers who are 15 can now audition for American Idol, as the show has decreased its minimum age by one year, from 16. "A lot...
• Fracked-up drinking water can catch fire, Gasland shows
  Tonight, HBO airs the Sundance special jury prize-winning documentary Gasland, which looks at the impact of natural gas drilling, which can pretty much be summed...
• Bachelor's Jake and Vienna broke up
  Another Bachelor couple has broken up: Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi ended their relationship less than four months after their engagement aired on TV on...

Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010

• Deadliest Catch starts covering Phil Harris' death, but skips "graphic hospital scenes"
  The next four episodes of Discovery's Deadliest Catch deal with the death of Cornelia Marie captain Phil Harris, concluding July 20 with an episode and...
• Survivor Nicaragua starts filming, will spend $6+ million in Nicaragua
  Survivor Nicaragua started production last week, as press members were there for the first three days of filming, as usual, returning to the US just...
• Real World refocuses on drunken sex and fighting, ignores first New Orleans season
  The Real World New Orleans debuts next week, and because DC was the lowest-rated season ever despite its drunken violence, the show will refocus on...
• Bachelorette ending spoiled; Ali says it "wouldn't be fair" for Jake to return
  The Bachelorette 6 won't included a surprise appearance by newly single Jake Pavelka to try to win back Ali Fedotowsky, because she says she wants...
• Vienna denies cheating, Jake is silent
  Vienna Girardi took to Twitter to defend herself against TMZ's allegations that she was cheating with Greek actor Gregory Michael, prompting her break-up with Jake...
• Glee reality show cancelled, report says
  The Glee reality show that would have found new cast members to join the Fox show next season has been cancelled. New York Magazine reports...
• Some Japanese theaters will show The Cove after all
  Despite threats and protests, some theaters will show the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove after all. But not many. While protests succeeded in "pressuring three theaters...
• Phil Keoghan will host, produce another race reality competition
  Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan is trying again with a non-TAR reality series: He'll produce and host a series about the 30,000-mile Velux 5 Oceans...

Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010

• Big Brother 2's Monica Bailey has a cameo in Steven Daigle's latest porno
  Big Brother 2's Monica Bailey has a cameo in a the latest gay porn film to star Big Brother 10's Steven Daigle, who began his...
• Vienna says Jake is a celibate media whore, his friend says she's a cheater
  Usually Bachelor break-ups are relatively quiet affairs, often because no one cares about the couple any more, but Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi aren't going...
• Jersey Shore guys illustrate Village Voice's "queer issue"
  Three of the Jersey Shore men are shirtless on the cover of the Village Voice this week, and that's notable because it's the magazine's...

Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010

• Danielle Staub flirts with lesbianism
  Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Danielle Staub has found a new way to get attention (other than her sex tape and the whole...
• Like Hopkins, ABC's Boston Med is a real-life reality series following doctors
  Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, ABC debuts another documentary reality series set in a hospital, kind of like a real-life Grey's Anatomy, except not stupid....
• John Parot's Time Machine cover from Work of Art ruined by Bravo branding
  I'm in love with Work of Art, Bravo's latest competition series from Magical Elves, who gave us the now-lame Project Runway. I'm still unsure what...
• Cyndi Lauper getting her own reality series
  Celebrity Apprentice 3 contestant and hilarious break-out star Cyndi Lauper will get her own docudrama-style reality series produced by Mark Burnett. The New York Daily...
• Jersey Shore cast reenacts Twilight
  After reenacting scenes from Oscar-nominated films such as Hurt Locker and Avatar, the cast of Jersey Shore has taken on an even bigger film: Twilight....
• Jake didn't try to punch Vienna during reunion, producers say
  Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi reunited Wednesday for a segment that will air during The Bachelorette July 5. (Apparently, producers have found a way to...

Friday, Jun. 25, 2010

• Eva Longoria-Parker's fame-seeking restaurant staff will be the subject of a VH1 reality show
  Cameras for a VH1 reality series are following fame-seeking wait staff at Eva Longoria-Parker's Hollywood restaurant Beso. Beso: Waiting to be Famous, which she's producing,...
• Real Housewives of New York ends its season after four bonus hours of craziness
  Last night, Bravo aired the fourth and final post-season special on The Real Housewives of New York City. In other words, 22 percent of this...
• Biggest Loser contestant says producers, show "gave me a really fun eating disorder"
  Biggest Loser 3 runner-up Kai Hibbard lost 118 pounds on the show, but has become its most vocal critic. She was previously cited by the...
• Next week: Real World returns, Kathy Griffin meets Levi Johnston, and Wipeout goes World Cup
  Along with me, past forward took a vacation last week, too, but now we're back. We're both feeling very refreshed after unplugging, hiking, kayaking, having...

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