reality blurred + archives + September 26 to October 2, 2010

week of September 26, 2010

This week: Amazing Race starts late, gets a new twist; The Bachelor announced
Now that fall TV is in full swing, the last few major reality shows debut on Sunday, some of which are more exciting than others....
Lauren Conrad gets a new MTV show
Former The Hills star Lauren Conrad is returning to MTV with her own unscripted series. The show will be "a documentary-style reality series for MTV...
Top Chef Seth's uncomfortable breakdown: "The Red Hots are for my mommy"
Two episodes in to its debut season, the Gail Simmons-hosted spin-off Top Chef: Just Desserts had its moment: A multi-part psychological breakdown of a contestant,...

Kitchen Nightmares chef/owner found dead
Campania owner Joseph Cerniglia, who appeared on an early episode of Fox's Kitchen Nightmares, was found dead on Friday. His body "was found floating in...
Watermelon hits wrong person in the face as Amazing Race 17 gets off to a decent start
The Amazing Race 17 got off to a good start last night, and I mean that literally and figuratively. That the race began somewhere other...
Survivor Redemption Island: season 22's big twist
Update: Survivor Redemption Island was confirmed by CBS on Dec. 19. Besides giving Russell Hantz and Rob Mariano a chance to redeem themselves and win...
Cheryl Cole, Nicole Scherzinger will judge Fox's X Factor, Piers Morgan says
Fox's debut of The X Factor next year will be judged by UK judges Cheryl Cole and Nicole Scherzinger, plus Simon Cowell. That's according to...

Sarah Palin booed on DWTS, but ABC insists boos were for the night's highest scores
Sarah Palin was booed when she showed up on Dancing with the Stars last night, but the show's producers and network are pretending the boos...
ABC promises Bachelor Brad Womack is now "healthier" and "really ready" after "intensive therapy"
The 15th star of The Bachelor is Brad Womack, the star of the show's 11th season and the first bachelor to reject all of the...
Australia's Top Model announces wrong winner during live results show
The winner of Australia's Next Top Model sixth cycle first thought she lost, after the host announced the wrong winner during the live finale last...
TLC's Sister Wives family being investigated for bigamy, admitted their relationship is illegal
The family featured in TLC's Big Love-like reality series Sister Wives is being investigated by police for bigamy. That's Kody Brown and his wives Meri,...
Sig Hansen, Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand quit Deadliest Catch
Northwestern captain Sig Hansen and Time Bandit captains Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand have all quit Deadliest Catch over the Discovery Channel's $3 million lawsuit against...

Dancing boo footage shows the judges thought they were being booed, but that's it
Dancing with the Stars tried to put an end to what's being annoyingly called "Boo-Gate" by showing footage of the apparently random audience boos from...
Michael Bolton thinks Bruno Tonioli "should be reprimanded" for saying how much he sucked
After Michael Bolton's jive dance on Dancing with the StarsMonday, which didn't look like a dance at all, judge Bruno Tonioli said the singer did...
Last Comic Standing judge Greg Giraldo died
Last Comic Standing 7 judge Greg Giraldo died today as a result of a drug overdose. His friend Jim Norton wrote on Twitter late this...
Rachel and Brendon still together, will appear on Bold and the Beautiful
Big Brother 12's showmance has turned into a real relationship, or at least, it hasn't crumbled yet, as Rachel Reilly and Brendon Villegas are still...
Brad Goreski quits Rachel Zoe, which means her Bravo show should now die
Brad Goreski, the weeping assistant who starred in Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project since the first season, is leaving the stylist's employment, and thus presumably...
Sig Hansen's brother suggests Northwestern captain may return to Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch lost its three biggest remaining stars last night when Sig Hansen, Johnathan Hillstrand, and Andy Hillstrand quit the show because the Discovery Channel...

Randy Jackson has Simon Cowell's spot at the American Idol judges' table
The last original American Idol judge, Randy Jackson, has taken Simon Cowell's spot at the right side of the judges' table, and will comment last....
Jimmy Johnson's time coaching the Survivor fogies ends
Survivor Nicaragua lost its most famous pre-game contestant ever as Jimmy Johnson was voted out of the tribe unanimously after just nine days. At Tribal...
Apprentice's Mahsa quit job in Brooklyn's DA office after her notoriety forced a job change
The Apprentice 7's Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy resigned Monday from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office two weeks after being demoted over her celebrity. She's the abrasive contestant...
New CW series The Frame is basically Solitary with Big Brother, Amazing Race components
The CW is planning a new reality competition called The Frame that is basically the now-dead Fox Reality Channel's show Solitary with elements of Big...
Oxygen enables Paris Hilton by giving her yet another reality show
Once upon a time, a reality show with Paris Hilton and her friend Nicole Richie, The Simple Life, was amusing and entertaining. Then it got...

On strong Apprentice, project manager actually pulls obnoxious teammate off a task
The Apprentice's ratings are insanely low--3.836 million viewers last week--but this has been a pretty great season, especially because of the cast. And that continued...
Tony Danza's A&E series Teach is the opposite of the joke we expected it would be
When I first heard about A&E's plan to air a reality series starring Who's the Boss star and The Contender 4 host Tony Danza that...