reality blurred + archives + April 3 to April 9, 2011

week of April 3, 2011

Spring 2011 reality TV debut schedule
Since it's April, it's probably time for the spring reality TV show debut schedule. Like March, April is packed with debuts, particularly on cable, while...

WWE's Tough Enough reborn on USA tonight
Few reality shows get a chance at a second life, but tonight, more than six years after the WWE's wrestling competition series Tough Enough was...
Apprentice teams raise record $1.6 million after Gary Busey, Meat Loaf's "confrontation of death"
Another week, another ridiculously freakin' awesome episode of Celebrity Apprentice, from Richard Hatch floating the possibility that Jose Canseco pretended his father was dying of...
Chopped All-Stars ends strong, but why did Food Network give nothing to losing charities?
Chopped ended its five-episode all-star season last night, and although the winner received $50,000 for charity, the losers all got nothing--a really disappointing coda to...
Fashion Star: a new Magical Elves-produced fashion competition on NBC
NBC has ordered a new fashion competition reality series produced by Project Runway's original creators, Magical Elves, on which designers will compete for a chance...
Relax: Snooki only made about $9,180 an hour to speak at Rutgers
Jersey Shore cast member Nicole Polizzi's managers have leapt to her defense about her $32,000 payday for speaking at Rutgers last week, which has resulted...

Danielle Staub, Jake Pavelka, Heidi Montag filming a reality show together (really)
Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Danielle Staub, Bachelor jerk Jake Pavelka, and The Hills villain Heidi Montag are filming a new reality show,...
Celebrity Apprentice remixed: Meat Loaf plus Looney Tunes
It's difficult to imagine Meat Loaf's freak-out on The Celebrity Apprentice getting any more entertaining. It's definitely an instant reality TV classic. Jimmy Kimmel Live...
Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy's fall: not as dramatic as everyone's making it seem
I've stopped watching Dancing with the Stars because I have better ways to waste three hours a week, but last night's episode featured one of...
Kendra "freaked out" dancing in smoke cloud she didn't want
Besides Maksim and Kirstie's fall, there was another mishap on Dancing with the Stars, and it involved Kendra Wilkinson and the show's incredible special effects--specifically,...

Colby Donaldson: bad-ass host of Top Shot
Season three of Top Shot started filming this past weekend, and will debut later this summer: good news, because the History Channel competition series' second...

Matt rejoins Survivor, and his stupidity sends him back to Redemption Island. Oh, God!
The merge has arrived on Survivor Redemption Island, and with it, the show kicked back into high gear. After winning six consecutive challenges, Matt re-entered...
Karina Smirnoff will appear in Playboy, freaking out someone at Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff, who's currently paired with Ralph Macchio, will appear naked in the May issue of Playboy, which will be...
Real Housewives of DC officially cancelled, the first Housewives series to die
While Bravo is finished creating new versions of its Real Housewives franchise, the network has, for the first time, cancelled one of the seven versions....

Reality Rocks convention in L.A. this weekend: will 15,000 people attend?
This Saturday and Sunday is the debut of Reality Rocks, a convention that bills itself as "the ultimate reality TV fan experience." It will hold...
Front-runner Pia's shocking! elimination: probably the American Idol judges' fault
Perceived front-runner Pia Toscano was voted off American Idol 10 last night instead of Stefano Langone, shocking the studio audience, viewers at home, and the...