reality blurred + archives + August 7 to August 13, 2011

week of August 7, 2011

Television critics give first-ever reality TV award to Amazing Race, also honor Restrepo
At the Television Critics Association awards last night, the first-ever award for outstanding achievement in reality programming went to CBS' The Amazing Race, adding...
Real World season one cast: where are they now?
Impossible as it is to believe, The Real World's first season aired 19 years ago. And while several of its cast members stayed in the...
Bob Forrest criticizes Celebrity Rehab, the show he created
Bob Forrest, the addiction counselor who's featured on VH1's Celebrity Rehab, has criticized the show, saying he regrets creating it. "If I had to do...

Project Runway all-stars cast, new judges, "most lucrative" prize ever announced
The returning designers who form the cast of Project Runway All-Stars have been announced, as have the new judges (Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman), mentor...
Vienna, Kasey criticize ABC, which may show them having sex on Bachelor Pad
The second season of The Bachelor Pad debuts tonight, and two of its cast members are The Bachelor's Vienna Girardi and The Bachelorette's Kasey Kahl,...

The story of baseball's first openly gay player airs tonight
A documentary about Major League Baseball's first openly gay player debuts Tuesday night at 10 p.m. ET on Versus, the network that will soon be...
Auditioners sue X Factor, claiming exhaustion from filming caused them to lose
An 86-year-old man, his 78-year-old wife, and 54-year-old son have sued Fox's The X Factor and Simon Cowell, claiming that he was eliminated from the...
Top Chef Texas adds two new judges
Bravo officially announced Top Chef Texas today, and for the show's ninth season, it is adding two new judges in addition to Tom Colicchio and...
Allison Grodner lists her 10 favorite Big Brother moments
Big Brother producer Allison Grodner has listed her top-10 moments from the 12 seasons she's produced. They include Dick and Jen's fight, Dick and Daniele...

Lifetime resurrects Supernanny, but with an American nanny this time
Lifetime plans to resurrect Supernanny, the ABC reality series that ended last season after Jo Frost quit the show. The cable network is now searching...
Take the Money and Run: a surprisingly smart show with echoes of The Mole
ABC's Take the Money and Run debuted last week, and is the first worthy successor to ABC's awesome early 2000s, Anderson Cooper-hosted series The Mole....