reality blurred + archives + July 24 to July 30, 2011

week of July 24, 2011

Big Brother lost 1 million viewers since the premiere; Expedition Impossible lost 2.4m
Big Brother 13 started strong, with ratings that were higher than last summer's debut, but while the show continues to win its timeslot during the...
HBO's Hard Knocks won't air this year because of NFL lockout
Hard Knocks, the HBO reality series that follows a football team's pre-season training, won't be filmed this year because of the NFL lockout. The network...

Hope fades for something to happen on Big Brother besides Brenchel fighting
I was very, very close to deleting Sunday's episode of Big Brother mid-episode, as the editors cut between Brendon doing his underbite pout and having...
Whale Wars will spin-off series following Sea Shepherd's new Faroe Islands campaign
Animal Planet announced today that Whale Wars will spin-off a companion series that follows Sea Shepherd's efforts to stop pilot whale slaughter in the Danish...

Same Name product placement on Big Brother fails
CBS' new reality series Same Name lost a large part of Big Brother's audience, despite the fact that promoting the new series took up a...
Snooki won't be on Dancing with the Stars, which is trying to get actual stars
For its 13th season, Dancing with the Stars is doing something incredible: searching for actual stars. Its cast is often filled with reality stars and...
Jeff Probst: Survivor returnee was cast because of Twitter, which has "a direct impact"
Jeff Probst said today that Survivor South Pacific's casting twist happened because of a poll on Twitter, and that seems to be a reference to...

Shocking and ridiculous things Jeff Probst said about Survivor and Twitter
Yesterday, a panel of CBS Television Studios-affiliated people talked to some TV critics about how they're using Twitter. That included Survivor host Jeff Probst, who...
CBS reality stars join mud run to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer
Cast members from Survivor, The Amazing Race, and Big Brother will run in a mud run 5K that's open to the public and will benefit...
Project Runway brings back fan favorite, but with voting on Twitter
Lifetime is resurrecting the Project Runway fan favorite vote, and votes will be cast via Twitter. The winner will receive $10,000. Mashable reports that "the...

Having rebounded last fall, Project Runway returns for its ninth season
Tonight, Project Runway returns for its ninth season, its fourth on Lifetime. And it will be the second season since the show rebounded last season...
In praise of SYTYCD's surprisingly awesome celebrity guest judges
This season, So You Think You Can Dance brought back judge Mary Murphy to sit on the panel along with executive producer Nigel Lythgoe and...

Amazing Race stars will cameo on HBO's Englightened
Two-time Amazing Race star Mike White was the latest two-time cast member from the CBS series to appear in front of TV critics and pitch...
Hoarders uses Kathy Griffin's praise to encourage Emmy voters to vote for it, not her
A hilarious ad urging Emmy voters to cast their ballots for A&E's Hoarders uses Kathy Griffin's praise for the show as its evidence that the...