reality blurred + archives + March 20 to March 26, 2011

week of March 20, 2011

This week: Jersey Shore ends, Survivor luxury item creates drama, Top Chef's Marcel caters
It's a busy reality TV week ahead: Dancing with the Stars kicks off and takes over ABC two nights a week, while Jersey Shore comes...
Colossal screw-up erased by Amazing Race, but U-turn and express pass twists fizzle
This season of The Amazing Race should have been called Incompetent Whiners, because there's sure a lot of both this season. Calling this season all-stars...
Surreal Celebrity Apprentice moment of the week: Marlee Matlin helps Gary Busey hear
Minute for minute, The Celebrity Apprentice is the greatest reality show on broadcast TV right now. Survivor has its strong moments and episodes, sure, but...
Josh Flagg is gay, coming out on Million Dollar Listing Tuesday
For the second time in two seasons, a cast member on Bravo's docudrama Million Dollar Listing is coming out as gay. But while Madison Hildebrand...

Pawn Stars cast member arrested after bar fight, attacking cop
Another reality show cast member has been arrested after an apparent drunken fight, although this one is not an MTV star. Corey Harrison, 27, who's...
Ellen DeGeneres' anti-2-hour reality show PSA ignores American Idol, the biggest offender
On her talk show today, Ellen DeGeneres kicked off a fake campaign against "something that's plaguing our great nation: reality shows that are two hours...
Survivor productions have trashed Panama, but US production praised for keeping it clean
International Survivor productions have left the Pearl Islands trashed, although the US producers, Mark Burnett and his Survivor Entertainment Group, has been praised for their...
Dancing with the Stars' ridiculously boring premiere down 20 percent from last spring
Dancing with the Stars two-hour premiere last night was so boring just thinking about how to summarize it for this sentence makes me sleepy. Waiting...

American Idol finalist and drunk driver victim Stefano Langone was arrested for DUI last year
American Idol finalist Stefano Langone nearly died after being hit by a drunk driver in 2009, but last year, he was arrested for DUI himself....
Brad, Emily still together, but if they split, ABC could give Brad a third season, report says
After the troubling Bachelor reunion, on which Brad Womack and Emily Maynard revealed that they'd broken up and were struggling with their relationship, and a...
Real World's ratings lead MTV to renew it for seasons 27 and 28
After its 25th season, The Real World won't disappear like evidence of a gay porn star cast member's gay sex, because MTV has renewed it...

Higher powers pick a Survivor challenge winner as we get more bad strategy, bad spelling
While Survivor Redemption Island has given us a new component to the game, it has taken one thing away. Because we now see the person...

Casey Abrams saved by judges during American Idol's best results show ever
The American Idol judges used their save on Casey Abrams, which means two finalists will go home next week but all 11 remaining contestants will...
Probst says long Survivor title sequence won't return; his tweeting needs more insight like that
Minute-long title sequences are a thing of the past on Survivor, host Jeff Probst revealed. "We are using very short main titles this season -...