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week of September 4, 2011

The Amazing Race is 10 today
CBS' third major reality series, The Amazing Race, debuted 10 years ago today, on a Wednesday, when 11 teams of two started racing from New...

Sept. 11 anniversary: a list of documentaries and specials airing this week
In the days (and even weeks) leading up to this Sunday's 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, there have been and will be broadcasts...
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills premiere: Someone's dead, let's move on!
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills debuted its second season last night, and what's eminently clear is that this series, while grounded in reality, relies...
Ben Flajnik will be The Bachelor 16's star, ABC confirms
Today, ABC confirmed reports from last month that The Bachelorette reject Ben Flajnik has been cast as the star of The Bachelor 16. The network...

Real World cast members had sex and hooked up on organic bedding, will clean up with natural products
The Real World San Diego's cast members had a more eco-friendly experience during the season that filmed this summer, having sex on organic cotton sheets...
Survivor miracles: no puzzle on the first challenge, Probst confesses Tribal is about him
Survivor South Pacific might seem nearly identical to last season on paper--returning players, a Hantz, Redemption Island, Samoa--but there's a significant and long-overdue change: the...

Only a one in four chance that America's Got Talent will end with a mediocre singer winning
America's Got Talent revealed its top four last night, and the show could be on the verge of ending its streak of selecting mediocre singers...
So close to the end of Big Brother, yet so far from a satisfying end
So. Close. To. The. End. of Big Brother 13. I cannot wait to purge my brain of this season, especially because there's no longer any...
Hard Knocks airs a behind-the-scenes special that highlights how great the series is
HBO's Hard Knocks was cancelled this year, but in its place HBO is airing Hard Knocks: A Decade of NFL Training Camps. The 90-minute special...
Tattooing competition Best Ink will be hosted by American Idol star
This winter, Oxygen will air a competitions series featuring tattoo artists called Best Ink; it's produced by Bunim-Murray Productions, which took over Project Runway after...
Jeff Schroeder's bizarre defense of his anti-gay rant on Big Brother
In an exit interview published at the end of August that I completely missed, Jeff Schroeder offered a defense of his Harry Potter-inspired homophobic rant,...

Jordan's out, Rachel wins Big Brother--oh wait, that's next week
Jordan Lloyd was voted out of Big Brother 13 last night by veto holder Porsche, who had 100 percent of the power this week, which...
Clay Aiken on Celebrity Apprentice seems likely
American Idol alum Clay Aiken is filming a network television show this fall, and he most likely is joining the fifth season of NBC's Celebrity...