future show announcements The Bachelor, and maybe The Bachelorette, will return for at least two more seasons. Blue 13 Productions is casting for The Big Shot, which “pits over-achievers from a variety of backgrounds into an unusual and challenging real-world environment that will test their abilities to succeed at any cost.” $2 million in prizes …
Paris Hilton invades Australia, where she may join the cast of Big Brother. Having sufficiently conquered the United States, Paris has moved on to Australia. After The Simple Life 2 wrapped, she headed there, where she’s working on another movie (she’ll soon appear in Raising Helen). She’s filming a remake of House of Wax with …
Jon and Stacy win Trading Spaces Home Free with 70 percent of the vote. With 70 percent of the public’s vote, Jon and Stacy Laymon won Trading Spaces Home Free. Live from Orlando, Paige Davis first announced the twist: Each couple had the option of going for all or half of the $350,000 prize. Late …
Jennifer Hudson says God is to blame. The American Idol 3-watching country is still reeling from Jennifer Hudson’s dismissal, and both speculation and conspiracy theories abound as to why she received the lowest number of votes. Jennifer has the answer, though: It was God. “I feel like He spoke and when He’s got something to …
Simon Cowell creating The X Factor, a talent show for the young and old. The age limit that keeps Pop Idol and American Idol contestants fresher than a Pop Tart in its foil bag. Simon Cowell is creating The X Factor for ITV, a show that will “appeal to somebody over the age of 35 …
landlord says Ty took credit for home improvements he didn’t make. Ty Pennington, late of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and also known for his work on Trading Spaces, is a fraud, at least according to his former LA landlord. S. Scott Mayers tells the New York Observer that Ty is taking credit for changes …
reality TV Meetup to be held in May. The independent site that exists to let people with similar interests meet monthly in their communities has added gatherings for fans of reality TV. Meetup.com’s International Reality TV Meetup Day will take place next week on May 4, and on the first Tuesdays of subsequent months. There …
Trading Spaces Home Free ends Sun. The eight-week Trading Spaces Home Free concludes tonight with a two-hour live finale starting at 8 p.m. ET Sunday. Out of eight couples, viewers selected Angel and Vilma, and Jon and Stacy, as the final two couples; both live in Central Florida. For the final challenge, which reairs tongiht …
vote was the closest in Idol’s history; was it because of a power outage, racism? The shocking American Idol 3 vote that showed Jennifer Hudson the door was the closest vote in the show’s history, Reuters reports. So why was it so close and so shocking (to everyone except Jennifer)? Extra speculates “that storms in …
sex tape to be sold as “1 Night in Paris.” After dropping his defamation lawsuit against Paris Hilton and her parents, Paris’ sex video co-star Rick Salomon has sold the tape to an adult video company. “1 Night In Paris”–get it?–will be released on June 15 by Red Light District Video. The three people in …
Shii Ann wins immunity; Alicia walks. Shii Ann won immunity during last night’s Survivor All-Stars, thereby forcing, for the first time, the remaining Chapera tribe members to vote off one of their own. That person was Alicia, who vowed revenge from the jury because she thought she had a deal with Rob. Although she didn’t …
mother says Showbiz Moms and Dads “ripped us apart”; critics say it’s “riveting.” This week, The New Yorker reviews Bravo’s new series Showbiz Moms and Dads, finding that “when it comes to the way parents treat their children, judgments are impossible to avoid.” That judgment has left one of the parents feeling betrayed. Debbie Tye …
Trump will send Troy to college; FHM shoot was not “good judgment” for Amy. Larry King spent an hour Wednesday with the cast of The Apprentice, and during the show, Donald Trump offered Troy a free college education. He said, “I will only do this if I have the unanimous support of all of the …
American Idol “divas” end up as the bottom three; Jennifer Hudson goes home. Viewers didn’t call in to support any of American Idol 3‘s “divas”–Fantasia Barrino, La Toya London and Jennifer Hudson–as they ended up as the bottom three. Simon Cowell referred to their performances as “the battle of the divas.” Jennifer Hudson received the …
American Idol producer says judges don’t “[have] that much of an effect.” MTV.com points out that the judges on American Idol 3 have been relegated to repeating the same clichéd reactions over and over again, “whether it’s Jackson’s ‘yo, dawg’ lingo or Abdul’s clapping,” or Simon’s pseudo-insulting recycled insults. So at this point in the …
