Vern quits Trading Spaces for NBC show; Doug staying for three more years. Vern Yip is quitting his gig as a Trading Spaces designer. He’s taking his leather jacket and anal retentiveness from TLC to NBC, where he’ll host Design Intervention. On the new show, he tells the Baton Rouge Advocate, “We’re going to transform …
Mad Mad House concludes tonight. SciFi’s Mad Mad House concludes with a two-hour finale tonight at 9 p.m. ET. One of the three remaining guests–Nichole, Jamie, or Eric–will receive $100,000 for being the most tolerant of the Alts’ lifestyles. When the show debuted in March, 1.57 million people watched, which was “more than double the …
Real World Philly causes bus stop elimination; crew practices with stand-ins. The number 48 bus in Philadelphia no longer stops in front of the Seamen’s Church Institute, where the cast of The Real World Philadelphia will soon be living. The schedule change happens Saturday, which, as the Philadelphia Daily News reports, “led to speculation that …
Jenny won’t be friends with Jesse if he picks Trish; his Giants future is in the air. Jesse Palmer sent his spy, Jenny, home on last week’s episode of The Bachelor 5. Not that he was taking her advice anyway: Gold-digging demon spawn Trish remains as one of the final six women. Jenny says, “Trish …
Alicia hates Rob more than Kimmi. Her fight with Kimmi in the Outback (watch the video), in which she waved her finger in Kimmi’s face, made her famous, so it’s hard to imagine Alicia Calaway more pissed off at anyone than Kimmi. But after being booted off Survivor All-Stars, she now says there’s someone she …
Paris Hilton’s mother will coach women on socialite life for NBC’s The Good Life. Okay, this has to stop; the center cannot hold. Besides poaching each other’s show concepts left and right, networks are increasingly spawning shows from within existing shows, or creating shows with existing or related cast members. If this inbreeding continues, ABC …
intern Drew was hired at NBC’s request, says he’ll gladly “be a dick” for publicity. The much-heralded Drew the Intern made his (final?) appearance on The Restaurant last night, in an episode that featured more re-dubbed (re-written?) lines than scenes featuring him. First, he was an ass to the staff and served alcohol even though …