Amish in the City gives UPN its best Wed. ratings (5.4 million) since 2001. On Wednesday, 5.4 million people tuned in to watch two hours of Amish in the City on UPN. That’s “the network’s best Wednesday performance since November 2001,” Zap2it.com reports, and “more than double what UPN has averaged on Wednesday nights this …
American Candidate debuts on Sunday. Almost two and a half years after plans for a very different show on a different network were announced, American Candidate will debut Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime. Ten candidates with varying backgrounds in politics will compete for $200,000 and a speech in front of the country. The …
Idol 3 runner-up Diana Degarmo falls down a flight of stairs during a concert. Diana Degarmo, the American Idol 3 runner-up, fell down a flight of stairs during a concert Tuesday night. Her record label, RCA, has helpfully issued a spelling-challenged press release about her injury and subsequent appearance. According to it, she “fell down …
Britney’s fiancees’ ex wants a series; Sean Hayes show will search for the next sitcom. Two more well-known people are getting into the reality game. First, Will and Grace star Sean Hayes will produce a Project Greenlight-type series for Bravo. On Situation: Comedy, Hayes tells TV Guide that they will “shoot two sitcom pilots, and …
Apprentice 2 may have three-hour finale. The final episode of The Apprentice 2, featuring the live reveal of the winner, may air over three hours, Donald Trump said. In addition, the Daily News reports that “NBC and show executive producer Mark Burnett were considering moving the live finale to Radio City Music Hall or Lincoln …
UPN will break white dating show trend, sort of, with next week’s The Player. On Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, UPN will debut its first dating series, The Player. The network says the show “follows a stunning Miami model named Dawn and her two girlfriends for eight weeks as they pit 13 self-described ‘players’ against …
FOX will burn off remaining Casino eps. Mark Burnett’s The Casino won’t return for a second season, and now FOX is burning off the remaining episodes so that the whole series will conclude before the end of August. (At least it isn’t just disappearing from the planet, a la Forever Eden.) FOX’s release about the …