Lauren Conrad’s Laguna Beach spin-off The Hills has been renewed. Unlike her Laguna Beach colleague Kristin Cavallari’s post-MTV career, which ended in quick cancellation, Lauren’s spin-off has been well-received. The series “has averaged more than 2 million viewers in the network’s 12-34 demo,” Broadcasting and Cable reports, underneath the easy Sound of Music joke headline …
Earlier, I identified the Big Brother 7 “slop” food as oatmeal. Instead, it’s “a just-add-water, nutritionally fortified porridge mix,” according to TV Week, which investigated the food. I was wrong, and I regret the error and the implication that producers just chose oatmeal instead of something so much more complex and fascinating. The houseguests are …
American Idol 3 winner Fantasia Barrino was asked to quit the show by producers, according to the biopic film she starred in for Lifetime. Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale, which stars Fantasia as herself, debuts in August on Lifetime, and is based upon Fantasia’s book of the same name. According to The New …
Bravo has not yet renewed Kathy Griffin’s series My Life on the D-List, and that could lead to the series moving to VH1. Despite the show’s Emmy nomination, Kathy told Page Six, “I don’t know why” it hasn’t been renewed for a third season. Before the show was renewed for a second season, Bravo had …
Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, ABC debuts a new six-episode docu-soap from Real World producers Bunim-Murray. One Ocean View follows 11 New Yorkers in their 20s who shared a house on Fire Island earlier this summer. But what it’s really done is piss off a lot of people. ABC says the show is “the first …
Here’s one of the (many, I’m sad to say) things I dislike about Big Brother 7: the cast members, as alumni of the show, have a sense of entitlement and an inflated senses of their own importance. This works on MTV’s Challenge shows, but here, it’s just annoying, particularly since the producers have done absolutely …
A brick wall facade constructed outside The Real World Denver house may have been constructed illegally, and the city could force the show to remove it. A memo obtained by CBS 4 in Denver says, “The Lower Downtown Design Review Board has found that … ‘Real World’ is in violation of … design and demolition …
