This fall, one venerable reality series is missing from the prime-time TV schedule: The Amazing race, which doesn’t return until mid-season. But if you’re desperate for a fix, students at Ithaca College have produced two seasons of a TV show called The Race that was inspired by the CBS series and is an excellent substitute. …
The leaves may not be changing colors yet, and it’s certainly not getting any cooler, but the fall television season is almost upon us, even as summer reality shows end their runs. Some are new (on cable), some are old (on broadcast networks), and a few kicked off over the past month and continue into …
There hasn’t been much new news about CBS’ upcoming reality series Kid Nation and the quasi-controversy surrounding its production, but media organizations are tripping over each other to create ever-more sensational headlines and find new angles on the exact same story. Topping bleach drinking as a headline is tough, but between new investigations and interviews …
Former Benefactor star and Donald Trump sparring partner Mark Cuban will join Dancing with the Stars 5, Sports Illustrated reports. The magazine’s site cites simply “a source.” Meanwhile, TMZ has published a pageview-generating slideshow of the cast, a list its anonymous writers say they have “uncovered” in their pretend journalism sort of way. Three of …
Big Brother 8 executive producer, who now runs the show by herself, has revealed in a candid interview with Entertainment Weekly that she and the show’s other producers are basically making things up as they go along. For example, she said that Jen’s penalty vote punishment was made up just for this situation. “We always …
Hogan Knows Best star Nick Bollea, Hulk Hogan’s son, was “seriously injured in a car crash Sunday evening in Clearwater,” Fla., the St. Petersburg Times reports. Nick was driving when his car hit the median and eventually slammed into a tree; his passenger “was reported in critical condition,” and Nick “was less seriously injured than …
With Jen Johnson evicted from the Big Brother 8 house, the other houseguests apparently had little to do, with their frequent target absent from their lives. Thus, we got another relatively boring Sunday night episode during which Jameka and Amber praised God repeatedly, Eric and Jessica flirted, Daniele got irritated with her dad, and the …
FOX’s fall talent search The Next Great American Band has announced its host and judges, and two of them are associated with versions of FOX’s other talent show. The three judges are John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls, musician Sheila E., and Australian Idol judge Ian “Dicko” Dickson. The show will be hosted by …
Tonight, MTV debuts Life of Ryan at 10:30 p.m. ET. It’s a new docudrama series that follows 17-year-old skateboarder Ryan Sheckler, who MTV says “is the youngest person to ever turn professional in the world of skateboarding” but is “just looking for the right girl and wants to spend time with his buddies,” who apparently …
American Idol 6 runner-up Blake Lewis has signed with Arista Records, and “[h]is debut album is slated for release later this year,” the AP reports. Blake recently told Billboard that the album will be “your favorite ’80s mix tape, very inspired by Michael Jackson, Prince, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, the Cure. It’s all over …
This winter, the UK’s Channel 4 will not air a season of Celebrity Big Brother, as the show has been cancelled by the network. That’s the same upcoming season of the show that may have featured Paris Hilton. The show could return in 2009, as “[a] decision about a return for the reality show in …
Sean “Diddy” Combs has again left a season of Making the Band with a cliffhanger. The fourth season was to conclude last Monday night with the selection of an all-male group; instead, Diddy walked out. The season will apparently conclude Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET. MTV’s recap of Monday’s eighth episode explains: “Diddy eventually …
Following a parent’s complaint and allegations of labor law violations, CBS’ Kid Nation is being investigated by authorities, even though the show finished taping on May 10. Yesterday, “the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office confirmed it was launching an investigation into whether state laws were broken during the production, and child activists called for individual …
The big news about Jen Johnson’s eviction from the Big Brother 8 house is what didn’t happen. She didn’t ignore Julie Chen or refuse to go to sequester; she didn’t have any kind of meltdown after her week-long meltdown in the house. That meltdown was actually shown on Thursday’s episode, although Julie Chen treated it …
FOX has cancelled Anchorwoman, the relatively intriguing if gimmicky look at local news that debuted last night. It was watched by 2.7 million viewers, which Variety reports “is less than half the number put up in the time period by unscripted fare on CBS and NBC, and about one-third what Fox was generating a week …
