Real Housewives of New York City star and countess LuAnn de Lesseps has broken up with her husband of 16 years, Count de Lesseps, the man who made her countess title possible. “It is obviously a very difficult time for the countess and count, but they plan to remain friends and their primary focus will …
Last week’s performance episode of American Idol 8 was marked by more than just impressive and impressively mangled versions of Motown songs. While Allison was being judged by Kara, Simon Cowell drew on Paula Abdul’s face with a crayon, which he had because Paula gave him crayons–a Crayola 64 box–and two coloring books to illustrate …
MTV is sticking with what it knows, ordering four more seasons of The Real World and four more seasons of the competition spin-off Challenge series. At the end of that run, there will be 26 seasons of The Real World and 21 seasons of the Challenge, never mind 14 seasons of the now-cancelled Road Rules. …
The Osbournes debuted on MTV just over seven years ago and forever altered the reality TV landscape by showing a celebrity family’s daily life. And just about four years ago, it was finally cancelled after four seasons, and after the family’s antics became a little too forced. Tonight, Ozzy, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly return to …
Tonight, PBS Independent Lens debuts a documentary, Recycle, which has a simple name that defies the complexity of its subject: it tells the story of a Jordanian man who’s an ex-Mujahideen fighter and bodyguard who now supports his 10-person family by collecting cardboard in Zarqa, where al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born. …
Networks have made several announcements recently about new and returning reality shows: Fox is returning to the dating reality show genre, but as always with Fox dating show, there’s a twist. The network that previous brought us dating little people and even ski mask-wearing daters will air More to Love, on which “a single average …
The Celebrity Apprentice, which is now airing its second season, is easily the best celebrity reality show on the air because its format and tasks allow us to really see celebrities for who they really are. That they tend to be even more type-A than the contestants in the non-celebrity version makes the show work, …