One month ago tonight, I stayed up all night to launch reality blurred‘s new design and give the world the ability to comment. The control freak in me has been convinced that was the right choice thanks to a month’s worth of insightful, funny, and fantastically smart and astute comments, and included everything from an …
There have been a bunch of new show announcements recently, particularly from VH1, the network that is continuing to clone its culture-rotting dating series. Yes, VH1 will not stop with the madness that is its series of outrageous dating shows led by nutballs personalities. For example, Beauty and the Geek, Rock of Love, I Love …
Simon Cowell’s contract expires at the end of American Idol 9, so he’s now in the middle of contract negotiations, which is why he’s been threatening to leave the show for a while now. Stoking the flames and/or his value to the series is a report in The Guardian that “[a] source close to Fuller …
Fox’s first-ever prime-time rebroadcast of an American Idol episode drew an exceptionally low number of viewers, putting the show in fourth place–which would be shocking if this wasn’t a repeat airing in the middle of the summer. An average of 4.23 million people watched the two-hour episode featuring the season eight finalists performing Michael Jackson …
After being proposed to and then dumped on The Bachelor 13, and then being dumped by viewers on the Dancing with the Stars 8 finale, Melissa Rycroft is once again engaged. This time, it’s to her boyfriend Tye Strickland, who she’d dated before going on the show. Gossip magazines reported the engagement Monday, and minutes …
CBS’ neighborhood competition series Block Party has been renamed There Goes the Neighborhood, and for it, producers constructed 20-foot-tall walls around houses in Kennesaw, Georgia. In a brief press release, CBS describes the seven-episode series, which debuts Aug. 9 at 9 p.m. ET, as “the ultimate social and family bonding experiment” in which they are …
Pitchmen star and pitchman extraordinaire Billy Mays died of heart disease, according to a preliminary autopsy. He was found dead Sunday morning, and “[p]reliminary autopsy results … suggest he died of heart disease,” and “reveals no evidence of head trauma or drug abuse,” The St. Petersburg Times reported. Because Mays was involved in a hard …