Nigel Lythgoe has announced several major rule changes for So You Think You Can Dance‘s seventh season, which will not have a top 20; eliminate just one person per week (typically, two went home), and have dancers changing partners weekly…. continue reading
Archives for March 2010
Heidi Montag will “now become a full time motion picture actress” and a screenwriter
With the news that MTV has cancelled/is ending The Hills, one of its stars has announced her post-fake life plans: Heidi Montag will become an actor. “I’m so excited The Hills is finally over and I can now become a… continue reading
TLC will air Sarah Palin’s Alaska; Palin will receive around $250,000 per episode
TLC has acquired the reality show that Sarah Palin and Mark Burnett had been shopping to networks. Currently titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska, it is described in a press release as “a new eight-part documentary series about the remarkable Governor Palin… continue reading
Real Housewives of DC will air this summer and star Michaele and Tareq Salahi
Tareq and Michaele Salahi will be featured on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of DC, which has finished production and will air this summer, according to a report, but not to Bravo, which after surveying people about the Salahis, is waiting… continue reading
Jeff and Jordan still dating, say, “We should have been off the show two weeks earlier”
For all of you Jeff and Jordan apologists who’ve rewritten your clock faces to have 25 quarter-hour segments, and who freaked out at my suggestion that they were the weakest team whose elimination from The Amazing Race was long overdue,… continue reading
Paula Abdul’s name floated again, this time to judge CBS’ new competition Got to Dance
Because prime-time network TV needs another live dance competition with a panel of judges, CBS will air its own version of the UK’s Got to Dance, and may recruit Paula Abdul to judge. The dance competition differs from So You… continue reading
The Hills will actually end after its sixth season
After threatening/promising to go away more than once, MTV’s The Hills will actually end its run after its sixth season airs starting April 27. “We are lucky and honored to have worked with this cast and tell their stories for… continue reading
Tyson votes himself out of Survivor and, worse, saves Russell
I was prepared to hate this episode of Survivor Heroes vs Villains, which had a challenge that wasn’t interesting to watch played three times in a row, followed by some relatively straightforward strategizing. At the double Tribal Council, I expected… continue reading
Paige Miles out, but American Idol 9 still sucks
And so the long, slow march to American Idol 9 being less awful has begun, as Paige Miles finally exited the show. There was no chance for her, and she seemed to have given up weeks ago. Before she sang… continue reading
Sanjaya Malakar ticketed for driving 110 mph
American Idol 6 finalist and I’m a Celebrity breakout star Sanjaya Malakar received a $411 speeding ticket for driving 110 miles per hour in I-405 in Kirkland, Washington, outside of Seattle. Seattle’s NBC affiliate reports that it was “50 mph… continue reading
Real World’s Puck badly injured in car accident; was arrested for suspicion of DUI
Update: Puck admits, tries to justify drinking two shots before crash Notorious Real World San Francisco star Puck, aka David Rainey, has been hospitalized following a car accident in which he flipped his car and landed upside-down in a creek…. continue reading
High Society’s Tinsley Mortimer: “People were never fed a line to say, ever”
The third episode of The CW’s High Society airs tonight, preceded by the network’s debut of Fly Girls, a docudrama that follows Virgin American flight attendants. Last week, 1.2 million people watched, falling from 1.39 million for its premiere. That… continue reading
Miley Cyrus a surprisingly good mentor to the final 11, four of whom should go home now
The good news: American Idol 9 is starting to show some signs of life, with a few great performances, a couple good ones, and a surprise. The bad news: We still have to wait a month until after Tim Urban,… continue reading
Teen sues ABC for $100 million, claiming Wife Swap was staged to embarrass her
Alicia Guastaferro, who appeared on ABC’s Wife Swap in 2008 and said things such as “I do feel sorry for people that are not gorgeous people,” is suing the show, claiming that it staged scenes to “maximize [Guastaferro’s] public embarrassment.”… continue reading
ABC’s Thin Ice special dropped audience’s vote because of “some sort of problem”
Friday and Sunday, ABC aired a two-episode special reality competition series called Thin Ice, and although it had a voting-related controversy, few people watched the pro skater competition. Canada’s Marie-France Dubreuil and U.S. champion Michael Weiss won, although Shizuka Arakawa… continue reading