American Idol has hired Ray Chew as its new band director, but is planning to hide him and the musicians, replacing them on the stage with audience members, because as we all know, American Idol‘s biggest problem was that it had too few coached audience members getting screen time. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that …
Some good news to start 2011: Discovery’s Man vs. Wild and Survivorman were credited with saving a 14-year-old’s life. He spent nine hours in -17 degree temperatures and stayed warm by constructing a snow cave, and says he used strategies he learned from Bear Grylls and Les Stroud. The teenager “stranded on an Oregon mountain …
Does it help or hurt an actor to go on a reality TV show? There’s varied evidence, from The Real World‘s Jamie Chung, who will be in the Hangover sequel, to Survivor‘s Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, who bragged about her contract with CBS but hasn’t apparently turned that into anything since her two appearances on the …
Is it possible that the Associated Press has no knowledge of Animal Planet’s outstanding reality series Whale Wars, which documents the Southern Ocean battles between Sea Shepherd conservationists and Japanese whalers? It certainly seems like that, because in a story about Sea Shepherd finding the whaling fleet–before they were able to start whaling–the AP’s Kristen …