For its third season, Bravo’s Top Chef Masters is dropping its format and modeling itself after its parent. And besides firing host Kelly Choi and replacing her with Curtis Stone, the show is dropping all its judges (Gael Greene, Jay Rayner, and Gail Simmons) except one, James Oseland, and replacing the others with food critic …
Jeopardy! had a “reality of TV” category last night as part of the Teen Tournament, and its answers included Survivor and The Amazing Race. TAR 16 winner Jordan Pious tweeted, “My brother and I were a clue on Jeopardy tonight! This is crazy!” The clue, he wrote, was “In 2010 Siblings Dan & Jordan hit …
The Oprah Winfrey Network’s first competitive reality series, Your OWN Show, ended its low-rated first (and thus probably last) season on Friday night with predictable ending: Oprah refused to pick between the two finalists, Zach Anner and Kristina Kuzmic-Crocco. She didn’t even fake out one of them, she just said, “The truth is that both …
MTV reality show star and kids’ book author Abram Boise appeared before a judge yesterday after his defacing his jail cell with feces, and he ended up being charged only with that, not for indecent exposure after peeing in public. His blood alcohol level was .208. Abram “was released on $300 bail yesterday after his …
The Reality Rocks expo, which is billing itself as “the ultimate reality TV fan experience,” has announced its confirmed stars, and the list stretches the definition of reality TV. The people worthy of being mentioned in the subhead are, and I quote, “Nick Cannon, DeAnna Pappas, Audrina Patridge, Eric Roberts, Karina Smirnoff, Daytime TV’s Top …
Dancing with the Stars 12 announced its cast last night during another fake press conference, and it’s far less star-heavy than last season’s relatively impressive cast; there are also only 11 compared to 12 last season. The cast members with name recognition are Kirstie Alley, Ralph Macchio, Romeo, Sugar Ray Leonard, Chris Jericho, Wendy Williams, …
The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan is from New Zealand, and grew up near Christchurch, the city hit hard by an earthquake one week ago. More than 150 people died, and that earthquake followed another large one last fall. Phil returned to Christchurch after the earthquake and produced this report for CBS’ Early Show (which …