America’s Next Top Model will air its first-ever all-star season this fall. It will be the show’s 17th season, and the network has also renewed the show for its 18th season. The CW has yet to announce who will appear, but said in a press release that it will be “featuring the models who became …
NBC’s The Voice had a good debut creatively, and viewers showed up. While Dancing with the Stars‘ results show had more viewers, The Voice had extremely strong ratings among viewers 18 to 49, the only people who matter. The show had a 5.1 rating, which “delivered the highest 18-49 rating for a series premiere on …
The swivel chairs made their first appearance last night on NBC’s hyped singing competition The Voice, and from the coaches to the contestants’ talent, the show worked in surprising ways. As some delicious icing, it took a big swing at American Idol when Frenchie Davis auditioned, explaining how the Fox show ditched her because she …
Kara DioGuardi’s memoir A Helluva High Note: Surviving Life, Love, and American Idol was released today, and in it she describes everything from being “rejected and disrespected publicly” to “the depths of humiliation” of being on American Idol for two seasons. This is the book she told TV critics to wait for when they asked …
Tonight, NBC debuts yet another singing talent competition. But instead of mimicing American Idol, like so many others before it, The Voice is more like The X Factor, Simon Cowell’s series that will debut this fall, with musicians mentoring contestants instead of judges criticizing them. The show’s previews are trying hard to differentiate it from …
With this weekend’s rebroadcast of An American Family, it’s a good time to rediscover more of reality TV’s roots. While the PBS documentary series laid the groundwork, MTV and Bunim-Murray’s The Real World is the show that changed everything 20 years later, and gave us everything from confessional interviews to the creation of an artificial …
American Idol 3 finalist and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson appeared on OWN’s Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, the fascinating and entertaining series that follows Oprah’s producers as they assemble the show. But Jennifer’s appearance wasn’t all that happy. That’s because Jennifer rehearsed, and then, without telling producers, left Chicago and flew to Dallas for …