Posts from: July 2011

This is the Big Brother contract, which cast members sign during casting. It details things like houseguests’ pay and prohibited behavior.

One of the greatest mysteries of America’s Next Great Restaurant is exactly how much money the show’s four judges actually invested in the restaurant, Soul Daddy, which just closed its final location after just two months. If Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone, and Lorena Garcia all invested the same amount of money as Chipotle founder Steve …

A finalist for Big Brother explains how the casting process works. Plus: Read the rules and other documents potential houseguests are given.

So You Think You Can Dance season two finalist Travis Wall, who’s now a choreographer for the show, and season one winner Nick Lazzarini will star in a new reality series following a group of choreographers who have been friends since they were kids. Produced by World of Wonder, King of Dance will follow them …

This Fourth of July weekend, if you decide to stay inside and avoid crowds, sunburn, and heat, there’s plenty of television to keep you occupied. Although new shows are mostly skipping new episodes, there are a lot of reality shows that are being repeated, from an entire day of Hoarders on Monday to an entire …

Will Kirby, the winner of Big Brother 2, has posted a message saying he will not appear on the 13th season of the show this summer as one of its three returning duos of past houseguests. He is listed on CBS.com as one of six possible returning couples, but executive Alison Grodner, who has promised …

Among the 16 new cast members who will be on Survivor South Pacific with returning players Ben “Coach” Wade and Ozzy Lusth is someone with a very familiar last name: Brandon Hantz, three-time loser Russell Hantz’s nephew. Brandon, who’s 20 and married and works at his uncle’s company (Hantz Tankering Service), was identified as a …