Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has a new reality series focusing on failure, and it debuted today on Yahoo! The first episode, which is basically an introduction to the concept, is now online, and in it, he says that a group of seven people are “going to help each other go after the things we’ve always …
CBS has renewed Survivor for the 2012-2013 year, and confirmed that Jeff Probst will stay on as host despite his new job as a daytime talk show host. In a press release, the network noted that it is the second-most popular reality show among viewers 18 to 49, and also announced that next spring’s season, …
In a super-coincidental, convenient bit of timing, Survivor was once again delivered a double-elimination episode, borrowing from its bastard sibling Big Brother as it got rid of the final two members of the minority alliance and sent us into the two week break ready for the season’s dominant alliance/tribe to turn on itself. Even Jeff …
TLC announced yesterday that it had ordered a 13-episode series following Southwest Airlines employees and passengers–exactly like an A&E series did back in 2004 and 2005. The show is even produced by the same company. The new series will be filmed starting this weekend at Baltimore/Washington Airport and Denver International Airport, and include other airports, …
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak is getting her own spin-off series on Bravo called Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding, which will follow the lead-up to her marriage to Kroy Biermann. Unlike Bethenny Frankel’s Bethenny Ever After, Kim’s series will only be a half-hour show, and it will “follow the adventures of …
Some of the women who will date Ben Flajnik on The Bachelor 16 have been identified, and that includes the elderly woman on crutches who appears in an ABC promo. That the women are being identified isn’t a surprise, since they were filmed in public earlier this fall, leading the production to threaten a newspaper …
Two new competition series will bring back people from other reality shows to compete: one pits couponers against one another, while lets D-list stars cook. In late December, TLC will debut Extreme Couponing All-Stars, on which 12 hoarders–I mean, couponers–will compete against each other. The challenge, TLC said in a press release, is to “buy …