The Mole host–and CNN host, talk show host, and 60 Minutes contributor–Anderson Cooper has come out as gay. This isn’t a surprise, since this has been not just rumored but reported as fact for years, and he’s even vaguely joked about it with Ryan Seacrest. It’s mostly newsworthy only because he’s refused to discuss his …
TNT’s summer competition reality show The Great Escape was one I was really looking forward to. Teams of two attempting to escape from things, produced by The Amazing Race‘s Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s companies Alas. To paraphrase what I wrote on Twitter last night, it’s like encountering …
Like last year, CBS’ advertisements for Emmy consideration in Emmy Magazine included a DVD containing “for your consideration” episodes of its two marquee reality series, Survivor (which the ad said had “a triumphant year”) and The Amazing Race (“a milestone year”). CBS is submitting Survivor South Pacific‘s eight episode, “Double Agent,” during which tribes merged …