Viewers tuning in to the first episode of Big Brother After Dark in its new TVGN home last night discovered that the broadcast of select live feeds wasn’t uncensored, like it was when Showtime aired it. Instead, words–and sometimes entire phrases–were censored. That was not the cast for Canada’s broadcast of the show on Slice. …
Big Brother 15‘s debut and new twist attracted far fewer viewers than last summer, as only 6.51 million people watched the episode. It earned a 2.2 rating among viewers 18 to 49, compared to a 2.6 last summer, down 15 percent. Its all-time low was in the summer of 2008, a 2.1. In its timeslot, …
Those hoping Big Brother would change or evolve probably had their dreams crushed in the first few minutes, as Julie Chen twirled awkwardly in the house to find new camera angles and the cast pretended awkwardly to be surprised that they were cast and that cameras were there to capture that moment. At least we …
American Idol‘s 13th season has added two more executive producers: the producing team known as Den Of Thieves, Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager. Most recently, they produced Bravo’s short-lived Start-Ups: Silicon Valley. That’s great news for the Fox series. Den of Thieves was hired by 19 Entertainment, which co-produces Idol with FremantleMedia North America, which …
Starting with tonight’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance, Fox is offering a new “patent-pending” way to vote for contestants, casting multiple votes at the same time. SuperVote allows viewers to vote via the show’s web site, the FOX NOW app, and Facebook, on which they can allocate up to 20 votes even …
Update: The show’s executive producer Anthony Zuiker discusses this and gives behind-the-scenes details. The new ABC reality competition Whodunnit debuted last night and included the pretend murder of two contestants, one of whom wasn’t really a contestant at all. Some viewers were, at best, confused about whether or not the show was really killing people, …
Randy Jackson, Gordon Ramsay, Tom Bergeron, Phil Keoghan, Heidi Klum, and Padma Lakshmi had a completely fascinating hour-long discussion about reality TV with The Hollywood Reporter. The full video is below, but highlights include Top Chef‘s host calling its product placement “shit” and The Amazing Race‘s host dissing the family season. Highlights from their conversation: …