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  • SyFy orders Big Brother-like show that divides the house in half

  • A pre-merge failure for Survivor’s losing tribe

  • Omarosa vs. Bethenny: Bethenny loses $10K, makes another unsympathetic reality star look good

  • Guy Fieri’s horrifying SUV fight dismissed as “messing around”

  • Reality TV’s first zombie: Criss Angel reanimates a corpse

  • The real reason Laney left Face Off: guilt

  • The day has arrived when it’s a sad thing for Snooki to be leaving a TV show

  • Tim Gunn to Project Runway cast accusing the show of being rigged: “bullshit!”

  • One celebrity says he’s been cast but Apprentice is still in limbo

  • American Idol results shows cut to 30 minutes (again, for the third time)

  • Brad Culpepper defends himself: “I’m not misogynistic, I’m not sexist, I’m not racist”

  • The Rock, TNT dump The Hero for its “natural successor”: yet another motivational show

  • Best reality star revenge video ever: Amazing Race’s Joey Graceffa car towed

  • Blackfish airs on CNN tonight, exposes SeaWorld’s shameful behavior

  • Survivor tribe swap scratches open new wounds

  • Yes, we know Padma Lakshmi gains weight on Top Chef: enough already

  • The one thing Face Off needs to do next season: change everything

  • Fox’s new reality exec is former Discovery Channel exec Simon Andreae

  • Hotel Impossible has its Amy’s Baking episode: post-Sandy help yields death threats

  • Dancing with the Stars dumps all viewer votes because of on-air screw-up

  • Big Brother’s Aaryn: depressed, not racist, confronting bigotry, wants to travel, looking for a job in TV

  • Paula Abdul joins “reinvention” of SYTYCD in Australia

  • Queer Eye needs to return, and other things we learned from the Fab Five’s reunion

  • A great Shark Tank: Survivor’s appearance plus shark fight over royalties

  • One of four brothers who got a Shark Tank investment died earlier this year

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