Next year, Syfy will air a real-time reality competition series that sounds very much like Big Brother, but with a twist: Opposite Worlds will divide the house with a glass wall, and the two sides will somehow represent the past… continue reading
Archives for October 2013
A pre-merge failure for Survivor’s losing tribe
I’ve been so conditioned by Survivor‘s editors to expect an introduction of a red herring that I was genuinely shocked by the vote last night. With the threat of Aras plus Vytas so well-established by both tribes, it seems shocking… continue reading
Omarosa vs. Bethenny: Bethenny loses $10K, makes another unsympathetic reality star look good
Omarosa took down Bethenny Frankel on Bethenny’s own talk show today, and their argument is pretty spectacular. “You made cupcakes. I worked in the White House. Get a grip,” Omarosa said at one point. Previously, awful talk show host Bethenny… continue reading
Guy Fieri’s horrifying SUV fight dismissed as “messing around”
Next Food Network Star winner, Guy vs. Rachael star, and Food Network personality Guy Fieri got in a horrifying fight Saturday with the person responsible for his hair. Cue the obvious jokes. The fight was filmed at the San Francisco… continue reading
Reality TV’s first zombie: Criss Angel reanimates a corpse
After six seasons of A&E’s Mindfreak, Criss Angel took a three-year break from TV, but returned this month with his new show Criss Angel BeLIEve on Spike. And while the show has included very interesting illusions and demonstrations, Tuesday’s episode… continue reading
The real reason Laney left Face Off: guilt
Laney Parkhurst left Face Off during last week’s episode, becoming the first person in the show’s history to leave voluntarily, and leaving four returnees as the show’s final contestants. Her departure seemed to be because of homesickness, but she says… continue reading
The day has arrived when it’s a sad thing for Snooki to be leaving a TV show
With no elimination last week because votes were discarded, and the addition of scores from this week’s group numbers, there was a lot going in to this week’s Dancing with the Stars results. At the end, it was former Jersey… continue reading
Tim Gunn to Project Runway cast accusing the show of being rigged: “bullshit!”
“Big Daddy’s here to protect you,” Tim Gunn said at the start of the reunion he hosted of the Project Runway cast. But Big Daddy wasn’t going to take any crap from this season’s crazier contestants, who were pretty insistent… continue reading
One celebrity says he’s been cast but Apprentice is still in limbo
The fate of The Celebrity Apprentice has been in limbo since late last spring and is still unclear; the show still doesn’t have a debut date or a cast at a time when it’s normally in production. However, at least… continue reading
American Idol results shows cut to 30 minutes (again, for the third time)
American Idol 13 has already made major changes and baffling changes, but there’s another change coming that has been long overdue: the reduction of the padded, filler-filled, redundant, unnecessarily drawn out results show to 30 minutes. That news came in… continue reading
Brad Culpepper defends himself: “I’m not misogynistic, I’m not sexist, I’m not racist”
Survivor Blood vs. Water cast member Brad Culpepper defended himself in interviews this week after his exit from the show was broadcast Wednesday, and insists he’s not the sexist man ordering around his wife and other women that the episodes… continue reading
The Rock, TNT dump The Hero for its “natural successor”: yet another motivational show
TNT has effectively cancelled The Rock-hosted series The Hero by announcing that he’ll star in a new series, tentatively titled Wake Up Call, which looks like it’ll double down on the worst parts of The Hero and have only one… continue reading
Best reality star revenge video ever: Amazing Race’s Joey Graceffa car towed
Joey Graffeca, the YouTube star who went on Amazing Race and is returning for spring’s all-star season, complained on YouTube about his car being towed–and the person who towed his car responded with his own video and evidence to counter… continue reading
Blackfish airs on CNN tonight, exposes SeaWorld’s shameful behavior
Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, CNN will broadcast Blackfish, the film about SeaWorld’s killer whale, Tilikum, that’s really about a lot more than that. It’s worth watching. The film is not as gorgeously shot, narratively engrossing, or polemic as The… continue reading
Survivor tribe swap scratches open new wounds
As last week’s promo spoiled, the tribes switched on Survivor Blood vs. Water, leaving tribes of essentially men versus women, with the exceptions of Vytas and Ciera as the one member of the opposite sex on their new tribe. That… continue reading