American Idol 2 runner-up Clay Aiken is officially running for Congress, he announced today, following reports that he was exploring a bid. His web site, Clay for North Carolina, says, “I’m running for Congress for the same reason I chose to become a special education teacher years ago — to help people in need and …
The Biggest Loser’s latest winner is Rachel Frederickson, who lost a total of 155 pounds and a record 60 percent of her body weight, showing up at the finale weighing just 105 pounds and looking shockingly thin. Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels’ faces said it all, and Jillian’s mouth said even more: “Oh my god.” …
The live Dancing with the Stars band that has mangled so many songs over the show’s 17-season history has been fired along with its director, and will be replaced by pre-recorded music and some unknown configuration of live musicians. The ABC series began using pre-recorded music last season, which helped improve the show significantly. In …
Although the Olympics will interrupt a lot of original programming for two weeks starting on Friday, there are new and returning reality shows debuting throughout the month. Just I did in January, I’m highlighting a few that stand out to me as worthy of watching–some are new, so we’ll see if they live up to …
The list of people who’ve won the most challenges during Survivor‘s 27-season history is very surprising, both for who tops the lists and for the people who rarely make it on the lists: women. While there have been women who dominated challenges–most recently, Laura Morrett, who had a streak of Redemption Island wins during Survivor …
On its web site, A&E says its reality series The First 48 “takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations as it follows homicide detectives in the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations, giving viewers unprecedented access to crime scenes, interrogations and forensic processing.” But a pair of stories argue that by documenting botched …