Bravo’s Andy Cohen used his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night to discuss politics, and ended up comparing the candidates to stars of The Real Housewives. This was, surprisingly, a pretty good way of explaining what’s happening. Also of note: During the aftershow conversation, and said that The Real Housewives of Potomac wasn’t …
To start this short week of gratitude and shopping, a few quick reminders about how to stay in the know about the latest in reality TV with reality blurred. Stay informed Subscribe to Reality in Focus before this week’s special Thanksgiving-themed issue arrives in inboxes. Each issue starts with a note from me you can’t read anywhere else, and includes …
Tyra Banks is quitting FABLife, the daytime talk show on which she served as an executive producer and “lifestylist,” and which had a logo that said “Tyra presents.” She said it was “necessary” to make this “very difficult decision” because another project demands her attention. That project isn’t, of course, America’s Next Top Model; last month, Tyra …
Project Runway Junior is, surprisingly, not another MasterChef Junior, a charming show with talented kids. Nor is it like one of the many clones that popped up after MasterChef Junior’s success, most of which failed to see what made the original so great (talent + charm + seriousness). It is also not, thankfully, Project Runway: Threads, the 2014 well-intentioned but flop of a …
You don’t like change much, do you, Andy? —Brent, via Twitter I love change. Now get off my astroturf lawn so it will look exactly like it always does. Seriously: To start, I realize this was less of a question and more of a point, but it was a point that I appreciated because it …
It says something about Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance‘s cast that the vast majority of the votes this season have been both exciting—holy crap exciting—and a little unfortunate. The blindside during episode nine was thrilling—this season is earning that on-screen hashtag for sure—as was Jeremy, Spencer, and Stephen’s decision to team up with the three women responsible for …
Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance antagonist Andrew Savage has backed away from the comments he made in interviews on the show about his fellow players. This is an impressive display of honest ownership of bad behavior that inspired an aggressive hashtag, #FUAS. Before he was voted out last week, Savage said, among other things, that Stephen Fishbach is “lacking” in “morals, values, …