Fox announced a host for its adaptation of Flirty Dancing, which will add a twist to the UK format. Will the Fox version cast a range of people like Channel 4’s did?
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Lego Masters, a Lego reality competition, is coming to Fox
The Lego Master Builder competition series that Lego first discussed in 2014 is finally coming to American television.
New Fox reality TV: Celebrities singing in masks, and an ‘obstacle course for the mind’
Fox just announced two new reality competitions: The Masked Singer, on which celebrity singers compete but in disguise, and Mental Samurai, a game show with physical elements that’s hosted by Rob Lowe.
The Four judge Charlie Walk out over sexual harassment, but will still appear tomorrow
This week’s episode of The Four: Battle for Stardom was taped last week, so Charlie Walk will be on Thursday’s episode despite being fired after two women said he sexually harassed them at work.
Four ways The Four: Battle for Stardom justifies its existence
Maybe The Four: Battle for Stardom is a response to ABC’s impending broadcast of Fox’s former golden child, American Idol. Maybe it’s just The Voice’s battles turned into a series. Maybe it’s prime-time publicity for its judges on a familiar set. Maybe it’s unnecessary.
But The Four, which premieres tonight (Fox, 8 p.m.) surprised me and kept my interest for two hours. Here’s why.
The lavish promises made by the host and judges of Fox’s The Four
Fergie will host Fox’s The Four: Battle for Stardom, and she and judges DJ Khaled and Sean “Diddy” Combs really talked the show up.
Fox show will follow professional, single women ready to have a baby
Labor of Love is a show in development at Fox that will follow one woman or several women who are single, in their 30s or 40s, and want to have a baby.
Fox’s new singing competition, The Four, is named for its number of contestants
Fox has acquired the Armoza Formats show The Final Four, which it calls The Four and will feature four contestants being challenged by new people.
How Beat Shazam actually works
Fox’s new game show Beat Shazam has contestants face off against a smartphone app. But how does that work? What are the rules? I have answers.
You the Jury cancelled, guilty of being terrible
Fox has cancelled its low-rated Friday night faux courtroom, pretend trial show You the Jury after just three episodes.
A second look at two new survival competition reality shows
Brief reviews and thoughts about MTV’s Stranded with a Million Dollars and Fox’s Kicking and Screaming, both of which have entertained in surprising ways.
A meal worse than drive-through tacos: preview tonight’s Kicking & Screaming
Last week, before the premiere of Kicking & Screaming, contestant and reality TV fan Maxwell told me that he went on the show to challenge himself: “I keep trying to push myself outside my box, because I think it makes… continue reading
An interview with Kicking & Screaming’s Maxwell about the new Fox competition
Kicking & Screaming contestant and reality TV fan Maxwell Carr takes us behind the scenes, talking about surviving in Fiji and playing a new game.
Fox’s honest admission about a troubling reality TV trend
A Fox executive said out loud what producers have been hearing for a while: an insistence that celebrities be attached to reality shows. This is not good.
Fox reviving Love Connection, with host Andy Cohen, and both straight and gay couples
Fox is following ABC’s lead by rebooting nostalgic game shows from the 1970s, ordering 15 episodes of Love Connection, which will be hosted by Andy Cohen.