Cat Deeley interviewed 113 people, and then interviewed them again one year later after they’d transformed their lives—or not. An interview with her about her new show.
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A review of Project Runway: Fashion Startup, Lifetime’s version of Shark Tank
Lifetime’s Project Runway: Fashion Startup may be a version of Shark Tank, but it’s one that does some things differently and succeeds as a result.
Review: UnReal season two fails, as a drama and reality TV satire
A review of season two of Lifetime’s UnReal, which has lost its way in season two, and instead has become just like the worst of reality TV.
UnReal returns with an even more unreal take on The Bachelor
Last summer’s hit drama UnReal returns for its second season tonight (Lifetime, 10 p.m.), and goes where the show it satirizes, The Bachelor, has been too terrified or cowardly to go yet: casting a black bachelor. Yes, the fictional reality dating competition series at the center of UnReal, “Everlasting,” has a non-white star, Darius Beck, played by B.J. Britt. It’s… continue reading
Unreal has a return date, and a spin-off following one character
Lifetime announced the return date for season 2 of Unreal, and also debuted a new web spin-off series following a season-one character.
Chris Harrison is so mad that Bachelor satire isn’t respectful
As the first season of Lifetime’s well-reviewed but quite low-rated UnReal comes to a close, The Bachelor host Chris Harrison did his best to encourage people to watch the show that eviscerates his series–by getting all angry about it. He told Variety: “Really, the main difference that I’ve seen is that people watch ‘The Bachelor.’… continue reading
UnREAL: You can now watch almost half of this great show
The premiere and three more episodes of Lifetime’s UnReal are now all online. That’s almost half of the 10-episode series that premiered last Monday and continues tonight at 10 p.m. ET. Lifetime’s move to make more of the series available online–which happened quietly Saturday morning, Variety says–is likely because only 815,000 people watched last Monday… continue reading
UnREAL is the summer show you should not miss
Although it follows the behind-the-scenes production of a dating reality series, Lifetime’s UnReal is a scripted drama. The show within the show, Everlasting, is also fake. Yet in its first hour alone, there’s far more truth and reality on UnREAL than there is in the reality series that inspired it, ABC’s The Bachelor. At we’re… continue reading
Lifetime trolls the Internet with its new reality shows
Lifetime announced four new reality series on Wednesday, programs that its general manager Rob Sharenow said have “larger-than-life characters and never-before-seen worlds” and “will push our boundaries and strengthen our position as a leader in the unscripted space.” They also appear to be perfectly designed to troll the Internet, baiting people into responding before they… continue reading
Bristol Palin, producer deny that, Tripp, 3, used a gay slur
The 3-year-old co-star of Bristol Palin’s Lifetime show, Life’s a Tripp, seems to use a gay slur in a clip from the series, though its producer says Tripp used another word, as does Bristol Palin, who blames the misread on “the lefty papers.” In the clip, Tripp throws a tantrum after Bristol won’t let him… continue reading