Once upon a time, David E. Kelley called reality TV “trash” and “junk.” Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, he debuts his own reality series on NBC. The Law Firm follows “12 actual lawyers competing against each other while trying real court cases with judges and juries, resulting in outcomes that will be final, legal and …
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NBC’s summer reality success Hit Me Baby One More Time is adding more episodes. The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan reports this morning: NBC is adding at least one more episode, and, based on Thursday’s ratings, maybe more, to what was supposed to be a 3-episode run of its surprise reality success, “Hit Me Baby One …
NBC brings nostalgia to an Idol-like format, as the network debuts a US version of the UK series Hit Me Baby One More Time. On each of three episodes, five has-been groups will perform their biggest hit and a current song. The audience will vote, a winner will be selected, and then they’ll fade back …
Vern Yip’s Home Intervention debuts Sunday; Doug Wilson’s Moving Up airing. Just about a year after quitting Trading Spaces and announcing he was moving to NBC, Vern Yip finally makes it to the air with Home Intervention. The one-hour special debuts Sunday at 7 p.m. ET, and watches as Vern “helps one deserving family complete …
$25 Million Hoax’s $400,000 prize is actually just “a giant prize package.” On last night’s premiere of NBC’s $25 Million Dollar Hoax, before the show recycled the same five seconds of Ed McMahon walking up the driveway half a dozen times, we learned the details of the prize. George Gray, once host of The Weakest …
NBC’s $25 Million Hoax debuts tonight. NBC gets into the twisted game of manipulative reality TV when it debuts the redundantly titled $25 Million Dollar Hoax at 10 p.m. ET. The twenty-five million dollar dollar hoax show will air for three weeks and feature a woman who drags her family through emotional hell so she …
NBC trims “reality dud” Next Action Star. NBC’s summer series Next Action Star hasn’t been doing well in the ratings. The network moved it to Wednesday nights, but there, it hasn’t done well either. As Zap2it.com puts it, “With NBC saddled with the low rated reality dud ‘Next Action Star,’ CBS has been able to …