Comedy Central aired ads for fake reality TV shows like “Joe Mormon.” On Tuesday, Comedy Central aired ads all day long announcing the debut of eight new reality TV shows. They included “While You Were Drunk” (“How many beers does it take to get two random, unattractive people to agree to have sex?”), “Trading Babies” …
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FOX show with men wearing masks will be hosted by Monica Lewinsky. FOX is planning another dating reality TV show, but with a twist. This time, Mr. Personality will be structured much like The Bachelorette, with a woman choosing from a pool of male suitors. She’ll never actually see the men, however, because they’ll be …
critics: ABC’s “idiotic,” “inept,” “cheap” shows help “exhaust the genre.” ABC’s string of five crappy reality TV shows–including Are You Hot and I’m a Celebrity–Get Me Out of Here has helped to at least slow the genre’s momentum, USA TODAY’s Robert Bianco and the LA Times’ Brian Lowry both say. “Though failure is not uncommon …
Married by America debuts tonight. Yet again a reality TV show will serve as matchmaker and create five new couples, but this time, the couples won’t even meet until they’re engaged. That’s the premise of FOX’s Married by America, debuting tonight at 8 p.m. ET. The three-hour debut will air for two hours tonight and …
Are You Hot? debuts tonight. Are You Hot?, ABC’s Idol-like “search for America’s sexiest people” debuts tonight. Proving once again their programming genius, the wizards at ABC scheduled the two-hour premiere opposite the 90-minute debut of Survivor Amazon. Even better, it’ll rerun on ABC Family Monday night at 9 p.m.–opposite the conclusion of Joe Millionaire. …
TLC will air Changing Rooms on Thanksgiving, crossover ep next Sat. As first reported here, TLC will air a Changing Rooms/Trading Spaces crossover episode featuring Hildy and Gen. It will air Nov. 30 at 9 p.m., and will feature the designers and Paige working with Handy Andy in London on rooms belonging to two couples, …
ABC to search for hotties. A month after announcing a show from The Bachelor producer Mike Fleiss that will find family members competing for inheritance, ABC says it will produce Are You Hot?, a six-episode series that will search for the hottest man and woman in America using an American Idol-style contest. Viewers and judges …