American Family filmmaker: reality TV has “shoddy production values. An American Family cinematographer and co-director Alan Raymond watched The Surreal Life at the prompting of his family, including his wife and co-American Family filmmaker Susan Raymond, and was “fascinated by what he considered the low-rent way the show was made,” The New York Times reports. …
The Surreal Life ends tonight. Corey Feldman will marry Susie Sprague on tonight’s finale of The Surreal Life, which airs at 9 p.m. on The WB. MC Hammer officiates and guests include Hugh Hefner. Whether his marriage or his image repair will survive longer remains to be seen. The show is casting for a second …
The Surreal Life producers create WB sit-com that will star Hammer. The producers of The Surreal Life have created “a half-hour sitcom based on [MC Hammer’s] present family life” that will also star Hammer. Show producer Jay Renfroe says Hammer “became a father figure in the (‘Surreal Life’) house with everybody … [he] has to …
producers asked Corey to air wedding. On The Surreal Life we’ve watched as Corey Feldman proposed to his fiancée, planning to have his wedding on the show’s last day. He “only agreed to an on-air wedding to appease the producers,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Phil Rosenthal. He and the other cast members discuss that …
Surreal Life, High School Reunion debuts set records for The WB. Both of The WB’s new reality TV shows–The Surreal Life and High School Reunion–debuted with impressive ratings for the network. Thursday’s first episode of The Surreal Life had 5.2 million viewers and “the network’s new all-time record ratings for a debut of a Thursday …
why did Jerri show up so late? and other Surreal Life questions. There were lingering questions after last night’s premiere of The Surreal Life. For example, why did Survivor Australia‘s Jerri Manthey show up so damn late? Jerri tells TV Guide, which addresses these unanswered questions, that “[i]t was totally set up.” She says the …
The Surreal Life debuts tonight. Seven celebrities try to live together in a house for 10 days as The WB debuts The Surreal Life tonight at 9 p.m. ET. They’re “without transportation, cell phones or personal assistants,” but they can leave the house to go grocery shopping. The seven celebrities are MC Hammer, Emmanuel Lewis, …