On paper, The CW’s Capture was The Hunger Games, reality TV style. Halfway through its first season, it instead seems more like Survivor with a game of tag thrown in–and the results are often pretty awesome. (The show airs Tuesdays, but because it’s on The CW, you can watch it all online.) Instead of hunting… continue reading
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Capture and The Profit: shows worth checking out on CNBC and The CW
This summer has brought several surprisingly entertaining shows, and there’s more coming. Tonight, two very different networks debut very different series that are worth watching, even though each may seem familiar. Capture is on The CW, but it’s produced by Blackbird Television and Renegade 83, the producers responsible for Discovery’s great series Naked and Afraid… continue reading
Oh Sit!, The CW’s musical chairs show, actually looks pretty awesome
The CW’s upcoming musical chairs game show/reality competition with the hilariously ridiculous name Oh Sit! actually looks good–really–perhaps because it seems like a new version of Wipeout. The show’s executive producer, Phil Gurin, told the New York Post “this is not a kid’s game” and said “it’s musical chairs on steroids.” Here’s how he described… continue reading
The CW pulls the stupidity known as H8R, but Top Model stays where it is
After four episodes, The CW has ended the life of H8R, perhaps the fall’s most ill-conceived reality show, although sometime in the future, it may burn off episodes featuring hated celebrities such as Janice Dickinson, Levi Johnston, and NeNe Leakes confronting people who hate them. The show debuted to terrible ratings, and on Wednesday, the… continue reading
New CW series The Frame is basically Solitary with Big Brother, Amazing Race components
The CW is planning a new reality competition called The Frame that is basically the now-dead Fox Reality Channel’s show Solitary with elements of Big Brother (there’s a live Internet feed) and The Amazing Race (the living spaces will be inhabited by two people with a preexisting relationship). The contestants, however, will apparently live and… continue reading
Bruce Beresford-Redman back in US; CW picks up reality show he once pitched
Pimp My Ride co-creator and former Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, whose wife was killed in Mexico early last month, is back in the US after going missing in Mexico the same week that a reality series he originally pitched to The CW was picked up. His attorney Richard Hirsch said in a statement to the… continue reading
High Society’s Tinsley Mortimer: “People were never fed a line to say, ever”
The third episode of The CW’s High Society airs tonight, preceded by the network’s debut of Fly Girls, a docudrama that follows Virgin American flight attendants. Last week, 1.2 million people watched, falling from 1.39 million for its premiere. That may be because, as After Elton’s Michael Jensen’s said in his review, watching the series… continue reading
Jules Kirby says her bigoted High Society remarks were “scripted,” but interview video suggests otherwise
Last week, The CW debuted High Society, a docudrama following Tinsley Mortimer and other New York socialites including Jules Kirby and Paul Johnson Calderon. Despite Tinsley’s headline-generating life and the latter two being reprehensible and horrifying human beings, the show was The CW’s “least-watched series premiere this season,” with only 1.26 million viewers. But since… continue reading
CW picks up DC-set and maybe fake Blonde Charity Mafia
Blonde Charity Mafia, a docudrama originally ordered by Lifetime last August that follows socialites, Katherine Kennedy, Krista Johnson, and Sophie Pyle, will air this summer on The CW. Besides switching networks, the show has also changed producers, from PB&J Television, which was producing the show for Lifetime, to Capital Hills Productions and two producers whose… continue reading
13: Fear is Real is really scary bad
More than eight years ago, there was a fantastic series on MTV called, simply, Fear. The series featured a lot of scary moments and maybe even some paranomal activity, and although the show exaggerated the truth of its locations, what was clear was that the participants were often scared shitless. That’s because they were alone,… continue reading
CW’s Stylista: Bitchy, mean, derivative, unlikable
The CW’s new competition Stylista, which debuts tonight at 9 p.m. ET, is produced by America’s Next Top Model‘s producers (including Tyra Banks), but it aspires to be like a Bravo competition. Instead, it ends up as a hybrid of Top Model and The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, but set in The Devil Wears Prada’s universe…. continue reading
Farmer Wants A Wife debuts tonight
Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, The CW debuts its Bachelor clone Farmer Wants a Wife. The series is described by the network as “a comedic reality series that brings city women to one charming, hard-working farmer,” and is based on a format that’s been used internationally. In the US version, 10 women travel to rural… continue reading
Pussycat Dolls Presents: Girlicious debuts tonight
The second season of The CW’s Pussycat Dolls reality competition debuts tonight, but instead of adding another person to the group, as the first season did, the show will search for three girls to form a brand-new group. Pussycat Dolls Presents: Girlicious airs at 9 p.m. ET, and follows 15 finalists who are competing for… continue reading
Crowned: The Mother of All Beauty Pageants debuts tonight
Tonight at 9 p.m. ET, after Tyra crowns the ninth Top Model, The CW will debut Crowned, an eight-episode competition between pairs of mothers and their wannabe beauty pageant queen daughters. Queer Eye‘s Carson Kressley, Dancing with the Stars‘ Shanna Moakler, and Cynthia Garrett will judge the competition, which features the women participating in “challenges… continue reading
CW’s Search for the Next (Pussycat) Doll, fourth season of BET’s College Hill debut tonight
The CW kicks off a new competitive reality series tonight at 9 p.m. ET with The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll, which will award its winner a spot in the Pussycat Dolls group. Pussycat Dolls found Robin Antin told the New York Times that “it is empowering to get up there… continue reading