Fire destroys Utopia and Camp Cutthroat set, but not Netflix’s beast
A fire destroyed most of Sable Ranch, where reality TV shows including Utopia and Wipeout were filmed. But Netflix’s Ultimate Beastmaster was spared.
Camp Cutthroat’s “secret” filming location was used by this Fox show
At the start of the Cutthroat Kitchen spinoff Camp Cutthroat, Alton Brown, wearing a red beret and shorts, stood in front of the first three returning chefs. “You cutthroat veterans are some of the first outsiders to set feet inside those gates,” he told them. That was not quite true, because those gates previously belonged to …
Why Utopia did not fail despite being cancelled
After 13 episodes, Utopia has been cancelled by Fox. The ambitious series was to take place over an entire year; instead, it lasted less than two months. A cast with far too many unpleasant people who behaved badly from the very first minutes doomed the series early on. Instead of a show about building a new society, it quickly …
Utopia producer Jon Kroll on ratings, cast, conflict, and more
Fox’s Utopia began, perhaps like most utopian experiments, with a lofty ambition: a prime-time network show that was not formatted and did not rely on a competition for a prize to power its episodes. Instead, the series was a throwback to original modern reality series The Real World, following the lives and interaction of people in an …
Masterchef Junior will get Utopia’s Tuesday timeslot
Fox has pulled Utopia from the Tuesday night schedule effective immediately, and will give that timeslot to MasterChef Junior as of Nov. 4. In the meantime, it’ll air repeats of its animated shows, followed by the World Series. The second season of MasterChef Junior was scheduled to return a few days later, on Nov. 7, and would have aired Friday …
Utopia will now give viewers a nomination for evictions
After less than a month on the air, Fox’s Utopia has announced how cast members will be voted off the show, changing a previously-announced format by adding the ability for viewers to nominate someone for eviction. Before Fox’s press release came out, Entertainment Weekly published a story headlined “Fox shakes up ‘Utopia’: Castmates to be voted out.” To me, that read kind …
Utopia devolves even further into anarchy and racism
On Utopia’s lowest-rated episode yet, the group votes to adopt anarchy as their first structure, as if that will be an improvement over what they’ve had so far. I wanted this series to work so much that I’ve kept watching, hoping it could recover, but I’ve had enough; this cast of intolerable people who behave selfishly, …
