Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 10, 2012, 2:58 pm
American Idol may have figured out the secret to its ratings slide: replace singing with illness and life-or-death cliffhangers. Thursday's episode, on which there were no performances and which the mystery of whether Symone Black was killed by her fall or not, increased its viewership ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 9, 2012, 8:47 pm
America's Next Top Model will debut its 18th season later this month, and bring in all-star contestants from the British version as part of the cast, even though The CW said it was going to give the show "a rest" midseason. Meanwhile, Kell On Earth star Kelly Cutrone will join the judging panel, rep...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 9, 2012, 8:25 pm
The mother of "Honey Boo Boo," six-year-old pageant competitor Alana Thompson, has defended feeding her daughter "Go-Go Juice," which has been featured on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras. June Shannon says giving Mountain Dew and Red Bull to a six year old is okay. She told ABC News pageant kid...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 9, 2012, 12:43 pm
The Bachelor unconscionable treatment of Casey on Monday's episode overshadowed that this season has given us some entertainment, even if it has seemed dreadfully boring as that twit Ben Flajnik bores us on hi way to finding shallow love. As it turns out, all the season needed was Courtney's baby-ta...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 9, 2012, 8:30 am
After being considered for years, Seattle is on the verge of being selected as the next host of Bravo's Top Chef, although another city is in contention, and it will cost the city $200,000 to $300,000. The other finalist is possibly Portland, Seattle Met suggests. "They really want to b...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 8, 2012, 11:55 pm
... But in a double dose of failure, the episode ended with 16-year-old's Symone Black fall--making it another cliffhanger. Yes, that's how respectful the show is of viewers: not at all. They don't give a shit about ... m a mean producer." And, as I replied, why they're losing viewers. He even j...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 8, 2012, 6:06 pm
SyFy's terrific Hollywood effects makeup competition series Face Off will return for its third season this summer, the network announced Tuesday. Its second is currently airing, and while it hasn't changed much since season one, it remains consistently entertaining, and ratings are incr...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 7, 2012, 8:17 pm
Fox was responsible for firing Paula Abdul, Nicole Sherzinger, and Steve Jones from The X Factor, Simon Cowell said today. And the network's reality TV executive Mike Darnell called The X Factor "an audition act" for the show, which is the funniest thing I've read all day. He also discusses changes ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 7, 2012, 3:24 pm
The Bachelor can be consistently entertaining, despite its failure as a show to live up to its promise, and even despite the obviously contrived set-ups and contexts ("we're deserted on an island with producers and cameras!"). But sometimes its producers' and network's desperation--for ratings or at...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 7, 2012, 10:14 am
An Emmy-nominated Intervention camera operator for A&E's is answering questions on Reddit, offering insight into filming a show about addicts who are often using on camera. Chris Baron, who has also worked on Hoarders and other shows (such as the awesome and sadly short-lived Showdog M...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 6, 2012, 6:39 pm
With 111.3 million viewers, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television show ever, and NBC's post-game debut of The Voice benefitted significantly from that: it had 37.6 million viewers and an insane 16.3 rating among adults 18 to 49, which made it the highest-rated non-sports show on any network...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 6, 2012, 10:19 am
After the Super Bowl ended with some hard-to-top drama and suspense, The Voice's second season began somewhat abruptly, about 10 minutes before its scheduled start. Its blind auditions were as entertaining as ever, except that they came in-between a barrage of ads that seemed excessive even after ha...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 6, 2012, 9:58 am
... -produced, with too much of the fake stuff that once made American Idol insufferable. Critics and journalists didn't really seem to like it ... was far from a show that truly broke through the pop culture zeitgeist; as HitFix's Dan Fienberg observed on Twitter, "FOX has ... Beyonce because tha...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 5, 2012, 9:36 pm
The ads that aired during the Super Bowl tonight were mostly misses, I think, from the Teleflora ad that insisted giving flowers results in receiving oral sex to the Fiat ad with faux semen, aired on the network that wouldn't air a reality show with real semen. But I digress. Some of th...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 5, 2012, 1:39 pm
The Contender season one and two cast member and boxer Jeff "Hell Raza" Fraza was killed early Saturday morning when he was hit by a commuter train in Haverhill, Mass. He was 34. His former girlfriend and mother of his son, Sylvia Pastrana, told the Boston Herald, "I was just told that ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 3, 2012, 11:00 am
NBC's The Voice returns for its second season after the Super Bowl this Sunday, and the big test for the show is whether it can sustain both the interest that sweet timeslot will provide and overcome the general fatigue from music talent competitions that both X Factor and American Idol have contrib...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 2, 2012, 9:57 pm
Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney yesterday, a brave, unexpected choice, considering how Romney just easily won Florida. The endorsement has already inspired an ad comparing Trump and Romney's firings. Upon his endorsement, Trump said that people love to follow him, including viewers of The Apprenti...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 1, 2012, 9:03 am
Fired The Real Housewives of New York City cast member Jill Zarin has responded to a gossip report that she was asked to return to the show. She confirms that she was asked to cameo, but says she's too busy with other projects, such as her appearance on Iron Chef America's top-five moments countdown...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Feb 1, 2012, 8:18 am
Discovery's game show Cash Cab, which takes place in an actual cab and is hosted by the cab's driver and comedian Ben Bailey, is now in syndication, airing five nights a week (check your local listings). To mark that occasion, the show has offered three lucky reality blurred readers pri...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 31, 2012, 4:09 pm
Discovery's debut Friday of Bering Sea Gold, the new reality series from Thom Beers that follows people searching for gold in Alaska waters, was the network's most-watched series debut ever. An average of 3.66 million people watched, according to the network, and it set records for the network among...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 31, 2012, 11:36 am
Former Bravo president and current NBC executive Lauren Zalaznick is undoubtedly very smart and responsible for much of what I love on television. She also made a ridiculous argument that suggest she has very different relationships to her shows than viewers do. "I reject easy slams lik...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 31, 2012, 7:55 am
And the firings continue: Paula Abdul is also out of The X Factor, as her friend Simon Cowell let her go along with Nicole Scherzinger (who left to work on her music, right) and fired host Steve Jones. That leaves just Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid to have fake fights with each other. Dead...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 30, 2012, 10:00 pm
Useless X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger is also off the show, along with departing host Steve Jones. This isn't a surprise, considering everyone knew she was a terrible judge long before the show even started--except Fox and Simon Cowell, apparently. She was erratic and weird, and even refused to ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 30, 2012, 7:40 pm
In an unsurprising move, Steve Jones has been fired as host of Fox's The X Factor, and thus won't be back to host the second season. "I wont be hosting next seasons XFactor which is a shame but I cant complain as I've had a great time. Good luck to everyone on the show," he wrote on Twi...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 30, 2012, 6:37 pm
Survivor cast member Rupert Boneham, who's running for governor in Indiana as a libertarian, released a video over the weekend detailing his support for marriage equality for gay and lesbian people, and vowing to fight legislation that does otherwise. In the video, below, Rupert talks a...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 30, 2012, 11:44 am
The finale episode of the newly resurrected Fear Factor has been pulled off the schedule by NBC, apparently because it features contestants drinking donkey semen. The episode has not been rescheduled, though a different, two-hour special will air Feb. 12. The pulled episode's title was ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 30, 2012, 8:59 am
Shark Tank is unquestionably one of the best broadcast reality TV shows on today, and on Friday night, it got even better by wading into both emotional and newsworthy territory during its final segment. Mark Cuban's addition to the show has made it consistently must-watch television. Th...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 30, 2012, 8:29 am
Bravo's exploitation of the bloody, real-life trainwreck that was The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills continues with a three-part reunion that starts airing tonight. The producers' and network's inept and offensive editing left me with blind rage toward this season, even though I find ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 27, 2012, 5:46 pm
Mob Wives star Angela Raiola, aka "Big Ang," was once a cocaine dealer who was indicted and convicted for selling cocaine in New York nine years ago. The Smoking Gun reports that she "was one of 15 defendants indicted--and later convicted--for their roles in the narcotics operation, whi...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 19, 2012, 12:55 pm
Top Chef Texas has been kind of hit or miss for me. Some episodes seem interesting and inspired, while others seem like the producers are phoning the same tired formula again. But last night's episode, which featured Charlize Theron and product placement for her upcoming film Snow Whit...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 19, 2012, 12:41 pm
American Idol's eleventh season debuted last night, and "season one-one," as Randy Jackson wouldn't stop saying, was pretty much the same thing as always. And while the show remains far and away the most popular series on television, it lost 24 percent of its viewers 18 to 49 compared to last season...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 19, 2012, 8:37 am
The cast of Survivor One World was announced by CBS yesterday, and includes the first little person to ever play the game. Based on the video preview below, it also includes a lot of over-the-top, borderline crazy personalities, like people who insist upon being called "Troyzan" and "Tarzan" (and th...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 19, 2012, 6:47 am
The intensity of the confrontation between anti-whaling activists and Japanese whalers continues in the Southern Ocean, where a camera operator for Animal Planet's documentary reality series Whale Wars was injured. On its web site, Sea Shepherd reports that "American crewmember Brian Race, (25) from...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 17, 2012, 5:03 pm
... ex-boyfriend and a cast member with her on VH1's upcoming Relationship Rehab, was arrested last weekend after a fight outside a club during which he allegedly punched a woman in the face. TMZ reports that Kasey "was accused of attacking a man named Richard Chaney outside the club...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 17, 2012, 12:52 pm
MTV has released a soundtrack of music featured on both seasons of Teen Mom, and proceeds from the sale will go charity. The soundtrack is on iTunes and includes 12 songs, not tracks of crying babies or fights between teen parents unprepared for the consequences of producing a human lif...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 17, 2012, 12:42 pm
Oxygen has officially and unspurprisingly renewed The Glee Project for a second season, which will have two additional contestants. Robert Ulrich, Zach Woodlee, Nikki Anders, and (the ever-insufferable but surprisingly tolerable here) Ryan Murphy will all return. The network said in a p...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 17, 2012, 8:50 am
Police are investigating after a contestant on Brazil's version of Big Brother was expelled from the house for possibly sexually assaulting a houseguest while she was unconscious, although he has called it "a huge misunderstanding." Footage of the incident that's on YouTube and was broa...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 16, 2012, 5:33 am
Tonight, NBC airs a special focusing on Golden Girls star Betty White, and follows it with a preview of a new reality series that carries her name. ... , and yet another moment in our culture's now-ongoing celebration of Betty White, who deserves it (if only for the hours of entertainment...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Jan 15, 2012, 11:17 pm
Several networks announced new reality shows over the past few days, and several of those caught my attention, either because they seem fascinating or horrifying or both. First, the best/worst-titled series ever: The CW's Oh Sit!, which is actually musical chairs. Apparently, there will...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 15, 2011, 8:38 am
... conversations about the tribe's plan to vote him out--twice! The second was ... Albert and stick with him, and thus vote off Sophie, and Brandon was so ... . Albert did cast the only other vote for Sophie, perhaps as a way ... as a jury member. Coach knew he was the swing vote,...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 15, 2011, 8:30 am
... ... will be moving to New York, where Stern will continue to helm his SiriusXM radio program." NBC's reality executive Paul Telegdy said Stern's "larger-than-life personality will bring a thrilling new dynamic" and added that "Howard is very passionate about this show and is fully committed to...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 14, 2011, 3:25 pm
... information that I am hereby revealing, or have revealed about the show, was provided to me by contestants, participants, or anyone else under a confidentiality agreement with the show." That mirrors what his lawyer's response said, and is interesting, because everyone who works on...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 14, 2011, 3:06 pm
Celebrity Rehab cast member Janice Dickinson will soon begin production on a new show called Sober Model House that helps models get sober in a house. Produced by the company that created her previous series, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (the show on which a Survivor cast member...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 14, 2011, 12:29 pm
... be split up and be forced to compete against each other while being trained by Bob Harper or Dolvett Quince, as the show isn't replacing exiting trainer Anna Kournikova. NBC announced today that the teams of two "will not only be split up" but "will also be competing against the pe...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 14, 2011, 11:56 am
... said that visits from children who were born as a result of his donations to a sperm bank is the subject of a potential reality ... children were coming forward. I told the court that beforehand. I explained this is a fascinating time in my life when I was at a place where I wanted to get to ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 14, 2011, 12:20 am
... Joe Rogan, mercilessly taunted, suggesting that there was something inappropriate in their affection. The second episode was much stronger, with a car plunging into water, plus blood and cow hearts and a long, physical challenge at the end. The most remarkable thing about both .....
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 12, 2011, 10:24 pm
... today. We previously knew that he was offered Heroes vs. Villains but a judge said no. "Boston Rob took my place and won the million dollars, which I would have done, in this last Survivor ... insists he couldn't do. As to his recent incarceration and tribulations, ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 12, 2011, 9:47 pm
... to Sarah Palin's Alaska following Todd Palin's activities as a snowmobile racer that is being produced by Mark Burnett. Burnett and Sarah Palin are pitching the new series "focused on Palin's husband Todd ... has passed" and A&E "also is not interested"--in part because of "the ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 12, 2011, 4:47 pm
Five and a half years after being cancelled, Fear Factor is being resurrected on NBC tonight, now in HD and with more cow's blood. But everything seems to be pretty much the same, including the return of host Joe Rogan, although the stunts are bigger. When I first broke the news that th...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 2, 2011, 2:36 pm
Survivor Africa winner and The Amazing Race 19 contestant Ethan Zohn's cancer has returned after going into remission in 2010. That was discovered Sept. 14. "It's localized in my lung area. But it's good that it's not all over my body," he told People. He was first diagnosed in May 200...
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