Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 11, 2009, 10:55 am
December is fading rapidly, and even here in Florida, it's been winter gray. Here's what you may have missed last week, and what reality TV you should look forward to watching on TV next week:...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 11, 2009, 10:14 am
Two people went home in what essentially amounted to two back-to-back half-hour episodes of Survivor that had a hint of excitement but mostly just moved us toward the penultimate episode and the final...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 11, 2009, 7:11 am
On Thursday, TLC won a temporary injunction against Jon Gosselin that prevents him from making public appearances, at least until an April 19 trial. People reports that TLC's Chief Operating Offic...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 10, 2009, 5:54 pm
Great news about Ethan Zohn's battle with cancer: it has been "vaporized," he tweeted, by five weeks of radiation treatment. While he had "a clear PET Scan" and "there are now no active canc...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 10, 2009, 3:19 pm
MTV has removed the word "guido" from Jersey Shore's controversial promos, and MTV programming president Tony DiSanto says that had no idea the word or the show would offend people. "To be 10...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 10, 2009, 2:33 pm
For the past few seasons of Survivor, Jeff Probst has been writing what Entertainment Weekly calls a "blog," because apparently no one at the best pop culture magazine in the country has any idea what...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 10, 2009, 12:06 pm
On Bravo's web site, various Top Chef Las Vegas finalists and judges discuss who they thought should have won and why Michael actually won. (No one addresses his obnoxious attitude.) In Bravo...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 10, 2009, 7:55 am
Although the three dominant Top Chef Las Vegas cast members made it to the end--Kevin, Michael, and Bryan won 12 of 13 elimination challenges this season--only one could win, and it was a Voltaggio: t...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 10, 2009, 7:26 am
After a results show featuring Kris Allen and K-Mart, So You Think You Can Dance found its final six, and it does not include Mollee or Legacy, who were both eliminated. Mollee was eliminated and...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 9, 2009, 4:18 pm
Two new dating shows are pushing the limits of ridiculousness, because one takes place on a conveyor belt, and the other in the bachelor's parents' basement. First, VH1's next trashy ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 9, 2009, 3:31 pm
A photo of Project Runway 4 winner Christian Siriano and his boyfriend Brad Walsh was used to illustrate a December Details magazine chart feature about "The Rise of the Douchefag." Their photo appear...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 9, 2009, 2:25 pm
Third-place Amazing Race team Brian and Ericka have revealed that, despite Ericka's meltdown, the Cirque challenge was not what caused them to lose the race, it was counting poker chips--and perha...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 9, 2009, 1:49 pm
Usually by now, American Idol's Hollywood week has finished filming, and thus names of finalists start leaking out. But this year, that part of the competition will be filmed in January, and it wi...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 9, 2009, 8:45 am
The Biggest Loser 8 ended last night, and transformed Danny Cahill was declared with winner for losing 55.58 percent of his body weight and 239 pounds. He said that when he's in the gym or walking...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 9, 2009, 7:09 am
With the Salahis and Tiger Woods to distract us, Jon and Kate Gosselin haven't done anything newsworthy in two whole weeks. Crazy! But that ends today, as TLC was filming Kate Gosselin Tuesday in ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Dec 8, 2009, 4:27 pm
MTV's two-hour debut of its docudrama Jersey Shore has generated a lot of press and even death threats to MTV employees, but it did not get a lot of viewers despite pre-season attention and contro...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 13, 2009, 10:12 am
Tribal Council on Survivor Samoa last night was one of those moments when I realize how amazing it is that Survivor continues to deliver such dramatic moments 19 seasons later. Despite the marketing, ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 13, 2009, 10:00 am
Two-time Wife Swap star Richard Heene pled guilty to a felony after turning himself in to police yesterday, and will get probation. That's the result of the attention-seeking hoax he committed las...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 13, 2009, 9:25 am
When I saw a preview of Padma Lakshmi's guest appearance on 30 Rock, I thought she was, well, terrible, and this didn't bode well for her future in sit-coms. But the one line highlighted...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 13, 2009, 7:49 am
Project Runway 6 has just one episode left, and then we can pretend this season (and, while we're at it, last) never existed, and see if the show can resurrect itself next season, or putter out. ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 13, 2009, 7:25 am
In its Sunday magazine, New York Times has an extensive report about the 11-day filming of Octomom Nadya Suleman's documentary series by production company Eyeworks. The paper notes that the docum...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 12, 2009, 4:10 pm
Surya Yalamanchili, who was on The Apprentice 6 and fired by Donald Trump midseason, is running for Congress in Ohio's second district. He faces a Republican ... operandi of the Republican and Dem...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 12, 2009, 3:34 pm
Watching the clip below, I think I understand why people get addicted to The Hills: It may be mostly fake, but since there is some truth in it, moments like this one prompt reactions because it just m...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 12, 2009, 11:27 am
A 33-year-old contestant on the third season of ABC's Wipeout died last Thursday as a result of a stroke. Entertainment Tonight reports that Tom Sparks "was complaining of knee pain on the fi...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 12, 2009, 7:06 am
There may be changes coming once again to the judging panel on America's Next Top Model: The CW has denied a report that says first-season judge Kimora Lee Simmons will return to become the new, p...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 11, 2009, 9:10 pm
After dropping the show from its schedule, ABC will apparently air Let's Dance in January. While a report said casting problems were to blame, the show has at least one cast member who's alrea...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 10, 2009, 6:00 pm
While the top-earning TV shows may not be reality TV, the top-earning male prime-time TV stars are reality stars. The three men who lead Forbes' list are American Idol judge and America's...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 10, 2009, 7:01 am
Omarosa's Ultimate Merger, the dating series starring Omarosa that I first reported about a month ago when it was casting and attempting to conceal the fact that Omarosa was its star, will air on ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 9, 2009, 5:09 pm
A $4 million Queenstown, New Zealand, home used by MTV's The Duel II, which aired last spring and is now airing in that country, was trashed by the cast. The homeowner told the New Zealand Herald,...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 9, 2009, 5:08 pm
I missed The Amazing Race 15 episode last night, as I was driving back to DC with friends from Pittsburgh, where we saw the set of Mister Rogers Neighborhood of Make Believe, which was on display prob...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 9, 2009, 12:15 pm
A rental van being used by the crew of WEtv's The Locator was stolen by a man with a warrant fleeing from authorities. That happened last Tuesday as the crew was loading it with gear; the van was ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 9, 2009, 11:17 am
Kathy Ireland was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars in its second week, but has only now revealed that she needs knee surgery. That's surprising considering how much the ABC series revels in ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 9, 2009, 7:40 am
Of the reality shows airing this fall, Dancing With the Stars earns more per 30 seconds than any other show: $178,687 for its performance shows, and $172,570 for its results shows. Those blocks of tel...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 9, 2009, 6:29 am
Survivor Tocantins started with a long trek through the oppressive heat, and the Dream Team did that, too. Aaron Massey, who was on the Dream Team in Gabon and became the Dream Team coordinator i...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 6, 2009, 11:48 am
A look back at the first week in November and a look ahead at next week: The Past The beginning of November started with a news organization producing TLC programming: guess who it was about?...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 6, 2009, 10:32 am
Finally: Survivor Samoa kicked into overdrive, with the merge episode pulling it out of its mid-season slump. After the tribes merged into Aiga, which Brett said was Samoan for "extended family" (mayb...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 5, 2009, 8:50 am
I recently learned that some people with newfangled mobile phones actually use them to access the Internets, and perhaps even sites like this one. So, if you have such a phone, which may look like thi...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 5, 2009, 7:15 am
Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, VH1 debuts a one-hour special that explores Charles in Charge star Willie Aames, who has gone from being a millionaire to being in financial and personal ruin, so much so that h...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 5, 2009, 7:12 am
Getting help from Dr. Drew on VH1's Celebrity Rehab offers a significant benefit to its stars beyond sobriety: lots of cash, which may explain why some of them are willing to do the show. Co...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 4, 2009, 7:01 pm
Now that Richard Hatch is out of prison, it's great that we have another imprisoned, dumbass reality show winner to follow: Big Brother 9 winner Adam Jasinski was indicted today by a federal grand...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 4, 2009, 5:24 pm
With the debut of its 14th season, The Bachelor will join other network reality shows that are broadcast in high definition. Jillian Harris reject Jake Pavelka's search for love starts Jan. 4. ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 4, 2009, 2:44 pm
After apparently quitting during Sunday's episode of The Amazing Race, pro poker players Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle did a round of interviews in which they talked about their final day and the ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 4, 2009, 8:14 am
Billy Bell, who was sidelined from So You Think You Can Dance due to a mysterious, potentially deadly illness, will return to the competition next season, although not in the top 20. Instead, Ni...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 4, 2009, 8:07 am
For the second time this season, Bravo is depriving us of a new episode of Top Chef, but instead of a repeat, is airing a one-off special called "All Stars Dinner." Yes, it's a reunion, with ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 3, 2009, 5:10 pm
Cheaters has been on the air for nine years now, documenting scorned lovers confronting their cheating partners in the act, with a camera crew in tow. It's like an episode of Jerry Springer filmed...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 3, 2009, 8:18 am
Good documentaries tell us--and, even better, show us--something we don't already know. This is the problem with By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which HBO debuts tonight at 9 p.m. ET ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 3, 2009, 8:10 am
Oxygen has renewed Dance Your Ass Off for a second season, but has replaced its producer, 495 Productions, with Magical Elves, the production company with the best name ever. The second season wi...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 2, 2009, 5:36 pm
Ryan Seacrest's stalker, who was arrested Friday after entering the E! building with a knife and charged today with felony stalking, is not in the special forces or connected to the Green Berets, ...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 2, 2009, 4:02 pm
Shark Tank, the U.S version of Dragon's Den, ended its first season a few weeks ago, but will air five more episodes--although those don't constitute a renewal for the series. Saturday, R...
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Andy Dehnart posted an article on reality blurred - Nov 2, 2009, 3:56 pm
Welcome to the part of every Amazing Race season where not much happens except teams break down because they've had enough. Learning that they were on their way to Amsterdam from Dubai, Matt ...
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