
Next Tuesday, MTV debuts its newest docudrama: Jersey Shore, which follows a group of men and women on vacation in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. MTV's announcement of the show told viewers, "Grab your hair gel, wax that Cadillac and get those tattooed biceps ready to fist pump with the best this s...
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ABC received more than 1,500 complaints about Adam Lambert's AMA performance, but it turns out that's not really a big deal after all, because Dancing with the Stars is even more controversial, and we all know how crazy risque that show is. Advertising Age reports that "ABC gets more complaints f...
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Next Iron Chef 2 winner Jose Garces beat Jehangir Mehta on Sunday's finale of the Food Network series, and will appear on Iron Chef for the first time in mid-January. He was selected by the annoying judging panel--seriously, has there ever been a more excruciatingly whiny group of judges than Don...
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Two and a half years after it began, Jon & Kate Plus Eight is over after 116 episodes. While it is over as a TLC docudrama, the series will, of course, live on in DVDs of all five seasons, and we have probably not seen the last of Jon and Kate Gosselin, alas. During the episode, Kate said, "I nev...
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American Idol 8 runner-up Adam Lambert's debut record For Your Entertainment is out today, as is worldwide sensation and Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle's debut I Dreamed a Dream. Neither won their respective shows, but are arguably getting more attention than Kris Allen's debut, creat...
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Adam Lambert is still a trending topic on Twitter this morning thanks to his performance of "For Your Entertainment" on the American Music Awards last night, which featured Adam making out with his keyboardist, groping with various male and female dancers, dragging dancers around the stage by the...
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After a spectacular debut that was up 44 percent over Bravo, Lifetime's version of Project Runway concluded with an episode that just barely surpassed its record-breaking opening episode, and was down from the season five season finale on Bravo--though not by as much as some would have you believ...
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Next week is Thanksgiving week, and while I'll update with breaking news for the first part of the week, I'll be taking some time away from the TV, so there will be a double Amazing Race post on Nov. 30. Here's what to watch if you need to get away from family or friends during the holiday week: ...
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At the end of last night's Survivor Samoa episode, jury member Erik excitedly whispered, "Man, this is good shit." He was thrilled that Galu was getting its comeuppance, but he could have also been talking about the whole episode. There was a lot of great stuff, like a tie vote, Natalie dangling ...
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Seven months after the three finalists presented collections at Fashion Week, Project Runway 6 ended, with the win going to Irina Shabayeva. Although Heidi told her the judges were "disappointed in [her] lack of color," Michael Kors said Irina had "the best sense of showmanship." After she won, H...
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It's no surprise that Hell's Kitchen doesn't have a great track record of awarding its prizes to its winners, but its winners have rarely discussed that. In an interview with the New York Post, season two winner Heather West--who worked as a sous chef during season six but was pretty much invisib...
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NBC has announced a new series that will award what it calls "arguably the biggest prize in reality show history," which is "a new restaurant chain in four cities across America." United Plates of America is a competition judged "by a panel of real investors who fund the chain of restaurants with...
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reality blurred Survivor Samoa: To quote Erik, "Man, this is good shit."

reality blurred This Sprint product placement/ad on Survivor is out of control. There's more Palm Pre than Russell.

Nicole Fox is America's next next next next next next next next next next next next next top model, winning the short model cycle of America's Next Top Model. She joined other winners in near-immediate obscurity and non-top model status after beating Laura Kirkpatrick in a final runway show invol...
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The Insider's panel of pseudo-journalists and C-list celebrities may be establishing itself as the go-to jury for taking down reality stars who need to be challenged. As ironic as it is, a tabloid TV show--a genre that usually revels in publicist-fed fluff or sensational non-news--is doing the wo...
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One year ago on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 173 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in Mumbai as a result of 10 simultaneous terrorist attacks. Two documentaries debuting on TV in the next week examine those events from the perspective of both the terrorists and the victims. Tonight at 8 p.m....
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Survivor is now casting for seasons 21 and 22, although it has not yet been officially renewed by CBS, nor has Jeff Probst announced whether or not he's returning as host, since his contract expires at the end of season 20. However, it's typical for the show to start casting before being official...
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Bravo tells us on-screen that Chef Academy cast member Emmanuel DelCour is a "graphic artist," and on its web site says he "has acted in commercials and television series and worked as a personal trainer" and "enjoys swimming cage free with Great White Sharks, drawing and graphic design." But gue...
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The most anticipated celebrity-doing-a-job-that-seems-wildly-inappropriate-yet-somehow-perfect series has to be A&E's Steven Seagal: Lawman, although he faces heavy competition from Tony Danza teaching high school English for his A&E series. Anyway, the network is previewing Seagal's series tonig...
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Monday night's penultimate Jon & Kate Plus Eight was composed of "never before seen footage," and it was titled "Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Broken Episodes." From the opening moments, when Kate made dinner for a charity and said it should be signed "love from Jon and Kate plus eight--minus J...
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Dancing with the Stars 9 is down to three, um, stars and their professional partners: Donny Osmond, Mya, and Kelly Osbourne. Joanna Krupa and Derek Hough were eliminated last night, surprising people who are actually still watching the show, who surprise me. The season ends next week with a 90-mi...
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Julianne Hough won't return for Dancing with the Stars 10 next season after skipping season nine, which means her second attempt at quitting seems to have stuck. This morning, she was on Ryan Seacrest's radio show, and said she's currently working on the Cher and Christina Aguilera film Burlesque...
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Adam Lambert responded to Out magazine's editor's claims that Adam's management and publicists didn't want him to appear "too gay" in the magazine's coverage of him by addressing Out editor Aaron Hicklin on Twitter, writing, "Chill! Guess ya gotta get attention for the magazine. U too are at the ...
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Although Adam Lambert talked to Out magazine with refreshing honesty about his sexuality and other subjects, but 19 Entertainment, his management and record label, don't want people thinking he's "too gay," and would only let him be on the cover since he appeared in the photo with a straight woma...
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Heidi and Spencer Pratt's "insipid" book is being released today, and they're all over the news. How amazing. First, they're making headlines thanks to an AP interview in which they claim to be shopping a reality series that would also include how famous they are. Despite the lack of details, tha...
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A day after Padma's appearance on 30 Rock, another prime-time scripted series had a guest appearance by a reality show, though only in the form of footage. It was part of Friday's episode of CBS' Numbers, which up until Lie to Me and The Mentalist debuted, was my favorite procedural drama, perhap...
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Adam Lambert is part of Out magazine's Out 100 for 2009, and in an interview, he addresses what he thought when photos of him making out with guys appeared online in the middle of his time on American Idol 8. He's covered some of this ground before, but talks about it in greater detail here, and ...
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Watching this outtake from last night's The Amazing Race 15 episode, I was kind of disturbed. While the episode ended with Sam and Dan, and Flight Time and Big Easy, fighting and arguing, in reality, they all resolved their nearly non-existent conflict--despite Phil Keoghan's attempt to goad them...
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Survivor Africa winner Ethan Zohn is now is now halfway through 25 days of radiation for his stage two Hodgkin's lymphoma, and that will be followed by and then have a stem cell transplant--which requires a month-long hospitalization. His first two rounds of chemo were unsuccessful and his cancer...
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