Ah, CBS. We were expecting for Big Brother to not air preacher's son Ollie's homophobic rants that were captured on the live feeds — but during last night's episode, the show completely fabricated the entire scene.
The premiere of Elle's reality show Stylista has been moved up a week. It now hits the CW on Oct. 22 at 9pm. We updated our BlackBerry calendar before even typing this. [TVW]
Milf Island was the fictional show-within-a-show on 30 Rock and quickly became one of the best running gags of the season. "20 MILFs, 50 eighth grade boys, no rules" — even Ben Silverman can't come up with this stuff.
Who knew that it would latch on to the cultural zeitgeist so quickly?
Now MILF Island is becoming a show IRL — only VH1 is calling it Camp Cougar, and letting reality show alumni Lisa Gastineau host.
Sure, some of these foxy older ladies might not be mamas, hence "Cougars" and not "MILFs." Still, the creepy implications for this show are unilateral: Imagine if they had this sort of reality competition for older men trying to pick up hot, nubile, women? (Beside The Pick-Up Artist, of course.)
Not to mention, most people don't even know who Lisa Gastineau is. And while that didn't stop any of the Real Housewives from getting gigs, we found some much more obvious choices to host this thing: CONTINUED »
MTV has put out a casting call for their newest shockingly ill-conceived reality show, Model Makers, which will feature young girls being judged on how well they slim down in order to prove their love of the catwalk. So disturbing, but not anything new for reality television, which as of late actually seemed to be pulling back from the precarious brink of Milf Island:
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Need more evidence that MTV's The Hills is one big piece of scripted reality programming that has veered completely away from organic plotlines?
How about showing Whitney at a party Lauren threw for Audrina's birthday, then having Whitney ask Lauren about the party in a later scene because, supposedly, she wasn't there? [Pink Is The New Blog]
Having exhausted all 18 people willing to try out to be her new best friend, Paris Hilton is heading to the U.K. for another chance. Her reality show Paris Hilton's New BFF has been picked up by Britain's ITV2, and will follow Ms. Hilton in the same routine as her U.S. version, but its working title is the acronym-less Paris Hilton's New Best Friend, to factor in the additional second of attention span Europeans have for Hilton.
Last night's The Hills wasn't the only "reality" show that's begging our attention. So too is Vogue's non-reality web series, which debuted its first episode after spending last month wrapped in hype.
On model reality shows, the first episode is where you meet the characters that you're going to love, hate, and want to be over the course of the series. So let's meet the narcissistic talent, shall we? CONTINUED »
Too much time has passed since Heidi Montag's latest assault on music, and luckily for us the "singer" decided to release a new single just in time for tonight's season premiere of The Hills. The new song is called "Overdosin" and makes us want to follow the title's lead.
The upcoming NBC reality show Celebrity Come Dine with Me is an American spin-off of a popular British show where a celebrity host has four of his celebrity friends over for dinner, and then gets judged on criteria ranging from food (edible? Macro-biotic?) to entertainment (karoke? charades?). Somehow this will produce a "winner" from the range of hosts, although it seems like there is only one host/hostess per show, and implies the same guest "judges" travel from house to house, which would mean there are four celebrities in Hollywood that have nothing else to but run around town visiting go around and visit their other celebrity friends. This is different from what celebrities normally do, because there will be cameras following them here.
That all four of these celebrities are friends with all these other, ostensibly more famous people whose home they are going to judge means exactly zero of this people are actually really famous.
So who might be on the guest list for dinner theatre? Let us imagine: CONTINUED »
Oh. Goodie. First came L.A.'s The Hills. Next will come its New York spin-off. And this fall, we'll also be treated to a D.C. version of white girls of privilege. From something called PB&J Television (they produced Sports Illustrated's model reality show) comes Washington's attempt at "unscripted" reality, with an as-yet-untitled show that's set to start filming in September and rushed to air by November. And how do we know it's a sure thing? Well, you never really know, but Lifetime did pick it up and supposedly plans to air it immediately following Project Runway, which it's stealing from Bravo to create quite the perfect lead-in. "Casting hasn't been finalized, according to one source, but the primary characters — local socialites/hotties/20-somethings Katherine Kennedy, Krista Johnson and Sophie Pyle — remain on board. Johnson’s younger sister, Alexa Johnson, will also play a role in the show, most likely, although she and the show are still working out specifics. The Johnson sisters are alumnae of South Carolina’s College of Charleston, Kennedy graduated from Loyola Marymount and Pyle is taking a semester off from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." Also, they plan on being "more realistic": CONTINUED »
Cougars:NYC, a new reality show that would make Hunter Parrish blush, is looking for two final 40+ women to join its cast, so they're throwing a party to find them. Men are welcome too, but only those under 35. [Cougar and the Club]
While Steppin' Out may battle Our Town for the least-read NYC-area publications, it does get its name in the news thanks to Chaunce Hayden, the magazine's editor and one-time Page Six item planter (before a nasty little libel suit put an end to that). The magazine is a place for mini-somebodies to make names for themselves.
Enter this as-yet-unpublished cover of Steppin' Out, featuring a one Shallon Lester. Who? She's the Rush & Molloy gossip stringer who speaks with a slight lisp, and whose "single girl" videos for DoubleAgent.com are actually funny. (She's also only been to the Hamptons, like, once, so she's insta-likable.)
Lester is also the star of an upcoming reality show, which means this cover may be only the beginning! CONTINUED »
Speaking of things we can’t believe, human minstrel show Tiffany “New York” Pollard has once again been granted license to stymie the progress of civil rights with a crappy reality show, New York Goes to Hollywood.
This latest installment in the televised downfall of a human being follows Pollard on her quest for “legitimate, Hollywood fame.”
The Matt Grant edition of The Bachelor wasn’t any more entertaining than every other season, but the breakup is proving otherwise. Former fiance (and constant famewhore) Shayne Lamas told People magazine about her plans for the engagement ring, purchased by ABC: She’s keeping it “safe and clean and in a glass box — like a glass slipper.” Also? Matt is totally on board with the idea and even “wants to come over and look at it.”
Naturally, the magazine then got a response from Matt, because this is middle school and two adults can’t just decide what to do with a piece of jewelry without using the media as a go-between. And, of course, Matt says he never spoke with Shayne about the subject.
ABC's hit reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is notable not just for keeping drunk Ty Pennington employed, but also for changing people's lives. Down and out poor folks, who broke off the short end of the wishbone in life, get tossed the bigger end of the turkey carcass — and given a completely new home, gratis.
As cameras rolled and the coach bus pulled away, the overjoyed family toured their new home, thanked Sears and Home Depot, and cried in all the right places. Then, after neighbors were done looking on in envy, the show's crew left town, and the family was left to enjoy the spoils of their good fortune. Right?
Actually, no. In this housing market, even the lucky receivers of freebies are getting screwed. And sometimes, it's totally their fault. [AP] CONTINUED »
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