Archive for September, 2008

Production suspended on Rock of Love 3 after crew member falls asleep, kills two while driving

Production on the third season of Rock of Love has been temporarily stopped following a fatal accident involving a crew member who police say fell asleep while driving and killed two people and injuring others. For the production of Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels, the women live on…

Production suspended on Rock of Love 3 after crew member falls asleep, kills two while driving

Production on the third season of Rock of Love has been temporarily stopped following a fatal accident involving a crew member who police say fell asleep while driving and killed two people and injuring others. For the production of Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels, the women live on…

Paris Hilton’s My New BFF debuts tonight

More than a year after the cancellation of The Simple Life, Paris Hilton returns to reality TV tonight with Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, a competition to become Paris’ new best friend. It debuts at 10 p.m. ET on MTV. Because Paris is about as genuine in her search for…

Real World casting for season 22, wants student government, RAs, EMTs to apply

With The Real World Brooklyn in production and pissing off the neighbors, the show’s production company have already started casting for the next season, which will be number 22. Like last season, when producers looked for activists and people with “depth,” the press release and casting information says they “are…

Amazing Race debut down 25% compared to last fall, Extreme Makeover down 20%

Two Sunday reality staples both lost large numbers of viewers compared to their debuts last fall. Ratings for Sunday’s debut episode of The Amazing Race 13 were down from last year, when the show had its best debut ever last November for season 12. Sunday, 10.29 million people watched, down…

Contender drops host Sugar Ray Leonard for Tony Danza, announces boxers

Besides changing networks and moving to Singapore, the boxing reality competition series The Contender will now be hosted by Tony Danza, of Taxi and Who’s the Boss fame. Danza, who was a professional boxer in the 1970s, replaces Sugar Ray Leonard, who has hosted the show alone since season two…

CBS edits, pulls challenge video even as Google searches are lead by Marcus Lehman’s penis

The video of the Survivor Gabon challenge featuring accidental nudity has been pulled from CBS’ web site, which now says “The requested video content has expired.” The full episode is still online, but Marcus’ penis has been blurred out (it’s at the 61:40 mark). Also removed was the compilation video…

TLC debuts 17 Kids and Counting even as Jon & Kate Plus 8 criticism increases

Tonight at 10 p.m., TLC debuts another show about an overpopulated family. 17 Kids and Counting follows the Duggar family and their 10 boys and seven girls–and Jim Bob and Michelle, who are pregnant yet again with a baby that will undoubtedly be named something that starts with J, because…

Anthrax suspect threatened to kill Kathryn Price

The Mole’s original mole, Kathryn Price, was threatened by the man who the FBI and Justice Department say is responsible for killing people with mailed anthrax in 2001. Army researcher Dr. Bruce Ivins, who killed himself in late July, was apparently fascinated by her and wrote about killing her in…

Marcus Lehman’s penis exposed on Survivor

CBS is notorious for its often-unnecessary blurring of Survivor cast members. Anything deemed offensive–a bit too much breast, some pubic hair, a revealing bulge–gets a fuzzy spot placed over it. It’s so odd and amusing that there’s even now a video compilation of the “gratuitous blurring” from the first episode….