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Amber Portwood gets $280K a year, doesn’t "want to be known as Amber from Teen Mom"

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:42:03 +0000

Teen Mom star Amber Portwood was released from jail last week, but not before a judge forced her to reveal in open court how much she earns every year: $280,000, which is two six-month $140,000 contracts. Amber cannot contact her former fiance Gary Shirley after being “arrested Monday on two felony counts and a misdemeanor count of domestic battery and one felony count of neglect of a dependant,” The Herald Bulletin reports

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WWE Tough Enough resurrected by USA Network

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:26:00 +0000

The series that lets people compete for a pro wrestling contract will return to TV more than six years after being effectively canceled. WWE Tough Enough, which aired three seasons on MTV and then a fourth season as part of SmackDown that featured current WWE champion Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, has been picked up by USA Network. USA said in a press release that it will debut April 4 and “will feature a group of…

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Chris Lambton explains why he rejected The Bachelor

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000

Brad Womack returns to ABC tonight to try to find love again, and will face the two women he rejected (Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas), an event that turned him into a villain but saved The Bachelor by making it relevant and interesting again. The man who producers first approached about fronting the 15th season, The Bachelorette runner-up Chris Lambton, says he rejected the show and a mid-six-figure paycheck because he didn’t like the way…

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Sea Shepherd, whalers’ claims "impossible to verify," AP says; do they not know of Whale Wars?

admin — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:56:49 +0000

Is it possible that the Associated Press has no knowledge of Animal Planet’s outstanding reality series Whale Wars, which documents the Southern Ocean battles between Sea Shepherd conservationists and Japanese whalers? It certainly seems like that, because in a story about Sea Shepherd finding the whaling fleet–before they were able to start whaling–the AP’s Kristen Gelineau writes, “Every year, Japan and Sea Shepherd make claims of aggression against each other, but the accounts are generally..

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Sea Shepherd, whalers’ claims "impossible to verify," AP says; do they not know of Whale Wars?

The year in reality TV, 2010

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:10:10 +0000

The year’s end is upon us, and although the transition from today to tomorrow won’t really be noticeable in any other meaningful way, the change from one number to the next prompts us to be nostalgic.

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Nielsen tallies top trends

admin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000

TV News: Year-end report offers insight into consumers — Betty White and M&Ms made their mark in commercials. NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show” managed to rank No. 2 among primetime broadcast TV shows in product placement activity even though it was on for only the first five weeks of 2010.

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2010′s most popular reality TV stories and shows

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:10:36 +0000

The year is concluding (as is the decade!), so it’s time for the requisite look back at the most popular stories on reality blurred over the past year. Despite the fact that I published, for the first time ever, the Survivor cast contract and rule book for the game, the most popular story was once again about porn

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12 days of reality TV: 12 reader suggestions, from Erik giving up immunity on Survivor to The Real World’s Pedro

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:52:42 +0000

And we’ve reached the end of the 12 Days of Reality TV, a celebration of the gifts reality TV has given us that’s only loosely connected to the song it borrows its name from. Today’s gifts come from you. There were so many great suggestions it was difficult to narrow them down to 12, but I loved reading them all, and was thrilled that so many were on my list of highlights, too

16 and Pregnant helps prevent teen births

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:08:07 +0000

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that the teen birth rate dropped among all groups in 2009, the year that 16 and Pregnant debuted, and a survey reveals that teens say the show has helped them not get pregnant, probably by scaring the bejeezus out of them.

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Fabio says Survivor jury "deviated" from Ponderosa voting plan

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:48:39 +0000

In his interview with HitFix, Survivor Nicaragua winner Jud “Fabio” Birza is a bit more coherent than I’ve seen in other interviews (it’s no surprise that a jury member wrote 420 next to his name when they cast their vote), and reveals that he was surprised by how many votes Chase received, and those were probably sympathy votes that went against what the jury planned at Ponderosa. In the interview, Fabio said, “I thought I…