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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Chris Lambton explains why he rejected The Bachelor
American Idol has hired Ray Chew as its new band director, but is planning to hide him and the musicians, replacing them on the stage with audience members, because as we all know, American Idol’s biggest problem was that it had too few coached audience members getting screen time. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Ray Chew would join the show; he’s previously produced and conducted live music for live TV shows such as the… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about American Idol 10 » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook .
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American Idol will replace the on-stage band with audience members
Some good news to start 2011: Discovery’s Man vs. Wild and Survivorman were credited with saving a 14-year-old’s life
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Reality TV saves teenager’s life
Does it help or hurt an actor to go on a reality TV show? There’s varied evidence, from The Real World’s Jamie Chung, who will be in the Hangover sequel, to Survivor’s Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, who bragged about her contract with CBS but hasn’t apparently turned that into anything since her two appearances on the show, even though she was working actively before it
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Casting directors discuss whether actors should do reality TV
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?
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
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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
We’re winding down this 12 Days of Reality TV feature, and that means I’m out of ideas, so it’s time to recycle some.
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12 days of reality: regifting 11 years of reality blurred end-of-year recaps
The Osbournes changed everything. They made everyone realize reality TV wasn’t just for unknown schmoes, and that famous people had something to both give and gain from showing us more of themselves on reality shows
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12 days of reality: Osbournes ham-throwing
The official announcement of Survivor Redemption Island on Sunday night was followed by additional details about the new, game-changing twist. Among other things, there will usually be two challenges per episode, a combined reward and immunity plus the new redemption duel, while the twist is something that CBS has rejected for years.
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More details about Survivor Redemption Island
Of the gifts reality TV has given us, it has given us a lot to laugh at and mock. The 2003 Fox series Joe Millionaire formalized that mockery by satirizing The Bachelor, pretending its star was a millionaire when he really was not.
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12 days of reality: Joe Millionaire’s slurps, Joe Schmo’s schmo
