TV News: Writers Guild also changes ceremony location — Citing a labor dispute, the Directors Guild of America has shifted its Jan. 29 awards show from the Century Plaza to the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
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DGA Awards move to Hollywood & Highland
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American Idol will have online voting to select 15 finalists (Realityblurred.com)
Viewers will apparently be able to vote to select American Idol 10′s finalists online, two reports and a Twitter page reveal. Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe previously revealed that the semi-final rounds would be dropped, and this news explains how the show will go from hundreds in Hollywood to 15 finalists. (Yes, 15.) A Twitter account for “AI 10 Contestants” says “Voting begins Thursday, February 24 at ATT.com/Idol”, as the blog AI Now noticed
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American Idol will have online voting to select 15 finalists
Golden Globes News: Globes voters don’t influence other members — It’s no surprise Silvia Bizio is partial to Italian movies: She was born and raised in Italy. As the Hollywood correspondent for Italy’s second-largest circulation newspaper, Bizio jokes that she practically commutes between her home in Southern California and Rome.
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No hometown faves at HFPA
TV News: She was exec producer on ‘Extreme Makeover” — Denise Cramsey, the reality TV producer who died Tuesday of a brain aneurysm at 41, was known as a dynamo who won two Emmys for producing “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and was constantly juggling disparate projects.
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Cramsey’s death leaves TV reality world stunned
TV News: HFPA members support local pics but won’t campaign for them — It’s no surprise Silvia Bizio is partial to Italian movies: She was born and raised in Italy.
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Global grab bag
ABC’s attempt to turn the popularity of Dancing with the Stars into a spin-off series has failed: Skating with the Stars lost a huge number of its sibling show’s viewers, and kept losing about half its viewers throughout its premiere. The two-hour premiere was watched by 11.1 million people, although as The Hollywood Reporter says, “it actually didn’t
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Skating with the Stars trips, slices itself open with its skate, and bleeds to death
Food Network’s docudrama series Ace of Cakes will end following the conclusion of its 10th season, which debuts in January but has already been filmed. Duff Goldman announced that on Charm City Cake’s blog, saying that “[a]bout three weeks ago, we completed filming and wished a tearful goodbye to our beloved crew from Authentic Entertainment (and threw a rager of a wrap party).” He added that because the series “has been in production for nearly… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about Food Network » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook .
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Ace of Cakes ending after 10 seasons
MTV’s The Real World is currently filming its 25th season in Las Vegas. While its cast includes a gay porn star, it’s perhaps more notable that this season represents the franchise’s return to a city it’s been to before. And its executive producer, Jonathan Murray, said that’s basically because they’ve run out of cities.
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Why The Real World keeps returning to the same cities
A trio of Discovery Channel reality shows–Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and Storm Chasers–draw more people with penises and testicles than any other nonfiction series on cable in prime-time. That’s impressive and a lot of caveats. Mike Rowe’s always awesome exploration of other people’s jobs returned for a new season Tuesday, and that episode “was the #1 non-fiction cable program (excluding news) among [men ages 25 to 54] and the #1 non-fiction cable program among [men ages…
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Discovery’s reality shows draw the most men
