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TV News: CW’s ‘Model’ wraps on a high — On a Wednesday featuring repeats of some top shows, an original episode of CBS reality vet “Survivor” stood tallest and helped the net score a victory in demos. Fox and NBC shows were on the rise, and CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” hit a season high with its finale.

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‘Survivor’ lifts CBS ratings

The Biggest Loser strike is over, after producers and the union representing crew members came to an agreement two weeks after the crew walked out and production shut down. Among those who didn’t work were host Alison Sweeney and trainers Bob Harper and Alison Sweeney, who not only refused to cross picket lines but actually raised money for striking workers

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Biggest Loser strike ends; crew unionizes, host and trainers supported crew with auctions

The Amazing Race 17′s fifth-place team, Chad Waltrip and Stephanie Smith, got engaged on the race and are now three months pregnant with their first child. Meanwhile, Chad says “people are right” about their criticism of his frequently awful behavior

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Amazing Race’s Chad and Stephanie are married, pregnant

After years of rumors that American Idol would move from its comfortable Tuesday and Wednesday night timeslots, the show is officially moving to Wednesdays and Thursdays, and will once again have hour-long results shows, meaning Fox lied about that yet again.

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American Idol moves to Wed. (vs. Survivor) and Thurs. (with one-hour results shows, dammit)

Sarah Palin’s Alaska had TLC’s highest-rated debut ever last night, as close to five million viewers tuned in to a show that cost the network about $1 million an episode. That’s about half the record number of viewers Jon & Kate Plus Eight got when they separated. A TLC press release said that it “is the #1 program launch in TLC history …

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Sarah Palin gives TLC its highest-rated debut ever; is her show dangerous or innocuous?

The Emmy-winning ABC reality series Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is now searching for families to be cast on the show after the school system in Los Angeles rejected the show’s request to help make over its cafeterias, as the chef did during the first season in West Virginia. A Los Angeles Unified School District director told the Los Angeles Times, “Our feeling was that his time would be better spent or invested in other communities.”… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about ABC » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook .

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Los Angeles schools reject Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution; show now wants to help families

A cast member on The Real World’s currently-filming season in Las Vegas is a gay porn star. Dustin Zito, a 24-year-old from Rayne, Louisiana, has performed as Spencer on Fratpad, a site that features straight men living together in a house, where they are often naked and sometimes have sex with each other. Vevmo has pictures and first reported his connection to porn and casting, while Dudetube has R-rated screen caps of his work and..

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Gay porn star cast on Real World Las Vegas

So You Think You Can Dance will return next summer for an eighth season, despite idiotic rumors that it’s been cancelled, and its format will be a hybrid of last summer’s new format and the previous structure, according to its head judge and executive producer, Nigel Lythgoe. Responding to a ridiculous rumor that the show has been cancelled (Nigel says that’s “a LIE”), he wrote on Twitter that the show will be “Back next year..

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SYTYCD not cancelled; eighth season will include all-stars, top 20, maybe Mary Murphy

The Amazing Race 17 has minor controversy on its hands, as last week’s episode ended in a non-elimination for Nick DeCarlo and Vicki Casciola, but the team didn’t complete the required punishment, a speed bump task, this episode. The answer lies in last week’s episode: There never was a speed bump task. At the end of the episode, when Nick and Vicki arrive at the mat, Phil says, “This is a non-elimination leg and you..

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Amazing Race’s missing task: there never was a speed bump for Nick and Vicki