After less than 48 hours of recovery time, CBS transitions from its craptastic summer reality shows to its gold-standard series: the return of The Amazing Race on Sunday, and debut of Survivor Samoa tonight. In case you missed the non-stop barrage that was the series of 20 cast member interviews I wrote and posted over the past few weeks, I’m covering the show for three other publications and media outlets, making sure those 22 hours… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about Survivor Samoa » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook
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Kara DioGuardi is developing her own reality series, Dropped, and shopping it around. Here’s how she described it to New York magazine: “I’m starting to shop it now.
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Kara DioGuardi shopping reality show Dropped to give dropped artists a second chance
This is the final interview in a series of interviews with Survivor Samoa cast members. Interviewing Ashley was my strangest Survivor interview ever: it took place in the back seat of an SUV while it was raining, and after we were talking for three minut… (source: Realityblurred.com) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

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Ashley Trainer: ”I am here to prove how strong I actually am” (source: Realityblurred.com)
This is the final interview in a series of interviews with Survivor Samoa cast members. Interviewing Ashley was my strangest Survivor interview ever: it took place in the back seat of an SUV while it was raining, and after we were talking for three minutes or so, we were rudely interrupted because she needed to get her photo taken, and then shoot her CBS interview (people with cameras always get priority, alas!). So we didn’t..
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Ashley Trainer: "I am here to prove how strong I actually am"
This is the 19th in a series of interviews with Survivor Samoa cast members. Erik Cardona is smart, articulate, and self-confident, a word I use instead of arrogant because his cockiness comes with self-awareness and a lot of charisma. Like a younger, male version of Betsy Bolan, he’s extraordinarily likable and also very excited about playing, and I couldn’t believe that Erik would be an alternate who could potentially go home while, say, someone so..
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Erik Cardona: "I’m going to be fulfilling a boyhood dream to be a con man out here"
Despite having left American Idol over a year ago, Nigel Lythgoe couldn’t keep his stupid mouth shut about the show any time the media asked, and his most common refrain was about not liking fourth judges. Now, his Fox series, So You Think You Can Dance, has added a third judge, meaning it will have four judges when they have guest judges, which they usually do. That third judge is Adam Shankman, a choreographer on…
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Adam Shankman added as SYTYCD’s third permanent judge
Despite having left American Idol over a year ago, Nigel Lythgoe couldn’t keep his stupid mouth shut about the show any time the media asked, and his most common refrain was about not liking fourth judges. Now, his Fox series, So You Think You Can Dance, h…

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Adam Shankman added as SYTYCD’s third permanent judge (source: Realityblurred.com)
Big Brother 11 ended its season with higher ratings than the 10th season drew last summer, but was still below the previous summer season. Tuesday’s drawn-out finale had a few more viewers than last summer’s, as it was watched by 7.9 million people, up slightly from the 7.58 million who watched last year.
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BB11 had more viewers than last year, same among 18-49; Julie Chen interviews Natalie
This is the 18th in a series of interviews with Survivor Samoa cast members. Ben Browning and I talked for just over 10 minutes, by far my shortest interview this season. That was because he answered in short, declarative sentences and never went into muc..

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Ben Browning: ”love me or hate me, or fuck off, I could really care less” (source: Realityblurred.com)
Jordan Lloyd won Big Brother 11 after receiving five of the seven votes, including the (irrelevant) one cast by viewers, who voted more than 11 million votes.

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