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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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
TV News: New year could see gradual transformation or burst of change — So is this the year everything changes — the one where the media world shifts on its access?
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What tech turmoil lies ahead?
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
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…
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Fabio says Survivor jury "deviated" from Ponderosa voting plan
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
TV News: UK authorities still to weigh in — European regulators on Tuesday cleared the proposed acquisition of British pay TV operator BSkyB by U.S. media conglomerate News Corp., but noted their ruling doesn’t affect a separate investigation in the U.K.
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Regulators OK News Corp. BSkyB buy
Only two seasons of The Amazing Race have been released on DVD, seasons one and seven, but that may soon change, as the second season of the show has been listed on Amazon. TV Shows on DVD reports that while there is not even a pre-order available right now, “it likely is” coming soon “since the listing shows a running time (569 minutes), a studio-provided description (quoted just below), and package art which is not…
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The Amazing Race 2 is coming to DVD
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
