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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

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?

The year is concluding (as is the decade!), so it’s time for the requisite look back at the most popular stories on reality blurred over the past year. Despite the fact that I published, for the first time ever, the Survivor cast contract and rule book for the game, the most popular story was once again about porn

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2010′s most popular reality TV stories and shows

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that the teen birth rate dropped among all groups in 2009, the year that 16 and Pregnant debuted, and a survey reveals that teens say the show has helped them not get pregnant, probably by scaring the bejeezus out of them.

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16 and Pregnant helps prevent teen births

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

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Survivor survives move but has lowest-rated finale ever, which lost 3 million viewers in its first hour (Reality Blurred)

Survivor Nicaragua’s move back to Wednesday nights didn’t impact the show’s ratings, but this weak season was reflected in the ratings of the finale, which was the lowest-rated ever, and actually lost more than 3 million viewers between the first and second half-hours. About 17.236 million viewers tuned in during the first half-hour, but in the 8:30 half-our, just 13.895 million people were watching. They stuck around for the rest of the show and the…

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Survivor survives move but has lowest-rated finale ever, which lost 3 million viewers in its first hour

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12 days of reality: Osbournes ham-throwing (Reality Blurred)