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Here are last week’s must-read stories, and a list of notable shows airing next week. The Past This was a weird week in reality TV news: Mike Tyson will race pigeons, Spencer Pratt claimed he was leaving The Hills to to fight “threats” against the USA (though there may be another story), Top Chef’s Marcel is getting a show on SyFy, a French documentary pretended to electrocute people to make an interesting point about TV,..

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Next week: Kirstie Alley, Jamie Oliver, Virgin flight attendants, and new Dancing stars

The non-celebrity Apprentice will return to NBC for a seventh season, the network just announced. Just under a year ago, NBC posted and removed a casting notice for the regular edition, which hasn’t aired in three years. There’s not been official word about the return date, but it will probably air in the fall

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Regular Apprentice will return to NBC with a flimsy connection to the recession

Golden Globes News: Their Globe nominations reflect big themes they tackled — If the HFPA can be faulted for its occasional popcorn choices, the org has historically maintained a highbrow sensibility in the directors race, with this year being no exception.

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Directors think globally

Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing ended its third season last night, and for me it went from guilty pleasure (I loved to hate them) to guilty displeasure. Josh Flagg and Chad Rogers are such terrible actors that they can barely handle the non-stop set-up scen..

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Million Dollar Listing keeps up Josh, Chad’s contrived conflict, awkward set-ups as Madison comes out (source: Realityblurred.com)

After The Amazing Race’s seventh consecutive Emmy win, I think it should withdraw from competition, and Survivor host Jeff Probst suggested the same thing to reporters backstage at the Emmys last night.

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Probst: Amazing Race should ”pull itself out of competition”; Van Munster: ”it’s unlikely” (source: Realityblurred.com)

The best new reality series of the fall, Brick City, debuts tonight on Sundance Channel at 10 p.m.

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Sundance’s compelling "genre-buster" Brick City debuts tonight, follows Newark residents

Despite relentless promotion featuring Russell H.’s villainy, Survivor Samoa had the franchise’s lowest-rated debut ever on Thursday night, although it continued its streak of winning its timeslot. With 11.5 million viewers, the episode lost a significant number of viewers from recent debuts: just over two million fewer viewers from Tocantins (13.63 million) and 1.5 million from Gabon a year ago (13 million).

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Survivor Samoa debut is the series’ lowest-rated ever, but it still wins its timeslot

Despite relentless promotion featuring Russell H.’s villainy, Survivor Samoa had the franchise’s lowest-rated debut ever on Thursday night, although it continued its streak of winning its timeslot.

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Survivor Samoa debut is the series’ lowest-rated ever, but it still wins its timeslot (source: Realityblurred.com)

After appearing on the US version this summer, Janice Dickinson will once again appear on the UK’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here, but this time as the host of the ninth edition

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Janice Dickinson hosting UK’s I’m a Celebrity (source: Realityblurred.com)