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Next week: give thanks for Jon and Kate Plus Eight's finale, and Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs marathons
Next week is Thanksgiving week, and while I'll update with breaking news for the first part of the week, I'll be taking some time away from the TV, so there will be a double Amazing Race post on Nov. 30. Here's what to watch if you need to get away from family or friends during the holiday ...
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Tie vote leads to Laura being voted out during an episode that was "good shit," as Erik said
At the end of last night's Survivor Samoa episode, jury member Erik excitedly whispered, "Man, this is good shit." He was thrilled that Galu was getting its comeuppance, but he could have also been talking about the whole episode. There was a lot of great stuff, like a tie vote, Russell finding ...
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Lifetime's Project Runway 6 finds a winner, and it's not viewers
Seven months after the three finalists presented collections at Fashion Week , Project Runway 6 ended, with the win going to Irina Shabayeva. Although Heidi told her the judges were "disappointed in [her] lack of color," Michael Kors said Irina had "the best sense of showmanship." After she ...
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Heather: Hell's Kitchen sponsors "not going to completely trust someone they saw on TV"
It's no surprise that Hell's Kitchen doesn't have a great track record of awarding its prizes to its winners, but its winners have rarely discussed that. In an interview with the New York Post , season two winner Heather West--who worked as a sous chef during season six but was pretty much ...
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NBC's United Plates of America's prize called "biggest ever": a restaurant chain
NBC has announced a new series that will award what it calls "arguably the biggest prize in reality show history," which is "a new restaurant chain in four cities across America." United Plates of America is a competition judged "by a panel of real investors who fund the chain of restaurants ...
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Top Model has its shortest, youngest winner yet in Nicole Fox
Nicole Fox is America's next next next next next next next next next next next next next top model, winning the short model cycle of America's Next Top Model . She joined other winners in near-immediate obscurity and non-top model status after beating Laura Kirkpatrick in a final runway show ...
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After being beaten up by Insider panel, Spencer apologizes, Heidi will try to be "more positive"
The Insider's panel of pseudo-journalists and C-list celebrities may be establishing itself as the go-to jury for taking down reality stars who need to be challenged. As ironic as it is, a tabloid TV show--a genre that usually revels in publicist-fed fluff or sensational non-news--is doing the ...
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HBO's Terror in Mumbai and PBS' Mumbai Massacre docs use audio, interviews from terrorists, victims
One year ago on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 173 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in Mumbai as a result of 10 simultaneous terrorist attacks. Two documentaries debuting on TV in the next week examine those events from the perspective of both the terrorists and the victims. Tonight at 8 ...
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Survivor starts casting for seasons 21 and 22, which would tape next summer
Survivor is now casting for seasons 21 and 22, although it has not yet been officially renewed by CBS, nor has Jeff Probst announced whether or not he's returning as host, since his contract expires at the end of season 20. However, it's typical for the show to start casting before being ...
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Chef Academy's Emmanuel DelCour is porn star Jean Val Jean
Bravo tells us on-screen that Chef Academy cast member Emmanuel DelCour is a "graphic artist," and on its web site says he "has acted in commercials and television series and worked as a personal trainer" and "enjoys swimming cage free with Great White Sharks, drawing and graphic design."  ...
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A&E previewing Steven Seagal: Lawman online tonight; "this is not Hollywood; it's for real"
The most anticipated celebrity-doing-a-job-that-seems-wildly-inappropriate-yet-somehow-perfect series has to be A&E;'s Steven Seagal: Lawman , although he faces heavy competition from Tony Danza teaching high school English for his A&E; series. Anyway, the network is previewing Seagal's ...
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TLC and Kate make Jon look better by trying to make him look bad
Monday night's penultimate Jon & Kate Plus Eight was composed of "never before seen footage," and it was titled "Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Broken Episodes." From the opening moments, when Kate made dinner for a charity and said it should be signed "love from Jon and Kate plus eight--minus ...
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TLC, Kate make Jon look better by trying to make him look bad
Monday night's penultimate Jon & Kate Plus Eight was composed of "never before seen footage," and it was titled "Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Broken Episodes." From the opening moments, when Kate made dinner for a charity and said it should be signed "love from Jon and Kate plus eight--minus ...
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Dancing with the Stars 9 has its final three
Dancing with the Stars 9 is down to three, um, stars and their professional partners: Donny Osmond, Mya, and Kelly Osbourne. Joanna Krupa and Derek Hough were eliminated last night, surprising people who are actually still watching the show, who surprise me. The season ends next week with ...
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Julianne Hough won't return for Dancing with the Stars 10
Julianne Hough won't return for Dancing with the Stars 10 next season after skipping season nine, which means her second attempt at quitting seems to have stuck. This morning, she was on Ryan Seacrest's radio show , and said she's currently working on the Cher and Christina Aguilera film ...
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Adam Lambert to Out: "refrain from projecting your publications' agenda onto my career"
Adam Lambert responded to Out magazine's editor's claims that Adam's management and publicists didn't want him to appear "too gay" in the magazine's coverage of him by addressing Out editor Aaron Hicklin on Twitter, writing , "Chill! Guess ya gotta get attention for the magazine. U too are at ...
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19 Entertainment didn't want Adam Lambert to appear "too gay" in Out magazine
Although Adam Lambert talked to Out magazine with refreshing honesty about his sexuality and other subjects, but 19 Entertainment, his management and record label, don't want people thinking he's "too gay," and would only let him be on the cover since he appeared in the photo with a straight ...
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Heidi, Spencer get book-release headlines by shopping reality show, attacking Al Roker
Heidi and Spencer Pratt's "insipid" book is being released today, and they're all over the news. How amazing. First, they're making headlines thanks to an AP interview in which they claim to be shopping a reality series that would also include how famous they are. Despite the lack of ...
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Numb3rs compares Survivor players to prisoners
A day after Padma's appearance on 30 Rock , another prime-time scripted series had a guest appearance by a reality show, though only in the form of footage. It was part of Friday's episode of CBS' Numbers, which up until Lie to Me and The Mentalist debuted, was my favorite procedural drama, ...
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Phil Keoghan was "pleased" with conflict from gay brothers, Globetrotters, who were "cool"
Watching this outtake from last night's The Amazing Race 15 episode, I was kind of disturbed. While the episode ended with Sam and Dan, and Flight Time and Big Easy, fighting and arguing, in reality, they all resolved their nearly non-existent conflict--despite Phil Keoghan's attempt to goad ...
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