Reality Shows

Burning Love Co-Creator Erica Oyama Gives Us Dating Advice

Erica Oyama is the great comedic mind behind the scripted comedy web series Burning Love on Yahoo. The show parodies reality dating shows like The Bachelor, and recently released its third season while winning a Webby Award for Special Achievement of the Year. The first season made the jump from ti ... More >>

Why Is Everyone So Pissed About the EDM Reality Show?

As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a competitive EDM reality ... More >>

Howdy, Sailor ... It's Top Chef, The Cruise!

Just when Top Chef apathy has reached a crippling level of "I just don't care any more," the brilliant marketing minds at Bravo have come up with a new way to garner cash interest. It's Top Chef ... on a boat!!

Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?

Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking about). ... More >>

'Bachelor' Producers Who Met on Set Are Getting Married (and Chris Harrison's Officiating)

This is too perfect. According to Glamour Magazine's wedding blog, two producers who met and courted each other while filming ABC's hit romance series The Bachelor (and The Bachelorette) are getting married in California this summer. And Chris Harrison, career goob behind the tearful interviews and ... More >>

No Kitchen Required Around the World in 80 Plates: Does the food still matter?

It takes a special kind of chef to sign up for a competition show. When it comes to cooking, it's much easier, really, to stay in your own kitchen, keep your nose to the saucepan and crank out the best food you know how without the aggravation of mystery ingredients and a ticking clock. But that's ... More >>

Ben Flajnik: Winemaker First, TV's The Bachelor Second

Sonoma MagazineIn the vineyard with The Bachelor and partners​Most people dream of quitting their day job to be on TV. ABC's The Bachelor Ben Flajnik says his reality star turn is a means to an end: His heart is in winemaking. (He auditioned for The Bachelorette originally as a way to pursue ... More >>

Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question

Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>

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Angel City Eats: Where Joe Friday Kim Kardashian Meet Over Donuts This Weekend

jgarbeeA Gumdrop Sculpture In Progress​Beginning this weekend at Gallery KM, Joe Friday ("Dragnet") gets to spend the next six weeks with Kim Kardashian. We're sure that Mr. Friday is thrilled. At least there will be plenty of yin-yang marshmallows and food-inspired sculptures on hand. The e ... More >>

Gabriela Tavakoli: Reality Chick

Romance Novels Are Alive. Reality TV? Not So Much

Can Reality TV Ever Really Rock?

Lina Lecaro Reality's realest rockin couple (from Cali): Millionaire Matchmaker's Rachel Federoff and Destin Pfaff at Svedka party.​This past weekend, LA played host to the "Reality Rocks Expo," a two-day celebration of "reality, unscripted, factual, and lifestyle" television at the LA Convent ... More >>

The Next Chipotle? It Won't Be Too Ethnic: America's Next Great Restaurant Limps onto TV

Courtesy of America's Next Great Restaurant​ We thought 2011 was supposed to be the Year of the Korean. Or was that 2010? Who knows. In perpetually suburban TV Land, America's Next Great Restaurant, is frozen in an early 1990s time-warp. On NBC's newest food reality show, which debuted last ... More >>

Ballroom With a Twist

IDIOTS ON PARADE!

Surprise: Six Of 10 Highest-Earning Reality-TV Stars Are Based In Los Angeles

The $6 million talent​Not that we didn't know this already. Or that we're very proud of it, in the end. But for better or worse, the Daily Beast has compiled a list the top 10 reality-TV earners, and over half are living (at least part-time) right here in the entertainment capital of the worl ... More >>

MARTIN MULL SHOULD SUE!

Have Fondant, Will Travel: Ace of Cakes Canceled

The Food Network announced that Ace of Cakes, the reality show that followed Duff Goldman and the staff of his Baltimore bakery, Charm City Cakes, has been canceled. Ace of Cakes will begin its 10th -- and final season -- this January. The show began in 2006. As Goldman wrote on his Charm City Ca ... More >>

Top ChefUpdate: Season 7 Winner, Season 8 Rumors Top Chef: Just Desserts

BravoTop Chef: Season 7 Winner Kevin Sbraga​ Wednesday night on the Top Chef Singapore-based finale, host Padma Lakshmi announced 31-year-old chef and New Jersey native Kevin Sbraga winner of the cooking competition's seventh season, edging out New York-based contestants Angelo Sosa and Ed Co ... More >>

HAIR APPARENT

The Last of The Hills

Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren, and all that crazy drama

Tragic in Their Not-Ness

Fun and Games. Then, the Monster

Why neither the ignorance nor the bliss could last

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

U2 Producer Steve Lillywhite Debases Himself To Be the Next Simon Cowell

Esteemed producer Steve Lillywhite makes an 'Idol' plea and embarrasses music nerds

Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

'Real Housewives' Set To Start Shooting In Beverly Hills In March

BravoVicki and Donn from OC.​There have been Real Housewives in Orange County, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. But common now, how real can they be if the Bravo reality show hasn't been to housewife heaven -- Beverly Hills? After reports of casting calls last year, the Dai ... More >>

American Idol Petition Drive: Simon Cowell's Replacement Should Be Steve "Jonesy" Jones

We going to go ahead and say out loud what a few friends have been mumbling privately: Jonesy. We'll say it again, more clearly: Steve Jones, former guitarist for the Sex Pistols, former host of Jonesy's Jukebox on Indie 103.1, honest, no-bullshit music fan, should take Simon Cowell's retired posi ... More >>

Today in "Man Bites Dog" News: Simon Cowell Calls Rage Against The Machine Fans "Stupid" and "Cynical"

Young, strapping, sweaty Morello action​Rolling Stone reports that The Nighwatchman himself, Tom Morello, has endorsed his UK fans' attempt to make Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" (their incendiary 1992 single) the number one song in the country for Christmas week. A little b ... More >>

FOR LOVE AND HOOFING

AREN'T YOU NICK LACHEY'S BROTHER?

Life is Good for Seacrest, MGM, Letterman and WME

But for Conan? Not So Much.

Plot Twists for Whitney in The City

Whitney Port's new solo reality show finally debuts next week (Dec. 29). I hate to admit it, and I'm throwing up just a little bit into my mouth as I write this, but I'm really looking forward to it! Of all The Hills girls, Whitney is the one you most want to be friends with. She's also the pretties ... More >>

National Endowment of the Parts: Pamela Anderson's New "Documentary" Series Pam, Girl on the Loose on E!

Boobular Gravitas: The forever Baywatch star keeps her kids away from the reality show's cameras as they capture her random acts of nakedness

Jeff Lewis: The (Nanny) Camera Hates Him

Getting wiggy with the star of Flipping Out

Celeb Rehab's Surreal Aftermath

Picking up the pieces of reality excess

Ricky Gervais’s Extras Season Finale

Reality sets in

’Stache Box

And Falcon Fest

High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

What Would Darwin Do?

Grease: You’re The One That I Want

Kelly Clarkson New Face of NASCAR

That's right the American Idol winner was just chosen to be the "it" girl for the racing sport. But you're not really surprised are you? (Not that there isn't a special place in my heart for NASCAR.) According to the press release I just received: "Nearly 50% of NASCAR fans are female and with the ... More >>

Savage TV

From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem. Reality goes wild

Reality Strikes

Top Model scribes choose picket line over catwalk

Cook, Lie and Sinker

Reality Survivors

Magical Elves

Kara Saun

Reality Without Apologies

The D-Lister’s Guide to Reality-Show Happiness

Kathy Griffin, fan and foe to countless reality celebs, puts her own life before the camera

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