ImACelebrity-related stories
Posted Oct 9th 2009 7:07PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: The Apprentice, Celebrities, Casting
If you thought Rod Blagojevich was done with television after the I'm a Celebrity debacle, then you don't know Rod.
An unidentified source close to team Blago confirmed that the ousted Illinois governor will compete on the upcoming season of
The Celebrity Apprentice.
Of course, NBC wouldn't confirm the info until the network makes an official announcement or maybe it just didn't want to come to terms with the fact that are giving the human spotlight once more chance on TV. I'm sure it's the first one.
Posted Jun 25th 2009 1:04AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, TV Squad Polls, Celebrities
And the King or Queen of the jungle is .... don't worry, I won't spoil the answer on the first page of the post! You'll have to click through to know more and comment on the results.
I've started watching
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! from mid-week 2 and was sucked in immediately as I usually am with most reality TV series that revolve around surviving in new and unfamiliar surroundings. I must say I was quite impressed with Lou Diamond Phillips from the start. I loved his leadership qualities and his helpfulness towards his "junglemates." He is one of the main reasons why I watched the remaining episodes and even caught up with the week 1
Speidi drama! Was I glad that they ended up leaving for good after all the drama and quitting/coming back!
Want to know who was named King or Queen of the jungle after surviving 24 days in a Costa Rica jungle? Click ahead!
Continue reading And the winner of I'm a Celebrity is...
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 2:02PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Celebreality
So E! ran a poll to see if their viewers wanted the network to stop covering the train wreck that is Speidi. Okay. Sure, that's fun. And by a startling 94% margin you have spoken, and you
don't want E! covering Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag anymore. Even more surprising is that E! has agreed to follow this edict by their viewers and limit Spiedi stories only to life-altering or -ending events.
I think the celebrity-fueled tabloid news networks and magazines should look at these results and think about it. Speidi has been fueling many gossip stories the past few weeks, and here we find that nearly 100% of people don't want to hear it. And E! fans are gossipy fans to begin with.
Continue reading The results are in, and you voted Speidi off of E!
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 3:28PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Ratings
We must really like our televisions to be filled with crap. After all, as a country we continue to support it with nice, big, juicy ratings. Take NBC's
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here debuted with 6.4 million viewers, enough for number one on the night, beating out
The Bachelorette. I didn't watch it, but our own
Jackie contributed to that number. I got enough of Sanjaya on
American Idol thank you very much. Plus, I saw Stephen Baldwin being interviewed for this on
Late Night and right there I'd had enough of the whole show.
But not America, apparently. Maybe it was all the hoopla about
Heidi and Spencer (The Hills) quitting after like 20 minutes because no one would rub their feet or whatever. Did those horrible promos featuring Sanjaya getting set upon by bees really make you want to watch? Was it the last addition of Frangelina?
Mrs. Rod Blagojevich? Or is it the car wreck lookie-loo phenomenon?
Continue reading If you keep watching crap like I'm a Celebrity they'll just make more
Posted Jun 2nd 2009 10:02AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities
Okay. Out of desperation to escape from rerunland, I watched
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! What I didn't realize is the time commitment expected if I dare get involved. Two hours for the premiere tonight. I can deal with that. But then, as they aired the show, they mentioned it will be on four nights a week -- Monday through Thursday evenings. Yikes! Thankfully, it's only an hour for the remaining nights and it's less than a four-week season.
However, it would be nice if I had any sort of clue as to who these pseudo-celebs are. I know who Lou Diamond Phillips and Stephen Baldwin are, of course. Stephen is the lesser Baldwin doomed to be on shows which remind him he's a celebrity. Because I'm an
American Idol watcher, I know Sanjaya. But who are the rest of these people, and why do they think they're all that?
Continue reading I don't think I can take four nights a week of pseudo-celebs
Posted May 21st 2009 3:49PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Celebreality
Now that
Saturday Night Live is off the air, what's the fun in former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich doing anything if we can't have it made fun of on "Weekend Update?" The biggest douchebag in the Midwest, and I can say that because I live there, wasn't allowed to join Sanjaya on NBC's summer reality show because of that whole legal matter. So NBC, proving how "FOX-y" they can be, have now signed
Mrs. Rod Blagojevich to join I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here this summer.
Now, I support the decision to not allow Rod there because he'd either be taking hits out on fellow celebrities (wait a minute ... Sanjaya
will be there) or he'd just disappear altogether. But in an era where getting rejected by a bachelor can make you a "Star" worthy of
Dancing, it still boggles my mind that being married to a jackass is enough. We don't know anything about Patti Blagojevich except for her terrible taste in men. Kristen Wiig hasn't even developed an impression of her and now she's going to be on a major summer reality show?
Continue reading NBC says all Blagojevichs are the same, casts one for I'm a Celebrity
Posted Apr 15th 2009 10:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting
When Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was finally indicted and impeached, I breathed a sigh of relief and hoped that would be
the last we would ever see of him.
Then I heard he might be coming back to haunt my TV like the ghost of an angry relative, and the nerves in my whole body stiffened. Would we once again have to spend all of our remaining TV time dodging the naysaying and the placating and the denying that is the Rod Blagojevich variety hour?
Then when I heard he was going to be on an NBC reality show, I again breathed a sigh of relief, comforted by the fact that no one would see him.
Continue reading Blagojevich joining reality show...and it's not Cops
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