bachelor-related stories
Posted Jun 11th 2009 3:00PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, The Amazing Race, American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother (US), Dancing With The Stars, Celebreality
Considering how prevalent reality television is these days, it's got to be a pretty daunting task to try and put together a comprehensive list of the best and worst of all time. But
Entertainment Weekly thinks they've done just that. They've compiled the
top 20 reality shows of all time, but also the
ten worst reality shows of all time. All in all, they did a pretty damned good job.
I completely agree with the top six, but they lose me with
Jackass at number seven. I have never understood the appeal of filming morons doing stupid things on purpose just to be stupid. But there were some shows missing from the list completely, like
Little People Big World, So You Think You Can Dance and
Beauty and the Geek. Surely those shows are better than
The Hills and
The Real Housewives of Sesame Street, or whatever franchise they're spinning now.
Continue reading EW declares the all-time best and worst of reality television
Posted Jul 7th 2008 3:02PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, News, Industry, Celebrities
This weekend
Andrew Firestone, former star of
The Bachelor, wed model Ivana Bozilovic. The two exchanged vows at St. Mark's in the Valley Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California where his family's vineyard is. The wedding festivities took place over three days with family and friends enjoying a Western-style barbeque and an al fresco rehearsal dinner. Firestone, grandson of Harvey Firestone of Firestone Tire and Rubber, Co., got engaged to Bozilovic back in September.
Continue reading Ex-Bachelor finds love ... not on network TV
Posted May 7th 2007 5:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, ABC has a new Dancing with the Stars, followed by a new Bachelor. - CBS has new episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Old Christine, Two and a Half Men, King of Queens, and CSI: Miami.
- NBC has a new Deal or No Deal at 8, then new episodes of Heroes and The Real Wedding Crashers.
- The CW has a new Everybody Hates Chris at 8, then a new All Of Us and a new, one-hour Girlfriends.
- TLC has two new episodes of Little People, Big World at 8.
- TNT has two NBA playoff games starting at 8.
- At 9, FOX has a new 24.
- USA has a new Monday Night RAW at 9.
- Also at 9: Food Network has a new Unwrapped.
- At 10, Discovery has a new Stunt Junkies.
- Food Network has new episodes of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and The Secret Life Of...starting at 10.
- FX has a new ep of The Riches at 10.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Apr 23rd 2007 5:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, ABC has a new Dancing with the Stars, then a new Bachelor. - NBC has a new Deal Or No Deal at 8, followed by new episodes of Heroes and The Real Wedding Crashers.
- FOX has a new Drive at 8, then a new 24.
- The CW has a new Everybody Hates Chris at 8, then new episodes of All Of Us, Girlfriends, and The Game.
- Also at 8: Food Network has a new Emeril Live, then a new Unwrapped.
- At 8:30, CBS has a new Old Christine, then new episodes of Two and a Half Men, King of Queens, and CSI: Miami.
- At 9, PBS has a new American Experience.
- Lifetime has a new movie at 9, A Life Interrupted.
- At 10, Discovery has a new Stunt Junkies.
- There's a new ep of The Riches on FX at 10.
- At 10:30, Food Network has a new The Secret Life Of...
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Dec 7th 2006 3:39PM by Brigitte Dale
Filed under: Video, Podcasts, TV Squad Daily
Hey, Brigitte here with TV Squad Daily. I'll be covering the TV stories I find interesting each day, Monday through Friday, in this video blog.
Today on TV Squad Daily:
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download the file directly (Quicktime required). You can also
subscribe to this vodcast via our feed.
Posted Nov 28th 2006 6:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andy Baldwin, 30, is the next contestant on
The Bachelor. It is a game show of sorts, right? For the gals who like men in uniforms, Baldwin is an "undersea medical officer for a special operations dive unit" stationed in Hawaii. Reading the press release that ABC sent us, I'm shocked that he's not taken. He probably sounds better than he is, but still. The guy saved up $25,000 for college, did his undergrad at Duke and went to medical school in California. He's a tri-athlete who competes in honor of his uncle, who died of pancreatic cancer. ABC is all excited about this new guy, dubbing the season "An Officer and a Gentleman". Sorry, no picture yet.
Maybe he's just looking for a girl who can keep up with him. Hopefully they'll cast some athletic women and not just all wanna-be princesses. We'll meet Andy on the 10th season of
The Bachelor on ABC next spring.
Posted Nov 28th 2006 5:16PM by Jay Black
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, OpEd, Things I Hate About TV
My wife made me tune into the big finale of ABC's
The Bachelor last night. I tried desperately to talk her out of it (something about the resulting dip in testosterone from being exposed to the show might harm our chances at conceiving), but she persisted.
Like Jesse Palmer, and (inexplicably popular) Bob Guiney before him, last night's "Prince" Lorenzo (a man who has less claim to actually being a prince than the musician Prince does) decided to opt out of going through with proposing to his choice. He did give her a ring, but called it a "family ring" instead of an engagement ring. This takes even more guts than the other Bachelors who went with the more promising "promise" ring nomenclature.
Continue reading Things I Hate About TV: Promise rings
Posted Oct 9th 2006 1:19PM by Brigitte Dale
Filed under: Video, Podcasts, Previously on TV Squad
Hey, I'm back with another edition of Previously on TV Squad! It's week three, and here's what I'm talking about this time:
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And remember, we're always open to suggestions for stories to cover on the next show!
Posted Oct 3rd 2006 9:01AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, OpEd
(S09E01) Watching
The Bachelor tonight I have to wonder at what age the princess myth should die in young girls? When do they stop seeing the Disney movies about Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella as potential life paths? In the latest crop of
Bachelor girls the dream is alive and well as they chase the slightly skeevy Prince Lorenzo Borghese.
Continue reading The Bachelor: Rome: Season Premiere
Posted Sep 16th 2006 2:41PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC
It seems our own Tom Biro, my fellow blogger over at Ad Jab and the guy who recaps House and other shows for y'all just might be in the running to appear on the next season of The Bachelor. It seems his professional profile on LinkedIn was noticed by the show's casting producer:
Dear Tom ,
ABC Television's hit reality television show, The Bachelor, is searching for its next star. After viewing your profile on LinkedIn, the casting producer has selected you as a potential candidate.
Continue reading Could Tom be the next Bachelor?
Posted Mar 2nd 2006 4:35PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC
I've been hearing rumors
that Travis and Sarah's "perfect" romance that wound up on "The Bachelor: Paris" Monday
might
already be done, and certainly the fact that the two didn't do the usual press rounds didn't seem like a good
sign. Maybe they are private people (ha!) or maybe, just maybe, all that perfectness just didn't last. Reader
Terese sent me a link to
Bricks
and Stones, who have more solid proof. It's a bit friend-of-a-friend, but it seems Travis has reunited with his
girlfriend of five years. He and Sarah did date briefly and Travis is now in consultation to be a doctor consultant on
ABC shows (surprise, surprise). The juiciest and saddest detail is that during the final rose ceremony, he said "I
love you Sarah," but asked ABC and to edit it out since "it wouldn't be fair to her now." Ouch!
And while we are rumor-mongering, a link on Bricks and Stone also lead me to a
comment on the BachelorRecap
blog (it's the anonymous one at 2:09) which has an email that is allegedly from Mike, Travis's brother-in-law. It
says that he and Sarah are done, that she may be dating a football player (the
Tennessean
reports she is dating a friend of a football player,) and that if Travis had it to do all over again he would have
picked Susan and Jehan to go to the final two. Does this set a record for the fastest Bachelor break-up?
Posted Feb 21st 2006 2:04AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, OpEd
Tonight's episode is the pre-finale snarkfest where the girls get to harsh on each other and on the Bachelor. The
girls are particularly hard on Susan for her interest in acting. I have no idea if she had feelings for Travis or not
but she sure is a pretty crier. She could give lessons on how to weep and still look like a perfect little princess.
When Canadian Sarah takes the stage, Jennifer once again leads the attack. While some of the girls look a bit
Hollywood-ed up post-Bachelor, young Sarah looks a little less cute and seems a lot more hard-edged than she was when
flirting with Dr. Bland. And of course we have to revisit the Ali G. "reproduction" incident.
Unfortunately, for what I think is the first time, a Bachelorette doesn't show up. Even though Dr. Ali isn't there, the
girls take the opportunity to take a brief swipe or two at her. Overall though, no one gets treated as badly as Susan.
In other seasons, the Bachelor has often seemed a bit predatory but this season the women seems very protective of the
square-jawed doctor.
Continue reading The Bachelor: Paris: The Women Tell All
Posted Feb 14th 2006 2:05AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, OpEd
It's overnight date night, otherwise known as
will-they-or-won't- they-hit-the-fantasy-suite time. Of course, like the girls themselves, the show is a tease.
We are subjected to over half an hour of Bachelors past filler. Is this the first time we have three brunettes as the
final three?
First up, Moana in Venice (lucky girl). They enjoy the pigeons in St. Mark's, go for a gondola
ride and share a romantic meal. Then it's time for the fantasy suite option. Why do they always make the girl read the
card aloud? We all know what is about to go down. Travis says he wants to spend more time alone with Moana. Travis says
that he feels guilty since he has to go on two more dates. She says she understands and they make out. Cue the swelling
music and the closing doors.
Continue reading The Bachelor: Paris: Episode 6
Posted Feb 13th 2006 3:46PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
ABC has a repeat Wife Swap at 8pm, followed by a new two
hour The Bachelor. - CBS has a repeats of King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a
Half Men, a new Courting Alex, and then a repeat CSI: Miami.
- NBC has The Olympics all night, starting at 8.
- FOX has a new Skating With Celebrities and then a new 24.
- The WB has a new 7th Heaven at 8, followed by a new Related.
- UPN has all new eps of One on One, All of Us, Girlfriends, and Half
& Half.
- Discovery has a new Monster House at 8, while Food Network has a new Emeril Live, where the
chef cooks "Perfect Pasta."
- Also at 8: AMC has one of the best Bond flicks, Goldfinger, and FX has the underrated
Daredevil.
- At 9, Lifetime has the new movie Flirting With Danger, with Charisma Carpenter and James Thomas.
- Also at 9: GSN has two new eps of High Stakes Poker.
- HBO 2 has Denzel Washington in Man On Fire. It's on at 9 too.
- At 10, A&E has a new Rollergirls.
- Also at 10: TCM has the classic suspense-thriller, Sorry, Wrong Number, with Barbara Stanwyck.
- At midnight, FUEL has a new The Daily Habit, followed by two new eps of On Surfari.
Posted Jan 31st 2006 2:12AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, OpEd
This time we have two past contestants grilling the girls
for the chance for a one-on-one date. They call Tara a drunk, Canadian Sarah is too young etc. but they save their true
bitterness for Moana. They say that Moana is there for the wrong reasons. The girls give Jehan the first date and she
and Travis go off on a picnic. Travis gives her an Eiffel Tower necklace but their picnic goes sour when Jehan
announces she has been married before. I'm not sure why, in our modern age, this is such a big deal for the Bachelors.
Travis takes an easy way out, not giving her a rose but asking her to stay until the next rose ceremony. The other
girls seemed horrified that Jehan has been married too The fairy tale is alive and well at the Bachelorette chateau.
Continue reading The Bachelor: Paris: Episode 4
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