surreal life-related stories
Posted Jun 24th 2008 2:27PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, News, Programming, Celebrities, Project Runway, Casting, Celebreality
Fox Reality channel has
a new series called Gimme My Reality Show. This series will feature celebrities competing to have their own reality show. D-Listers already signed on for the competition include Traci Bingham, Santino Rice, and Gretchen Bonaduce.
Bingham, who played Jordin Tate on
Baywatch, has also appeared on VH1's
Surreal Life 2 and
Celebrity Boot Camp. Rice appeared on the second season of
Project Runway and finished in the semi-finals. Bonaduce was on VH1's
Breaking Bonaduce which chronicled the life of her husband and former child-star Danny Bonaduce.
That's it? They need to get some
Idol alums in there. I'm thinking Sanjaya, just so the rest of the cast can ridicule him. Also, I would love to see one of the guys from
I Love New York. Say, Mr. Boston? Who would you like to see on
Gimme My Reality Show?
Gimme My Reality Show will premiere on October 11th at midnight, right after the
Fox Reality Really Awards.
Posted Dec 6th 2006 9:29AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, VH1
The producers of VH1's
Surreal Life and
My Fair Brady have another card up their sleeves. They're currently
casting twenty bachelorettes to live in a Hollywood Hills mansion and compete for the love of "one of the 90s hottest rockers." They're keeping the name of the rocker under wraps, but claim that he's a "famous, sexy, bad boy rocker" and "lead singer of a famous 90s rock band."
This
Flavor of Love-type premise requires some real loons to make it work.
Idolator has made a few guesses at who said bad boy might be. They've floated Adam Duritz of Counting Crows, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, Steve Harwell of Smashmouth and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. I'd find it way more humorous if someone like Eddie Veder or Billy Corgan had decided that they were going to try and undermine the genre by colluding with it, but Idolator's list makes sense. I'd say the smart money's on Durst or Duritz. Anyone interested in auditioning?
Posted Nov 13th 2006 12:01PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Syndicated, Short-Lived Shows
Technically, this show may not have been short-lived enough.
Small Wonder ran for four seasons - from '85 to '89 - in syndication. Whenever I am baffled by the popularity of tween vehicles like The Disney Channel's
Hannah Montana, I just think of the inexplicably high ratings little robot Vicki got in her first year and the solid following that held on until the show's demise.
The show's conceit involved a robotics firm engineer designing an AI cast-off from
Annie to come live with his family. The robot was a "Voice Input Child Indenticant." VICI. Vicki. You get it. The Lawson family had quite a time trying to keep the monotoned Vicki's origins a secret from those pesky Brindles next door. They couldn't possibly destroy the adorable bundle of bolts that Dad had so lovingly (and sorta creepily if you think about it) put together and kept at home long past her beta-testing date.
Continue reading Short-Lived Shows: Small Wonder
Posted Jun 2nd 2006 8:40AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Ken Levine has a great post about the killing off of popular TV characters, and talks about how the unexpected death of Henry Blake on M*A*S*H really stunned people.- Aaron Barnhart has the press release NBC sent out, announcing that DirecTV had picked up the Sleuth Channel and its 15 million subscribers. That's the same amount of subscribers that TRIO had when DirecTV dropped that channel.
- Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog recounts what must have been an odd episode of Live with Regis and Kelly, with Vince Vaughn (subbing for Reege) talking about a childhood car accident, Kelly talking about her son breaking his arm earlier this week, and guest Denis Leary talking about how his dog died by eating 27 pounds of deer meat.
- Reality Blurred blog is reporting that the cast for Surreal Life 8 will include Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Phil Hellmuth, Playmate Tina Jordan, and Type O Negative's Peter Steele.
- Geek Entertainment TV has a video interview with comedian Tom Green.
Posted Mar 26th 2006 4:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
FOX has a new lineup tonight starting at 7pm:
Malcolm, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, The War At Home, Family Guy, and
Free Ride.- CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, followed by a new Cold Case and
repeats of CSI and Without A Trace.
- NBC has a new Dateline, followed by new eps
of The West Wing, Law and Order: CI, and Crossing Jordan.
- ABC has two eps of
Extreme Makeover, followed by new eps of Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
- Also at 7: The WB has two repeats of Reba and then two repeats of Charmed.
- There's a
marathon of Little People, Big World starting at 7 on TLC.
- At 8, Lifetime has a new ep of
Cheerleader Nation.
- Looks like they're running out of ideas for the E! True Hollywood
Story. Tonight at 8: behind America's Next Top Model.
- AMC has Goldfinger at 8, my
favorite Bond flick.
- At 9, Food Network has a new ep of The Next Food Network Star.
- A new Sopranos airs on HBO at 9.
- VH-1 has a new Surreal Life at 9, followed by a new
Hogan Knows Best.
- On a new Intervention, the son of former lead singer of Three Dog Night
tries to kick drugs. It's on A&E at 10.
- 10pm movies: IFC has Johnny Depp and Martin Landau in Ed
Wood, while Sundance has Heathers.
- At midnight, Cartoon Network has a new
Minoriteam.
Posted Mar 19th 2006 4:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 7pm, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by a new
episode of Cold Case and the movie Time Bomb.- ABC has two new eps of Extreme
Makeover, followed by a repeat Desperate Housewives and a new Grey's Anatomy.
- NBC
has a new Dateline at 7, followed by new eps of The West Wing, Law and Order:
CI, and Crossing Jordan.
- FOX has a new Malcolm at 7,
then a new Simpsons, a new War At Home, a repeat Family Guy, and then a new Free
Ride.
- At 7, The WB has something called The Second JammX Kids All-Star Dance Special,
followed by two Charmed repeats.
- Two Tom Hanks classics air at 8: Forrest Gump on TNT,
and Big on AMC.
- Also at 8: The History Channel has a marathon of new Super Tools
episodes.
- There's a new Sopranos on HBO at 9, followed by a new Big Love.
- Get ready for another season of The Surreal Life. It's on VH-1 at 9.
- Also at 9: Spike has a
marathon of The Shield.
- At 10, HGTV has a new If Walls Could Talk.
Posted Jan 8th 2006 8:08AM by Kim Voynar
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Talent, Music and Variety
Singer Pink reportedly tied the knot this weekend with her motocross racing boyfriend Carey
Hart, in Costa Rica. I can't say that Pink is one of my fave singers, but dang! I gotta give the girl props for those
abs. Hart, as you may recall, was also on the fifth season of Surreal Life (What? You didn't watch it
either?). Hopefully the Grammy-winning singer will have sense enough not to allow anyone to talk her into making a
reality show of her first year of marriage (she can ask Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey how well that idea
worked out).
Continue reading Pink ties the knot
Posted Dec 29th 2005 7:37AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Talent, Programming, OpEd
Janice Dickinson was booted from her judge position on
America's Next Top Model and disappeared
off the face of the TV-world after she stormed out on the finale of
The Surreal Life 5 (oh, Omarosa...). Well,
guess what? Janice is back with her own show. Oxygen has ordered 10 episodes of
Janice's own reality modeling show, in which she'll
pick five models to join her new Hollywood modeling agency, Janice Dickinson Models.
Continue reading Janice Dickinson returns with new show
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