the girls next door-related stories
Posted Oct 14th 2009 9:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
Apparently, I've gone over to the dark side and have somehow morphed into a person who watches the E! network. I've commented on
the Kardashians,
Leave it to Lamas, and
Chelsea Lately (which I love by the way). I've finally moved to the bottom of the barrel --
The Girls Next Door.
Here's the thing about this show. Who really knows what goes on when the cameras are turned off (or possibly, we don't want to know), but it seems like Hugh Hefner is a really nice guy. All of his girlfriends and ex-girlfriends have only good things to say about him, and they rave about how cool it is to live at the Playboy mansion.
And if you can get past the part where he has several girlfriends at the same time, and is, like, 103 years old creepily having sex with 19-year-old girls (if he can still have sex, that is), he just seems like a nice guy. The kindly grandfather girls have sex with. Oh, and he loves to scrapbook.
Continue reading Hugh Hefner is like the kindly grandfather girls have sex with
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 6:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.I can't think of another DVD week where there's so much that I don't want to buy. So few new releases, and nothing that really screams out "buy me." OK, maybe the Tom and Jerry set could be fun, but for some reason I was never into that series of cartoons. For my animal battle cartoons I'm more a Sylvester/Tweety and Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote fan.
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- Ghost Hunters - Fans Favorite Investigations: Special Edition
- The Girls Next Door - Season 5
- Monster Squad - Complete Series
- Mr. Troop Mom
- Reba - Season 6
- Tom and Jerry - The Chuck Jones Collection
Posted Jun 10th 2009 7:28AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Ratings
Everybody knows Kendra as one of Hugh Hefner's former girlfriends. The one-time stars of E!'s
The Girls Next Door have left the mansion and moved on to their own projects. Bridget Marquardt has moved on to her own Travel Channel show,
Bridget's Sexiest Beaches, while Holly Madison was just on
Dancing with the Stars. It looks like E! went the right route by choosing to follow the youngest and wackiest of the bunch, Kendra Wilkinson.
Her self-titled new show premiered Sunday on E!, and
Kendra set a ratings high not seen since the premiere of The Anna Nicole Show in 2002 with 2.6 million viewers. People love their former Playmates, apparently. As an admitted follower of
The Girls Next Door; my wife has a thing for all things
Playboy and I got sucked in despite myself; Kendra was always the girl that I found the most annoying. She was so childish and superficial... and that laugh! Oh my god, that laugh made me want to reach through the screen and strangle her! So no one was more surprised than me to find that I actually enjoyed this premiere.
Continue reading Kendra's the biggest thing since Anna Nicole for E!
Posted May 21st 2009 9:10AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Casting
Bridget Marquardt is already traveling the world showing us
Bridget's Sexiest Beaches on the Travel Channel. Now it's Kendra Wilkinson's turn. Easily the most annoying of
The Girls Next Door,
Kendra's new E! show will premiere this fall. Now that all the girls have left the mansion, it's time to see what's next for them. And for Kendra, who was only 18 when the show premiered, it's about time she learned how to be an adult who isn't pampered by the staff at the Playboy Mansion.
And that's just what her show, cleverly called
Kendra, will do as she prepares for her wedding next month. My wife is a fanatic for
The Girls Next Door, so I've seen more than my fair share of them, and the show is actually much sweeter than you'd expect. One of my questions was what they would do with it now that the girls have left the nest. Apparently, the show will continue and presumably feature Hef's new girlfriends, the twins (not those twins, though I'm sure they're featured as well; they really are twins!).
Continue reading The Girls Next Door continues without the girls, but they're not gone either
Posted Aug 28th 2008 1:01PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities
I've been watching
The Girls Next Door for a while and it presents such a quandary for me. I feel like I'm betraying the feminist movement every time I tune in. If I knew an old man who had relationships with multiple young girls and made them "kept women," I would think he's a sleaze ball and wouldn't want to have anything to do with him. However, I fully admit that I find
The Girls Next Door fascinating.
It's probably because the life that's portrayed is so far beyond my frame of reference that I can hardly believe that it's real. In any case, I've been a semi-regular viewer and I've found myself even rooting for the girls. I want Bridget to finish school, and yes, I've even been rooting for Holly to get Hef to marry her. Well, I believe Bridget has gotten her Master's degree, and it seems like Holly may even get her wish too.
Bridget was recently overheard dishing about a "huge wedding" coming up on the show.
Continue reading Will The Girls Next Door end with a wedding?
Posted Jul 9th 2008 6:00PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, Video, Celebrities, Celebreality
Americans are utterly obsessed with celebrities ... particularly their lives away from the limelight. Numerous television "news" programs and magazines highlight stars doing normal things that many of us would do on a daily basis. So, it was only logical that reality series have been built around some of these personalities to highlight their time away from the camera.
Yet it didn't work out as was intended. Rather than showing that these personalities were normal people, they showed the viewers how messed up they, and their families, really were. In some of the earlier Celebreality programs, they even showed unknown weaknesses that fans never knew existed. Despite all of this, viewers have been tuning into these shows each and every week to watch ... just like they would if video of different train wrecks were aired each week.
This fan base has given many of these stars a second, third, or fourth chance at success -- even if their boat sailed a long time ago. Such is the case during the Reality Revolution, where even the most famous can receive fifteen more minutes of fame.
Continue reading A history of reality television (part seven): Celebreality - VIDEOS
Posted Dec 30th 2007 4:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 7, NBC has a new Football Night in America, followed by the Colts/Titans game. - ABC has The Sound of Music at 7.
- The CW has a new CW Now at 7.
- At 8, CBS has a new episode of The Amazing Race.
- ESPN has the PetroSun Independence Bowl at 8.
- Lifetime Movie Network has Finding John Christmas at 8, then Christmas in Paradise.
- At 10, E! has a new episode of The Girls Next Door, followed by a new Snoop Dogg's Father Hood.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Nov 22nd 2006 1:07PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
E! Entertainment Television has given the greenlight to a third season of
The Girls Next Door, a behind-the-scenes look at life inside the Playboy Mansion with Hef and his three girlfriends Holly, Bridget and Kendra. To no one's surprise, the show is the E! Network's most popular.
Unfortunately for the girls, they may have to up the ante. Former Playmate and Mansion resident Izabella St. James is on the verge of releasing a
tell-all book about what really goes on inside the Playboy Mansion. Try not to be too shocked, readers, but it involves s-e-x.
Continue reading Playboy's Girls Next Door get the greenlight
Posted Sep 3rd 2006 5:51PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by a new Big Brother: All-Stars. - USA has more coverage of the U.S. Open at 7.
- NBC has the special Countdown To Green at 7, followed by the Nextel Cup Sony HD 500 NASCAR race.
- There's a new Just Legal on The WB at 7.
- At 8, ABC Family has a new Three Moons Over Milford.
- At 9, it's the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day MDA Telethon. Check local listings.
- HGTV has a new Design Star at 9.
- At 10, Comedy Central has a new Mind of Mencia, while E! has a new ep of The Girls Next Door.
Posted Jul 27th 2006 6:12PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Industry, Video, Web, Talk Show
The E! network is the latest to make its shows available on iTunes. No, you can't buy
100 Biggest Celebrity Oops or
100 Most Starlicious Makeovers (who would want to?). But, you can buy some of its other original programming like
The Girls Next Door,
Dr. 90210,
The Simple Life, and
The Soup. Joel McHale on my video iPod? Hot damn!
Episodes cost the usual $1.99.
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