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CW backtracks on one Top Model this year, will air season with British and US models

Andy Dehnart — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:47:11 -0500

America's Next Top Model will debut its 18th season later this month, and bring in all-star contestants from the British version as part of the cast, even though The CW said it was going to give the show "a rest" midseason. Meanwhile, Kell On Earth star Kelly Cutrone will join the judging panel, replacing Andre Leon Talley. At the Television Critics Press Tour in early August, The CW president Mark Pedowitz said Remodeled would "comekeep reading »

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Toddlers & Tiaras mom defends Honey Boo Boo's Go-Go Juice: "I could be giving her alcohol"

Andy Dehnart — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:25:44 -0500

The mother of "Honey Boo Boo," six-year-old pageant competitor Alana Thompson, has defended feeding her daughter "Go-Go Juice," which has been featured on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras. June Shannon says giving Mountain Dew and Red Bull to a six year old is okay. She told ABC News pageant kids "have to be alive" on stage so "that's just what I choose too do to my child" to "energize their body." "There are far worse things,"keep reading »

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Auto-Tuned Courtney: the most entertainment this season of The Bachelor has delivered

Andy Dehnart — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:43:22 -0500

The Bachelor unconscionable treatment of Casey on Monday's episode overshadowed that this season has given us some entertainment, even if it has seemed dreadfully boring as that twit Ben Flajnik bores us on hi way to finding shallow love. As it turns out, all the season needed was Courtney's baby-talking one-liners, a soundtrack, and Auto-Tune. When you combine those three things, you get this surprisingly addictive music video, which is made even better by thekeep reading »

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Seattle may host Top Chef, if the city pays enough ($200-300K)

Andy Dehnart — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:49 -0500

After being considered for years, Seattle is on the verge of being selected as the next host of Bravo's Top Chef, although another city is in contention, and it will cost the city $200,000 to $300,000. The other finalist is possibly Portland, Seattle Met suggests. "They really want to be here, but they need to feel the love," Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau President Tom Norwalk told MyNorthwest.com, and by that he means, if thekeep reading »

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American Idol's desperation leads to a life or death cliffhanger, cut off by some DVRs

Andy Dehnart — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:55:08 -0500

For weeks now, American Idol has been teasing a contestant's fall from the stage. And during Wednesday night's first Hollywood week episode, that continued, with Ryan Seacrest's voice-over suggesting this could be life or death for the teenage auditioner. How spectacular! Let's anxiously wait to see if a kid died or not! Injury equals ratings! Clap clap clap! But in a double dose of failure, the episode ended with 16-year-old's Symone Black fall--making it anotherkeep reading »

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Face Off will return for a third season this summer

Andy Dehnart — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:06:53 -0500

SyFy's terrific Hollywood effects makeup competition series Face Off will return for its third season this summer, the network announced Tuesday. Its second is currently airing, and while it hasn't changed much since season one, it remains consistently entertaining, and ratings are increasing compared to the first season. (Past episodes are online.) Like most competition shows, it overuses team and partner challenges, but at least here it's usually evident who exactly was responsible for partskeep reading »

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Fox fired Paula Abdul, calls X Factor season one "an audition" (ha!); mystery Idol changes coming

Andy Dehnart — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:17:19 -0500

Fox was responsible for firing Paula Abdul, Nicole Sherzinger, and Steve Jones from The X Factor, Simon Cowell said today. And the network's reality TV executive Mike Darnell called The X Factor "an audition act" for the show, which is the funniest thing I've read all day. He also discusses changes coming to American Idol this season. Simon Cowell told Extra that the changes are coming because of his pre-season ratings prediction; otherwise, he insisted,keep reading »

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Bachelor, Chris Harrison humiliate Casey to squeeze some life out of Ben's season

Andy Dehnart — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:24:10 -0500

The Bachelor can be consistently entertaining, despite its failure as a show to live up to its promise, and even despite the obviously contrived set-ups and contexts ("we're deserted on an island with producers and cameras!"). But sometimes its producers' and network's desperation--for ratings or attention or just to use their power to humiliate and destroy--leads it to cross a line. That happened last night as the show paused on permanently paused Ben Flajnik's getting-what's-coming-to-himkeep reading »

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Intervention camera operator, who naked woman spit chicken on, answers questions

Andy Dehnart — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:14:13 -0500

An Emmy-nominated Intervention camera operator for A&E's is answering questions on Reddit, offering insight into filming a show about addicts who are often using on camera. Chris Baron, who has also worked on Hoarders and other shows (such as the awesome and sadly short-lived Showdog Moms & Dads), said he's the one who a naked addict spit chicken on before fighting with another person (watch that scene). Answering questions on Reddit, he's discussed being affectedkeep reading »

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The Voice gets insanely high post-Super Bowl ratings

Andy Dehnart — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:39:42 -0500

With 111.3 million viewers, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television show ever, and NBC's post-game debut of The Voice benefitted significantly from that: it had 37.6 million viewers and an insane 16.3 rating among adults 18 to 49, which made it the highest-rated non-sports show on any network in six years. NBC also announced that it was "NBC's highest-rated entertainment telecast overall in both adults 18-49 and total viewers since the series finale ofkeep reading »

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Too many ads drag out a strong start to The Voice's second season

Andy Dehnart — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:19:05 -0500

After the Super Bowl ended with some hard-to-top drama and suspense, The Voice's second season began somewhat abruptly, about 10 minutes before its scheduled start. Its blind auditions were as entertaining as ever, except that they came in-between a barrage of ads that seemed excessive even after having just watched the Super Bowl. After nearly every audition, the show went to a commercial break, and although some speculated that was going to pad the episodekeep reading »

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Beyonce judging X Factor rumor: more evidence that Simon Cowell and his ego still don't understand

Andy Dehnart — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:58:57 -0500

Fox's X Factor fired three of the five cast members, Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger, and Steve Jones, signaling that Fox and executive producer Simon Cowell are serious about changing the show. But blaming the show's faults on them--especially by replacing one of them with Beyonce, as a report suggests could happen--may just be another example of Simon Cowell's out-of-control ego. The reasons for the firings were obvious: The show was pretty much a disaster, alternatelykeep reading »

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NBC's Voice promo during the Super Bowl: easily one of the best ads of the night

Andy Dehnart — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:36:37 -0500

The ads that aired during the Super Bowl tonight were mostly misses, I think, from the Teleflora ad that insisted giving flowers results in receiving oral sex to the Fiat ad with faux semen, aired on the network that wouldn't air a reality show with real semen. But I digress. Some of the ads were good, but NBC's promo department really hit a home run--er, got a touchdown--with this spot for The Voice. It's perfectionkeep reading »

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Contender boxer Jeff Fraza killed by train

Andy Dehnart — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:39:34 -0500

The Contender season one and two cast member and boxer Jeff "Hell Raza" Fraza was killed early Saturday morning when he was hit by a commuter train in Haverhill, Mass. He was 34. His former girlfriend and mother of his son, Sylvia Pastrana, told the Boston Herald, "I was just told that he was walking the tracks, heading back home, and he's done that many times before." She said "he was fine and he waskeep reading »

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The Voice debuts post-Super Bowl as American Idol continues to fall

Andy Dehnart — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:19 -0500

NBC's The Voice returns for its second season after the Super Bowl this Sunday, and the big test for the show is whether it can sustain both the interest that sweet timeslot will provide and overcome the general fatigue from music talent competitions that both X Factor and American Idol have contributed to by, well, sucking. American Idol continues to lose viewers, dropping significantly compared to both last year and last week on Wednesday night,keep reading »

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