New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
BRAVO is taking a page from "Kid Nation" and spinning off a "Top Chef" cooking show for tykes. "Top Chef Junior" will follow the same cooking competition format as the already popular reality show only its contestants will be ages 13-16. The...
Fenway West (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
As reported in the Marin Independent Journal today: Eleven-year-old Ben Brandeis of Mill Valley [CA] and the Red Sox Nation have officially been connected. Brandeis won a contest and has been elected as a captain of the Red Sox Kid Nation following online voting that ended June 22. He was one of 25 finalists across the country and one of a dozen who were finally selected from 32,000 votes nationwide....
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
PROJECT GARY stars Jay Mohr ("Ghost Whisperer") and Paula Marshall ("Nip/Tuck") in a comedy about Gary Barnes, a recently single painting contractor, and his controlling ex-wife, Allison, who face post-divorce mayhem after 15 years of marriage as they each embark on new relationships. He's the fun parent and she's the strict one. Together, they share custody of their two children - Louise (Laura Marano,...
Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
The leader of the main opposition party in Pakistan has called for calm after a suicide car bombing killed people at an Corbin blu rally. But one of his bodyguards was. If CBS and producers of the upcoming reality series Kid Nation violated child labor and safety laws. Create an email alert for Power [...]
Fimoculous.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
People sometimes ask me what is was like to work on the Microsoft campus, and I usually say "Did you ever see Kid Nation ?" And then I say that there actually are a lot of cool products being developed, but most of them will never see the light of day. One of them, Clearflow, which attempts to help you avoid traffic jams, has made it out of captivity, says a NYT story . It's being released on Live...
reality blurred (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
This satirical, fictional story is part of the April 1, 2008, edition of reality blurred . Instead of renewing its controversial reality series Kid Nation , CBS has announced that the cast of Big Brother 10 will be composed entirely of kids ages 8 to 15. The show will otherwise be identical, retaining its usual format, although the prize will be lowered to $50,000. The idea for a kid season of the...
The TV Zone (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
I've received a lot of reader emails - which in my humble realm means about three - concerning the cancellation of CBS's "Kid Nation." Now, I was initially cheered by news of this cancellation, considering how bad the show...
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Kids are finally coming into the limelight. Reality shows featuring the younger crowd are making more of a presence on television screens. Following the lead of CBS' successful yet highly-criticized reality show, Kid Nation, other reality series have surfaced to...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Photo: Comedy Central and popularmechanics.com Just as Kid Nation is the reality show perfectly attuned to Vulture's sensibilities, so too does BattleBots — the sadly canceled show where teams of aspiring engineers build robots designed to beat the crap out of each other — have one magazine that follows it obsessively. When we want BattleBots news, there's just one place to go: Popular Mechanics ,...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
A truly stunning nighttime photo suite of Neverland Ranch, the precursor to such other children-and-one-adult-male-populated ghost towns as Kid Nation's Bonanza City, has surfaced on Flickr. Beneath...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Courtesy of CBS (kid, logo), iStockphoto (fire, bleach) Vulture's all-time favorite child-abuse-based reality show Kid Nation is back in the news today! Nikki Finke is reporting that one former contestant who was injured during filming is pursuing a possible lawsuit against CBS . According to Finke, the network has been trying to settle this outside of the courts, but the potential plaintiff is asking...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
C'mon, wasn't this inevitable? Sources have told me that an East Coast law firm has hired a Century City law firm to pursue a possible lawsuit on behalf of one child, and maybe more, who were injured during the reality show Kid Nation. I'm told that CBS has been handling this dispute super-confidentially with in-house counsel and have twice tried to mediate it outside of the courts. But insiders tell...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
What a sick joke. Today the Alliance for Children's Rights announced it's going to honor Nina Tassler, the CBS Entertainment president, with the National Champion For Children Award at its 15th annual awards gala. Oh, and co-chairing the event will be Les Moonves and Nancy Tellem. All these people OK'ed last fall's disgusting Kid Nation [...]
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
ABC's just-announced High School Musical reality competition could be the most cynically exploitative bestest-ever reality show since Kid Nation — as long as they give the youngsters a couple of valuable pointers. Tip No. 1: Don't let your boyfriend take...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
