defective yeti (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Oh boy, the Biden-Palin trainwreck! I haven't been this giddy since the premiere of Temptation Island 2 !! Here's a preview of what we can expect: 6:02: During the opening handshake, Palin says "Can i call you Joe?" A reference to Obama "arrogantly" calling McCain "John" throughout the first debate? LET THE MINDGAMES BEGIN!! 6:04: Seventeen words into her first response and Palin is already talking...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Blake Lively gets tempted a little by a shirtless hunky lifeguard on the set of teenage angst drama Gossip Girl, currently shooting at Tilden Beach, NY on Thursday. Looks like Serena’s going to have a little summer fun in the Hamptons with a new boy toy! FYI: Blake’s costar Taylor Momsen recently signed with IMG Models. [...]
Dvorak Uncensored (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Got to feel worse than watching Temptation Island.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
For the tanned and toned contestants appearing in the popular French version of "Temptation Island," the palm fronds in paradise shield a gritty truth about reality television: marathon hours, sleep deprivation, token pay.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell is responsible for some of the most vilified reality series ever created -- "The Swan," "Married by America," "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" and "Temptation Island."
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Reality TV has brought us some real gems Average Joe , The Pickup Artist , Temptation Island , and who can forget Married by America . But, I think CW just came up with the prize winner - Farmer Wants a Wife . I swear, I am not making it up back in February, we at Cinema Blend warned you that it was coming. Well, get ready, it's here, and you already missed the premiere.
anonymous (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
All night long, every time I'd think about the ABC "debate" (sic), three reactions rose up - 1) grind my teeth to an angry pulp, 2) let my head explode, or 3) type something to let the steam out. This morning, I still can't believe I was able to make it through 45 minutes of the broadcast. This was topflight journalism at its worst. This was ABC's old, flimsy history with threadbare sizzle packaged...
TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
From http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/american-idol-hates-the-name-jesus-christ-then-again-why-does-that-surprise-anyone-about-a-show-named-idol/#comments cf bird Says: April 11, 2008 at 8:24 pm Oh please!!! Fox pushed the envelope Wednesday with Shout to the Lord. They went full blown Thursday and used the original lyrics including the name Jesus. Kudos to Fox. They are the broadcast network...
PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
It may be a little late in the semester for this post, but I've just come back from a very pleasant lunch with some of my students, the second such lunch in a week which also featured dinner with a number of students who "won" an auction with me. (I was a much hotter commodity last year at Notre Dame just after my Jeopardy win, I must say; perhaps next year I'll go on Temptation Island.) It has me...
Blogging Project Runway (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
NEW YORK -- Bravo yesterday unveiled a new reality show that will pull the curtain back on the secretive process of creating reality shows while also pitting would-be producers against each other in a cut-throat competition to see whose reality show will ultimately be its own reality show on the television network known for Emmy-winners Project Runway and Top Chef. "This is what America is going to...
Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
Steve Jones has been lined up to present an all new reality TV show for T4. When Women Rule The World will be set in a secret Caribbean village location, purpose built for the show. The series sees eight women taking sole charge of a group of ten men and challenges the women to build their [...]
The Plank (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
An interesting article in yesterday's Times probed the intersection of predation and profit in entertainment. Since the hand-crank days of COPS , Candid Camera , and Temptation Island (even that dreck now seems painfully analog), reality television has gone throughan industrial revolution of sorts, producing a robust market for regular peoplebehaving very badly. Some documentary-style contests have...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
A French court decides three reality show contestants should have had full employment rights.
With Malice... (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
A loooooong time ago I did a piece comparing NBA franchises to TV shows. Well, time to revisit that. A lot's changed in the NBA since that piece was written, so only appropriate that teams are recognized for what they are, today. The San Antonio Spurs – The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams Everybody says it's [...]
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
It's a hard life… They flirt and flaunt suntanned bodies on a golden beach for the raunchiest television show in France. Now the contestants of Temptation Island are going to be paid overtime for their exertions following a court judgment that could cripple the country's reality TV industry. The Paris Appeal Court ruled that participants in l'Ile [...]
