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The decade will end on MTV with the debut of The Real World DC Dec. 30, and based on the trailer that debuted last night, the network is positioning the season as a lot more calm and introspective than the insanity of The Real World Cancun .
While there's some drama hinted at, it's all very ...
Reality
The Real World
MTV
House
Dancing with the Stars ' ninth season concluded with a probably predictable result: Donny Osmond and his pro partner Kym Johnson won the crappy trophy, beating Mya and her partner Dmitry Chaplin, who were tied with Donny and Kym in terms of judges' points. Kelly Osbourne and Louis van Amstel ...
Reality
Dancing With The Stars
Kym Johnson
The New York Times reports today on The Biggest Loser , saying in the headline that "health can take a back seat" on the show. The story is interesting, from the confessions of previous cast members to the way the show threatened its past contestants, warning them not to talk to the media.
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Reality
The Biggest Loser
Jon & Kate Plus Eight 's finale rebounded from its fall ratings slide , but didn't come close to reaching the peak of 10 million viewers that watched their divorce announcement episode in late May.
Overall, 4.318 million viewers watched, according to TV By the Numbers . The New York Times ...
Other
Jay Leno
NBC Universal
Next Tuesday, MTV debuts its newest docudrama: Jersey Shore , which follows a group of men and women on vacation in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. MTV's announcement of the show told viewers, "Grab your hair gel, wax that Cadillac and get those tattooed biceps ready to fist pump with the best ...
Drama
MTV
ABC received more than 1,500 complaints about Adam Lambert's AMA performance , but it turns out that's not really a big deal after all, because Dancing with the Stars is even more controversial, and we all know how crazy risque that show is.
Advertising Age reports that "ABC gets more ...
Reality
Dancing With The Stars
Adam Lambert
ABC
Samantha Harris
Next Iron Chef 2 winner Jose Garces beat Jehangir Mehta on Sunday's finale of the Food Network series, and will appear on Iron Chef for the first time in mid-January. He was selected by the annoying judging panel--seriously, has there ever been a more excruciatingly whiny group of judges than ...
Reality
Food Network
Next Iron Chef 2
Two and a half years after it began, Jon & Kate Plus Eight is over after 116 episodes. While it is over as a TLC docudrama, the series will, of course, live on in DVDs of all five seasons , and we have probably not seen the last of Jon and Kate Gosselin, alas. During the episode, Kate said, "I ...
Reality
Kate Gosselin
American Idol 8 runner-up Adam Lambert's debut record For Your Entertainment is out today, as is worldwide sensation and Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle's debut I Dreamed a Dream .
Neither won their respective shows, but are arguably getting more attention than Kris Allen's debut, ...
Reality
Susan Boyle
American Idol
Kris Allen
Adam Lambert
Britain's Got Talent
The AP reports that "ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert's sexually-charged performance at the American Music Awards."
Sure, but what were they complaining about? His shouty singing? His trip and fall? The fact that they'd seen simulated fellatio and ...
Reality
Adam Lambert
American Idol
ABC
American Music Awards
Brothers & Sisters
Adam Lambert is still a trending topic on Twitter this morning thanks to his performance of "For Your Entertainment" on the American Music Awards last night, which featured Adam making out with his keyboardist, groping with various male and female dancers, dragging dancers around the stage by ...
Reality
Adam Lambert
American Idol
After a spectacular debut that was up 44 percent over Bravo, Lifetime's version of Project Runway concluded with an episode that just barely surpassed its record-breaking opening episode, and was down from the season five season finale on Bravo--though not by as much as some would have you ...
Reality
Bravo
Project Runway
Lifetime
Alisen Down
Next week is Thanksgiving week, and while I'll update with breaking news for the first part of the week, I'll be taking some time away from the TV, so there will be a double Amazing Race post on Nov. 30. Here's what to watch if you need to get away from family or friends during the holiday ...
Reality
MythBusters
Deadliest Catch
Dirty Jobs
At the end of last night's Survivor Samoa episode, jury member Erik excitedly whispered, "Man, this is good shit." He was thrilled that Galu was getting its comeuppance, but he could have also been talking about the whole episode. There was a lot of great stuff, like a tie vote, Russell finding ...
Reality
Survivor: Samoa
Seven months after the three finalists presented collections at Fashion Week , Project Runway 6 ended, with the win going to Irina Shabayeva. Although Heidi told her the judges were "disappointed in [her] lack of color," Michael Kors said Irina had "the best sense of showmanship." After she ...
Reality
Project Runway
Lifetime
It's no surprise that Hell's Kitchen doesn't have a great track record of awarding its prizes to its winners, but its winners have rarely discussed that. In an interview with the New York Post , season two winner Heather West--who worked as a sous chef during season six but was pretty much ...
Reality
Hell's Kitchen
Heather Locklear
Joanna Going
NBC has announced a new series that will award what it calls "arguably the biggest prize in reality show history," which is "a new restaurant chain in four cities across America." United Plates of America is a competition judged "by a panel of real investors who fund the chain of restaurants ...
Reality
NBC Universal
United States of Tara
Chopping Block
Shark Tank
Top Chef
Nicole Fox is America's next next next next next next next next next next next next next top model, winning the short model cycle of America's Next Top Model .
She joined other winners in near-immediate obscurity and non-top model status after beating Laura Kirkpatrick in a final runway show ...
Reality
Nicole Kidman
America's Next Top Model
Eddie Murphy
The Insider's panel of pseudo-journalists and C-list celebrities may be establishing itself as the go-to jury for taking down reality stars who need to be challenged. As ironic as it is, a tabloid TV show--a genre that usually revels in publicist-fed fluff or sensational non-news--is doing the ...
Reality
Spencer Pratt
The Hills
Al Roker
One year ago on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 173 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in Mumbai as a result of 10 simultaneous terrorist attacks. Two documentaries debuting on TV in the next week examine those events from the perspective of both the terrorists and the victims.
Tonight at 8 ...
