The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just premiered on Bravo, but that doesn't mean it's too early to get their luxurious look for Halloween this year. Celebrity stylist Jessica Pastor fills us in on how to get the 90210 look this year to complete the perfect Halloween costume.
Whether you prefer your reality shows to contain melodrama or fierce competition, I think each of us has at least one program that we're totally addicted to. I have my faves, so you tell me yours. And when you're done, make sure you get a chance to vote on all my other best of 2009 polls!
This isn't exactly breaking news, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt started the rumor mill up again when they mentioned that they're shopping around their own spinoff from The Hills. The show would focus more on their everyday lives and acknowledge their "fame", which apparently has risen to such levels that they've gone and written a book about it.
I'm kind of over The Hills in general, and I think there are plenty of former (or current) reality stars out there who are more deserving of his/her own show. How about Taylor from The Rachel Zoe Project or Santino from Project Runway? Who do you think deserves his or her own reality show?
One of my favorite Internet videos of last year — of all time, really — was the "I'm not here to make friends" montage, a bunch of clips of reality show contestants uttering that now-famous phrase. I just have to wonder: Do these people know that what they're saying is a cliche? Is that why they say it? Or do they really think they're saying something brand new?
Well, now another year has gone by, and the folks from FourFour are back with a new version of the video. These clips feature a whole new batch of not-here-to-be-friendly reality show contestants from this past year of programming (jeez, remember Momma's Boys? Scream Queens?). This year has the added twist, though, of reality shows like Paris Hilton's My New BFF that are about nothing but making friends.
While I'm not sure anything will ever top the original, I did get a kick out of the special spotlight this year's version shines on America's Next Top Model's disagreeable Sandra. To watch the '09 edition of "I'm not here to make friends," just read more
This year's American Idol top 10 are officially on the road. This year's live tour kicked off in Portland over the weekend (here's Adam and Allison's "Slow Ride" duet) and will be crisscrossing the country through September. It's maybe the best-known of the reality show tours, but plenty of others also take their top acts on the road, from So You Think You Can Dance to America's Best Dance Crew to Nashville Star. I'm wondering: Have you ever gone to one of these live shows?
With the Fourth of July weekend upon us, I'm bringing back an old favorite quiz about TV shows that search for America's best. In recent years, we've turned to television to find some of our hottest singers, greatest inventors, young talents, and even cute dogs. In honor of Independence Day, this quiz is all about reality shows with "America" or "American" in the name. How well do you know this intersection of entertainment and national pride? Good luck!
Part of the fun of watching reality TV is watching the judges bicker, tease each other, and occasionally fall all over themselves with praise for a contestant. Some shows pick their judges at the start of the show and never waver; others add guest judges into the mix; still others (say, American Idol) add new full-time judges to shake things up. Tell me: Which reality show has your favorite judging panel overall?
Oh, Fox. The network that kept it classy with Married by America is at it again, this time cooking up a reality show in which couples don't meet till the moment they say their vows.
The show — aptly and honestly called I Married a Stranger — takes one single person fed up with the dating scene and presents his or her friends and family with a set of six possible suitors. When two candidates remain, they both walk down the aisle — but only one steps forward to meet his or her new mate at the altar. The pilot episode was shot with a woman as the frustrated single, but the producers may alternate between men and women in the future. As a source told The Hollywood Reporter:
"She never meets him until the actual moment when they say 'I do.' It's like the big scene that comes after an entire season of The Bachelor, only this is in every episode."
Aside from the question of why people would voluntarily marry a stranger, I'm wondering why Fox would even want this show. Trashy, "marrying folks in sketchy ways" reality TV strikes me as very 2003. Then again, Fox has already generated headlines with More to Love, the show about plus-size people looking for mates — so really, why not arrange some doomed marriages between strangers while you're at it?
What do you make of this one? Would you watch?
After tonight's American Idol, Fox will show the premiere of the new variety show Osbournes: Reloaded. The show has some segments filmed in a studio — like a game where a blindfolded man has to kiss a grandma — and others set up as small sketches skewering pop culture, including a spoof of The Hills with Lauren Conrad (below).
This might make me sound like an old lady, but my first response to this show is, "Why is it so loud?" I feel like Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly, and Jack are yelling at me nonstop. I'm still curious if this concept can work on TV today, so tell me, will you check out Osbournes: Reloaded?
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