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Does Getting to Know the Contestants Make You Care About Miss America?
Last Friday, TLC premiered a new reality series called Miss America: Countdown to the Crown that follows 52 pageant queens vying for this year's Miss America crown (they did something similar last year).
Each week audiences can tune in to watch the ladies live together on an ocean cruise liner and go through various challenges that are apparently meant to prepare them for the big competition on Jan. 24.
TV Tonight: Miss America: Reality Check
When TLC got the rights to air Miss America, it wanted to reinvigorate the tired pageant. And it's starting tonight, with a reality show whipping this year's 52 contestants into shape.
Miss America: Reality Check puts the contestants under one roof for four weeks and asks them to complete a series of challenges.
Buzz News Roundup, 12/5
- The Hollywood Reporter has news that Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, and James Franco have joined Sean Penn for the Harvey Milk biopic, Milk.
- The stage musical version of Mary Poppins will begin its U.S. tour in Chicago during the spring of 2009, writes Variety.
- Michael Urie of Ugly Betty will host a Miss America special on TLC starting in January; details are at The Futon Critic.
- E! Online has news about the tour John C.
Will You Watch Miss America on TLC?
The Miss America Pageant is homeless no more. Dropped by ABC in 2004, then by Country Music Television this year, the pageant finally found a TV partner this week in TLC. The network inked a deal to air the pageant through 2010, along with a reality series preceding the 2008 pageant that will follow the preparations of the 52 contestants.
Buzz News Roundup, 3/30
- PopSugar reports on Bono's new British knighthood, while NME tells us that U2 is working on a new album.
- Spider-Man 3 will open in China one day before it's released in the U.S., says the Hollywood Reporter.
- The Miss America pageant is without a TV home again, writes Zap2it.
- Puzzling Variety news of the week: Helen Mirren will star in the National Treasure sequel.
- The Futon Critic sorts through Fox's scheduling changes, including a split-up season for "Drive" and a new time slot for "King of the Hill."
- Billboard has the dates of the Dave Matthews Band summer tour.
- The Hollywood Reporter writes that David O. Russell will direct Sammy's Hill, based on Kristin Gore's novel.
- The writer credited with turning "Desperate Housewives" around is leaving the show, Variety reports.
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Was it just me or was America's Next Top Model kind of a snooze this week? I miss the over-the-top fantasy glitz of the Cirque du Soleil or martial arts challenges. Not that the judges didn't give the models a tough task — each girl had to interview on camera for The Insider and script her own CoverGirl commercial.
America's Next Top Model Quiz: "Take My Photo, Tyra!"
This week's America's Next Top Model wasn't much more entertaining than last week's snoozefest (Bella seems to agree, awarding it just three short-legged "Milos"). But it was a bit better, mostly because we got a little more screen time with Tyra, there was a model who appeared to be faking orgasms during the photo shoot, and we had Laura wearing her grandma's clothing creations with pride ("Majah," Miss J said of the look). All in all, not bad, but I've come to expect more from you, ANTM.
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