We have a champion! Dancing with the Stars picked a new winner last night. After weeks of winnowing the herd, only three “stars” remained. But much like Highlander, there can be only one.
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Dancing with the Stars: Season Thirteen’s Final Performances
Last night on Dancing with the Stars, the three finalists pulled out all the stops to impress America in the hopes of winning the coveted Mirror Ball trophy. Ricki Lake, Rob Kardashian and J.R. Martinez each performed two dances, …
Dancing with the Stars Recap, Week 9: Latin Flavor and Injured Dancers
Welcome to the Dancing with the Stars semi-finals. This week, not only did the remaining celebrities grapple for a slot in next week’s finals, but producers struggled to fill two hours of primetime with just four dancers. To …
‘Dancing with the Stars’ Week 7: Justin Bieber Performs. Oh, And Someone Exits.
Get into last night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, there were six remaining contestants.
32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History
From American Idol mania to The Real World’s first spat, TIME looks at the best, the worst and the most tasteless episodes of the genre that’s been a national obsession for nearly 30 years
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E! Plans Bridal Plastic-Surgery Competition
First, reality TV gave us Bridezillas; now it’s going to construct Frankenbrides. According to the Hollywood Reporter, E! has ordered Bridalplasty, a new reality show in which brides-to-be compete for plastic-surgery procedures.
Each week, James Hibberd reports, ” a group of women competes head-to-head in such challenges as writing …
Guilty Pleasure, 2010: TV Tales of Jaw-Dropping, Terrifying Marriages
Some television shows – hell, entire television networks – are built around the close-up of the jaw-dropping train wreck. Tales of voyeuristic catharsis, where us viewers can take a collective deep breath and thank the heavens that, no matter how bad things get, at least we don’t have it that bad.
I’m talking about the I …
TV Tonight: Is 'Hard Knocks' the Summer's Best Reality TV Show?
I know Tuned In is usually a place on Wednesdays to read all about Top Chef – a show that I used to be obsessed with. But in recent weeks, as the cooking competition has skewed more extreme and predictable, another show has risen up to dominate not just the 10 p.m. hour on Wednesdays, but the weekly slate of reality TV contenders. …
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The Morning After: Back to Reality
It’s after Memorial Day weekend, and that means it’s time for summer reality programming on the broadcast networks. Last night, NBC debuted Losing It with Jillian, a truly repellent spinoff of The Biggest Loser that alternated between weight-loss coach Jillian Michaels verbally abusing an overweight family and mawkish moments of …
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Survivor's Rulebook Leaks Out
Over the weekend, Survivor officially turned ten years old, having given us a decade of assorted and sundry competition reality shows (as well as the inspiration for Lost). Yesterday, on Survivor’s tenth birthday, the website Reality Blurred delivered quite a present: a leaked copy of the nine-page rule book given contestants on the …
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JPTV Jr.: Educating the Next Generation of Reality Contestants
As any parent today will tell you, it is important for children to begin early acquiring the technological skills they will need in our demanding world. For instance, how can we use the Internet and distance-learning technology to teach children the vital skills they will need in order to successfully compete in the reality-TV …
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Report: Sarah Palin to Fix Television
For a woman who has so many issues with TV series and hosts, Sarah Palin is becoming awfully active in the industry. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate turned Fox News contributor is now, according to Entertainment Weekly, teaming up with Survivor producer Mark Burnett to pitch a reality show about Alaska.
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Dead Tree Alert: What's Right With Reality TV
In the print edition of TIME this week, I’m marking the 10th anniversary of Survivor (I’ll have a couple thoughts on the season premiere later) with a critical essay on what a decade—or a generation, going back to The Real World—of reality TV has done for us, and to us: “In 1992, reality TV was a novelty. In 2000, it was a fad. In …
