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Reality Check on Reality Shows and Business

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:48 +0000

The reality TV show “Tough Cookies” ended after 12 episodes on the Food Network, and according to Susan Adair of Crazy Susan’s Cookies shop in Ocean City, NJ., it was one crazy — and lucrative — ride. “Once that show hit, the business exploded at the shore,” said Adair. ”We went from five of us [...]

Reality star jailed: 'We'll die together'

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:38 +0000

Members of the Betts family leave the Downing Centre after Joel Betts pleaded guilty to attempted murder of Samantha Holland. Picture: John Grainger Source: The Daily Telegraph Samantha Holland and Joel Betts in an undated photo from when they were dating. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied A REALITY TV show contestant will spend the next 11 [...]

Reality TV Stars 'Don't Get Much Respect' Says Kim Kardashian

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:37 +0000

Kim Kardashian has become one of the most famous reality TV stars in the world, but it appears as though the fame isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be after the star claimed that reality stars “don’t get much respect”. Appearing on Alan Carr’s Chatty Man show, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians starlet [...]

Reality TV, celebrity obsession hit Cannes screens

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:35 +0000

CANNES (Reuters) – Obsession with celebrity is the focus of Italian director Matteo Garrone‘s new movie “Reality” at the Cannes film festival, one of two pictures in the lineup exploring the corrosive power of instant fame and the desire to be watched. Garrone is best known for his last film, the gritty “Gomorrah” about a [...]

Reality TV gets Cannes close-up, with prisoner as star

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:34 +0000

An Italian tragicomedy starring a prison inmate as a father of three who loses himself in a quest to become a reality television star premiered Friday at the Cannes Film Festival. “Reality” by Matteo Garrone, who captured the event’s 2008 Grand Prix runner-up award for “Gomorra” about the mafia’s wide-reaching grip on southern Italy, tells [...]

'American Idol' cuts Joshua Ledet and sets Jessica Sanchez vs. Phillip Phillips finale

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:30 +0000

American Idol eliminated Joshua Ledet and determined its Final 2 eleventh-season finalists during Thursday night’s live results show broadcast on Fox. ADVERTISEMENT Ledet, a 19-year-old from Westlake, LA, became the eleventh finalist sent home from American Idol‘s eleventh season after he received the fewest home viewer votes following Wednesday night’s performance show. The performance show [...]

'American Idol' down to final 2 singers

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:30 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “American Idol” finalist Joshua Ledet won’t be belting it out on this season’s final showdown. The booming 20-year-old vocal powerhouse from Westlake, La., was revealed Thursday to have received the fewest viewer votes on the Fox talent contest, leaving bluesy 21-year-old crooner Phillip Phillips of Leesburg, Ga., and sassy 16-year-old budding [...]

American Idol Elimination Shocker: The Final 2 Revealed!

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:29 +0000

“American Idol” said goodbye to one of its most celebrated singers on Thursday as the Season 11 Final 2, who will compete for the title, were revealed. (SPOILER: This story contains the results of “Idol.”) PLAY IT NOW: Is Jennifer Lopez Leaving American Idol? Joshua Ledet was eliminated on Thursday, sending Phillip Phillips and the [...]

'American Idol': Bad Things Come In Threes

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:27 +0000

Fitting of the Top Three elimination night, exactly three things happened on American Idol last night. Let’s discuss them and then go about the rest of our days, content in the knowledge that we have almost made it to the end of this life-changing journey. RELATED: ‘American Idol’: We Went Home Again Well, OK, technically [...]

'American Idol' cuts Joshua Ledet, sets Phillip Phillips vs. Jessica Sanchez finale

RealityTV — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:07:26 +0000