NBC Reality Shows News
April 15, 2005
The Apprentice 3's Team Networth lost its seventh straight task during Thursday night's NBC broadcast of the show's twelfth episode, making Chris Shelton, a 22-year-old real estate investor from Las Vegas, Nevada, the latest Apprentice candidate to be fired.
April 14, 2005
During the first seven episodes of NBC's reality-competition boxing show The Contender, co-hosts Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard have made several references to the fact that contestant/lawyer Joey Gilbert (who will be fighting in this week's episode against Jimmy Lange) is the best and best-conditioned all-around athlete in the show's sixteen boxer field. Now, it appears that Stallone has found a way to use Joey's athleticism to his advantage.
April 13, 2005
The first winner of "The Apprentice" has extended his contract with Donald Trump's company for another year.
April 13, 2005
Billionaire TV star Donald Trump says will "be there" for troubled "The Apprentice" contestant Chris Shelton.
- April 13, 2005
Reacting to criticism to the extremely padded 3-hour finale of The Apprentice 2, NBC announced Tuesday that the finale for The Apprentice 3 would be scaled back to one hour. Airing Thursday, May 19 in the show's regular 9PM ET/PT time slot, the The Apprentice 3 broadcast will be followed by the season finale of ER.
- April 13, 2005
"We Put The Stress In Seamstress," our episode summary for the eleventh episode of the third edition of NBC's The Apprentice, written by Oscirus, is now available.
- April 12, 2005
NBC has begun casting for its new Treasure Hunters reality series -- a new, quest-oriented unscripted series that features multi-player teams to be sent on a global search to solve a puzzle, with the first team to uncover all the clues given the location of a hidden treasure.
- April 11, 2005
Martha Stewart's "battle of the anklet" may have revealed a major shift in strategy by NBC with regard to its The Apprentice reality show franchise. Although NBC refuses to confirm its Fall 2005 schedule at this point, it appears that the Martha Stewart version of the show may be the only one to air in the fall of 2005, with the next edition of the Donald Trump version delayed until Spring 2006.
April 11, 2005
With one fight in the first round still remaining, one thing is certain on NBC's The Contender reality competition boxing show : an Arab-American will not win the million-dollar first prize.
- April 11, 2005
A New York U.S. District Judge Monday rejected Martha Stewart's request for an early release from house arrest.