• The Year In Review: Reality TV still delivering strong ratings, despite missteps

  April 16, 2005
  At the "upfront" advertising-sales meetings prior to the 2004-05 primetime television season, the six U.S. broadcast networks and their cable competitors made it clear that the next season would feature lots and lots of reality television. In fact, the push for more reality TV became so severe that one network (Fox) resorted to the blatant theft of other networks' ideas. Now that the season is in its final two months, how did this glut of reality shows fare?
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  Report: 'Survivor' couple Amber Brkich and Rob Mariano to marry on April 16

  April 15, 2005
  They placed first and second on Survivor: All Stars. They are one of the final five teams in The Amazing Race 7. And now, according to press reports, their wedding will take on what's become reality TV's biggest annual event of the year: the American Idol finale.

• CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7' Indian leg ends with unfinished business

  April 13, 2005
  The Amazing Race viewers have gotten used to a formula during the past seven seasons of the series. The typical episode ends with teams being greeted at the finish line by host Phil Keoghan and a local. At least until last night's CBS broadcast of The Amazing Race 7's eighth episode.

• Has CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7' website revealed the show's final three teams?

  April 7, 2005
  Among people who like to figure out what is going to happen on reality competition shows before they are broadcast (a group typically referred to as "spoilers"), the least-trusted type of information is that which comes from a broadcast network website. However, in CBS's The Amazing Race 7, spoilers have been stunned to learn that information from CBS.com's The Amazing Race 7 website has been useful in predicting of ALL of the first six teams booted -- and may also reveal the identities of the next two teams to be booted as well as those of the final three teams that will compete all the way to the $1,000,000 finish line.

• Brothers Brian and Greg Smith get eliminated from 'The Amazing Race 7'

  April 6, 2005
  Although they were able to survive a sprint to the finish in the The Amazing Race 7's prior leg, brothers Brian and Greg Smith ran out of luck and finished last during CBS's Tuesday night broadcast of The Amazing Race 7's seventh episode, making the duo the sixth team eliminated from the worldwide race.
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  Ray Housteau and Deana Shane get eliminated from 'The Amazing Race 7'

  March 30, 2005
  Despite using the Fast Forward and finishing first during the first leg of last night's special two-hour The Amazing Race 7 broadcast, Ray Housteau and Deana Shane weren't as lucky in the second half of last night's CBS broadcast, finishing last and getting eliminated in South Africa.

• Mother/son team of Susan and Patrick Vaughn get eliminated from CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7'

  March 23, 2005
  Three consecutive eighth place finishes finally caught up with The Amazing Race 7's mother and son team of Susan and Patrick Vaughn. Once again finishing eighth in the fourth race leg where only the race's top seven finishers would continue, the duo became the latest The Amazing Race 7 team to get eliminated from the competition.

• CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7' continues riding high with "Romber"-fueled ratings

  March 17, 2005
  Perhaps the ratings problems that have long plagued CBS's Emmy-winning The Amazing Race are coming to an end ... with a little help from the show's reality TV friends.
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  "Lifelong friends" Debbie Cloyed and Bianca Smith get eliminated from CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7'

  March 16, 2005
  What started so well for Race team Debbie Cloyed and Bianca Smith came to a sudden and abrupt end during last night's broadcast of CBS's third episode of The Amazing Race 7.

• Has online gambling revealed the winners of CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7'?

  March 9, 2005
  Have the winners of yet another reality show been "outed" by online bettors?

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