• Ratings: Fox's 'Next Great Champ' gets KO'd in premiere

  September 9, 2004
  Fox might have won its battle with Mark Burnett and gotten its The Next Great Champ reality boxing series on the air well before NBC's The Contender, but if the ratings for Tuesday's premiere episode are any indication, it doesn't look like it emerged from the fight with much of a prize.
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  'Outback Jack's Vadim Dale selects Natalie Franzman over Marissa Clark in series finale

  August 12, 2004
  Australian Vadim Dale chose Natalie Franzman to be his city girl girlfriend during Tuesday night's finale of TBS's Outback Jack, passing on "boomerang" returnee Marissa Clark in the process.

• Fox's 'The Next Great Champ' to premiere September 10

  August 10, 2004
  Officially confirming reports that have circulated for several weeks, Fox has announced that its The Next Great Champ reality boxing series will premiere on Friday, September 10 at 9PM ET/PT.

• 'Survivor' leads pack as reality shows rack up record number of Emmy nominations

  July 15, 2004
  Reality TV is finally coming in from the cold at the U.S. Emmy Awards.

• Ratings: NBC's 'Next Action Star' fails to shine in debut

  June 22, 2004
  The final ratings for last week's debut of the first two episodes of NBC's new Next Action Star reality series, and despite the claims of the network's pre-debut promos, so far the series is shaping to be anything but "the next big thing in reality TV."
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  The schmo must go on -- the hijinks continue in Spike TV's 'Joe Schmo 2'

  June 14, 2004
  Having had huge success with last fall's parodying of the reality competition show sub-genre, Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show is coming back to skewer another popular reality show format ripe for parody -- and if a first episode screener provided by the network is any indication, viewers will once again enjoy the ride.

• American Idol - Gay Idol Journal, "Live From The Red Carpet"

  May 30, 2004
  Thought Larry Johnson's Gay Idol Journal commentary was over just because American Idol's season was over? Think again -- Reality TV World arranged for Larry to attend American Idol's live season finale, where he wrote his own unique commentary on that greatest of showbiz spectacles -- the classic red carpet arrivals!

• 'Survivor: All Stars' Finale Episode 'State of the Spoiling'

  May 8, 2004
  Our 'State of the Spoiling' summary for the finale episode of Survivor: All Stars is now available.

• A&E to premiere new 'Family Plots' funeral home reality series on April 19

  March 8, 2004
  Having already gone into the skys to document adventures in air travel with its successful Airline series, the A&E Network now plans to go six feet under and follow the funeral home business. Similar to HBO's fictional Six Feet Under series, the network's new unscripted Family Plots series, premiering April 19 at 9PN ET/PT, will chronicle the comings and goings of a real Southern California family-run mortuary.

• Larissa Meek picks pretty boy Gil Hyatt over Brian Worth in 'Average Joe 2: Hawaii' finale

  March 2, 2004
  The "average Joes" are 0-for-2 versus the himbo hunks. That says it all.

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