With 2009 drawing to a close, it's time to take a look back at the year that was. The following is Reality TV World's 2009 Reality TV Year In Review, a 12-part, month-by-month review of some of the past year's reality TV headlines, highlights, lowlights, and milestones.
Former American Idol fourth-season finalist Mikalah Gordon feels that if Joanna Pacitti was disqualified from the show's eighth-season then current semifinalist Adam Lambert also should have been ruled ineligible to compete -- however she's apparently unfamiliar with the reason why Pacitti was given the boot.
New American Idol Rewind third-season episodes -- which will document the Fox mega-hit's 2005 fourth season -- will begin airing in syndication on Saturday, February 28.
CMT announced it has renewed Gone Country for a second season and also revealed the identities of the seven celebrities who will move to Nashville compete for the chance to record and release a country song.
Everyone knows what former AmericanIdol stars like Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, and Taylor Hicks have been up to recently. But in its January 8 issue, US Weekly caught-up with more than fifty other former Idol contestants that have appeared as a finalist in the show's five-season history.
Fox's American Idol 4 voted out the tenth of its twelve finalists during last night's results show, with Vonzell Solomon, a 20-year-old from Ft. Myers, FL, being eliminated from the reality talent competition as a result of receiving the fewest of the over 37 million votes that home viewers cast.
Fox's American Idol voted out the ninth of its twelve finalists during last night's results show, with Anthony Fedorov, a 19-year-old from Trevose, PA, being eliminated from the reality talent competition as a result of receiving the fewest audience votes.
In an elimination that many fans felt was long overdue, Fox's American Idol voted out the eighth of its twelve finalists during last night's results show, with Scott Savol, a 29-year-old from Shaker Heights, OH, being eliminated from the reality talent competition as a result of receiving the fewest audience votes.