• CBS to air four summer reality shows, including 'Big Brother', 'Rock Star', and 'The Cut'

  May 9, 2005
  CBS has announced that it will air four realty series as part of its Summer 2005 programming schedule, the network's most aggressive summer schedule since it first launched the present American network television reality TV era with its Summer 2000 debuts of Survivor and Big Brother. In additional to the sixth edition of its annual three-night-a-week Big Brother reality series, CBS will also air reality uber-producer Mark Burnett's new Rock Star: INXS series on a thrice-weekly schedule, plus weekly broadcasts of Tommy Hilfiger's Project Runway-like The Cut series and Fire Me... Please.

• Report: CBS planning unscripted Jon Lovitz hidden prank series

  May 6, 2005
  CBS is developing a prime time unscripted series for former "Saturday Night Live" star Jon Lovitz, The Hollywood Reporter said Friday.

• "Nice guy" Tim Campbell wins Alan Sugar's UK 'Apprentice' show

  May 5, 2005
  Former London Underground employee Tim Campbell beat out stiff competition to win a job on the British version of the reality TV show "The Apprentice."

• MTV's ratings drop following the end of three popular reality shows

  May 2, 2005
  Cable's MTV has marked its eighth straight first-quarter of growth, but is also seeing ratings decline, the Hollywood Reporter said Monday.

• NBC to air six summer reality series, including shows featuring Tommy Lee and Paris Hilton's mother Kathy

  May 1, 2005
  NBC has announced plans to air six reality series as part of its Summer 2005 programming schedule. Staggering their debuts throughout the summer, the network will launch the shows in three waves, starting with I Want To Be A Hilton and Average Joe 4: The Joes Strike Back in late June, followed by The Law Firm and Meet Mister Mom in late July/early August, and concluding with the mid-August premieres of Tommy Lee Goes To College and the second season of The Biggest Loser, its Fall 2005 surprise hit.

• Bravo announces plans to air at least six new reality series this summer

  May 1, 2005
  Bravo has announced plans to air its most aggressive slate of original summer programming ever, with new reality series such as Sports Kids Moms & Dads, Hidden Howie: The Private Life of a Public Nuisance, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Situation: Comedy, Being Bobby Brown and Battle of the Network Reality Stars all scheduled to join new seasons of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and Blow Out as part of its summer programming lineup.

• Report: Las Vegas mayor close to landing his own reality show

  April 29, 2005
  Las Vegas's popular Mayor Oscar Goodman may soon have his own reality TV show, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday.

• ABC to air four new reality shows and new 'Wife Swap' episodes this summer

  April 28, 2005
  ABC announced Tuesday that it will premiere four new reality shows this summer, plus broadcast ten new episodes of Wife Swap, the popular reality series that premiered as part of its 2004-2005 primetime programming schedule.

• 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?

• New British 'Famelab' reality TV show takes aim at science

  April 15, 2005
  Many British celebrity wannabes are eager to show their ability, not to sing or dance but to turn on the public to science.

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