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  Steve's Mailbag, Volume 1 Edition 1

  November 30, 2004
  Welcome to our debut edition of Steve's Mailbag. Each week, Steve Rogers, Reality TV World's chief reporter, will do his best to answer reader questions.

• 'The Farm's boorish boar burlesque gets British TV OK

  November 30, 2004
  British TV regulators will not punish the producers of a TV show that featured an attractive woman getting a boar to ejaculate on camera.

• Fox teams with Ivana Trump for 'Ivana Young Man' reality special

  September 7, 2004
  Add the Trumps to the growing list of America's multi-reality show families.

• Procreation may become a new reality show reward

  July 28, 2004
  Will the next craze in reality TV be driven by the "need to breed"? Three new reality shows proposed in Europe and Asia indicate that it may be.

• NBC casting for American edition of British 'Double or Nothing' gambling show

  July 20, 2004
  Would you trade all of your possessions for 15 minutes of reality television fame and one spin of a roulette wheel on live TV to double your wealth ... or lose it all? If so, NBC is looking for you.

• FOX idea theft controversy continues, with NBC and ABC throwing barbs and FOX crying foul

  July 19, 2004
  FOX's ongoing reality show theft controversy roared to new levels during last week's Television Critics Association summer press tour, with both NBC and ABC chiefs lobbing fresh allegations of creative theft at the Rupert Murdoch-owned network and FOX charging back by calling the accusations "baseless" and "unacceptable." Meanwhile, during its own weekend conferences, a gleeful CBS chief admitted to enjoying just sitting on the sidelines and watching the ruckus.

• '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.

• Fox announces 'Fox Reality Channel' cable network plans... whither goes Reality Central?

  July 13, 2004
  In an announcement that roils the waters of the reality television world, Fox Networks Group today announced the creation of a new cable and satellite network, Fox Reality Channel, that is scheduled to debut in first quarter 2005.

• NBC discloses two new Fox reality shows, 'Big Shot' and 'Who's My Daddy?'

  July 12, 2004
  During the television writers' summer tour, NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Zucker disclosed the names and concepts behind two heretofore-unidentified Fox shows that are scheduled to air during the 2004-05 television season.

• Paris Hilton's father Rick launches gambling reality-competition show '777'

  July 1, 2004
  Yet another member of the Hilton family is searching for fame on reality TV.

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