Miscellaneous Reality TV News
- May 24, 2006
ABC has announced that will air five new reality shows -- Buy It Now, How to Get the Guy, Master of Champions, One Ocean View and The One: Making a Music Star, an American edition of one of the world's most popular reality singing competition formats -- as part of its summer programming lineup.
- May 2, 2006
A Chinese entrepreneur is launching a reality TV show designed to showcase "smart travel," with contestants traveling to 12 countries on a budget of $3,000. - April 27, 2006
Ford Motor Company of Dearborn, Mich., is getting into the reality TV show business, it was reported Thursday. - April 21, 2006
The Internet auction site eBay is being made into an ABC prime time reality TV show, it was reported Friday. - April 17, 2006
Three former hosts of the British kids' TV show "Blue Peter" want money from "Pop Idol" winner Will Young for using their bodies in his music video. - April 3, 2006
The Miss America pageant is taking a page from the highly successful book of "American Idol" and letting the public choose the final 15 contestants. - March 31, 2006
China's state TV station will air its own version of the reality show "The Apprentice" in May, with winners given their own businesses to run, CCTV said. - March 28, 2006
First came "Pop Idol" in Britain; then the idea crossed the pond and morphed into "American Idol"; now comes "GIFTED," the Christian music version. - March 20, 2006
The Lifetime cable network has tapped two political heavyweights to help guide a high school election that will be documented for reality TV. - March 20, 2006
Seven residents of a Uruguayan town were killed on Friday when they were run over by a train that they were manually moving during the filming of an episode of Desafio al Corazon, a local feel-good reality television series.