Miscellaneous Reality TV News
- 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.
- March 17, 2006
China has issued new rules to put the brakes on free-wheeling TV programs that imitate the U.S. hit "American Idol" and undermine socialist values. - March 13, 2006
Actress Morgan Fairchild and comic Mario Cantone will face off in the Food Network's new reality cook-off show, "Celebrity Food Fight." - March 10, 2006
A new documentary on the cable TV network GSN features a teary Tonya Harding lamenting that the world considers her "poor white trash." - March 10, 2006
New York publisher and TV producer Judith Regan has signed Osama bin Laden's niece, Wafah Dufour bin Ladin, to a reality TV show contract.