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Report: Jailed ‘Idol’ star pregnant

Ex-”American Idol” star Jessica Sierra is expecting a baby in jail, reports TMZ.com. Sierra was arrested earlier this month outside a bar near Tampa and is facing charges of disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and violating parole. Read More 

Viewers getting a crush of reality on TV

There’s a lot more reality ahead. Come January, NBC’s Sunday-through-Friday lineup devotes six of 18 hours to the likes of “Deal or No Deal,” “1 vs. 100,” “Biggest Loser Couples” and “Celebrity Apprentice,” as well as reviving “American Gladiators.” CBS is loading up with “Survivor” and three nights of “Big Brother,” along with the Drew [...]

CHOOSE OR LOSE ‘08

MTV TAPS 51 STATE-BASED CITIZEN JOURNALISTS FOR “CHOOSE OR LOSE ‘08” AP Online Video Network & Top Mobile Carriers to Distribute Weekly “Street Team ‘08” Reports Knight Foundation Grant Helps Power Mobile Media Election Coverage Experiment MTV, as part of its Emmy-winning “Choose or Lose” campaign (www.ChooseorLose.com), unveiled “Street Team ’08”: a specially recruited group [...]

High on “Tequila,” MTV in mood for “Amore”

After taking “A Shot at Love,” MTV is now saying, “That’s Amore.” The lifestyle cable channel has ordered a spinoff of its hit reality competition series “A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila,” which ended its run Tuesday with 6.2 million total viewers making it MTV’s most-watched series telecast. Read More

Cheryl Burke Bows Out!

The show may be over, but the drama isn’t. As a nearly sold-out crowd of 6,000 settled into Seattle’s Key Arena Tuesday night for the opening of the Dancing with the Stars national tour, the announcer made a statement no one wanted to hear: Due to illness, Cheryl Burke would not be dancing. As loud [...]

Life of Ryan Returns in January!

“LIFE OF RYAN” FEATURING RYAN SHECKLER RETURNS TO MTV FOR A SECOND SEASON TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 AT 10:00 P.M. Star Skateboarder and Teen Heartthrob Looks to Maintain His Relationships While Competing Around the World Skateboarder extraordinaire and teen heartthrob Ryan Sheckler returns to MTV to “grind” his way through a second season beginning Tuesday, January [...]

The Biggest Loser is…

With three women in the final four — Isabeau, Hollie and Julie — it appeared likely there would be a female Biggest Loser at long last. But a different kind of history was made during the NBC reality show finale. Bill Germakos lost 170 pounds and 49.10 percent of his total body weight to take [...]

Tequila finds love on MTV dating show

The bisexual Internet celebrity selected 25-year-old film student Bobby Banhart as the winner of “A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila,” her popular MTV reality dating show, instead of 29-year-old female firefighter Dani Campbell. Read More

NBC Delays ‘Celebrity Apprentice’

Those of you waiting with bated breath for the premiere of “The Celebrity Apprentice” will have to bate a little longer. NBC has decided to hold off on the show’s premiere a week, pushing it back from Jan. 3 to Jan. 10. Its timeslot — 9 p.m. ET Thursdays — and everything else about the [...]

‘Survivor: China’ lunch lady sorry

A school lunch lady who gained fame as a contestant on CBS’ reality show “Survivor: China” wasn’t telling the truth when she claimed during Sunday’s season finale that she’d been demoted to janitor, her boss says. Read More Did Survivor Lunch Lady Lie?

FOX Opens ‘Dance’ Auditions

Auditions for the fourth installment of FOX’s summer competition his “So You Think You Can Dance” will begin on Jan. 17, 2008 in Dallas. Read More 

Viewers Head for The Hills (and China, Too)

If TV’s new reality is going to be reality, viewers are buying. For now, anyway. The season finales of CBS’ Survivor: China and MTV’s The Hills dominated the latest Nielsen rankings. Read More Fear of goths made Heidi, Lauren of ‘Hills’ pals