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Top Chef NY: January 7th

In the seventh episode of Top Chef NY (1/7 @ 10/9c), cooking excellent food takes focus, and the chefs are feeling the pressure after serving up disappointing dishes for Christmas.  The heat is on when the Quickfire Challenge demands that the chef’testants create a sweet treat without using any sugar.  And when it comes time [...]

Superstars of Dance – New Global Pro Dance Competition

This Sunday, January 4th, eight countries will compete in a “dance olympics” for the pride and glory of their homeland. Hosted by Michael Flatley of Lord of the Dance, NBC’s Superstars of Dance chronicles teams from Australia, South Africa, China, Russia, Ireland, Argentina and the USA as they showcase their native dance styles. Check out [...]

Dangerous Encounters: Jurassic Shark

Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT Starting this Saturday, January 3 and continuing through Saturday, January 24, Dr. Brady Barr will take you on adventuresome expeditions investigating little-known species such as sixgill sharks, crocs in crisis, and giant salamanders. In the last of the four new episodes, Brady returns to the guano-flooded bat [...]

‘Dancing With the Stars’ Pro Mark Ballas Pulls His Groin

Los Angeles attendees of the “Dancing With the Stars” tour witnessed a pained Mark Ballas on Saturday as he grimaced through several numbers and apologized to the audience for not being 100 percent. Turns out that while on tour Ballas pulled a muscle in his groin and will need to rest for a couple of [...]

Meet the ‘True Beauty’ Contestants

The six women and four men, who range in age from 21 to 31, go into the show thinking they’ve been recruited for a TV show that will judge which one of them is the hottest (like Are You Hot?, but without Lorenzo Lamas and his laser pointer). However, cameras will also record their behavior, [...]

A reality check of TV 2008

Singers, dancers, models, designers, judges and castaways! Read More

“The City” premiering Monday, December 29 at 10p.m. ET/9p.m. C

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/the-city/series.jhtml

‘America’s toughest sheriff’ gets reality show

In Arizona, seeing Joe Arpaio on TV is nothing new. But the self-described “America’s toughest sheriff” now has a national platform to pursue lawbreakers that stretches beyond the 5 o’clock news. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the state’s most populous county, has a starring role in “Smile … You’re Under Arrest!,” a new [...]

“The City” Sneak Peek: Whitney’s Cute Date

Monday December 29th at 10pm EST/9:00pm Central.

Hills’ Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt: Not Married!

Two weeks ago, just after Pratt and Heidi Montag eloped in Mexico, the Valkyrie star appeared briefly on The Hills Aftershow to recommend that Pratt give his woman a big wedding if that’s what she wants. Instead, Spencer brought Heidi to a courthouse to make it official…and then abruptly changed his mind. Montag had already [...]

New Season of “No Reservations”

In the upcoming season, Anthony Bourdain heads to exotic locations like Venice, Azores, Sri Lanka and Vietnam and doesn’t hold back on his blunt observations about people, places, cooking and culture.  While his travels take him across the globe, he doesn’t forget about the foodie hot spots in Washington DC, Chicago and New York City. [...]

Homeland Security turns reality TV star

Ratings champion “American Idol” will face serious competition when it returns next month: the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland Security USA,” an ABC reality series debuting Jan. 6, tracks the daily efforts of the federal workers responsible for safeguarding the nation’s airports, borders, waters and anyplace else threats might arise. Read More