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From the moment the imperious music began and the narrator intoned that the Republicans wanted to "kick out" Obama from the White House, CNN left no overwrought TV styling untried. More »
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One of my favorite things (okay, the only favorite thing) about Sarah Palin is her beautiful hair. So perhaps it's only fitting that her hair salon, the Beehive, should get its own two-part reality show. More »
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Do you believe "skinny bitches need to step aside"? That "Big girls don't cry… they freakin' party!"? Oh, and you must "appear younger than 35" to be cast in a new VH1 "docu-series" on fabulously "phat" plus-sized women. More »
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Within the first 10 minutes of the Jersey Shore reunion show, MTV revisited Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino's club flirtations in Miami with a lady his roommates believed was born a man. Cue everyone laughing at the disgusting freak of nature! More »
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Two seasons and a Dancing With The Stars spot in, Mike Bloomberg still only sort of gives a shit about this Sensation fellow. More »
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The guy who falsely confessed to murdering JonBenet Ramsey, Casey Anthony's family, all things remotely related to Natalee Holloway — meet the man who brings these treasures to television "news." At least he hates Nancy Grace. More »
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The season finale of The Bachelorette fulfilled all of my mildest dreams. It had everything I've ever wanted: love, loss, and a surprising amount of bodily fluids — except for one thing: it was mind-numbingly safe. More »
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"We're in the American pop-culture business so it's tits and ass that sells," says the guy who books the Jersey Shore guys at clubs. The exception: The Jersey Shore guys. More »
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Two ex-flames on transsexual demi-celeb Jamie Clayton: "I've never been attracted to any others; I don't think there are any others like her." "Usually when you're attracted to a girl, you don't necessarily respect her." But this one is different! More »
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One anonymous TV exec told Page Six that Brevi is too boring to get their own reality TV show. So maybe the two "family friends" telling PopEater that Sarah Palin is boycotting their August wedding is just trying to help! More »
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When kids appear on reality TV shows, are they working like actors, or being filmed like a documentary? That's at the heart of the question of whether they're being exploited in violation of child labor laws. More »
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Laurence Sunderland, father of teen sailor Abby Sunderland, has admitted that he signed on to do a reality TV show just weeks after Abby set off on her solo sail. However, he maintains that her trip "wasn't a stunt." [NYP] More »
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It was inevitable. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. That said, how could one not groan at the news that a production company is casting for the "Super Jappy" answer to Jersey Shore? More »
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This is how you make it in America: Noted White House party-crashers Tareq and Michaela Salahi will be "the most visible members" of Bravo's upcoming series The Real Housewives of D.C. Meanwhile, Desiree Rogers is unemployed. [The Daily Beast] More »
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In a distinctly less glamorous age of flying — even if it's better for workplace equality — is the life of the flight attendant still alluring? Fly Girls, a new show starring Virgin America's air hostesses, thinks so. More »
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The Big Money's Chadwick Matlin noticed that the fascination with the Jersey Shore cast member getting punched in the face does not seem to have waned. [Twitter, Earlier] More »
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When Nikki Finke pointed out that this looks like one of the worst pilot seasons for women on the major networks, several explanations emerged. Several of her commenters' theories about female scriptwriting inferiority aside, what's going on here? More »
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Joe Simpson is developing a comedy series with Nickelodeon based on his own life. The show will center around one of two daughters, who begins imitating her psychologist-dad at school. The show has not yet been titled. Any suggestions? [US] More »
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And that includes "Portuguese and Irish," he says. "You go to the mall, you see tons of people with the hairdo now. You go to the club, there's a million Pauly Ds in the crowd." [AP, Earlier] More »
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The best efforts of nearly the entire cast of Jersey Shore — boys included — aren't enough to endow Us's Lindsay Powers with the bulbous abundance of Snooki's hair pouf. Guess their aesthetic isn't quite so achievable after all. More »
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Jersey Shore has come to end, we're (genuinely) sad to say. We know we had fun. But is it possible we also saw something, dare I say it, subversive about beauty, gender and sexuality? I think so. More »
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Clever statement on their juvenile proclivities? Sign that the Jersey Shore phenomenon has peaked and then some? Or just Brooklyn hipster parenting gone too far? [Babelgum] More »
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TMZ reports that Brad Ferro has "30 days to pack up his stuff and split from North Queens Community High School." Because apparently his original assault charge last summer wasn't enough. Who says reality TV is useless to society? [TMZ] More »
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Enjoying Jersey Shore "hinges not on our ability to identify with them but on our ability to distinguish ourselves from them... as though we were anthropologists secretly observing a new tribe through a break in the trees." [The New Yorker] More »
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David Kronke of the LA Times is absolutely horrified by the "harpies" of reality television, and wonders what Jane Austen would make of "the genre's lurid fascination with attractive and monumentally self-absorbed young women." Oh, dear. More »
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ABC has greenlit a pilot based on a self-help book written by husband-and-wife TV comedy writers. Sample wisdom: "Men don't make men dumb. Boobs make men dumb." Promising! Plus, the last self-help book to be dramatized went so well. [THR] More »
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Brad Ferro, who drunkenly punched Jersey Shore's Snooki in a bar, has apologized via the New York Post, saying he remembers "very little" of that night and that "I was raised to act in a respectful manner to women." More »
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Jersey Shore's Snooki getting punched in the face has graduated to bonafide cultural phenomenon with tasteless products real and fake. On the bright side, maybe it'll help her fufill her wish of getting her own show. [BWE, DonkeyTs] More »
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"I don't care what a girl says, you still don't put your hands on her," DJ Pauly D tells ET about the infamous punch. Meanwhile, people are asking the cast for beauty tips, and Snooki wants her own show. More »
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On last night's Jersey Shore, Snooki demonstrated her unusual way of eating a pickle, and then made out with everyone in the petri dish that is the Jersey Shore hot tub. (There is not enough chlorine in the world.) More »
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The father of the gym teacher who punched Jersey Shore's Snooki in the face has some fighting words of his own. "He doesn't understand how that happened," says Dan Ferro. "She was being very aggressive. That's who she is, apparently." More »
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The episode of Jersey Shore that includes Snooki getting punched by a man in a bar will air next week, followed by a PSA cautioning, "Violence against women in any form is a crime," reports the Daily News. More »
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MTV's trailer for the rest of Jersey Shore's debut season contains a glimpse of a guy in a bar punching Snookie in the face. It's already becoming an Internet sensation. Why the glee? And should MTV have used the footage? More »
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On last night's Entertainment Tonight, Jon Gosselin chose Hailey Glassman's interview with Mary Hart as his opportunity to "break up" with her. Mary's WTF faces were gold. We present to you our version of the interview: LOL Jerks. More »
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There was lots of drama on the show previously known as The Fatchelor last night, as Luke went on three "dates." More »
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Last night's premiere of More To Love was even more disturbing than anticipated, not because overweight women were being exploited, but because the star, Luke, is a jackass. More »
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Kate Harding: "[The show] does does little to dispel the myth that fat people's lives are built around dessert and desperation." Marianne Kirby: "It's a one-two punch of acceptance followed by a knockout blow of shame." [Salon, The Daily Beast] More »
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Kendra Wilkinson, whoever that is, is pregnant. And her mom is mad. And then she's not. And then Kendra calls Hugh Hefner to tell him the news. Why do we care about this again? More »
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Yahoos at a Sacramento station "interviewed" Steffans (who recently dissed Hoda), but were rude. She got defensive; they cut the interview short. Then dude calls her a "rumpshaker." We don't even know whose side we're on. [YouTube] More »
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When we first heard about reality dating show More To Love, we were skeptical. Then Megan auditioned, and we were uneasy. LA Times writer Maria Elena Fernandez visited the set, and her report leaves us with mixed emotions. More »
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