Archive for the ‘reality tv’ Category
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Burnett deal spurs reality auditions - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety By DANIEL FRANKEL
Mark Burnett has signed a multiyear agreement with Studio One Media to use the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company's new MyStudio service to audition reality show contestants.
Operating self-contained kiosks in high-traffic areas like shopping malls, MyStudio lets ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Applications for Season 19 are due Jan. 14!
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This is an interesting interview with Jill Spillman, the casting director for Survivor. If you want to be on the show, she's the one who will have to approve of you. ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Exclusive: Jeff Probst creates new show for CBS | TV Biz | Hollywood Insider | EW.com by Dalton Ross
Survivor’s Jeff Probst has created — and will host — a new reality pilot for CBS, EW.com has learned exclusively. The show, Live Like You’re Dying, will feature a person who has ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
On Reality TV, Even ‘Survivor’ Looks Mortal - NYTimes.com
[caption id="attachment_1519" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Trends of Reality TV Shows"][/caption]HUNCHED over a carved wooden coffee table in his office, studying drawings of a river relay race that “Survivor” contestants will soon endure, Mark Burnett sounds every bit the acclaimed television producer he is.
He ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
reality blurred + Robo-hosts who get fed lines by producers include Ty Pennington, Tabatha Coffey
That hosts are being fed lines through small, wireless IFB earpieces is sometimes obvious, but it’s also annoying. Real hosts—Seacrest, Probst, even Bergeron—work closely with producers, but they don’t get fed lines while they’re live on ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
From what Jeff says below, there will be a "good" side and an "evil" side. The season will build to the end. I'm sure that Ace will be on the "take no prisoners" tribe, while Ken is on the naive, endearing tribe, you know, the one that's already lost 2 ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The 5 hosts got generally bashed for the job they did at the 60th Emmys. Jeff won and that was great. They all seemed to do the best they could, but were hampered by the terrible format of the show. At the bottom of this post is a link to ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Jeff Probst wins the Emmy for Reality TV Host at the 60th Emmy Award show tonight. He was nominated with Tom Bergeron, Howie Mandel, Ryan Seacrest, and Heidi Klume. Survivor set the standard for reality TV shows, so it makes sense that Jeff would win this award.
Congratulations on winning ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The Associated Press: TV Review: Emmycast tries to get real, and flops By FRAZIER MOORE – 3 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Are the TV writers still on strike?
There have been boring, listless and otherwise ham-handed Emmy broadcasts among the past 59. Sunday's Emmycast was all of those things. But ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter By Frank Scheck
Bottom Line: A little too much reality, and pacing that demonstrated a need to switch to decaf.
Budding physicists would do well to study the broadcast of the 60th Emmy Awards. They would discover a new scientific principle: The closer a televised awards show gets toward ...
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