After her weight increased to 200 pounds in 2005, she paired her Jenny Craig spokeswoman gig with a mockumentary entitled Fat Actress, which loosely followed her new identity as an obese actress trying to make it in Hollywood. She lost 75 pounds — cue the Oprah tankini appearance — then gained the same amount back. [...]
This is old news, but I just saw the preview for the upcoming web series If I Can Dream. It’s the next step in invasive reality television, created by — no surprise — American Idol co-creator Simon Fuller. You the viewers get to not only watch every minute of these five aspiring performers’ lives, but [...]
Virginia Heffernan has written a fascinating piece about how very distinctive New York/New Jersey accents have gone from embarrassing to desired thanks to shows like MTV’s Jersey Shore.
Heffernan’s thesis is that the characters like Snooki and The Situation ham it up so much as to seem almost vaudevillian, caking on makeup and spending hours in [...]
The DVD set, which is being released next Tuesday, of the History Channel reality series Pawn Stars created mixed feelings. The combination of the circumstances that prompt people to bring items to pawn or sell at a pawn shop, the items that these people bring to the shop, having three generations of the men of [...]
Paranormal Activity got nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for Best First Feature, leading Erik Davis at Cinematical to ask, is it perhaps being overlooked for an Academy Award?
He points out that it could have garnered the nomination based more on its stunning box-office success rather than its content. I have to second this distinction, [...]
Networks can be very stupid — whether it’s hiring bad actors, grossly overscheduling the newest reality hit, or chucking quality programs, we’ve lost out on some gems and have been subjected to too much drivel in the last ten years. Charlie Toft at Film.com has tracked network gaffes over the past decade; here are some [...]
YES. You know I’ll be watching this come December 3rd… I’ll need something to make sure my brain doesn’t explode from final papers.
Just as long as it’s as hilarious as this:
[Image source: That's Phucked]
[Video source: eyckzo on YouTube, mca1018 on YouTube]
From EW:
There’s a Lego reality show in the works according to Variety, which means there’s a fandom obsession in the works, according to me. Scott Messick, reality producer of such shows as Destroy Build Destroy and Shaq vs, is currently developing a doc series around the Lego “master builders” who create the most insane Lego [...]
This is a rarity — that over a weekend, a bizarre news story could be introduced, debated, and resolved before reaching Monday morning.
The long and short of it is, local news outlets first started broadcasting the story of a young boy who had climbed into his parents’ helium balloon and been blown away. The masses [...]
…on television. This bizarre little man will be returning to reality TV to get his high-school diploma. Of course, why he needs cameras to do that is beyond all of us. I can only guess that it’ll be more in line with Charm School, wherein all Flav does is fail out of class and gets [...]
