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Murder charges were filed Thursday against a reality TV contestant whose model-ex wife was found strangled in a Dumpster. Now all cops have to do is find Ryan Alexander Jenkins, who has been on the lam since Saturday and is believed to have hot-footed it across the border into Canada. More details about the grisly murder of 26-year-old Jasmine Fiore were expected to be revealed later by prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., and by police in the city of Buena Park, where she was found. The developments came amid revelations that Jenkins beat up a former girlfriend in Calgary and...

The music mogul has made millions through his string of reality shows, which also include American Idol and America's Got Talent in the U.S But bosses at performers’ union Equity aren't happy about the lucrative profits - insisting the contestants who provide the entertainment deserve to be paid for their efforts Union executives have tabled a motion about the issue and if the idea pulls in enough support it could lead to a court battle against TV executives.

NEW HOWARD KURTZ BOOK STIRS CONTROVERSY... DEVELOPING... WHITE HOUSE FROZE OUT COURIC FOR FIVE YEARS... PRESIDENT MISTAKENLY SHARED CLASSIFIED INFO WITH NEWS ANCHORS... DAN RATHER VOWED TO LEAK BUSH GUARD DOCS TO NEW YORK TIMES -- IF CBS SPIKED...

The Hague - Dutch broadcaster BNN plans to air a television show next week where a terminally ill woman will decide who out of three young patients will get her kidney, Dutch media said o Saturday. Viewers will be able to advise the 37-year-old woman, known as Lisa, via text messages which of the candidates to pick, the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper said. The show is scheduled for next Friday in a prime time spot. BNN, whose former director died from kidney failure and spent years on a waiting list for a kidney transplant, told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper that the...

Check out Greg Gunderson's latest ranking update in the "Racin for a Livin" vote poll. Greg is currently at #4 !! Two days ago Greg was at

'Gay Army' TV Series Axed in Poland Before Being Screened WARSAW, July 12, 2006 – The Polish commercial television channel Polsat has dropped plans to screen the Danish gay reality TV series Gay Army, amid fears that the company would be hit by a massive fine from the Polish media watchdog National Radio and Television Council. It was two weeks ago that Polsat announced that it would be screening Gay Army, a hit in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The six-part show follows a group of gays who are sent to a “boot camp” for training. By the end of the...

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Ford is taking the task of designing cars to the public. The Detroit News says the nation's number-two automaker is planning its own television reality program. The show participants will develop concept cars with Ford designers. The paper says Ford showed a promotional video about the program at a dealer's meeting Thursday. An Automotive Marketing Consultants analyst says, "It's a very cool idea."

remember being a boy of about 8, feeling helpless to bring my fighting parents closer together, and then seeing a vision of myself, running from home to home, rescuing those that could still be saved. I even gave myself a moniker: "The marriage missionary," and later, "the Love Prophet." I would spend long hours thinking about the secret of how to keep a husband and wife happily under the same roof for the duration of their lives. When I flew on airplanes I would watch the couples sitting together and try and discern the difference between those that were smiling...

"Knight School" will be in session beginning today as the reality show centered on the Texas Tech men's basketball team and head coach Bob Knight begins filming. Rob Lundgren, one of the executive producers of the show, arrived in Lubbock on Friday and said the pre-production process has gone smoother than anticipated. "This has been a fabulous collaboration," Lundgren said. "The people at Texas Tech have been wonderful, everyone at the university. There are a lot of elements that are involved, and we've been in television for a long time and everyone in our crew has said that they've never...

LOS ANGELES - Take seven brainy nerds and seven dim beauties, add Ashton Kutcher as a matchmaker and what do you get? A television reality series, of course. Kutcher, the brains behind MTV's "Punk'd," is producing the new series for the WB network this summer. The goal of "Beauty and the Geek" is to couple seemingly mismatched pairs and see which can work best together, said David Janollari, the network's entertainment president, on Saturday. "It's really looking at stereotypes of people and how we look at beautiful women and not-so-beautiful men," he said. They will go through a series of...

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A viewer is suing NBC for $2.5 million, contending that he threw up because of a "Fear Factor" episode in which contestants ate rats mixed in a blender. Austin Aitken told The Associated Press he watches "Fear Factor" often and had no problem with past installments where the reality show's participants ate worms and insects in pursuit of a $50,000 prize - but eating rats went "too far." "It's barbaric, some of the things they ask these individuals to do," Aitken said Thursday. Aitken's handwritten lawsuit contends the rat-eating made his blood pressure rise, resulting in being...

Ready to take your fandom to the next level? MTV has opened applications for a new reality show, the premise of which will involve a group of fans who have designed their own super hero characters. Here’s the rub though – the finalists will live together in a house as their hero, and compete against celebrity villains for the grand prize – having their character published in a comic book. According to the production company, a “Legendary Comic Book Creator” As the production company is being mum about further details, it’s unclear if this show is the previously announced teaming...

Winner of the 2004 National Religious Broadcasters People's Choice Award, the reality television program "The Way of the Master" will launch its second season Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. Eastern on TBN. Co-hosted by actor Kirk Cameron and author Ray Comfort, and commended by John MacArthur, Ravi Zacharias and many other Christian leaders, the program airs on nine major Christian networks and can be viewed in more than 70 countries. In it, Cameron and Comfort blend informal teaching with on-the-street interviews to train Christians how to share their faith "simply, effectively, and biblically … the way Jesus did." "We are...

(Aug. 17) -- Toxicology tests confirm that Michael Tata died from a combination of the painkiller fentanyl and alcohol. The popular casino executive was found dead at his home in Henderson in July. It's now believed that the powerful opium-based painkiller, fentanyl, is at least partly to blame. The coroner says Tata's death was accidental. But UMC clinical pharmacist Don Frisch says that fentanyl can turn deadly if it's used used recreationally, especially if alcohol is added to the mix: "But when used in combination with other respiratory depressants, like alcohol or valium, you can actually have an enhanced effect...

Just a hunch. Self-proclaimed flower child in MA, bossy, wants to be the center of attention, blames everybody else when she turns people off with her rudeness(love how she got drunk in front of the children at a dinner out with her 'new' family), lots of class-warfare references seeming to arise from insecurity and jealousy, 'knows better than everyone else' yet unrealistic. "I, I, I", "Poor, poor me", victim, victim, victim. Seems to think that someone good-looking and rich couldn't simply be nice, no, they must be fake, of ill-gotten wealth, etc. Or maybe editing does wonders. No doubt that...

Al perfects his "Staute of Liberty" impression for his next SNL appearance...

<p>SCOTTSDALE - Randi Coy, the unwitting "star" of a Fox reality series that debuted last night, is in hot water with the school where she teaches. Last summer, between graduating from Arizona State University and beginning life as first-grade teacher at Pope John XXIII Catholic School Community, Coy, 23, attended an open casting call in Scottsdale.</p>

It's summer once again, which means it is time for what many dub "the ultimate reality show", Big Brother! For 3 months, 13 contestants, or "houseguests" must live together in a one-story house with absolutely NO contact from the outside world, while cameras and microphones capture their every move 24 hours a day. Each week, one houseguest is voted out with the sole remaining houseguest taking home half a million dollars.This year, the producers have introduced the "X-Factor" to Big Brother. 10 of the 13 houseguests were stunned to find out that an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend of theirs was also...