Reality TV News (Page 5)

Bravo has announced a couple of news reality shows, each of which sounds similar to a couple of other reality shows.

First, the network is developing Top Chef: Masters, a Top Chef spinoff that will pit culinary professionals against one another in a series of weekly challenges.

Unlike Top Chef, which focuses on amateurs in the kitchen, the news series cast "some of the brightest stars in the world of food, award-winning, widely-renowned chefs," according to Bravo's press release.

Meanwhile, with Project Runway moving to Lifetime after this season, Bravo needs a replacement.

It has announced an American adaptation of Fashion House, a former European reality show that features teams of designers living together, creating entire lines of designs.

Fashion House aired for seven weeks in Fall 2003 and featured 20 young European designers that were organized into four five-person teams representing Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, and France competing against each other at a "fashion house" set within Rome's Costume and Fashion Academy.

On a recent episode of Brooke Knows Best, Brooke Hogan proved that she only knows best when it comes to humiliating herself.

When confronted with a potential roommate that - gaps! - follows politics, Brooke said:

I think it’s kinda crazy that a woman is running, because I think that women deal with a lot of emotions and menopause and PMS and stuff. Like, I’m so moody all the time, I know I couldn’t be able to run a country, ‘cause I’d be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, ya know?

Hogan also admitted that she's had sex. Amazing, we know.

Watch the clip now:

With buzz already circulating over High School Musical 3: Senior Year, it's the perfect time for a reality show based around this Disney franchise.

Enter High School Musical: Get In The Picture, which is hosted by Nick Lachey and premieres this Sunday night.

The series focues on a group of contestants, whose winner will be rewarded with his/her own music video. It will air during the credits of High School Musical 3. Here are more details on this competition:

• The series will run Sunday and Monday nights until August 4, where it will settle into to a regular Monday night time slot, at 8 p.m. ET.

• Kicks off Sunday night with the East Cost auditions. The following week, High School Musical: Get In The Picture will feature the West Coast auditions, an open casting call in Long Beach, California.
  

Hopefuls line up to get in the picture.

• The first four episodes will feature the initial audition round as well as the semi-final and final audition rounds

• For their final audition rounds, contestants will perform duets. Only six finalists will continue on to the main competition and compete for a video in High School Musical 3. The winner will also receive a recording contract to release two singles with Walt Disney Records, one of which will be the song featured in the film.

Will you be watching High School Musical: Get In The Picture?

For the first time, reality television hosts have an Emmy Award category all to themselves.

Here's a list of who is up for the honor of top reality host:

• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
• Heidi Klum, Project Runway
• Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
• Howie Mandel, Deal or No Deal
• Jeff Probst, Survivor

While there's still no premiere date for the latest Mark Burnett-produced reality show, Jingles, there is a host for the series.

Kimberly Caldwell - a finalist on the second season of American Idol and rumored girlfriend of David Cook - will host the show, which asks contestants to write and perform jingles about a wide variety of products.

With the recent launch of I Love Money - VH1's amazing acknowledgment of its own shark jumping into the breast implant-abyss - here's a look back at some past reality TV low points. And by low, we mean high. Sure.

Moment of Truth (Fox, 2008)
Complete fools sit in a hot seat of sorts and take way too long to answer "scandalous" questions about their usually uninteresting lives.

Jail (My 9 Network, 2008)
It's no surprise that the creator of an original new-low show, Fox's COPS, is behind this. This season included footage of O.J. Simpson!

Hey Paula! (Bravo, 2007)
We love that someone sat around at a brainstorming session and concluded that Paula Abdul should really have her own show. Brilliance.

A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila (MTV, 2007, below)
Watch this video of Tila and Kristy Morgan. That is all.

Kid Nation (CBS, 2007)
Hey, let's exploit children! Then again, at least they're up front about it. Forty kids, aged 8-15, attempt to form a functioning society in New Mexico.

Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!, 2007)
Their names all start with K. Brody Jenner guest stars. That's about it.

Flavor of Love, Flavor of Love 2, Flavor of Love 3, I Love New York, I Love New York 2, New York Goes to Hollywood (VH1, 2006-present)
The fact that a network rewards its craziest, most obnoxious reality TV show star with a reality series of her own tells you all you need to know.

Big Brother (CBS, forever ago-present, below) / Real World (MTV, same)
Throw a bunch of people into a house and what will happen? At first, not a lot. Until drunk meatheads realize that footage of them starting fights and lying around naked could maybe make them a tiny bit famous.

Wife Swap (ABC, 2005)
It's called frickin' Wife Swap. Even if you haven't seen or heard of this one, do we need to elaborate?

The Simple Life (Fox, 2003-2005 and E!, 2005-2007)
The basic message of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's TV road trip - "Do poor people suck or what?" We despise them. We used to watch, although only because we were praying they would run out of gas, or even more ideally, get pancaked by an 18-wheeler on the way back to L.A.

Britney and Kevin: Chaotic (UPN, 2005)
Possibly the most unnecessary, unwatchable show in history.

The Anna Nicole Smith Show (E!, 2002)
We take it back. This is.

We hate Denise Richards because she's an attention whore that exploits her children and late mother for publicity and fame.

The neighbors of this abhorrent actress and reality TV star hate her, however, because she's made their neighborhood into a quasi movie set; they are unhappy about her E! reality show, specifically what it's done to their previously calm community.

"This is a gated community, not a zoo," a source in posh Hidden Hills told Star Magazine.

As a result, Richards has put her $4.2 million mansion up for sale.

Denise Richards is an attention-starved train wreck.

The former Playboy model has also run afoul of the L.A. County Department of Animal Care and Control after featuring her 14 dogs on her terrible series. Another source says that she received a letter warning her that if she's living with more than three dogs, she has to obtain a kennel license.

"She was none too happy about it," adds the source.

As his sister battles rumors of an affair with Alex Rodriguez, Christopher Ciccone will appear on the Oxygen channel's reality series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.

Dickenson hired Madonna's estranged brother to design the new sleeping quarters in her home where her models sleep, according to E!

Meanwhile, Ciccone is set to release his literary memoir "Life with My Sister" on July 15 and is creating his own design reality TV series. He's not throwing his family under the bus in order to make money at all.

Aren't you just dying to watch a Christopher Ciccone reality show?

While it may have seemed as though the entire reality TV world stopped last night, when Kristy Morgan broke the heart of Tila Tequila, two shows did manage to go on...

America's Got Talent: Getting the Texas clichés out of the way, there's a bluegrass trio, a cowboy on a horse, a tap dancing lady in a blue frilly dress and . . . a person flinging hula hoops around? -- BuddyTV

Hell's Kitchen: This is part one of the finale, where final contestants Petrozza and Christina design their restaurants and have to complete a service with some of the eliminated contestants... -- TV Squad

Remember when reality TV was just a harmless way for D-list celebrities to make a name for themselves?

Well, the latter part of that statement still holds true. But as the photos below depict, there was nothing harmless about reality TV shows for a number of couples, families and friends.

Relationships were ruined as a result of this industry, many of them beyond repair...

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson were once Newlyweds. Now? It's impossible to recall the days when they were together.

Hogan might still know best. Sadly, though, it's the best way to break up a loving family.

When The Hills premiered, Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag were close friends. No, seriously. They really were.