Other reality TV tragedies (Kansas City Star) LOS ANGELES - (TV)
Other reality TV tragedies (Kansas City Star)
LOS ANGELES - (KRT) - Warning: Reality TV may be hazardous to your health. The suicide of a jilted “Extreme Makeover” contestant’s sister isn’t the first tragedy to strike the popular TV genre.
Washed-up stars saturate reality TV (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)
Who will be the next big reality star? It could be Mr. T or one of the Love Boat crew. Ever since 2002, when then-fading rock star Ozzy Osbourne invited MTV cameras into his family home and became a national obsession, many of the formerly famous have had an invitation for another 15 minutes - and then some.
Shepherd dons stripes for ‘Martha Behind Bars’ (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Four months after it was pulled from the May sweep to be better positioned with Martha Stewart’s September Spectacular (i.e., her new two-series partnership with Mark Burnett and a shiny new warm ‘n’ cuddly image), “Martha Behind Bars” finally hits the CBS air looking less like a biopic than a trip to Fantasyland.