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Reality Shows

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Top Chef: Texas--Five Predictions

    © Bravo​ Did you watch last night's first episode of Top Chef Texas? Episode summaries are usually Edwin's beat, and he usually weighs in toward the end of the season after we've learned which cheftestants to root for. I'm going to take a different approach at the head-end of the season and make ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2011
  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Heather Dubrow, Actress-Wife of Famed Newport Beach Plastic Surgeon, Joining OC Housewives?

    ​Heather Dubrow, who as actress Heather Paige Kent on the 2000-2002 CBS drama That's Life got the new last name by marrying famed Newport Beach plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow, will join The Real Housewives of Orange County cast next season, according to a published report.Reality television runs ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2011
  • Calendar

    August 25, 2011

    Kathy Griffin

    Segerstrom Center for the Arts

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    OC Housewives Respond to Suicide of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Husband Russell Armstrong

    Russell and Taylor Armstrong.​Sad news in the real-life world of the Real Housewives.  ​Russell Armstrong, the estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong, was found dead in his bedroom last night. The 47-year-old venture capitalist hanged himself, according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Nastasia Townsend of Bad Girls Club New Orleans Continues Fine OC Reality TV Tradition

    ​"I will gladly go upside a bitch's head if she thinks she wants to try me."-23-year-old Nastasia Townsend, formerly a "shy little girl" from Sacramento before becoming a Huntington Beach blowhard who dreams of owning a strip club, as the end credits roll on tonight's premiere episode of Bad Girls ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Happy Birthday MTV: Top Five MTV Reality Shows

    ​MTV is officially old -- the company turns 30 (ew) on Monday. For the anniversary of first (and most popular) music television channel in the U.S., we're counting down the Top Five MTV reality shows after the jump.

  • Food

    July 28, 2011

    Posch Is Pish-Posh

    Jimmy 'Z' Parvin's flashy John Wayne Airport-adjacent restaurant needs a lot less Real Housewife and more him

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    'Burn the Floor'

    Segerstrom Center for the Arts

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Katharine McPhee

    Segerstom Concert Hall

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Bravo's Andy Cohen Says They're Done Expanding the Real Housewives Series

    Andy Cohen​About time! According to OK!, Bravo exec Andy Cohen confirmed that Miami has gotten the last gaggle of Real Housewives. "I really feel like we're done," he told the magazine, indicating the franchise won't be expanding with new cities. Sorry, Boise.

  • Music

    October 21, 2010

    A Believe-It-or-Not Interview With Imperial Stars

    [Mental Notes] Are the 'Traffic Jam' band idiots or marketing geniuses? Or both?

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2010
  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Anyone Else Suffering from Real Housewives Overload?

    ​Michael Vulpo poses an interesting questions on Neon Tommy (the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism news site):Are there too many Real Housewives?That is, has Bravo's Real Housewives franchise that was born in March 2006 with the premiere of The Real Housewives of Orange County ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Real Housewives of Orange County Beefing Up Bisexual, Babelicious, Brazilian Booty Quotient?

    ​RadarOnline.com reports bisexual, "Brazilian Booty" fitness trainer Fernanda Rocha will join The Real Housewives of Orange County cast.And her role will reportedly be "to stir things up."Those who prefer your unreal reality shows shaken, not stirred, consider yourselves warned.

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    One Real Housewife of Orange County is Hit with Lawsuit and Another is Just Hit

    Gretch​Went to The Real Housewives of Orange County and Cops broke out.Dueling gossip sites are reporting that Simon Barney, husband of Real Housewife Tamra Barney, was arrested this morning on a domestic violence charge, and that after arriving at a get acquainted dinner at the home of new Real H ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010
  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Watch The Real Housewives of Orange County Trainwreck from the Beginning Starting Today

    ​Bravo will not start airing the sixth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County until January, but you can start watching seasons 1-5 in consecutive order starting today.As part of NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution's nationwide syndication deal for the Real Housewives franchise, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Real Joisey Housewives Biatch Slap The Real Housewives of Orange County

    ​The refined women of The Real Housewives of New Jersey have knocked the trainwrecks of The Real Housewives of Orange County onto their surgically implanted keisters Regular episodes of the Joisey-based reality show already pull in large audiences, but Monday night's reunion special was the highes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Real Housewives of Orange County Food Quiz Time!

    ​I don't see The Real Housewives of Orange County because I'm more of a Real Housewives of Atlanta type of guy (and isn't The Real Housewives of D.C. boring as hell?), but I do care for culinary gossip about them. Thus, an email I received from a tipster a couple of days ago:I was at (restaurant) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Steven Tyler New 'American Idol' Judge

    Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​MSNBC reported yesterday that Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is the new American Idol judge, although Fox officially says "no comment."   Apparently negotiations were finalized late last week, meaning Tyler got his request for a top-notch wardrobe and makeu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010
  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Reality TV Brings Crime to the Real OC, Says Study; But so Do Our Reality TV Criminals

    ​Guns don't kill people, only you can prevent forest fires and Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County causes crime to spike in Laguna Beach: the real Orange County city. The latter bit is wisdom comes from two Occidental College professors who crunched the crime data and now say rapes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Ellen DeGeneres No Longer American Idol Judge

    ​The much-maligned ​Ellen DeGeneres won't be back as a judge on American Idol after just one season on the show. The LA Times wrote that DeGeneres "told the show's producers a couple of months ago that the show 'didn't feel like the right fit for me,' partly because of increased work commit ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 15, 2010

    The Hills Have Eye-Lifts

    The reality-TV show has become increasingly contrived, all but abandoning the notion of being 'unwritten'

  • Culture

    July 15, 2010

    The Last of 'The Hills'

    Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren and all that crazy drama

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Four Real Housewives Show You How To Break Into The Music Industry Without Joining American Idol

    ​Apparently, you don't need to stand in line at an American Idol audition to have a shot at getting a music career started on television. There's another reality show that can do that for you: The Real Housewives series on Bravo has recently become the launching pad for singing cougars. Of cours ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Last Night's Top Chef Masters Didn't Have Me Saying "D'Oh!"

    ​Did you catch last night's Top Chef Masters? Finally, a worthy episode on what seemed like a season in danger of backsliding into the histrionics of regular Top Chef with the F-bombs and manufactured drama. That's not to say there wasn't some of that last night, just less.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Top Chef Tour To Include Stop at Irvine Spectrum on June 17

    bravotv.com​"Top Chef: The Tour," a 21-city tour -- which trots out recent and past chef'testants from town-to-town crammed inside the trailer of a semi truck like animals in a traveling circus (actually, I'm sure they'll be put up in posh hotels and stuff...but wouldn't it be funny?) -- will stop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Forget Same-Sex Marriage, Here's the Real Gay Debate of the Now

    Advocate.comBarney's boy​Over at the Advocate.com, the jury's still out on whether Real Housewives of Orange County spawn Ryan Vieth posting a self-photo of himself on the predominantly gay (and NSFW) site Guys With iPhones is news.The jury would be the Advocate's online readers.

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    [UPDATED WITH LA TIMES RESPONSE] For Times Reporter, It's Dancing With the Company You Cover

    Adam Larkey/ABCDancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron, Times reporter Dawn C. Chmielewski and her partner Jonathan Roberts soak in applause. ​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LA TIMES VP . . . Perhaps it does not fully descend into the unethical bog like the revenue-sharing arrangement with the Stapl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Top Chef: Just Desserts...ANOTHER Top Chef Spin-Off

    ​ Hot off the announcement that Top Chef Masters is going to be getting a second season, Bravo is developing ANOTHER spin-off. What is it? Take the original Top Chef recipe, add a pinch of Ace of Cakes, maybe a few telegenic hotties that look like Jennifer Aniston and BAM! (with apologies to Eme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Top Chef Masters To Return For Second Season

    Bravo TVIt was Restaurant Wars last week in Top Chef: Las Vegas, and finally this season, things got interesting. Now I've never been a fan of Top Chef when the show focuses on the extracurricular antics of the cheftestants -- the head shaving incidents of Season 2 and the hidden-camera canoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    OC Reality TV Produces (At Least) 6 Who've Drawn Police Calls [UPDATED]

    Too much reality for Orange County law enforcement (clockwise from top left): Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Josh Waring, Renzo Gamboa, Dennis Rodman, Jason Wahler and Matt Keough.​ UPDATED TO REFLECT MURDER CHARGE, CRIMINAL BATTERY COMPLAINT AGAINST JENKINS. If anyone in Orange County with a Hisp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2009

    Top 5 Reasons Why I Like "Top Chef Masters" More Than "Top Chef"

    Bravo TV1. They don't live together. The first shots of the show isn't of the cheftestants waking up from bed in their undies, yawning, and brushing their teeth. Another plus of not having them shoved into the same living quarters: No possibility of head shaving incidents, hidden-camera kanoodli ... More >>

  • News

    May 14, 2009

    La Habra Octomom Nadya Suleman Is Ready to Rocto Your World

    Bravo TV1. They don't live together. The first shots of the show isn't of the cheftestants waking up from bed in their undies, yawning, and brushing their teeth. Another plus of not having them shoved into the same living quarters: No possibility of head shaving incidents, hidden-camera kanoodli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    NBC's Last Comic Standing Live Tour at The Grove

    Bravo TV1. They don't live together. The first shots of the show isn't of the cheftestants waking up from bed in their undies, yawning, and brushing their teeth. Another plus of not having them shoved into the same living quarters: No possibility of head shaving incidents, hidden-camera kanoodli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Fancy Footwork

    So You Think You Can Dance Tour

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    If Anyone Cares About Bowling Or OC Reality Shows

    Last night some new fancy schmancy bowling alley called Strike had a grand opening party in Tustin. Yes, bowling alleys are the next thing to hop on the glam wagon. And several reality show stars (or former stars) from The Hills and Real Housewives Of OC showed up because... hell, who knows. He ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Smile Like You Mean It

    Miss Teen Newport Beach

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2007

    Boo Bravo!

    Apparently Bravo can't get enough of The Real Housewives of Orange County and now we're all going to suffer. The network just green lit a one-hour pilot for ousted housewife Jo De La Rosa as she searches for love and tries to become a famous singer in Los Angeles. I didn't think television coul ... More >>

  • Film

    February 15, 2007

    A Royal Flush

    OnDVD: Marie Antoinette

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2007

    Public Enemy American Idol No. 1

    Over at her Deadline Hollywood Daily column, Nikki Finke charts all the controversies swirling around American Idol contestant Tom Lowe. Her piece begins: American Idol 6 would be nothing without its controversy. The latest: 28-year-old ex-British boy-band'er Tom Lowe is the target of not just one ... More >>

  • Music

    February 8, 2007

    Railroad Accident

    Bobby Brown crawls out of the wreckage and waits for help to arrive

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2006

    The real rockstars of Supernova win!

    As reported here (Rock Stars My Destination by Chris Ziegler) Costa Mesa's true Supernova started up the litigation machine to win their rightful name back from the come-lately Supernova put together for the CBS reality show Rock Star: Supernova. And today they won. Press release says: Under the te ... More >>

  • Music

    September 21, 2006

    Denim, Diamonds and Dudes

    Meet the new face of country: Nashville Star

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand

    Flora Springs Wine Dinner

  • Culture

    January 5, 2006

    The Real Housewives of Orange County

    SEVEN-EPISODE REALITY DOCUMENTARY OFFERS INSIDE PEEK INTO THE LIVES OF FIVE REAL-LIFE HOUSEWIVES LIVING IN AN EXCLUSIVE GATED OC COMMUNITY

  • Culture

    February 12, 2004

    Idle Worship

    American Idol judge Paula Abdul keeps dancing

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