While the mavens at NBC are no doubt dumbfounded at the failure of what they believed to be a sure thing, I'm not. It's totally clear to me why America decided to pass on Ready for Love: people are ready for REAL love.
Remember that reality show "The Swan"? Well if you don't, you're about to. Fox has ordered a celebrity version of the 2004 controversial makeover r...
What Mitt did? All that trumped-up hyperbole and loud, bombastic demagoguery mixed with a dollop of distortion and a dash of revisionism? That's Mitt's style. That's not the president's style.
If you watch any of the "Bachelor/ette" shows, I'm not judging you, I swear. I just don't get it. So please, explain it to me. Because right now, it's unfathomable.
Today, The Onion launched a brand new venture, Onion Digital Studios, that will focus exclusively on making non-news parody digital content. The first...
Among those heading off to Vegas are Spencer Horsman, "the world's youngest escape artist" who enlisted the aid of Nick Cannon to tie him up tight in a straight jacket before he dangled between a gnarly looking contraption that I've decided to call The Jaws of Death.
Can you convince a celebrity to take you on a date without seeing who you are? What if you had a hometown advantage? When new Fox show "The Choice"...
Octomom Nadya Suleman has a competitive uterus because she doesn't want any would-be baby machines taking a shot at her birthing title -- and she's s...
Here are the best of the worst, the most dangerous of villains, the nastiest players whose tactics would make even Machiavelli himself blush.
The enterprising and cholesterol-laden minds behind BaconSalt, Baconnaise and most recently, the Bacon Coffin, are readying for their closeup. The "Ba...
It probably wouldn't work to recycle Gunsmoke or Bonanza, but we could come up with some "new" Westerns. Here are some suggestions...
What offends me so much about Shahs of Sunset is not that it reflects a reality that may be difficult to acknowledge; it's that it makes such an obvious effort to cast its characters in the worst possible light.
This is the ninth in an occasional series, The Recessionary Arts. Read more from the series here. "Sarah Palin's Alaska," last year's hit TLC reali...
It's interesting when ideas that have been floating around in the ether and in your head start to pop up in the collective conversation.
According to its publishers, the 18th edition of "Emily Post's Etiquette," released this week, is the last word on "Manners For A New World." But do w...
Fame is a slut these days. Used to be you had to DO something to get her to put out: write a book, invent a vaccine, win an Oscar; accomplish something, anything. Pop stars aren't exactly curing cancer but at least they get up and sing!
NEW YORK — A mother is lecturing her 23-year-old daughter about her love life, flailing a kitchen knife above her head for emphasis. Mom's poin...
Reality shows "16 And Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" have shown the trials and tribulations associated with having a child before you're ready, but they've ...
There are several shows on the air that follow cliques of women around while they squabble and yank out each other's clip-on hair extensions, but Vh1'...
This fat baby is onto something, and I don't just mean a steel-reinforced Bumbo chair -- embrace your total lack of impulse control, and you will be on the road to fame and fortune.
Religion occupies a revered, respected place in our culture -- in other words, the opposite of the designated trash heap that is reality television's ...
Remember when you used to have to tune into different shows to see your favorite chefs, designers and models duke it out for the title of champion in ...
Reality shows are guilty of being poor entertainment as it is, so when one only lasts for a single season, you know it was bad. Now that "Sarah Palin'...
As we bid farewell to another year, some pop culture critics are doing more than reflecting on trends gone by -- they're speculating about what it all means. Here, the best explanations.
For every quality reality show like "Top Chef" or "The Amazing Race," there are a dozen degrading, offensive and downright tacky reality programs that...
