'American Idol' adds fourth
'American Idol' adds fourth judge
Reality TV: Songwriter Kara DioGuardi to join panel — Randy, Paula and Simon will be making room at the judges table. Fox announced Monday that songwriter Kara DioGuardi will become a fourth judge on “American Idol,” which is in the midst of auditions around the country as it prepares for its eighth season. The show will return to the air in January.
Lifetime falls for 'Blonde Charity Mafia'
Reality TV: Network gives order for documentary series — Lifetime has given a six-episode order to docu series "Blonde Charity Mafia," which will chronicle the lives of three twentysomething D.C. socialites who are prominent on the Beltway fund-raiser scene.
'Human Wrecking Balls' to hit G4
Reality TV: Pumphrey brothers to host nonfiction series — Cable net G4 hopes to satisfy its young male aud’s appetite for destruction this fall with the launch of the nonfiction series "Human Wrecking Balls."
Reality hosts tapped to emcee Emmys
Reality TV: TV Acad asks newest noms to prove their worth — Talk about instant validation. No sooner had the five nominees for top reality host absorbed the shock of being the first nominees in their new category than the calls came in about hosting the Emmys.
Travel Channel gets in the 'Race'
Reality TV: Cable net acquires rights to CBS reality series — Travel Channel has acquired the exclusive off-net cable rights to CBS' globe-trotting reality series "The Amazing Race."
Jennifer Bresnan is CBS' reality chief
Reality TV: Exec replaces the recently departed Maynard — CBS has tapped Jennifer Bresnan to replace the Eye’s recently departed reality chief, Ghen Maynard.
The Cho Show
Reality TV: Margaret Cho has spent years rehashing the compromises demanded of her on the 1994 ABC sitcom "All-American Girl" — the first to feature an Asian-American family. Yet rehabilitating her stand-up credentials apparently hasn't advanced her mastery of television — at least, not based on this "reality sitcom," which arguably traffics in more stereotypes than her old series did.
'Idol' worship continues in 'Grease'
Reality TV: Young to play Kenickie after Hicks exits — Just as one “American Idol'' alum leaves the Broadway revival of “Grease,'' another takes his place.
ABC blasted for format memo
Reality TV: Org raises concerns over studio's directive — Fox Reality Channel prexy David Lyle has launched a scathing attack on Disney, accusing ABC Studios of encouraging its producers to rip off international formats.
Ferrari's Entertainment 7 gets real
Reality TV: Production house forms reality TV division — Emilio Ferrari's Entertainment 7 shingle has formed a reality TV division.