ITV skein loses the'Love'Reality
ITV skein loses the'Love'
Reality TV: Auds nix summer's sexy celebrity format — The Brits'love-hate relationship with reality TV will be tested to destruction in the coming weeks — and the loser looks likely to be the nation's biggest commercial terrestrial player, embattled ITV.
Survivor
Reality TV: Who wants to be a millionaire? Sixteen people who abandoned their jobs, families and remote controls to spend 39 days on a South China Sea island — that's who. CBS'much-hyped"Survivor"doesn't have a phone-a-friend option and $200 questions about cereal aren't applicable. Instead, this"Real World"-meets-"Lord of the Flies"gamer offers up snakes, rats, cash and more personality conflicts than your average workplace.
Big Brother
Reality TV: Ten strangers, three months and one network that has taken the reality TV craze one step too far. CBS'much hyped Euro import"Big Brother"debuted Wednesday night with all of the style and drama of a Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol commercial.
'South Africa Idol'boosts age limit to 30
Reality TV: Show now has highest age allowance in the world — Older singers with dreams of pop stardom are flocking to enter paycaster M-Net's third"South African Idol"season after the age limit was raised to 30, making it the"Idol"show with the highest age allowance in the world.
NBC predicts a future for'Psychic'
Reality TV: Peacock picks up reality skein from Court TV — Repeats of Court TV's"Psychic Detectives"are in NBC's primetime future. Peacock has picked up eight half-hour episodes of the unscripted franchise and will begin broadcasting the segs next week. NBC plans to edit two episodes together into hourlong segs and to air them.
Survivor: The Australian Outback (Survivor II)
Reality TV: Die-hard fans might miss Richard, Rudy and the queen of tapioca, but there are plenty of greedy and paranoid players on the prowl for $1 million in"Survivor: The Australian Outback."CBS shrewdly scheduled its money train right after the Super Bowl, and the show that earned the year's most lucrative timeslot is sure to ignite hype and water cooler chatter once more. It should — it's the original and still the best.