‘American Idol’ fans can vote via text messaging

AT&T Wireless has partnered with Fox Broadcasting, allowing viewers of the hit television show “American Idol” to vote for their favorite rising stars using text messaging.
The rules for text message voting will be similar to the show’s call-in telephone number.
AT&T Wireless will launch a marketing campaign around the..

Reality TV Puts Up Unreal Ratings

Meet primetime’s new power players: A construction worker, a physical therapist, a 10-year-old aspiring obstetrician and Corey Feldman.
Yes, the second half of the 2002-03 TV season picked up where the first half ended, with reality series–and their resident “stars”–dominating.
The biggest of the regular Joes was Joe Millionaire. The Fox series, in…

CBS fire back at ABC Bachelor with new show CUPID

CBS may have lost to ABC in court, but the programming battle is far from over.
Smarting from a judge’s ruling allowing ABC to go ahead with its celebrity knockoff of “Survivor,” CBS is moving forward with its own dating show, which will resemble ABC’s “Bachelor” shows.
Called “Cupid,” CBS’ new show will have a […]

NEXT ‘BACHELOR’ WILL BE RICH AND FAMOUS

ABC officials said yesterday the next star of “The Bachelor” - expected to hit the air in March - won’t be a single guy of dubious wealth as in “Joe Millionaire” - but “the son of one of America’s most affluent and prominent families.”
“A shocking idea, isn’t it?” ABC Entertainment President Susan Lyne told […]

Women’s group attacks reality show

American TV’s latest reality sensation Joe Millionaire has been condemned by one of the country’s leading women’s organisations for “trivialising love and marriage”.

Round two ‘Bachelorette’ castoffs tell all

January 16, 2003 — The Bachelorette gave five more bachelors the boot on week two of ABC’s romantic reality TV series — and not all the spurned suitors accepted their walking papers graciously.
It’s often the second date that’s the crucial one, as Brook Pemberton and Jack French found out in The Bachelorette’s second “rose […]

Vote to cut the next Tough Enough cast member

With only next week’s episode remaining in the Tough Enough 3 season, the cast began to reflect on their experiences in the competition. What stood out in their mind the most was all the ribbing that went on between the trainers and the cast.

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