| Farmers Flock to Texas for TV Show | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:34:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Move over Eva Gabor. Your "Green Acres" rerun days as city-girl-turned-farmer's-wife appear to be numbered. Farmers and ranchers flocked here last weekend for the first of four open casting calls nationwide for a new reality TV show from the producers of "American Idol" and "The Price is Right." In "The Farmer Wants a Wife," city girls and others will vie for a chance to become a farmer's bride. Micah Keeney said he came to Lubbock to see if he could find a single woman willing to live on his land in nearby Shallowater. He lives alone in a small, old farmhouse on more than 3,700 acres, where he tends to cotton, cattle and hay. "I've been waiting for something like this for a while, and I want to be on TV," said Keeney, 24. The show will air next year on one of the major television networks, said Billy Kemp, the head of casting for Fremantle Media.... | |
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| | | Reality show aims to pick 'most stylish' TV anchor | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:16:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | By Vishnu Makhijani, New Delhi, Oct 22: Renowned choreographer Achla Sachdev just can't stop gushing over a new reality show that is billed as the "quest for the most stylish anchor" for lifestyle TV channel Zoom."I promise you it will be the hippest and hottest glamour reality show ever to be aired," explained Sachdev, one of the five judges of the seven-episode Levi's Diva Quest that went on the air Saturday and will continue for the next three weekends."The young and savvy contestants symbolise the ultimate diva who lives life by her own rules; has attitude; is spirited and spunky; an origin by virtue of personality, achievement and talents and has a magnetic personality that brings her due admiration," she pointed out.The winner of the quest is assured of instant stardom because she will get a one-year contract with Zoom "to host the most stylish shows on the channel," the Mumbai-based Sachdev told IANS in an interview.To this end, the quest is no mere beauty pageant as the 15 finalists will be put through interviews with eminent media personalities, a speed dating session that measures their charisma and attitude towards the opposite sex, a red-carpet experience of a typical Page 3 party where they will be observed on how well can they hold the crowd, rub shoulders with the high flyers of the society and make heads turn, Sachdev explained.Over vigorous training sessions, the number will be further cut down to 10, from among whom the eventual winner will be selected.Joining Sachdev in the effort will be photographer Subi Samuel, celebrity tarot-card reader and television host Sunita Menon, noted ad-film maker Prahlad Kakar and acclaimed TV host Mini Mathur.... | |
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| | | Radio Producer Describes the Book Dream Tour as Reality TV without ... | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:13:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | BALTIMORE, Oct. 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- Word Harvest Books, a national publisher of inspirational print, kicked off the Book Dream National Tour in search of the next bestselling inspirational author with a radio interview on the Jeff Howe Show on YES FM radio in Toledo, Ohio. The Book Dream Tour is now accepting applications for 100 interview slots for inspirational unpublished books, manuscripts and outlines. The publisher will select 25 writers from the initial interviews for a second interview and coaching session ($250 value). Then the publisher will select 10 writers after the second interview for a professional manuscript review ($250 value). From the 10 manuscript reviews, the publisher will offer one writer a publishing contract. To submit the online application, interested writers can go to www.bookdreamtour.com.... | |
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| | | Tiny mobile TV is growing up fast | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:08:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Today, fans can catch up with the latest episodes of smash hit TV shows, from "Desperate Housewives" to France's cult "Plus Belle La Vie", find out what's happening on the world news or sports scene or vote on a reality show. But while more subscribers are signing up every day, it's still early days with the industries involved finding out the optimum amount of time users want to spend enjoying their TV fix and at what price. "These are early days for mobile TV and everything we do is an experiment, which is helping us to see the way forward," said Sanjiv Ahuja, who heads up giant mobile operator Orange in a keynote speech at the international audiovisual MIPCOM trade show here today. It's an experiment, however, that is anything but slow moving. Recent forecasts predict there will be some 125 million broadcast mobile-TV users worldwide by the year 2010.... | |
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| | | Burnett aiming to hypnotize TV viewers | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:12:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Reality TV producer Mark Burnett, the creator of "The Apprentice" and "Survivor," is set to enter the world of hypnotism for his next U.S. reality series. TMZ.com reported the highly-successful producer is planning on teaming with famed hypnotist Paul McKenna for an as-yet-unnamed new reality TV series which will focus on helping contestants overcome personal issues through the use of hypnotism. McKenna, who wrote the best-selling advice book "Change Your Life in Seven Days," has already become world-renowned for his hypnotic endeavors with celebrities such as David Bowie, Elle McPherson and Naomi Campbell. The Web site said the new series from the "Rock Star" creator will be produced in conjunction with paraMedia inc.... | |
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| | | Reality TV or Race Baiting? | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:55:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | The latest news about CBS' reality hit show "Survivor" has a lot of people wondering if this is another ratings ploy. For its new season, "Survivor" will take 20 castaways to the Cook Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. On the latest edition, Survivor: Cook Islands, the 20 contestants will be divided into four tribes by race. The teams are African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and White. Host Jeff Probst told CBS News' The Early Show that it was designed as a unique social experiment. The idea for this actually came from the criticism that 'Survivor' was not ethnically diverse enough," he said. "Because, for whatever reason, we've always had a low number of minority applicants apply to the show. So we set out and said, 'Let's turn this criticism into creative for the show.... | |
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| | | Posh Spice set to be reality TV host | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:21:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- British celebrity Victoria Beckham, known as Posh Spice of the Spice Girls, is set to take the reins as the host of the newest U.S. reality TV program. The Daily Star said that the 32-year-old wife of soccer star David Beckham will soon start production on the as-of-yet unnamed TV series, which reportedly will follow a reality format similar to "America's Next Top Model" yet focused more on fashion. "It will be more serious than a reality show but very entertaining because Victoria is so funny." said 19 Management head Simon Fuller, whose company created "American Idol." "She has found her niche." The reality series will offer Beckham a chance to promote her own fashion designs and could offer her husband a reason to complete the move to Los Angeles he hinted at earlier in the year to run a soccer school he has opened there, the paper said.... | |
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| | | Reality TV on megabuck territory | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:11:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | That irrepressible urge to peep into people's discomfiture, joys and sorrows has made reality TV big time everywhere. Inspired by the American Idol and Indian Idol, we have the Idea Star Singer on Asianet TV and Brooke Bond Super Star on Amrita TV, wooing viewers. The unhappy episode of two girls running away to participate in such a show in North India, ending up in the death of their father, recently is no deterrent to television's newfound method to survive plus thrive. Amrita TV's biggest crowd puller is the Super Star show, telecast Monday-Friday from 8.30-9.30 pm. On Asianet, Star Singer is beamed on Sundays, from 7-7.30. From Sunday next, that is August 27, when the contest gets hot with the last ten fighting it out for the goodies and cash, the show is on till 8.30, says B. S. Praveen Kumar, Sr.... | |
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| | | Canadian fighter looks for another title shot on reality TV show | | Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:13:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | (CP) - UFC president Dana White had no qualms in casting Canadian Patrick (The Predator) Cote for the fourth season of the Ultimate Fighter reality TV show. "Cote's a bad mother," White said in an interview. The Quebec City native also fit the redemption theme of The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback, which is subtitled "One last shot at the title." The show opens Thursday night (10 p.m. ET). Cote entered the UFC in the deep end, a late replacement opponent for former light-heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz in the main event of UFC 50: The War of 04 in October 2004. He was due to fight on the undercard but was moved up to the headline bout with a week to go when Guy Metzger withdrew due to injury.... | |
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| | | Newsmakers: Reality TV is going to Potts | | Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 9:27:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | LUBBOCK - Though not vying to be quarterback in Texas Tech's high-flying aerial offense this season, redshirt freshman Taylor Potts is still getting plenty of air time. Potts is one of six Division I players appearing in the ESPN reality show Summer House, which he said is about preparing athletes for what to expect when they get to college. .... | |
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