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The Bachelorette 4 - Episode 3 Recap
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] The guys get jealous as Jeremy increases his lead. Jason tells DeAhnna about his son. Ron the barber insists he's a guy's guy.

The Bachelorette 4 - Episode 2 Recap
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] First, a correction to the episode 1 recap: the single parent to a 3 year old son is Jason, a 31 year old account executive living in Kirkland, a Seattle suburb. I incorrectly identified KC barbershop owner, Ron, as the single parent after Ron revealed to DeAhnna that he is divorced. If divorce hasn't been an issue between DeAhnna and any of the other bachelors, are we to assume Ron is the only one to have been married before?

The Bachelorette 4 Episode 1 Recap
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] On Nov. 20/07 Bachelor Brad Womack decided he didn't want to become what Reality Blurred called "yet another Bachelor failure" and left the final two bachelorettes if not at the altar, at least in the nave. Tonight, six months later, one of those bachelorettes, DeAhnna DePappas (it's spelled DeAnna, but I was married to a Deanna and if you called her DeAhnna she would have corrected you quick), a pretty 26 year old real estate agent from a town of 25,000 in east Georgia, sets out to mend her broken heart in the season premier of The Bachelorette 4.

The Bachlorette 4 Preview
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] After a nearly three year absence, The Bachelorette returns to ABC in a two hour premier Monday, May 19th, immediately following the season finale of Dancing With The Stars. DeAnna Pappas is the object of the boys' affections on this fourth installment of The Bachelor's distaff spin-off. Fans will remember DeAnna from The Bachelor 11, when Brad Womack left the final rose on its silver platter and became the first Bachelor to pick bachelorhood, leaving DeAnna and Jenni Croft in the church knave if not at the actual altar.

Reality TV Contestant Fatigue
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] While the big news in reality TV casting for May is the start of casting for Amazing Race 14 and Survivor 18, another issue may be showing itself for the first time: are we seeing the first signs of contestant saturation? With nearly 400 network TV shows now soliciting viewer participation, is the herd of people willing to turn their lives upside down to meet the time commitment reality TV demands finally thinning? Probably not, if you're casting twenty-somethings looking at reality TV as a career move.

Can The Bachelorette 4 Save Dating Shows?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] The BACHELORETTE is returning to ABC this summer. But is it too late for true love?

Kid Nation 2 and NBC's Baby Borrowers - What Has Become of Them?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Two kid-centric unscripted reality series are ready to air. Unscripted TV shows have never been in higher demand, yet these two remain in scheduling limbo.

Writers Strike Has Changed US TV Forever
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, recently told the New York Times, "In every other country in the world, the majority of prime-time programming is unscripted." Are Hollywood writers listening?

Paradise Hotel 2 - Finally
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] After a 4 and a 1/2 year wait, PARADISE HOTEL 2, sequel to the semi-legendary 2003 reality series Paradise Hotel, premiers February 4/08. Paradise Hotel 2 will air at 9 p.m.

Home Decor TV and the Housing Bubble
[Home-Improvement:Audio-Video] While the highest rated category is talent competitions (American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, etc.), the category with the most programs is home décor, which includes interior design and decorating, landscaping, home renovations and real estate (primarily house flipping). HGTV is far and away the leader both in the US and Canada. But TLC, Style, Bravo and DIY (US) and Slice and W Network (Canada), are all players.

Celebrity Apprentice - Prologue
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] "Tide-toGo. Tide-to-Go. Tide-toGo. Tide-to-Go." Remember Tide-to-Go? Not the product: the Apprentice episode.

2007 - Year of the Game Show
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] 2007 was the biggest year for primetime game shows in memory. Over the past several years it has seemed that primetime could only handle one hit game show at a time. 2007 changed that, big time.

Miss America - Reality Check
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Tiara sales soar as 3 beauty pageant reality programs air this mid-season. One of them, TLC's Miss America: Reality Check could be the series to put reality back in reality TV.

America's Next Top Model 10
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] The continuing success of America's Next Top Model has bred what success and familiarity always breed - imitators, contempt and pressure. Cycle 10 has already been cast and is due to air in March - but the pressure to move up the premier increases as the writers strike lengthens.

Dance Shows - Genre or Craze?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] For two years the celebrity dance competition Dancing with the Stars and the common folks' version So You Think You Can Dance have dominated their time slots. January 7, 2008, Dancing with the Stars judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli usher in the second wave of primetime dance with the six-episode ABC mini-series Dance War.

TV Needs Realtors
[Real-Estate:Selling] Maybe you're between the ages of 19 and 30, with six-pack abs and a smile to light the hearts of dentists everywhere. Or, maybe not. But as long as you're a realtor with big ambitions and no fear of the camera, you've got a shot at being on TV.

The Biggest TV Star Of Them All
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Here's a trivia question for you: who appears in over half of all North American, English language television programs? Commercials don't count, so if you're thinking Beyonce or Peyton Manning, try again.