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While the top-earning TV shows may not be reality TV, the top-earning male prime-time TV stars are reality stars. The three men who lead Forbes' list are American Idol judge and America's Got Talent producer Simon Cowell, who's estimated earnings for June 1, 2008, to June 1, 2009, were $75 million;...

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Omarosa's Ultimate Merger, the dating series starring Omarosa that I first reported about a month ago when it was casting and attempting to conceal the fact that Omarosa was its star, will air on TV One. Donald Trump is producing the eight-episode show, but will only appear on-camera to offer advice...

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A $4 million Queenstown, New Zealand, home used by MTV's The Duel II, which aired last spring and is now airing in that country, was trashed by the cast. The homeowner told the New Zealand Herald, "It was pretty bad ... My house now has been completely repainted [and] all the floors have been done....

I missed The Amazing Race 15 episode last night, as I was driving back to DC with friends from Pittsburgh, where we saw the set of Mister Rogers Neighborhood of Make Believe, which was on display probably for the last time ever in its original studio. After flying home today, I turned on the TV and...

A rental van being used by the crew of WEtv's The Locator was stolen by a man with a warrant fleeing from authorities. That happened last Tuesday as the crew was loading it with gear; the van was eventually recovered. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has the story, which is pretty amusing, especially...

Kathy Ireland was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars in its second week, but has only now revealed that she needs knee surgery. That's surprising considering how much the ABC series revels in injury porn. On Friday, she wrote, over two tweets, "the truth is... after my little spin on DWTS am...

Of the reality shows airing this fall, Dancing With the Stars earns more per 30 seconds than any other show: $178,687 for its performance shows, and $172,570 for its results shows. Those blocks of television are followed by Survivor: Samoa, which earns $152,246 every half minute. That's all...

Survivor Tocantins started with a long trek through the oppressive heat, and the Dream Team did that, too. Aaron Massey, who was on the Dream Team in Gabon and became the Dream Team coordinator in Brazil, has posted a behind-the-scene video on YouTube that shows them rehearsing the hike, and also...

A look back at the first week in November and a look ahead at next week: The Past The beginning of November started with a news organization producing TLC programming: guess who it was about? There was good news for Shark Tank fans and bad news for people who thought Cheaters was real. SYTYCD's...

Finally: Survivor Samoa kicked into overdrive, with the merge episode pulling it out of its mid-season slump. After the tribes merged into Aiga, which Brett said was Samoan for "extended family" (maybe also for "extensive retching caused by cheesy tribe names"), everyone woke up from their game-play...