Tired of just watching others win big on late-night game shows? The Game Show Network gives viewers the chance to play live every single weekend. If you aren’t watching Playmania, you just don’t know.
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One of the very few original shows broadcast by the Sci-Fi network, Ghost Hunters shows viewers the skeptic’s side of paranormal investigations.
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NBC’s Last Comic Standing brings you laughs every single Tuesday – are you tuning in, or missing out on this hit reality comedy showcase?
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TNT’s runaway hit from last year, The Closer returns tonight to rock the ratings once more. With Kyra Sedgwick leading the cast, the show can do no wrong.
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PBS’s most popular program, Antiques Roadshow will soon be featuring a city near you. Out of date posters, tin cans, and even old diaries may be more valuable than you ever imagined. How much are your great-grandmother’s old china dishes really worth?
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Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is satirical, political, and completely hilarious. If you aren’t watching The Colbert Report, you’re missing out.
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One Food Network’s biggest hits, Iron Chef America airs every Sunday night. Do you have what it takes to be an Iron Chef? You won’t know unless you watch!
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People watch reality TV for a variety of different reasons. I watch the performance related shows because I like to watch the dedication from the contestants. The others I watch either for the adventure of it, as with many of the challenges, I just wouldn’t dare attempt them, or I watch them to watch the people relate to each other. So to have a series of episodes of Fear Factor with former contestants from reality TV, it seems to combine all of this into one.

On the episode that aired last Tuesday, we had Johnny Fairplay and Twila (now there’s a couple) from Survivor, Anthony and Carmen from American Idol, Jonathon and Victoria from The Amazing Race, Mike and Trishelle from Real World, and Craig and Tana from The Apprentice. The mix of people here is just too exciting for words, for someone like me that looks for that interaction between people.
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Food network turns cooking into battles of culinary skill. Fun, fast-paced competitions featuring huge prizes and both professional and amateur contestants air weekly, much to the delight of food fans.
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A look at the Nielsen ratings over the course of two weeks shows that, as the summer heats up, so does the ratings game. Will reality shows be the big hit this summer?
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While I was growing up I started to hear stories about what really went on in the kitchens of restaurants. I heard stories about bugs and hardened lard on the floor so thick it needed to be scraped off. Then the show Seinfeld came along and put the idea in my head that some of the people responsible for preparing my food might not even be washing their hands after using the bathroom. Last season and now this season, Chef Gordon Ramsey and his Hell’s Kitchen have enlightened me to another aspect of what goes on in a restaurant’s kitchen.
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FOX’s unexpected hit from last summer, So You Think You Can Dance has come back strong for season #2. With other reality shows contending for the top spot in viewer’s hearts, will this Idol-esque series survive a disappointing summer season?
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I heard some people talking this morning about a new show, “Windfall.” It sounded a little interesting, and later in the day, I found they were doing an encore performance of the premiere episode tonight. Following the others’ recommendations, I decided to give it a try.

Windfall is about a group of friends, family, and strangers that have a lottery party once a month and buy a group of tickets together as a whole. After one party, the partygoers, either lucky or unlucky depending on how you look at it, strike it rich. As they say, money changes everything, but after a carefully laid out setup before the big win, it seems it doesn’t change anything, it just makes the bad much, much worse, especially with relationships.
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CBS, home of mega-hit reality shows like Big Brother and Survivor, is planning a reality-filled summer season. Will the new shows dreamed up by CBS be hits as well, or fall flat?
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The summer replacement shows they have on TV are always great, sometimes great enough that they even make a return on the fall schedule. It helps make the evenings a little easier on us so that we’re not stuck watching an endless display of reruns we’ve already seen once, if not twice. My question today is this … why can’t they do that with daytime TV?

Daytime TV also has a “season” whether it be talks shows, game shows, etc. The only thing not in repeats is soap operas, and news-oriented shows.Why not have some summer replacement shows for Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, The Price Is Right?
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ABC’s summer season, made up of reality shows, features three new shows that have been done before in different ways. Will any of these new shows appeal to viewers?
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NBC’s summer season has some old, some new, some borrowed, and some scripted. One of the few to consider bringing a new series that is not Reality TV to the summer, NBC hopes the difference will show in the ratings.
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Last summer’s surprise reality hit returns to Fox this June. With a cast of twelve new aspiring chefs/restaurateurs and the return of head chef Gordon Ramsay, the summer will definitely be heating up. The second season of Hell’s Kitchen begins on the 12th.
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The Game Show Network’s new original of an old favorite, “I’ve Got a Secret,” is making late-night television waves. Can a game show featuring five relative unknowns and a bevy of wacky surprises keep viewers tuning in night after night, or are the secrets falling on deaf ears?
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Ending weeks of speculation, Chris Daughtry has finalized his plans as an American Idol “graduate.” He had barely hung up the microphone after being voted out in fourth place when Fuel offered him the job as their frontman.

Chris had everybody and their brother, and probably Ace and Bucky’s brothers as well, advising him on what would be the best for him – to be the lead singer of a successful existing band or strike out on his own. Even Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 was chiming in. The ironic thing is a year ago, there would be no question for him. Working in customer service during the day, supporting a family, and working gigs at night when he could, if Fuel would have offered this at that time, I’m sure he inked a contract before they had a chance to change his mind.

But things have changed a lot for Chris in the past year. He was on the number one show in the country for four months. His name was often uttered along with the words final two, and was sometimes also whispered with the word winner. When he didn’t end up winning the show, it only increased his options. Should he take the sure bet of a successful group or take a risk a strike it on his own?

I’m excited for what Chris’s future holds for him and the choices that will be available without the ties of an exisiting band. Even when singing at the finale with his own Idols, the band Live, It was unmistakable that Chris did the song even better than Live’s own frontman Ed Kowalczyk. This is a young man with a very solid future, and if he gets the right representation, he has the potential, and American Idol backing, to ride this thing further than anyone can imagine.