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Is the recession driving viewers away from reality programming? There has been so much chatter about politics and the economic meltdown on TV this fall that it's obscured another reality: Some of the networks' biggest unscripted series have been sinking...
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EXCLUSIVE: Survivor Dodgeball - Our Inspiration
EXCLUSIVE: Survivor Dodgeball - Our Inspiration
realityexploits.com — The Survivor Didgeball Charity weekend raised money this year to go to breast cancer research in honor... of Jen Lyon from Survivor: Palau . She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and is still battling it. It’s now in stage 4 and in her ... (more) EXCLUSIVE: Survivor Dodgeball - Our Inspiration
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Ratings For Reality Shows Suffer, While Scripted Shows Thrive
Media Scribbler — ... According to the Los Angeles Times, several network mainstays are performing so badly that their futures are now in doubt. Fox’s “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?,” has lost nearly half its share of the 18-to-49-year-old demographic since last year, and viewership for NBC’s “Deal Or No Deal” has falled nearly 29 percent for its Wednesday show. Even ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” has lost 9 percent of its audience for this year’s lineup, despite the Cloris Leachman controversy that attracted ...

The More You Know: More like “annoyed by zero”
TiFaux — Even more Saved By Zero hate Reality shows are hurting in the ratings Kathy Griffin is filming season 5 of her show right now The cast of The Wire is working on a Baltimore web series Assuming it doesn’t get cancelled, here’s the scoop on the Pushing Daisies/Wonderfalls crossover Project Runway 6 still delayed , will film finale in February New FX show about a second American Revolution started by kids in Michigan is in the works MTV is casting a celebrity version of Beauty and the Geek Because I love ...

Shoes Dropping
Dead Things ON Sticks — ... But if you're a purveyor of scripted TeeVee ware, maybe that's not all a bad thing. From the L.A. Times' ShowTracker column: ...

Good News, Bad News: CHUCK, GREY’S ANATOMY & Reality TV
the TV addict — ... Good News: With less Americans tuning into unscripted fair such as ARE YOU SMARTER THAT A 5th GRADER and DEAL OR NO DEAL, it turns out their is a silver lining to these dour economic times. Bad News: Much to our chagrin, TWO AND A HALF MEN is apparently recession proof. [Source] ...

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