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Recent American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, 22, was returning to her home state of Oklahoma with the “Pop Tarts Presents American Idols Live! Tour 2005” for a concert last night in Norman, so yesterday Governor Brad Henry whipped some laudatory signage on the Checotah native. As the Oklahoma Department of …

So You Think You Can Dance, Fox’s summer reality competition that marries American Idol and Dance Fever is underway. Our Regina Avalos is covering all the gyrations and undulations: TV Review: So You Think You Can Dance – The Finale The winner is announced! Posted to Video by Regina Avalos …

MTV’s venerable Real World, the paterfamilias of all U.S. reality shows, is still going strong. We, and in particular Regina Avalos, are all over it: TV Review: Real World Austin 10/25/05 An initial cut of the fifteen-minute documentary is put together by Nehemiah, and shown to their three bosses. Posted …

Neither feuds, nor tudes, ludes, dudes, or prudes will keep Paris Hilton, 24, AND Nicole Richie, 23, from The Simple Life. Both have been signed to a fourth season of their fish-out-of-water reality show wherein the pampered progenies encounter the little people and attempt to interact with them without causing …

Allegations probed for probity and judicatory ramifications. FoxTV and the producers of American Idol, Fremantle Media and 19 Television, have hired an independent counsel, experienced in “this type of inquiry,” to look into allegations that judge Paula Abdul had an affair with Idol contestant Corey Clark during the show’s second …

What has become of one of the most entertaining and ancient of reality shows? In no way do I think MTV’s Real World/Road Rules Challenge is remotely near the top 500 greatest television shows, but in terms of mind-numbing and testosterone pumping ability, the Challenge is as near perfect as …

Paris Hilton and her mother Kathy will be grand marshalls of the Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual & Transgender Pride Parade, expected to draw tens-of-thousands of celebrants this Sunday in West Hollywood. This is the 35th anniversary of the parade, which was first held on June 28, 1970 to commemorate …

Just kidding: Bo will be on tour with American Idol all summer regardless of what happens tonight. Nonetheless, the most narowly defined reality show yet is coming to CBS beginning July 11, Rock Star: INXS, which will be hosted by former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and …

This week is the grand finale for American Idol – will it be Bo or Carrie, or should I say “Carrie or Bo”? We are subtly and not so subtly influenced by any number of factors in our preferences and since American Idol is decided by viewer voting, such influences …

The Arab world’s equivalent of American Idol, Star Academy, concluded in April with the crowning of Saudi Arabian singer Hisham Abdul-Rahman as “Star” on the Lebanese LBC network. I love the awkward enthusiasm of the announcement of Hisham’s victory on the English version of the show’s website: “Congratulations and celebrations …