On last night's episode of The Real World Brooklyn, the cast screened a fictional film based on the life of a previous cast member, Pedro Zamora, the gay Real World San Francisco cast member who was HIV positive. As part of their work as volunteers for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Commun...

Significant change is coming to American Idol, as Ryan Seacrest promised last night that something unveiled during the results show tonight will change "the entire theme and concept of the show," and that Simon Cowell said, "it involves us, so I'm not sure whether public are going to like this." Tho...

Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, NBC debuts The Chopping Block, but don't expect a series much like other network food competitions. The show, which was first announced a year ago, is based on an Australian series by the same name, although that show had one-off episodes featuring real restaurants, while this ...

American Idol 8 will introduce a special phone number for whoever performs last tonight, according to a show producer and the network's chairman, who said that Fox knew 866-IDOLS-13, which belongs to a phone sex operator, wasn't available before unveiling the top 13 twist. On his radio show this mor...

Episode four and The Amazing Race 14 is still going strong. Less time in airports, more time on challenges, more time to act like idiots--and more time for the greatest fake-out in the race's history. At the beginning of the episode, Margie said Luke is "living his dream" and said that when pressure...

News that American Idol 8's top 13 presents a unique problem with the voting phone numbers--the next number in the sequence, 1-866-IDOLS-13, is actually a phone sex line--has just reached host Ryan Seacrest. Ryan discovered this a half-hour ago, tweeting, "crap, were gonna have a problem on Idol ton...

American Idol 8's first-ever top 13 perform tonight as the show settles in to its final round of competition. Performance shows air Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET, and results shows move an hour later to Wednesdays at 9. Besides having 13 performers, one change we might see this week is to the voting phone n...

The addition of Melissa Rycroft to Dancing with the Stars 8 may be ABC's most brilliant move in a long time. For one, she can dance, and her score of 23 has her tied for second place after the first night of competition and after only 48 hours of rehearsals. She's easily a front-runner, and her popu...

Amazing Race 11 winner Eric Sanchez has confirmed that photos of him naked and pleasuring himself are, in fact, real. Images of Eric masturbating in front of a web cam surfaced last week, but none of the images included his face, never mind that they're missing his signature nipple rings and his fri...

Exactly one week after being proposed to and then dumped on national television, Melissa Rycroft will join another reality series on ABC: Dancing with the Stars. Although she rejected an offer to appear as The Bachelorette 5 after being rejected by Jason on The Bachelor 13, she has been cast on the ...