Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Tori Spelling came up short in the Nielsens when she starred in a scripted series for VH1 based on her own life, so now she’s doing a full-fledged reality series for Oxygen. Still-untitled series will follow Spelling and her actor husband, Dean McDermott, as they choose a bed-and-breakfast in Southern California to buy and refurbish. Oxygen has commissioned World of Wonder Prods., headed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, to produce six half-hour episodes, which will run in the spring. Bailey and Barbato will be co-exec producers with Spelling and McDermott. Spelling and McDermott "may be actors, but they’re also very entrepreneurial," said Barbato. "They want to create a real business." The cameras also will zero in on the couple’s other role as expectant parents; their baby is due in March. Oxygen’s plan, prexy of programming and marketing Deborah Beece said, is "for the intimate final episode to coincide with the baby’s birth."

Variety 

That show just sounds beyond awful. 

Oxygen is going into production on Tease, the women’s cable network’s first reality competition. Hosted by Dancing with the Stars alum/SOAPnet poster girl Lisa Rinna, Tease will pit two up-and-coming hairstylists against each other in an "outrageous, Olympics-style" tournament (where, I assume, they will be tested for Dippity Doo abuse). Whichever of the pair can best a high-profile "master stylist" in the final round wins… something called the "Silver Scissors" award.

TV Guide

I find it ironic that a woman who has some of the worst hair in Hollywood is hosting a show looking for the person who can do the best hair in Hollywood. Seriously she has had that horrible hair-do since she was on Days of Our Lives the first time, and I hated it then too. 

"High School Reunion" is getting a second life on TV Land. Cabler has revived the reality skein, which ran for three seasons on the WB, greenlighting six new episodes from exec producer Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor"), this time aimed at the Viacom network’s target baby-boom audience. Hourlong skein takes a group of former classmates and brings them together several years after graduation to participate in a reunion in a fantasy location. Production begins early next year for a premiere in the third or fourth quarter. Fleiss’ Next Entertainment will produce in association with Warner Horizon, where he is now based (Daily Variety, May 9). While on the Frog, the series focused on a 10-year reunion of alumni in their late 20s and early 30s. As such, the show played especially well to the younger 18-34 and 12-34 demos coveted by the WB. For TV Land, the skein will host 20-year reunions in order to better appeal to the cabler’s older demos. Nick at Nite/TV Land exec VP of original programming Keith Cox, who shepherded the show while serving as alternative senior VP at the WB, said the concept of "Reunion" has universal appeal, making it ripe for a revival. "’High School Reunion’ is an opportunity for us to run with a great franchise," Cox said. "Good concepts are hard to come by, and the new series on TV Land will present the show to a whole new audience."

Variety 

I do not know what to make of this? I liked the show when it was on The WB, but just seems so weird to think it is going to air on TV Land. I just don’t get the connection?

Alan Thicke has been hired to host "The Singing Office," a CBS reality pilot that transforms meager cubicle dwellers into rock stars. The project, based on a popular Dutch reality format, involves producers surprising employees at two companies who are asked to do impromptu singing auditions. The best five singers from each office are flown to Hollywood, where they are coached on singing and dancing toward the goal of performing a number in front of an audience. At the end of each episode, the audience chooses the better "singing office," and that team wins a cash prize.

Reuters 

If this makes it to air, I give it a week.

Hey all you MySpacers!!

Ethan Petersen
Supervising Casting Producer
(Recruitment Director)
Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency via MySpace

If it is anything like the first season, I can not wait for the second one! 

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