Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, OpEd, Watercooler Speak, Huge Brother (US), Hell’s Kitchen

As an intro to my article about The New York Reality Television School, I’ve asked Red from The Shawshank Redemption to narrate my opening paragraph:

I wish I could tell you that the New York Reality TV School fought the good fight, and that the students in attendance were not a collection of mostly desperate people whose desire for fame burned more strongly than their sense of dignity. I wish I could tell you that, but the entertainment industry is no fairy-tale world.

Thanks Red. Now, if you, the reader, would be so kind as to click through to the article, it would mean a lot to me. Not because I get paid more for click-throughs (I don’t; AOL pays me a flat rate of 60 cents plus a pound of corn husks for every post I make, regardless of the number of clicks), but because I spent three hours attending the inaugural class of the NYRTV school last Saturday. I just couldn’t take it if the end result of that’s an article no one reads…

Continue reading My day at the first school in the world dedicated to art of appearing on reality Television shows. (Yes, this actually exists)

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Filed under: Industry, The Office, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free

The title states it all. According to the blog of The Office co-creator Ricky Gervais, Steve Carell has signed on to play Michael Scott for three more seasons.

Gervais follows up the announcement by saying “He is the hardest working man in Hollywood and the harder he works the better it is for me. I mean… well done Steve you are wonderful.”

Gervais also mentions “We are also working on a spinoff series of The American Office but I can’t tell you anything about that yet.”

Continue reading Steve Carell is the boss for three more seasons

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