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Fox drops Anchorwoman

Fox has yanked its controversial "reality" series, Anchorwoman, hours after its premiere last night.

The show about WWE model bimbette Lauren Jones who's "hired" as a TV news reporter in Tyler, Texas premiered last night and pulled in a measly 2.7 million viewers. That's a 1.0 rating/3 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates released today by Nielsen Media Research. Power of 10 won the hour with 8.7 million, 2.2/7.

Most embarrassing, Anchorwoman was beaten by repeats of ABC's According to Jim (4.7 million, 1.7/5) and NBC's Most Outrageous Moments (6.4 million, 2.1/7)., according to Nielsen preliminary figures. It tied a repeat of America's Next Top Model for fourth place.

A repeat!

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In case you missed Dr. 90210 last night...

Four words:

Mike.

Boogie.

Genital.

Warts.

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Kid Nation: Meet the little fockers

CBS today revealed the identities of the forty kids who'll be participating in the network's most controversial reality series: Kid Nation, that Lord of The Flies-meets-Nickelodeon show that premieres in September.

Producers plopped the kids, ranging in age from 8 to 15, in the ghost town of Bonanza City, New Mexico, earlier this year, supposedly without adult supervision for 40 days to see if they could fend for themselves and "establish a fully-functioning community"--or if they'd kill the fat kid, divide off into gangs and resort to cannibalism.

...and yes, that's ages 8 to 15. What parents would let their eight-year-old be part of this?

While you chew that one over... meet the lucky forty... after the jump...

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Here come the big fat liars

Though ABC's Ugly Betty is a rip-off of a telenovela from Colombia, and though the coffee and cocaine country inspired a subplot on Entourage, most of the US TV network minds have been stealing their reality TV ideas from Europe.

But the newest copycat show on the fastest track here, in Brazil, France and the UK is a copy of a series that's the biggest show from Bogota to the borders: a lie detector show.

Fox is working up a pilot for Nothing but the Truth in which participants are faced with very personal, and increasingly uncomfortable and invasive questions. If they answer 21 truthfully, they win $50,000.

If the contestant lies (proven by a second polygraph they took earlier backstage), he or she is busted in front of a studio audience filled with family and friends.

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Update: Kardashian & ass show a go!

This just in from E! Entertainment Television on that Kim Kardashian reality series we told you about this morning:

E! ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION
AND RYAN SEACREST ANNOUNCE
NEW NON-SCRIPTED FAMILY SITCOM
WITH HOLLYWOOD SOCIALITE
KIM KARDASHIAN
AND HER OUTRAGEOUS FAMILY

August 8, 2007 - This fall E! is set to debut "The Untitled Kardashian Series," a non-scripted family sitcom produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim-Murray Productions that follows the comedy and drama that ensues when the Kardashian/Jenner family, a modern-day Brady Bunch, works hard and plays even harder.

The series features pop-culture princess Kim Kardashian (26) and her two fiercely competitive (and hormonal) sisters Kourtney (28) and Khloe (23).

As the daughters of famed lawyer Robert Kardashian and step-daughters of Olympic gold-medalist Bruce Jenner, these sisters grew up in a world of immense privilege surrounded by celebrities from the moment they were born. Adding to this clan are their two highly impressionable coming-of-age half sisters Kendall (11) and Kylie (9), their firecracker mom Kris who doubles as Kim's stressed out manager-- and in the midst of all this hormonal chaos-- their quiet, conservative step-dad Bruce...

Find out how E! describes the celebutard porn star and why she of all people deserves to replace celebutard porn star Paris Hilton in a reality series... after the jump...

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August 23, 2007:Fox drops Anchorwoman

August 21, 2007:In case you missed Dr. 90210 last night...

August 15, 2007:Kid Nation: Meet the little fockers

August 10, 2007:Here come the big fat liars

August 8, 2007:Update: Kardashian & ass show a go!

:Kim Kardashian and her ass to get reality show

July 30, 2007:Pirate Master gal joins Bergman & Snyder

:Can you identify this man?

July 28, 2007:Another Casting Post -- this is your chance to grab your 15 minutes

July 27, 2007:It's The Golden Girls meets Borat!