Perhaps trying to capitalize on the success of this winter's Gone Country, CMT is reuniting former housemates Maureen McCormick, Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson for the eight-episode reality series Outsider's Inn.The series, currently shooting and set to premiere in August, finds the former Marcia Brady having leased a bed and breakfast in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and quickly realizing it is too much to handle alone. McCormick enlists the help of Brown as entertainment director and Wilson as the master chef, while she remains responsible for managing the property. Each episode will feature new, eclectic guests who promise their own set of problems. Personally, I'd rather stay at the Bates Motel. Will you be checking in? — Adam Bryant
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CMT in January will premiere Gone Country, a reality competition in which the likes of Bobby Brown, Carnie Wilson, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, Idol finalist Diana DeGarmo, Julio Iglesias Jr., Maureen McCormick and R&B artist Sisqo are tutored by Big & Rich's John Rich in the ways of country crooning. According to the Reporter, the celebs will cohabitate in a Nashville manse for two weeks as they compete in challenges involving the on- and off-stage country-music lifestyle. At the end, Rich will dub one a winner, and he/she will release a song about, I am guessing, a great love gone wrong.
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Rose Rock, the mother of comedian Chris Rock, claims she was racially discriminated against when she was seated — then ignored for more than a half hour — at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in South Carolina, the Associated Press reports. Rock plans to sue the Tennessee-based company, which has said it doesn't "tolerate any form of discrimination" and is taking the complaint "very seriously".... Whitney Houston has officially filed for divorce from her husband of 14 years, Bobby Brown. Houston has asked that she be granted custody of the couple's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 13.
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Split the Difference, a mockumentary set at a cutthroat ad agency, was the winner of the TV Guide Audience Award at the New York Television Festival's Independent Pilot Competition, held Sunday. Last year's winner, the fishing reality series Off the Hook, premieres on Versus (née OLN) Sept. 29.... Fox has added Justice, 'Til Death and Happy Hour to the list of series it is streaming online for free at such sites as, well, TVGuide.com.... Mr. Telephone Man, there's something wrong with this idea: Bobby Brown will be reuniting with the original members of New Edition for a one-time concert at the Forum in Los Angeles on Dec. 9, the singer's agent tells the New York Daily News.
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Following in the footsteps of countless other couples whose unions were at one time chronicled by a reality show, Whitney Houston, citing "irreconcilable differences," has filed papers requesting a legal separation from Bobby Brown, her hubby of 14 years. Brown's lawyer was quick to spin the event as "a legal separation... not a divorce or a divorce petition." Houston has asked for custody of the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and that Brown be allowed visitation rights.... In happier news
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