Michael Davies, Mark Burnett
CBS is doing its part to battle the unemployment rate: The network just ordered the reality TV pilot The Job, which will pit applicants against each other in an attempt to land their dream job.
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The man who helped reinvent the game show at ABC is looking to do it again. Former Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? executive producer Michael Davies is behind The Exit List, which ABC has ordered to pilot.
The Exit List follows contestants as they travel through a massive maze, answering multiple-choice questions along the way. The maze consists of rooms filled with money — and the further in they go, the bigger the prize. But contestants have to find their way out by remembering what they learned.
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A renewal is not yet official, but The Glee Project executive producer Michael Davies says he's already gearing up.
"Talks have begun. A lot of the planning is starting to happen," Davies said Tuesday during Oxygen's fall TV preview. "No, it's not official, but given the ratings growth" and success on multiple platforms — Oxygen, Hulu, VOD, etc. -- "I feel incredibly confident that we're coming back," he said.
Everything you knew about Glee's future is wrong
Davies said budget talks are already underway and producers are considering possible tweaks to...
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Gossip Cop
TV Guide Network is developing a TV series based on the popular celebrity website Gossip Cop, the network announced Tuesday.
The series will cover the biggest and most entertaining celebrity stories of the week, dividing fact from fiction. The show will also give celebrities the chance to "fight back" to set ...
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Glee
This summer, Oxygen will premiere The Glee Project, a reality series in which 40,000 would-be Gleeks compete for a guest-role on Fox's hit musical comedy.
Glee casting director Robert Ulrich saw more than 40,000 auditions, which included everyone from working professionals to teens who had never performed before. "It's given so many kids an opportunity they would never have had in a normal situation," he said Thursday at the Television Critics Association's winter previews. "I had kids sing in front of me who had never sung in front of anyone in their lives.
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Good news! Now, you don't have to win the lottery or cozy up to Ed McMahon to lay your greedy mitts on $10 million. Just get yourself on Super Millionaire — the amped-up version of ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire? debuting Feb. 22. And sorry, Meredith Vieira, original host Regis Philbin is back to emcee the big prime-time event. Here's how this Super-sized edition will be different...
The biggest change is the grand prize increase from $1 million to $10 million. They hope this'll lure back viewers who burned out on Millionaire, back when ABC was airing it in constant rotation. "It's a terrific jackpot," Philbin says, "and it's just what we need to energize the audience and get them in here with us." As producer Michael Davies explains: "Frankly, $1 million ain't wh
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