Reality Shows

Tiffany Derry Leaves Private Social

Tiffany Derry is bolting. In an exclusive interview with Leslie Brenner at the Dallas Morning News, which gave the Top Chef contestant's restaurant four stars in a review published last year, Derry announced her departure to pursue national television projects. Her last day at Private Social will be ... More >>

What the What of the Day: Brandon Hilton's "Set Fire to the Night"

I'd never heard of Dallas musician Brandon Hilton, but according to the email I got yesterday, he's released "over 40 tracks, two full-length albums, eight singles and seven music videos, accumulated over 4.5 million YouTube views, 150,000 MySpace fans, and 30,000 Twitter followers." Hmm, alright ... More >>

Top Chef Texas Recap: The Crying Game

There have never been more tears on Top Chef, including in our very own eyes, as there were throughout last night's episode. The crying wasn't from cutting raw onions. It wasn't from sliced fingertips. It wasn't even from the pork belly frying oil that nearly splashed in Ed's eye. The sentiment spur ... More >>

Cable TV Programmers Make Bait-and-Switch a High Art

Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

Big Hair. Big Boots. Big D. This is Reality?

Dallas is hot, hot, hot on reality television. Or at least someplace sort of like Dallas.

Ten Local Music Entities Ready for Reality TV

​Dallas has always been a wellspring of source material for reality show producers looking to put some squick-worthy drama on television. Along with the new Most Eligible: Dallas and Big Rich Texas shows that make up the crust on the bottom of the basic cable reality barrel, we've seen some me ... More >>

It's Official: Dallas Is A-List. So If You're Not in a Reality Series This Fall, What Gives?

​Bravo was first out of the box with its introduction of Most Eligible: Dallas, a reality series about the dating lives of Dallas's rich-n-pretty. Then came the Style Network, which last week introduced Big Rich Texas, a reality series from the same people responsible for Dallas Divas & Daught ... More >>

MTV Issues Cattle Call for Fat Local Teens

Students have long worried about the pounds they'll put on during their freshman year of college, but an increasing number of graduating high school seniors are trying to lose significant amounts of weight before they arrive on campus. ​Those dieting teens are the focus of I Used to Be Fat, a ... More >>

Tonight: Party with Former Reality TV Stars and Pro Mixologists

​For those of you waiting for the final rose ceremony with the giddy anticipation of a preteen who just got her first copy of Tiger Beat, your dreams are about to come true. Tonight, Brad Womack will choose his dream woman -- or at least a woman who will join him for the morning talk shows ro ... More >>

Chef Tell: Oh, the Lame Bahama Drama

​For the first round in a Top Chef final, this week left much to be desired. Due to that -- and a crippling stomach bug that had me wishing the show was not about food, but rather a blanket fort competition -- this is a truncated and belated recap. Apologies for that.The cheftestants arrived in th ... More >>

Creepy Drinks, Creepy Dudes and The Bachelor Premiere at Bailey's

​"There's your winner, right there. Chantal," Reality Steve barked over the clinking martini glasses and lady chatter last night at the watch party for the season premiere of The Bachelor at Bailey's Prime Plus. Reality Steve is that annoying friend who talks over the entire reality show as yo ... More >>

Finally, Springer On Tour

Dancing Industrial Complex at AAC?

Get Wined, Then Watch Top Chef

​There's a little over an hour to get your Bravo-loving ass to Sigel's (5757 Greenville Ave.) to taste the latest in one of the few libations appropriate for a proper reality TV-watching Wednesday night: Top Chef wines. The swirl-fest features Quickfire Cabernet and Quickfire Sauvignon and is free ... More >>

Chef Tell: This Show is No Picnic

​After two episodes with chefs deucing out thanks to shitty dessert offerings, it came as no shock -- to me or any sane person watching Top Chef -- that last night's Quickfire Challenge would be for sweet teeth. But somehow the cheftestants were surprised. My first instinct was to desire ... More >>

America's Got Taping

The Bright Gets On The Hills Again. But It's Still Awesome Because, C'mon, It's The Hills!

Any excuse, really.O! M! F! G! Guys! Because three times isn't enough, really, the local musicians in The Bright got served another helping of being placed into an episode of The Hills last week, or so says a press release we here at DC9 received late yesterday evening. Turns out, the band's song "A ... More >>

No Voting Required

Dallas, these are your American Idols

Laughingstock

See the stars of Last Comic Standing

Bust A Move

Addison throws a dance party

Dancin', Dancin'

Not-quite-celebs tour their smooth moves

Luke Campbell Talks Tying The Knot, Hip-Hop And Finding His Son's Porn Collection

Steven Daigle, A Big Brother

Hair to Care: Two Locals Make the Cut for This Season's Shear Genius

Debbie Does Dallas

The DSO welcomes a legendary song and dance dame

Plano Woman Wants to Be a Supermodel. Well, Bravo.

Tré Wilcox, Still Vying for Top Chef

Wow, Look, There's Another Eccentric Arts Magnet Graduate

So You Think You'll Go?

Casey Thompson is America's Sweetheart -- And $10,000 Richer For It

Lady Laughsalot

Casey Thompson's Pork Belly Just Wasn't Crispy Enough

Soul Kitchen

Casey Thompson is Through the Bullshit

Casey at the Palate

Casey's Recipe: Season with Teardrops

Step to It

See Joey Lawrence and friends bust a move

Dallas' Own Tre Wilcox is the First to Top Top Chef

Abacus and Shinsei Sending their Top Chefs to Bravo's Top Chef in June

Is You a Top Chef? Then Pack Your Knives and Go.

Tryout City

He's Crafty

Star Struck

Nashville's greenhorns hit Irving

When Opportunity Knocks...

Go Ahead, Tear Us Apart

Reality TV has turned Britney Spears, Bobby Brown, Howard Jones and INXS into fascinating punchlines

Leg Man

Marcus Schenkenberg checks out the Legs of a Goddess

Julie Roberts, Miranda Lambert

Friday, May 20, at the Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival

Real World

Being part of a reality show can make a band's career. It can alsobreak it.

Depress Tour

I coulda sworn I was there when they turned on the TV