The Amazing Race, hands down.

I watch the others, but none of them are even a close second.

Survivor and The Amazing Race. Sometimes, Fear Factor.

The Amazing Survivor Factor  Let's see, you go race around the world, boot somebody out and go for the pig brain.  My favorite used to be Survivor, but I switched alliance and I now go for Amazing Race.

Amazing Race!

Amazing Race for me too....

So far I only watch TAR.  Fear Factor was interesting the first few episodes, but that's about it.

sayang airtime sa AXN, puwedeng pang-anime.

Yuck if they did that! Much like Reality TV, Anime is really niche programming - some people think it's the greatest thing out there, others think it's pretty weird and useless.

anime is ok but if it's shown everyday...

i don't get that basketball team anime thing-y. or bey blades.  

There was a scene in Natural Born Killers that seemed to have predicted shows like the Osbournes.

Fear Factor rocks!  

Found a somewhat old article from http://www.fansofrealitytv.com.

Here are the results of the FIRST ANNUAL FANS OF REALITY TV AWARDS, announced this past January:

FAVORITE MALE REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Ken Duphiney (TAR3) - 20.79%
Gerard Duphiney (TAR3) - 19.66%
Ozzy Osbourne (The Osbournes) - 19.10%
Ken Stafford (Survivor: Thailand) - 16.85%
Aaron Buerge (The Bachelor 2) - 12.92%
Justin Guarini (American Idol) - 10.67%

FAVORITE FEMALE REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Jill Aquilino (TAR3) - 39.55%
Kelly Clarkson (American Idol) - 19.21%
Sharon Osbourne (The Osbournes) - 16.95%
Brooke (The Bachelor 2) - 11.30%
Amy Crews (Big Brother 3) - 9.60%
Kelly Osbourne (The Osbournes) - 3.39%

LEAST FAVORITE MALE REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Clay Jordan (Survivor: Thailand) - 32.20%
Ian Pollack (TAR3) - 18.64%
Robb Zbacnik (Survivor: Thailand) - 16.95%
Marcellas Reynolds (Big Brother 3) - 11.30%
Aaron Goldschmidt (TAR3) - 10.73%
Aaron Buerge (The Bachelor 2) - 10.17%

LEAST FAVORITE FEMALE REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Flo Pesenti (TAR3) - 36.87%
Ghandia Johnson (Survivor: Thailand) - 32.40%
Christi (The Bachelor 2) - 11.17%
Chiara Berti (Big Brother 3) - 9.50%
Rebekah (Bachelorettes in Alaska) - 6.15%
Danielle Reyes (Big Brother 3) - 3.91%

BEST LOOKING MALE REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Derek Riker (TAR3) - 28.65%
Ken Stafford (Survivor: Thailand) - 25.15%
Aaron Buerge (The Bachelor 2) - 18.71%
Roddy Mancuso (Big Brother 3) - 9.94%
Jason Guy (Big Brother 3) - 9.36%
Jeff Byers (Combat Missions) - 8.19%

BEST LOOKING FEMALE REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Jill Aquilino (TAR3) - 29.94%
Tanya Vance (Survivor: Thailand) - 26.35%
Heather (The Mole 2) - 14.37%
Christina Christian (American Idol) - 13.77%
Tamyra Gray (American Idol) - 11.98%
Tonya Paoni (Big Brother 3) - 3.59%

MOST ANNOYING REALITY SHOW PARTICIPANT
Flo Pesenti (TAR3) - 48.55%
Ghandia Johnson (Survivor: Thailand) - 19.08%
Ian Pollack (TAR3) - 13.29%
Marcellas Reynolds (Big Brother 3) - 8.09%
Amy Crews (Big Brother 3) - 6.94%
Katie (The Mole 2) - 4.05%

PARTICIPANT(S) THAT PLAYED BETTER THAN EXPECTED
Teri/Ian (TAR3) - 41.48%
Nikki McKibbin (American Idol) - 18.18%
Jan Gentry (Survivor: Thailand) - 17.05%
Lisa Donoghue (Big Brother 3) - 9.66%
Ken/Gerard (TAR3) - 7.95%
Clay Jordan (Survivor: Thailand) - 5.68%

PARTICIPANT(S) THAT DIDN"T PLAY AS WELL AS THEY SHOULD HAVE
Jed Hildebrand (Survivor: Thailand) - 24.85%
Damon/André (TAR3) - 23.67%
Tanya Vance (Survivor: Thailand) - 21.89%
Tamyra Gray (American Idol) - 14.79%
Dennis/Andrew (TAR3) - 8.28%
Christina Christian (American Idol) - 6.51%

MOST DESERVING WINNER(S)
Kelly Clarkson (American Idol) - 34.86%
Brian Heidik (Survivor: Thailand) - 21.14%
Dorothy (The Mole 2) - 13.71%
Lisa Donoghue (Big Brother 3) - 13.14%
Flo/Zach (TAR3) - 11.43%
Helene (The Bachelor 2) - 5.71%

LEAST DESERVING WINNER(S)
Flo/Zach (TAR3) - 47.43%
Brian Heidik (Survivor: Thailand) - 22.29%
Helene (The Bachelor 2) - 10.86%
Lisa Donoghue (Big Brother 3) - 8.00%
Kelly Clarkson (American Idol) - 6.29%
Dorothy (The Mole 2) - 5.14%

BEST MOMENT
Heather/Eve falling out of the donkey cart (TAR3) - 27.43%
Kelly Clarkson winning "American Idol" (American Idol) - 23.43%
Helen's speech at the final Tribal Council (Survivor: Thailand) - 23.43%
The whole Ghandia/Ted brouhaha (Survivor: Thailand) - 9.14%
Jason leaving Rebekah high and dry (Bachelorettes in Alaska) - 8.57%
Jan and the baby bat (Survivor: Thailand) - 8.00%

WORST CLOTHING
The flower/peanut butter bikinis (Big Brother 3) - 23.86%
Ian's hat (TAR3) - 19.32%
Anything Ryan Starr wore (American Idol) - 17.61%
Jan's overalls (Survivor: Thailand) - 15.91%
Derek/Drew's "picnic tablecloth" shirts (TAR3) - 14.77%
Clay's hat (Survivor: Thailand) - 8.52%

THE "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND" AWARD
Aaron/Arianne (TAR3) - 35.09%
Clay Jordan (Survivor: Thailand) - 23.39%
Danielle Reyes (Big Brother 3) - 19.88%
Marcellas Reynolds (Big Brother 3) - 11.70%
John Raymond (Survivor: Thailand) - 6.43%
Josh Feinberg (Big Brother 3) - 3.51%

WORST HAIR
Zach Behr (TAR3) - 28.74%
Robb Zbacnik (Survivor: Thailand) - 20.11%
Ghandia Johnson (Survivor: Thailand) - 17.24%
Jan Gentry (Survivor: Thailand) - 14.37%
Amy Crews' cornrows (Big Brother 3) - 10.34%
Jason Guy's new 'do (Big Brother 3) - 9.20%

WHINIEST
Flo Pesenti (TAR3) - 61.02%
Texas Heather (The Bachelor 2) - 16.38%
Marcellas Reynolds (Big Brother 3) - 12.43%
Amy Crews (Big Brother 3) - 3.95%
Aaron Goldschmidt (TAR3) - 3.95%
Heather Mahar (TAR3) - 2.26%

WHO WOULD BE THE HARDEST TO LIVE WITH?
Flo Pesenti (TAR3) - 38.42%
Ian Pollack (TAR3) - 18.64%
Ghandia Johnson (Survivor: Thailand) - 16.38%
Marcellas Reynolds (Big Brother 3) - 9.60%
Amy Crews (Big Brother 3) 9.04%
Helene (The Bachelor 2) - 7.91%

FAVORITE REALITY SHOW
The Amazing Race 3 - 42.78%
Survivor: Thailand - 16.11%
The Bachelor 2 - 10.56%
The Mole 2 - 10.00%
Big Brother 3 - 6.67%
The Osbournes - 6.67%
American Idol - 6.67%
Fear Factor - 0.56%

LEAST FAVORITE REALITY SHOW
Fear Factor - 23.03%
The Osbournes - 22.47%
The Bachelor 2 - 12.92%
American Idol - 12.92%
Big Brother 3 - 10.11%
The Amazing Race 3 - 6.74%
Survivor: Thailand - 6.18%
The Mole 2 - 5.62%

FAVORITE REALITY SHOW HOST
Jeff Probst (Survivor: Thailand) - 38.29%
Phil Keoghan (TAR3) - 24.57%
Anderson Cooper (The Mole 2) - 18.86%
Joe Rogan (Fear Factor) - 8.57%
Julie Chen (Big Brother 3) - 4.57%
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) - 4.00%
Brian Dunkleman (American Idol) - 1.14%

LEAST FAVORITE REALITY SHOW HOST
Brian Dunkleman (American Idol) - 30.99%
Julie Chen (Big Brother 3) - 23.39%
Joe Rogan (Fear Factor) - 16.37%
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) - 11.70%
Jeff Probst (Survivor: Thailand) - 16.11%
Phil Keoghan (TAR3) - 5.85%
Anderson Cooper (The Mole 2) - 2.34%

BEST REALITY SHOW NOBODY WATCHED
EcoChallenge - 34.21%
Combat Missions - 25.00%
Frontier House - 21.05%
No Boundaries - 19.74%

BEST SHOW OF SKIN
Derek/Drew at the Singapore Zoo (TAR3) - 28.16%
Erin Collins in her bikini (Survivor: Thailand) - 20.69%
Roddy Mancuso sunbathing/working out (Big Brother 3) - 17.82%
Ken Stafford getting covered in body paints (Survivor: Thailand) - 15.52%
Aaron Buerge in the hot tub (The Bachelor 2) - 13.79%
Jeff Byers in the shower (Combat Missions) - 4.02%

WORST SHOW OF SKIN
Ghandia Johnson walking nude on the beach (Survivor: Thailand) - 39.55%
Ian/Teri at the Singapore Zoo (TAR3) - 27.12%
Jan Gentry in her bikini (Survivor: Thailand) - 13.56%
Texas Heather sitting on Aaron's lap (The Bachelor 2) - 10.73%
Gerry Lancaster in a toga (Big Brother 3) - 6.78%
Rebekah's backless dress (Bachelorettes in Alaska) - 2.26%

AMAZING RACE.

Takeshi Castle and the NBA Playoffs.  

GOOD ONE!  

How about this??

Kris Aquino: Reality TV Philippines’ style

5/5/2003

By SETH MYDANS The New York Times News Service

She’s a fool for sweet and sour pork. Her son has big feet. She collects Swatch Bijoux bracelets. She likes to walk around the house naked.


The best colors for her skin tone are aqua blue, minty green, bubble-gum pink, and melon orange. “Red also never fails, especially on Mondays” -- to start the week off happy.


These are just a few of the things we know about Kris Aquino, 32, bubbly talk-show hostess and youngest daughter of Corazon Aquino, the former president of the Philippines.


How do we know these things? We know because she tells us -- on her morning celebrity talk show, on her evening game show, on her weekend gossip hour, and anywhere else we might be listening.


She tells us everything. To know Aquino is to really know her. She is a compulsive gossip, and her subject is herself -- her terrible choices in men, the stresses of single parenthood, her dramas with her long-suffering mother.


“If you say anything about me, you can say -- the word is tactless,” she said. “When I open my mouth, people know that whatever comes out is true.“


The strange thing is that it’s weirdly interesting. This is not, after all, just another bright plastic bauble in the world of entertainment. This is the bearer of the Aquino name, the most revered and unsullied in the nation.


First was her father, Benigno, the assassinated challenger to former President Ferdinand Marcos, and now a national martyr -- the man who told his self-doubting countrymen that, yes, “the Filipino is worth dying for.”


Then came his widow, Joan of Arc in a yellow dress, leading her people from the darkness of the Marcos dictatorship on the wings of prayer and people power.


It has fallen to their youngest daughter to transform the family narrative from a passion play into a soap opera.


If the previous Aquino generation shimmered in the glow of a halo, this one is irradiated by limelight.


Where the mother’s charisma blossomed from real diffidence, the daughter’s is that of the family cutup, charmed by her own charm.


Where the mother is demure, the daughter is the type to ask a male model on her talk show, “Are you sure you don’t use steroids? You can tell by looking at the nipples, you know.”


She is promiscuously friendly -- not a family trait -- inviting onto her show the sons of two former presidents driven from power in disgrace by her mother, Marcos and Joseph Estrada.


Unlike her mother, who has remained loyal to her late husband, Aquino has been unable to resist a series of actors and basketball players, usually married and a good deal older than she is. Her eight-year-old son, Josh, is the product of one of these liaisons.

Nobody, inside or outside her family, seems to approve. The tut-tutting can be deafening.


“She makes me look like a nun,” said Imee Marcos, the eldest daughter of the former president, who is now a member of Congress. It was she who caused the biggest social scandal of her father’s presidency when she ran off with a professional golfer, Tommy Manotoc, from whom she is now separated.


Aquino’s sourest critic seems to be her own brother Benigno Aquino III who is also a congressman.


“The whole family is distressed,” he said when yet another tiresome scandal made the rounds last year. “We hope that she gets enlightened.” He said his mother and sister were shunning each other and that his mother “is leaving it all to God.”


Aquino was driven to penitence, telling a television audience, “I have shamed my family.”


Clearly, she craves her mother’s approval and she presents her with expensive gifts like jewelry and paintings. “I know my mom still loves me,” she said last year. “She’ll always be my mom, come what may.”


Her mother forgives and forgives, waiting for her youngest child to grow up.


“I’m not as bad as everybody’s portraying me to be,” Aquino said. “If only they would give me love, understanding, good advice.”


But soon the sun was shining brightly again. Nothing keeps Aquino down for long. Of all the family, she is the most like her father, voluble, energetic, extroverted, optimistic -- a natural politician.


She started as a child, climbing onstage to sing at her father’s campaign rallies. “She was adorable when she was 8, and she’s still at it,” said Girlie Rodis, who was her first manager. “You never know what’s going to pop out of her mouth next.”


When her father was killed in 1983, she rose to address a huge crowd of mourners, a 12-year-old girl with big glasses.


When her mother took office in 1986, her sisters, Pinky, Ballsy and Viel, pitched in as presidential assistants. Her brother, known as Noynoy, was dutiful and serious.


But young Kris had plans of her own. She started shopping for a theatrical agent and she began a lifelong habit of falling in love with the wrong men, starting off with an actor.


Her professional career got under way a decade ago when her mother left office -- a succession of high-energy talk shows and regular appearances in movies.


And then a strange, subversive thought arises. We have seen this before in Philippine public life.


The vividness and impulsiveness and hunger for attention, the unabashed self-absorption, the ambition and the calculating mind hidden somewhere behind the fluff -- there is no one she resembles so much as Imelda Marcos, the former first lady.


Marcos, with her shoes and her jewels and her grandiosity, is of course in a class by herself, one of the stupendously strange egos on the world stage.


But Aquino is still young, still searching, still inventing herself. She will not be a talk-show hostess forever. Something bigger is waiting for her.

“My dad would always ask me, ‘Do you want to be president someday?’” she said. “I’d say, ‘I want to be a movie star.’ I think that’s why my brother resents me. Because I’m the one.”


Her mother has secret thoughts about this too, she said. “She sees that there’s something in my blood that comes from my dad,” Aquino said. “She really believes in destiny. She believes it’s my destiny to be in politics.”


Aquino will settle for nothing less than the Senate, and she has done the math.


“Not 2004,” she said. “I’ll still be too young. Not 2007. Josh will be only 12. Maybe 2010. In 2010 I’d be -- how old would I be?”I’ll be 39.”


It is true that some might recoil at the prospect of a Senator Gidget. But oddly enough, Aquino said, her flightiness is apparently an asset.


Advertising surveys have shown that her credibility as a chatterbox is high. If she says she uses a product, she probably does.


When the time is right and she decides to run, she said, “I know I’d win.”


In the meantime, her sunny face and fast-paced chatter and her wardrobe of aqua blue, minty green and bubble gum pink light up television screens every day.


She starts off with her chat show, Morning Girls. She gossips on Sundays on The Buzz. And in the evenings she gives away money on a light-hearted quiz show, her signature production.


Its title is, Are You Game? and its recurrent refrain, which she shouts out together with the audience, could be a motto for Aquino’s adventurous life: “I’m game!”