Oxygen Media has officially unveiled its half-hour hidden camera reality series Celebrities Undercover (see the trailer below), which will premiere March 18 following the debut of another new series, Chasing Maria Menounos. In June, the network quietly gave a green light to Celebrities Undercover (then Secret Celebrity) executive produced by talk show host Wendy Williams under her first-look deal at Oxygen. Each episode features two celebrities concealing their true identity with the use of prosthetic makeup to find out what unsuspecting fans and friends really think of them. In the series premiere, Williams goes undercover as a member of her own audience, and Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Kim Kardashian disguises herself at a group job interview as a fan hoping to become her new assistant. (Kardashian’s involvement represents corporate synergy as Keeping Up With The Kardashains airs on Oxygen sibling E!) Also set to appear on the series are T-Pain,...
- 1/23/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: TruTV has picked up Container Wars for a second season with 13-episode order. The series, from Jenny Daly’s T Group, follows treasure hunters as they descend upon commercial shipping ports to bid on what they hope are containers filled with big-ticket items. “This is modern-day treasure hunting at its best,” Daly said. “The characters are passionate, the stakes are high, and scores found in any container are limitless.” Container Wars, which debuted in January, is the latest entry in the popular unscripted genre of storage unit/container auctions that also includes A&E’s Storage Wars and its offshoots, TruTV’s Storage Hunters and Spike’s Auction Hunters. Container Wars, whose first-season back order is wrapping its run, is executive produced by Daly and Michael Binko. T Group’s portfolio includes nearly a dozen pilot and series orders so far this season, including Secret Celebrity on Oxygen, Thingamabob...
- 9/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
It’s hard to stay out of the public eye when you’re a celebrity, but these Hollywood stars managed to keep the name of their babies a secret — at least, for a bit. Check out our gallery of secret celeb baby names!
For living so much of her life in the public eye, we were shocked that Kim Kardashian‘s baby name wasn’t officially revealed until six days after she gave birth. There was even a fake baby name floating around the Internet — Kaidence Donda West. But Kim and Kanye West proved they could keep a secret (at least for a little bit) when their baby’s birth certificate was leaked on June 21 — six days after she was born.
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West’s Baby Named North
Baby North West’s official birth certificate was first revealed on June 21, and shows her official name as North West — but with no middle name.
For living so much of her life in the public eye, we were shocked that Kim Kardashian‘s baby name wasn’t officially revealed until six days after she gave birth. There was even a fake baby name floating around the Internet — Kaidence Donda West. But Kim and Kanye West proved they could keep a secret (at least for a little bit) when their baby’s birth certificate was leaked on June 21 — six days after she was born.
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West’s Baby Named North
Baby North West’s official birth certificate was first revealed on June 21, and shows her official name as North West — but with no middle name.
- 6/21/2013
- by Christina Stiehl
- HollywoodLife
Exclusive: I’ve learned that Oxygen has quietly given the green light to Secret Celebrity, a reality series produced by T Group Prods, which Wendy Williams executive produces as part of her first-look deal with the cable network. Per Oxygen’s description when the project was announced in February as being in development, Secret Celebrity features stars in disguise as they surprise unsuspecting fans, friends and family. I hear celebrities who already have filmed episodes of the show include Nick Lachey, Ice-t & Coco and LuAnn de Lesseps, who just signed on to return to The Real Housewives Of New York on sibling Bravo. T Group’s Jenny Daly executive produces with Williams and Gunnar Wetterberg.
- 6/18/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Wendy Williams just announced the formation of her own production company and now has a client. Oxygen Media has signed Williams to a development deal in which her company will find, develop and produce original programming. She will also serve as an executive producer on Oxygen’s new in-development project Secret Celebrity, which is part of the network’s plan to expand its schedule of original programming from two to three nights a week. Williams will also appear as a guest judge on the modeling competition series The Face, which premieres February 12. In addition to Secret Celebrity, which features celebrities in disguise who surprise unsuspecting fans, Oxygen said today in advance of its upfront event that it has a new pilot, This Week The Award Goes To…, a comedic talk show that offers up over-the-top awards to pop culture figures. It joins a 2013 lineup that includes returning series I’m Having Their Baby,...
- 2/5/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
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