Reality Check

Reality Blurred reports that ABC is negotiating with attorneys for Michael Schiavo to star in the next season of The Bachelor. “A media buyer expressed hope for this new season, saying, ‘ABC's utter incompetence when it comes to reality series has left The Bachelor on the reality TV version of a feeding tube, so this makes perfect sense.’"

In other TV news, today Shepard Smith of Fox News Channel was pulled abruptly off the air after prematurely declaring the death of Pope John Paul II. According to an inside source, what really infuriated NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch was Smith’s announcement that Constantine Maroulis is this season’s winner of American Idol.