Moraes on TV - Television columnist Lisa de Moraes. - May 24, 2009

Washington Officially the Prettiest Dress in the Reality-TV Store

Looks as if MTV's creaky "Real World" -- the series that is now older than MTV's target audience -- is finally coming to explore the finer points of binge drinking in our fair city of Washington, D.C. Word got out that the production house, Bunim-Murray, is staffing up with production...

In Pa., 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' Receives Labor Complaint

TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" keeps on making the kind of news viewers love. Advertisers's reaction? Maybe not so much. In today's "Jon & Kate + Brood": Pennsylvania's Labor Department has opened an investigation into whether the show is complying with state child labor laws, the Associated Press reports....

Kris Allen Dings Reports of AT&T Staffers' Voting Help

"American Idol" winner Kris Allen went on Jimmy Fallon's NBC late night show Wednesday. While there, he tried to hose down news reports that employees of one of the singing competition's corporate sponsors helped Allen fans increase the number of votes they could cast last week to determine the...

Washington D.C. Invaded by Real Housewives

This is our now, Washington. Bravo network's The Real Housewives of [Fill in the Blank] franchise is coming to our nation's capital. NBC Universal-owned Bravo network has planted its flag in the Washington market, announcing it is developing a "Real Housewives" reality series set "in the influential metropolitan region...

Moraes on TV: May 24, 2009 - May 30, 2009

Washington Officially the Prettiest Dress in the Reality-TV Store

In Pa., 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' Receives Labor Complaint

Kris Allen Dings Reports of AT&T Staffers' Voting Help

Washington D.C. Invaded by Real Housewives