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One of the reality TV shows I ended up enjoying the most was Kid Nation. I wish the Greatest American Dog had a format more like that. Why I Liked Kid Nation I was not expecting to like the show. A bunch of kids forming their own ...

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By Tele If I was Ghen Maynard, I'd blame Kid Nation. New to "On The Tele". Welcome contributors, Tele O and Tele Welly! I apologize now for what they may say later. Oops, our bad. Maybe it is just me, but Katherine Heigl rubs me the wrong way. ...

By Andy Dehnart Whether or not you believe Taylor probably depends upon how much you loathed her character on the show. Earlier, executive producer Tom Forman admitted that the show had kids do "pick-up lines," i.e. retakes, but he didn't say anything about telling the kids to say things.

By Andy Dehnart I didn't realize they'd actually make it out on TV to sound that bad. But when I did see it, I was like, 'Whoa! That's not how that went.' I wasn't okay with how they made me look. I didn't act like that the whole time. ...

Today's Baltimore Sun has an editorial castigating CBS over "Kid Nation." CBS should be ashamed of itself. Taking 40 kids to a New Mexico desert for 40 days of "nation" building, promoting the pint-sized pioneers as the stars of a new reality TV show, and then likening it to summer camp ...

Entertainment Weekly has a look at ten former reality stars, and what they've been up to since their brush with fame. One of the ten people spotlighted is "Kid Nation" participant Taylor DuPriest. I heard about Kid Nation through pageants. I didn't hear about the ghost town at first — I just ...

By HollywoodSucker(deuceapplejuice@yahoo.com) Does anyone remember that show Kid Nation that was on TV last fall? It was the one where 40 kids were sent to live in New Mexico and start their own town. And in the end, everyone learns that...

A Fool's Utopia 7.24.08: Fall TV Preview Part I: CBS  TX - Jul 23, 2008 Don't bother, just read Lord of the Flies." Reality: Surrounded by controversy and declining ratings Kid Nation was cancelled May 14. I wrote… ...

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By Nancy Davis, Safety4Kids(noreply@blogger.com) Here's the good news: we can still be shocked and disgusted. We have not been so conditioned to reality television that we can accept anything thrown at us by the networks. Fortunately, we are not alone. Here's a paragraph from The New York Times:

 United States - By James Hibberd Reality producer Tom Forman ("Kid Nation," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition") has sold his production company, Tom Forman Prods., ... Relativity, Forman form reality unit Variety all 2 news articles

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 CO - Here are a few, past and present: * Kid Nation: Last fall CBS premiered this show starring 40 kids in a New Mexico ghost town tasked with governing and ...

 PA - Jun 5, 2008 Kid Nation" meets "Juno" in a social experiment that asks a group of teens to become instant parents to babies, toddlers and preteens. ...

By By BILL CARTER Network executives as well as the program’s producer continued to express confidence that the reality show would go on as planned.

By Nancy Davis, Safety4Kids In the words of Sophia: "I was scared for the future of Bonanza City." We were, too. Laurel added: "Bonanza City is going to crash and burn." Eric said, "Greg is so rude and disrespectful." Jared simply concluded, "The respect game sucked." Technorati Tags: Kid Nation, CBS, respect, bullying

By Nancy Davis, Safety4Kids Taylor, of course, had the line that only Taylor could have - her own special brand of compliment: "Sophia is doing such a good job I hope that Greg is eaten by coyotes." (One more episode, one more episode.) Related Topics: Survival of the SmartestWhat Makes Kids Intelligent?Technorati Ta...

By Nancy Davis, Safety4Kids Drum roll please. The first $50,000 star was awarded to Sophia, very deserving indeed. She said she was flattered and appreciative and described Kid Nation as, "the best times of my life and the worst times of my life." Technorati Tags: Kid Nation, season finale, CBS

By Nancy Davis, Safety4Kids It's not been a good season for chickens on CBS. Early on in Kid Nation, the chickens were little more than protein on the move. On the most recent installment of The Amazing Race, chickens were unwitting travel companions, lugged around in string bags like excess baggage. And last night on Ki...

By markj While lawyers for the stars and production company behind CBS's Kid Nation wait with lawsuit-filing breath for the public's reaction to the September 19th debut of the show, New Mexico Tourism is already looking at this as a win-win. Map of Kid Nation.

Kid Nation' was a learning experience  MA - Guylan Qudsieh and his dog, Judy, show off a computer with the Web site for the CBS reality show "Kid Nation," at Qudsieh's home in Upton on Friday. ...

Courtesy of Getty Images, CBS. Looking back on a week in which we did not get the Led out… We bid farewell to the children of Kid Nation. All the ones that lived, anyway. Khaled Hosseini talked burkas. Ellen Page talked nuts. ...

By DrMcSteeny(sarro13@yahoo.com) Taylor will be stripping in Vegas. DK will watch the entire season of Kid Nation and realize what a huge role Jared played in the show, albeit not necessarily Bonanza itself. He'll spend three years feeling guilty that he never gave Jared a gold star.

‘Kid Nation’ Makes Little Racket, After All New York Times, United States - Tom Forman, the executive producer, believes the program was hurt by the early controversy. “It’s not the kind of buzz you want to launch with,” he told USA ...

By Hartford Courant I’m sure the reviews would be just as relevant and speak to the audience as much as your review of Kid Nation. CBS sold the series as kids starting their own society, but they were no more free to do that than castaways are on "Survivor ...

BuzzKilled What I Learned From Kid Nation… [The Finale] BuzzKilled, WA - Once it burnt down in the first ever unnatural disaster in Bonanza City, chaos ensued. Perhaps we should just build a job board for the Middle East, ... Kid Nation: We've All Decided To Go Mad! Film.com all 2 news articles

In a rather dramatic opening for the finale episode, we find young Mike coming onto the job board which stands ablaze. Waking the town, Mike leads the charge to try to extinguish the fire but seeing the futility of this, the kids stand in stunned silence to watch it burn. There time is almost up...

Local girl makes good in 'Kid Nation' finale  IL - Bonanza City and each other. Zach, who won the final $20000 gold star, perhaps put it best when he said, "We really made this place a Kid Nation."

By DA Southern Jonathan had the final three Gold Stars and told the council that they had a huge decision to make. Jonathan told them that they were to award the stars to the Pioneers that embodied the Spirit of Bonanza City and sent the boys off for the final time.

By Shane The council left town as instructed by the pioneers, leaving Sheriff Sophia in charge in Kid Nation Episode 12. Contrary to everybody’s fear, Sophia turned out to be a good leader, surely better than Greg and Blaine. As the finale approached, the kids were left to think about how little time...

By Andy Dehnart Kid Nation': Out with nary a whimper [Media Life] "Criminal Minds" Surges to its Best Viewer Delivery... [CBS press release] Uncertain future for 'Kid Nation' [USA TODAY] gt;>read the latest news about Kid Nation gt;>find more reality TV news and gossip at reality blurred

By Jose Kid Nation or Child Abuse. That was my first assessment of "Kid Nation," another one of those shows where everyone got all up in arms about the show even before it aired. My arms have been lowered. Even the rotten kids like spoiled beauty queen Taylor and bully Greg had their good sides. That neve...

Kid Nation' exits a hit with youth  NY - I'm really proud of this show," executive producer Tom Forman said Monday during a break in production of the finale. "I think America fell in love with ...

By Michael O'Connell Ok, folks, next week is your last chance to catch the brilliant (in an totally autistic way) Kid Nation. The overwhelmingly ironic appreciation for the show seemed to die down a few weeks after it started, especially when CBS started gearing the show towards children, but I promise you tha...

By Faith W There are only 2 more episodes of Kid Nation left – and 3 more days left of the children’s 40 days in Bonanza City.  Can’t wait to see what happens next! (by Deb Porter-Jones) The Town Council consulted the Town Journal and decided to go outside the town’s borders to learn

Kid Nation" fizzles out  United States - By Maria Elena Fernandez HOLLYWOOD — In the end, the "Kid Nation" pre-premiere hoopla amounted to much ado about nothing. The children of Bonanza City never ... Here's the reality about 'Kid Nation' Longview Daily News all 6 news articles

By Andy Dehnart The New Mexico Attorney General's Office began investigating CBS' Kid Nation in late August, but after looking into "the permit process, the 22-page contract between producers and parents, and whether the production company illegally ...

By DrMcSteeny(sarro13@yahoo.com) All the kids are excited. They have to work before they can enter the arcade though. Well not Jared and Mike. Jared says "screw the job" and goes into the arcade anyway. See this is why I know Taylor gets too much crap. Even from me. Because if that was Taylor I'd be so angry, but when it's Jared it's jus...

‘Shrek the Halls’ Decks Competition  MI - Nov 29, 2007 In second place for the night, CBS had “Kid Nation” (a low 2.1), “Criminal Minds” (4.5, the best rating for “Minds” since its post-Super Bowl episode in ...

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By DrMcSteeny(sarro13@yahoo.com) This week in Kid Nation, we learn all about communication. For example, at one point Greg talks to DK and Blaine about how Laurel and Michael and Sophia were talking about Greg and Blaine and DK but really it sounded to me like Laurel and Michael and Sophia were really just talking about Greg,...

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What's on TV tonight  NY - 8 pm (CBS) "Kid Nation." What we have here is a failure to communicate. The kids stuck on the New Mexico ranch find out that communication and respect are ...

By bbfanatik There’s a new District in town: the Gold District. After nearly a month of Pioneer living, eight Gold Stars have been awarded to Bonanza City’s finest… and half of them have been given to members of the Green District. The Green Kids couldn’t be more pleased by this outcome: they celebrate Ke...

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What's on TV tonight  NY - 8:00 (CBS) "Kid Nation." Stop watching this show. Please. It's indicative of everything that broadcast TV is doing wrong this season. ...

By kingnavland It would be politically expedient for us to pull out of Iraq. We can't. It is best for us to fight them over there. Our nation is acting like those kids. The American people does not want to fight the germs of human civilization. (Yes, I called terrorists germs. Get over it. They are.) But we must.

By DrMcSteeny(sarro13@yahoo.com) This week in Kid Nation, Mike and Taylor cried a little, Greg finally got his gold star, and it was confirmed that the show's just not the same without a whole lotta Jared. An hour long show and only... Mike: We need the meat. Taylor: We can haave meat whenever we waunt. Taylor: Kill a chicken

By Shane The current council’s last act of business is to award the gold star. Greg finally gets the gold star he’s been working toward. He says he’s going to use the money for college. Yellow District Votes Taylor Zach Taylor Zach Taylor Zach Zach Taylor Zach

Leave it to CBS to create a better fuss than a show. The nation-building involves 40 kids, ages 8 to 15, sent to turn a ghost town into "a town that works." Last night, that meant learning how to cook, milk goats, use an outhouse and deal with the class divide.

By Jennifer You know how reality TV in general is condescending and exploitative, to its audiences and participants both? Well CBS' new reality show Kid Nation -- think Lord of the Flies without Simon plotting to kill and without Piggy tumbling to his death -- is all these things but worse. Because, na...

By Shane Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Kid Nation Episode 2, which airs at 8/7c on CBS. Before it even premiered, Kid Nation has already become the subject of a lot of seemingly baseless controversy. 40 kids, a damn big cast, must try to turn Bonanza City, NM into a bustling town, somet...

As we reported last week, advertisers saw an episode of “Kid Nation” last week, apparently didn’t hate it, but didn’t love it enough to buy lots of commercial time in it. That sentiment was echoed by the show’s embattled executive producer, Tom Forman, as the network circles the wagons and...

By Mandi Bierly Yesterday, when CBS announced it's fall schedule would include a reality show called Kid Nation — where 40 kids, ages 8 to 15, form an adult-less society in ghost town Bonanza City, New Mexico for 40 days — a debate ignited in the EW TV department. Watch a preview of the show here, then weigh in...