A new program on MBC1 and a whopping prize to be won!
Al Qarar is the latest game show on MBC1 and is hosted by Saudi actor Abdel Muhsen Al Nimer.
What's it all about then? ... 9 contestants, who have never met each other and have only gotten acquainted through the program, are stuck in a very high-tech villa, from which they cannot leave unless they chose 1 ... only 1 of them to win the 2 million Riyals! Twisted!
Those nine have no way of contact with the outside world! No cellphone and even no watch! What will they do? And how long will they be able to survive like this?
There are a set of rules that need to be followed ... and there's a game ... a catch ...
All the contestants have secrets ... deep and dark secrets!
If the contestants do not choose 1 unanimously ... there will be punishment!

More after the jump ...

Simon Asmar is known as the discoverer of many Lebanese artists but this year and directly after Eid he is coming to us with a brave and original new program. Simon’s program is in the form of a reality show but instead of participants anticipating to be singers they will be belly dancers. Girls from all over the world will come together to compete against each other on who can perform this fine art the best and will be subjected to criticism by a highly experienced judging panel.

First there was LBC star Academy ... Then came Star Academy Maghreb and the future seems to hold a new version of this extremely popular show; Star Academy Egypt!
Egyptian singer Amr Diab has been planning this for some time now and after taking the OK from the Egyptian ministry of communications it seems he will go ahead with his plan.

The show will be a bit different that our usual Star Academy, the prime will supposedly air on Thursday, but there will be a daily summary of the life inside the Academy.

Nabil Al Qarawi, owner of Qarawi & Qarawi World, said that the new Tunisian private TV channel "Nesma TV" will begin broadcasting at the end of the year making it the second private TV channel in Tunisia but it will be directed to North Africa countries (The Arab Maghreb).

Broadcasting from Paris on Nilesat and Arabsat and produced in Tunis, the station will grab the attention of its North African viewers with variety programs, movies, Hollywood TV series, sports and children’s programs amongst others.

Did you know that there is a casting taking place in Tunisia these days for the first edition of Star Academy Maghreb?
Star Academy Maghreb is another version of Star Academy, but this one is specifically for countries in North Africa; Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and probably Mauritania as well.
Many young people showed up for the casting, Which not only requires the participant to sing Arabic songs but but R & B, Rai music, Regea & many other styles are also welcome!
Do you think Star Academy Maghreb will succeed like LBC Star Academy?

By Guest Writer bambusha

Two contestants on the Australian Big Brother are at the center of a sexual controversy after being ejected from the program.
John and Ashley allegedly sexually harassed female contestant Camilla early yesterday, & their removal from the house should indicate how serious the matter is.
It seems that one of the guys pinned Camilla down while the other rubbed his crotch on her face!
In a joint statement shortly after they left the house, Ashley, a bricklayer from Western Australia, and John, a student from Victoria, admitted they had broken the game's rules concerning sexual harassment.

These are some dates of the upcoming reality shows that will be airing on LBC after Mission Fashion:

July – October: Al Wadi 2
October – November: Miss Lebanon 2006
December – April: Star Academy 4
April – June: Mission Fashion 2 2007

By guest writer Yaman

• LBC Star Academy 1
• LBC Star Academy 2
• LBC Star Academy 3
• Al Wadi
• Miss Lebanon
• Mission Fashion

LBC has become known for the very popular show Star Academy which aims to produce stars in singing, dancing and acting.
Now another program, X-Factor, is being produced by Rotana, and it is a new show very similar to Star Academy.
But it's only aim is searching for real singers. There seems to be a rival between these two shows in popularity. At the moment people think there is no other show that can meet up to the Star Academy standards.

So its the end of Star Academy... Now its time for the new reality show: Mission Fashion, every week a fashion designer and a model goes home.. Will you watch it or have you had enough of these reality shows?

By guest writer Yaman

With our obsession of Reality television on overdrive, it is looking more increasingly like 'reality television' is not just a phase...but is here to stay and continue in dominating the television schedule, as well as gossip inches in magazines, newspapers and masses of web pages for years to come. In fact it is almost inevitable now to dedicate considerable thinking time to the cage like concept and to imagine being the guinea pig in the experiment or to wonder what it would be like as the controller running the show

Did you watch the new real tv program Project Fashion 2006 which started yesterday Sunday the 26th of Feb, on Future TV?

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The Lebanese channel Future TV is going to embark on a new Reality TV Series called Project Fashion 2006, that will start on Sunday 26th of Feb. It is an Arab version of the original show Project Runway, which is hosted by German supermodel Heidi Klum.
Project Fashion 2006, gives 12 talented fashion designers in women's wear the opportunity to have their collection shown in front of the global fashion community in Beirut, in addition to being displayed in the pages of a top fashion magazine.

I dont know if you know about a reality show called Big brother in the UK? Well this year they did a Celebrity one and George Gallaway (an MP-against Bush and Blair) was on it and did the worst things whilst in the house. From pretending to be a cat and licking a womans hands on the floor to wearing a body suit and dancing like a mad person!

Yesterday was the final prime of Alwadi reality TV program and the winner is Meshari AlBallam from Kuwait.

Meshari AlBallam voted the best farmer of Alwadi with 44.90% of the votes while Saudi Turki Al Yousef came second with 40.55%.