"
Survivor" producer
Mark Burnett is teaming up with
Joel Osteen for a primetime network show in 2012, TMZ has learned.
Burnett tells TMZ, the premise of the show is that ordinary people will give up several days or longer to go on a mission with Joel Osteen, one of the most popular pastors in the world.
All of the missions will be in the confines of US soil to "start fixing things."
According to sources, Burnett and his wife
Roma Downey have become close friends with Joel and his wife Victoria -- and the two couples have even spent considerable time at each other's homes.
As for the new show, a deal has not been signed with any network -- but Burnett has the power to make it happen.
The following story really isn't about the fact that some dude is suing reality king
Mark Burnett over his short lived show "
Pirate Master" -- the REAL story is that someone actually wants the credit for creating that piece of crap.
Some guy named
James Papa says the show idea was all his -- and that after he "created" it back in 2003 and registered it with the US Copyright Office, that damn scallywag Burnett plundered all of his brilliant ideas -- like having a reality show on a pirate ship and making eliminated contestants "walk the plank." Burnett's show aired on
CBS in 2007.
In the suit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Papa is demanding no less than $2,000,000 for his trouble ... unless it goes into arrrrrrrrrrrbitration.
Could there be trouble in the oh-so-pretty paradise that is the universe of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? According to a report this morning, a tussle over their next child is causing a rift between the stars.
"Brad wants another child, preferably a boy –
but he wants a biological boy," says a Page Six source. "He is adamant and wants her to get pregnant again right away." Angelina, on the other hand, isn't on board with that plan – she's ready to adopt again, plus the pillow-lipped actress has a profoundly busy work schedule, with at least three films in the making. The couple's brood already includes two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, and one biological kid, Shiloh Nouvel.
Pitt's rep didn't have comment and Jolie, according to the Post, doesn't even have a rep.
After all the reality TV show hoopla that followed with last year's Rock Star:
INXS quest to find a new singer for the group, JD Fortune and Co. today were dropped by their label Epic Records.
Meanwhile, this year's incarnation,
Rock Star Supernova, may have to change its name after a San Diego judge last week approved a preliminary injunction filed by an Orange County, Calif. punk trio with the same name. The judge barred the TV band from "performing rock and roll music, or recording, or selling rock and roll music recordings under the same (name), pending a trial of this action on its merits, or until otherwise ordered by the court."
And you wanted to be a rock star...
There are ways to collect money from someone, and then there's this: AOL said yesterday that it was preparing to search for gold and platinum bars at David Wolfgang Hawke's parents' house to try to recover the $12.8 million he was ordered to pay AOL in a lawsuit last year.
AOL says that it's just trying to recover what a court has dictated it is due. "This exercise isn't something out of . . . 'Treasure Island,'" said AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham. "This is a court-directed, judge-approved legal process that is simply aimed at responsibly recovering hidden assets." Hawke was sued in US District Court in Virginia by the company for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.
But it's not the only gold-digging that's going on at AOL, as AOL.com and "Survivor" creator Mark Burnett get set to launch "Gold Rush," a groundbreaking interactive reality game, on September 13. In the game, players will have the chance to win over $2 million in gold hidden in various locations across the United States. "
Reality TV impresario Mark Burnett wants to give you $2 million in solid gold.
The creator of 'Survivor' and 'The Apprentice' has given TMZ the first details of his new Web-TV reality show, called 'Gold Rush' and slated to launch Sept. 13.
In the show, contestants will be given clues on the web, on television, and in magazines about the location of more than $2 million in gold. The first contestant to solve all the clues will get the loot.
