The rumbles of workplace discontent among reality television workers are not stopping. Some hopeful signs are emerging. But shitty conditions in the industry persist. Let's hear more!

Speaking through a spokesentity, Bigfoot Field Research Organization founder and president Matthew Moneymaker has summarily declined further comment on the London Royal Society's two-year-long Bigfoot DNA study whose lead researcher, geneticist Brian Sykes, responded to his criticisms here, nearly three weeks ago.

Cryptozoology was rocked this July by the release of a two-year study on alleged Bigfoot DNA by London's Royal Society (paid for by producers of the UK series Bigfoot Files). Now, the chief of America's largest Bigfoot research group (and host of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot) has cried sample bias. Who's correct?

China broadcast the final moments of four foreign drug traffickers yesterday, right before they were put to death by lethal injection for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese fisherman.

Ever wondered how reality shows get stocked with the characters who entertain you each week with their drunken antics, home-buying travails and/or deep sea fishing exploits? Now is your chance to ask a veteran reality show casting producer about the secrets of his craft.

Bristol Palin's reality series Life's A Tripp premieres tonight on Lifetime (early reviews call it "dull" and "depressing," but note that her son is cute), and still, the public's ravenous appetite for observing the lesser members of the Palin family in reality television settings remains unsatisfied.

The city of Hoboken, New Jersey, has denied a request for a proposed MTV Jersey Shore spinoff starring the show's boozy Lucy and Ethel JWOWW and Snooki. Damn, no one in New Jersey wants these two.

Evangelical fertility gods Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar revealed on the Today show this morning that God has placed yet another baby inside Michelle's womb, and so now they are expecting their 20th child. And they and their other 19 kids are "so excited."

What happens if you take a gang of juiced-up, Chihuahua-loving mixed martial arts enthusiasts and start driving them around LA in a stretch Hummer? That's the premise of The Collective, the greatest reality show ever filmed.

I was determined not to say anything about the interminable Real Housewives of New York reunion, but after watching the three-hour cackling death march, I couldn't remain silent. There's something very wrong with the Housewives, and someone needs to fix it.

Just when you think there isn't enough readily available high culture in this country — the opera is too expensive, plus Lepage's staging of Das Rheingold actually makes us miss fusty old Otto Schenk — comes news that we are saved. Specifically, we're getting some Jersey Shore spin-offs.

you ever have a sense of déjà vu when watching reality TV? Like when a show comes back from commercial and you're like, "Wait a minute. Didn't I just see that?" Yeah, you probably did, and it's annoying as all hell. Why must reality producers treat us like imbeciles?

33-year-old Justin Tennison was found dead in a hotel room in Homer, Alaska yesterday. He died of "unknown causes." Tennison was a crew member of one of the fishing ships followed by Discovery Channel's reality show "Deadliest Catch." This is a little less than a year after captain Phil Harris died of a stroke while …

Real Housewife of New York Sonja Morgan filed for bankruptcy in New York yesterday. She listed about $13 million in assets and $19 million in debt. Being secretly poor is an epidemic with these ladies!

Sarah Palin's reality show Sarah Palin's Alaska is a big hit. Over five million tuned in for the debut! Why aren't all politicians making money this way? Let's run through some other possible shows starring political figures.

Paris Hilton and her boyfriend drove into a photographer and took off. Lindsay Lohan's brother finally speaks out. There's a new Real Housewife of New York. Katie Couric might return to Today. Take a crash course in Thursday's gossip.

Today in worm-in-eyeballs news: A man in Bellevue, Iowa learned he had a worm living in his eyeball. So he did what anyone would do when faced with such a situation: He called an Animal Planet reality show.

It's summer. Aside from oil spills, ranting celebrities, and imprisoned starlets, there's not much going on. Divert yourself with this game wherein we ask you to match the reality star to their fake tan. What else you got to do?

Laurence Sunderland, the father of teenage sailor Abby Sunderland, who almost got lost at sea trying to sail around the world by herself, had a reality show in production the whole time. Is it called Balloon Boy: The Sequel? [AP