Reality shows

The new show "Sarah Palin's Alaska" attracted a record number of viewers for its debut on the TLC network Sunday night. According to Nielsen figures, 4.96 million viewers watched the show, double the average viewership for the channel's Sunday prime time shows.

This story was updated on June 8, 2010. Reality stars tend to live larger than life when it comes to their houses, their indulgences and their dramas. As it turns out, some of their debts are larger than life, too. The New York Post recently reported that Teresa Giudice, better known to fans of...

Move over, Richard Hatch. Adam Jasinski is the latest reality TV winner to allegedly use his jackpot winnings in ways that are outside the law. Last year, he won $500,000 on the CBS show Big Brother. How would you use that kind of windfall? Well, Big Brother (the government one this time, not the...