MTV has put out a casting call for their newest shockingly ill-conceived reality show, Model Makers, which will feature young girls being judged on how well they slim down in order to prove their love of the catwalk. So disturbing, but not anything new for reality television, which as of late actually seemed to be pulling back from the precarious brink of MILF Island.

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It's been a year for DMX. He recently was arrested for the sixth time since May, and he is clearly addicted to one or more illegal substances. He needs help, and he and the people around him have put their heads together and come up with a brilliant solution to his legal and addiction problems. The celebrity salve of the 21st century: reality television! That's right, hip hop's current trainwreck will be starring in a reality show — his second — called DMX: This Life of Mine.

The show will follow DMX’s attempt to resolve a string of legal problems, which include six arrests since May of 2008, the most recent one occurring last week in Miami, Florida.

This Life of Mine will also feature DMX attempting to rehabilitate to himself, as he simultaneously attempts to avoid being sent to prison for pending charges of possessing drug paraphernalia, possessing marijuana, animal cruelty charges and theft, for allegedly giving a fake name when he was treated at a Scottsdale hospital earlier this year.

Now, if Amy Winehouse would just follow in DMX's footsteps and let television cameras to trail her all day, we'd be on the road to a drug- and crime-free music industry. [AHH]

Last night was the season finale of So You Think You Can Dance, a show that is a gift from the reality show gods if there ever was one. Can you tell I like it? I also like who won, and I even like the finalists that could have won but didn't. I'm just full of like today, guys. After the jump, check out the first dance the winner performed in the competition..

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It turns out that Jennifer Lopez only pretended to learn a valuable lesson about letting the media into her life after her trainwreck of a relationship with Ben Affleck. Why else would she agree to star in a reality show with Marc Anthony about raising her twins?

The show "deliver a slice of [Lopez's] life that audiences have never seen before, as she takes on her career and launches a new fragrance while trying to juggle her new responsibilities as a first-time mom," according to TLC. They had to throw that fragrance mention in there, didn't they? At this point, I would like to be able to indignantly announce that I will not be watching, but we all know that's not true. [NYDN]

AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES NBC just ordered several episodes of a Lisa Kudrow-hosted reality series called Who Do You Think You Are? that traces the genealogy of celebrities. They say it's based on a wildly popular show in the UK, but it sounds a lot like PBS and Henry Louis Gates' (fascinating, I think) series, African American Lives. On the UK series, as well as AAL, participants are often "brought to tears" when they learn of about their ancestors hardships and triumphs. No matter what, the producers are going to need some somber mood music on reserve if they ever invite any Black American celebs to participate. Slavery's pretty much a universal downer. [HR]

I can think of little that's more disgusting than the thought of an inebriated Bobby Brown farting in my face, but I guess that's the sort of risk has-been celebs are willing to take in order to reclaim their fame. On Gone Country, Brown's fellow castmates Carnie Wilson and Dee Snider learned the extent of Bobby Brown's nastiness (and substance abuse issues) the hard way.

As Wilson attempted to mother Brown on the cast tour bus, the boozy singer farted in her face as she attempted to take off his Adidas trainers, according to RollingStone.com.

Wilson says, "His butt was about like one and a half feet from my mouth, and it was like a snappy wet river!"

Brown's wild night ended with a spot of sleepwalking back at Rich's ranch - he mistook Snider's bed for the bathroom and prepared to urinate all over the sleeping rock star, who woke up just in time and helped take his roommate to the toilet.

I'm sure the whole thing made Mini-Me feel a lot better about peeing over the side of his wheelchair on Surreal Life. [SP]

Guess which network has a policy banning dark-skinned blacks…

Which reality-show clogged network had to change its casting procedures after a racist internal policy was leaked? Producers had an informal ban on considering cast members who were "too black." They claimed it was because darker skin tones were hard to pick up on camera.

Reality-show clogged network? Since the writers strike, isn't that all of them?

Way back in October, CMT let us all in on a little secret — that a "celebreality" competition show called Gone Country would be airing in the new year. Sisqo and Bobby Brown (and Marcia Brady!) were promised. Sisqo and Bobby Brown we got. It premiered on Friday, and I 'm pissed I forgot to set my DVR.

After the jump, check out Bobby Brown and Maureen McCormick becoming fast friends over a cigarette.

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Really? Already? Tyra, the CW, and all of us who are unfortunately compelled to watch America's Next Top Model are already gearing up for Cycle 10 of the best/worst competition show on television.

I started watching Bravo's Tyson Beckford and Nikki Taylor-hosted Make Me A Supermodel recently, and it's crazy how the caliber of contestants on that brand new show is already so much higher than ANTM's mediocre wannabes. It looks like there could be some winners in this cycle's crop, though. Check 'em out after the jump.

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Hell, if Coolio and Luke Campbell are good enough for family reality shows, then Snoop certainly is. But can we get some table manners, please?

Dog the Bounty Hunter, who, if such a contest existed, would surely be voted "White Television Personality Most Likely To Use The Word 'Nigger,'" is, predictably, rather fond of the word "nigger."

The National Enquirer obtained some audio (listen here) of Dog (can I call you Dog, Mr. Bounty Hunter?) expressing concern that his son's "nigger" girlfriend would tell a tabloid that he says "nigger" all the time. Look how that worked out.

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