The transgendered community has two very visible representatives on current reality shows.

Survivor Gabon has a fantastic character and perhaps a very strong player in Susie Smith, who won me over instantly. She was the first cast member to use my name and engage me in her answers, rather than sounding like she was saying the same things to yet another stranger; a strategy, perhaps, but it didn't seem at all artificial. (And I certainly can't blame many of the others for giving rote answers considering how many interviews they'd been through by the time they talked with me, sitting in a plastic chair overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.) Susie has a high school age son, and said family is "everything," she said. "This is the most selfish thing I've ever done. I have never been away from my family for seven weeks." She's also committed to trying things for herself, and convincing the world that everyone else needs to literally just try things. "I cannot believe people do not know what the word 'try' means--T R Y," she said. Susie's likability--and warmth and clear devotion to he

Tonight, Fox's Kitchen Nightmares returns at 9 p.m. ET with a two-hour episode titled "Gordon Returns," on which Fox says "Gordon Ramsay revisits the kitchens of six restaurants that were once on the verge of disaster." Next Thursday, the show will return to hour-long new episodes focusing on a single restaurant's makeover each week. While checking in on the restaurants Ramsay redesigned and owners Ramsay yelled at could be interesting, for anyone who watched last season, this episode is a waste of time, best watched recorded and with your finger on the fast-forward button. The Fox version has always been a dumbed-down version of the BBC version, focusing more on conflict than anything else, and largely ignoring the actual transformation process. And that's obvious here. The episode literally spends more time on clips of last season's episodes than it does with the follow-ups; one restaurant, for example, gets nearly nine minutes of recap and just five minutes of follow-up with Gordo

4-year-old singer woos judges, but will voters keep her in the game?

America's Next Top Model 11 debuted last night, and despite Tyra's imitation of a moose and the faux Star Trek theme, Tyra and company were watched by 3.5 million viewers, an all-time low. The show was "down 11% from last February's cycle, and down 32% from last September in the adult demo" and overall the "lowest-rated premiere since the show debuted in 2003 on UPN," according to The Hollywood Reporter. But you'd never know that reading The CW's press release. It says that despite "tough competition" the series "ranked first on Wednesday with the network's target young female audience." But it then goes on to note how it tied in most of those demos: women 18 to 34 and 12 to 34; it only won "female teens." And The CW is also excited that it "gained momentum through its premiere night," adding 11 percent more viewers in the second hour, which was the first real episode.'Top Model' premiere drops; 'Bones' steady [Hollywood Reporter] America's Next Top Model Stays Fierce in the Face of

When Jon Dalton was discovered by a "Survivor" casting agent at an L.A. gas station several years ago, the chance to win a million dollars wasn't the prize he most desired.

Once again, the major broadcast network are sticking to a fairly predictable pattern with their fall reality TV offerings, mostly airing new seasons of their popular series.