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Reality TV: Michael Flatley is set to host competition -- NBC's getting into the dance business, picking up the reality competish "Superstar Dancers of the World." Project, from "So You Think You Can Dance" producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, will focus on dance pros from eight different countries competing against each other.

Long before the somewhat surprising ending of Survivor Gabon last night, I was struck by who was left and how much I was annoyed by that and by the direction the game has taken. During the reward challenge, I was thinking, where are all the strong people, the people I like and expected to be around at this point in the game? Instead, those playing a massive game of slingshot golf were mostly the weaker, increasingly unlikable people. Even those I liked before the game, like Susie and Ken, have become different, less appealing versions of themselves as they play. And don't get me started on Randy, who's been awesomely fun until his bitchiness suddenly turned into irrational meanness toward Crystal, which reached borderline offensive proportions last night with his Tribal Council rant about Crystal and GC's "posse" ruling Fang. Clearly, the remaining nine players are doing something right, so this is less about them than it is about my reaction to them. I realize that with Survivor an

Former American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe may have left the show, but he's now offering his judgment of the show he's no longer associated with. Regarding the addition of Kara DioGuardi as the show's fourth judge, Lythgoe said, "I don't like fourth judges. I think once you've been told 'You suck,' you don't need to be told another three times," he told the new york Post. Forgetting for a second that the show tried to add a fourth judge during the second season, his criticism makes little sense. It's not okay to be told "you suck" four times, but three times is perfectly fine? And seriously, this is the man who produced a show that delights in torturing its contestants during elimination episodes for our alleged entertainment. As if there wasn't enough hypocrisy there, he adds, "We've had lots of fourth judges, as guests, which was OK for me because they would be in one show and then you get rid of them the next." So what makes that any different? It's still a fourth "you

For the second time this season, an episode of Survivor Gabon has been dedicated to the memory of someone who has died. Last night's episode was in memory of Marge Boesch, the wife of first-season contestant Survivor Rudy Boesch, the cranky old man who aligned himself with and befriended Richard Hatch. His wife, Marjorie E. Boesch, died Nov. 1 at the age of 76, and a memorial service was held Monday. An obituary in The Virginian-Pilot mentions her work (She "was a retired unit secretary with Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital" and "also a volunteer for the Red Cross and served as secretary and treasurer for the UDT-SEAL Association"), but it doesn't mention the cause of death. Elsewhere, a fan wrote in July that Marge was sick, but again didn't mention what was wrong. There's a condolences guest book on the funeral home's web site. Marge was married to Rudy for 53 years, and I found her to be a remarkably kind and engaging person when I met her in 2007, in Birmingham, Alabama, a