MTV is giving out Real World and Road Rules "insider alerts" on your mobile

MTV is starting a program where they send "insider alerts" to your mobile phone. Alerts on The Real World and Road Rules are bunched together, so you can supposedly get news on both shows and the Challenges via your mobile phone.

Although the site fails to offer any additional details and doesn't say exactly what "insider alerts" are, probably expect text messages telling you when the next show is on, or when a new piece of content is uploaded to the MTV website.

If you want to check it out, sign up here.

The Blog is redesigned with a new look, new features and more stuff

Over the weekend, we implemented some changes in the general design of the Blog. In addition to a general overhaul to give a sleeker new look, we've added some handy features that will generally help you get your news faster and hopefully keep you coming back to visit the site.

We've added titles to each bit of information so it'll be easier to identify the news pieces. News pieces will now be seperated by different posts, rather than being lummped together in one post.

Also, we've taken advantage of del.icio.us, which is a bookmarking site in order to organize the posts by seasons. Blogger has a program currently in beta which is capable of doing the same thing. Once Blogger opens Beta to its entire user base, we will eventually begin to switch over to that, elminating the third party and bring you labels based both by season and castmember.

Finally, we've signed up with Feedburner for those of you who like to read your news with a subscription service. Now you can link up to the site and get your news fairly easily, although some of you have already been doing so without the aid of Feedburner.

If you have any problems, questions or comments about the redesign, email newrwroad@hotmail.com or use the contact form found in the menu. Thanks to everyone who visits on a daily basis and makes the Blog what it is today.

Extended Duel trailer begins to run on MTV shedding light on fights, drama and hook-ups

MTV is airing the full trailer on The Duel. Every season MTV releases a one to two minute clip on the Challenge. So far, small Duel promos have been airing, showing small snippets, but nothing substantial. This trailer shows fights, hook-ups, short interviews and a synposis of the season. Here's a brief review of highlights:

Beth (Los Angeles) in an interview responding to why she's doing another Challenge.

Tina (South Pacific) in an interview asking what is The Duel anyway?

CT (Paris) in an interview saying the check should be written to him right now.

Flash to TJ Lavin on the first night telling the castmembers that the team concept has been canned. There are only two winners: one male and one female.

Then there's all these flashes of upcoming duels.

Nehemiah (Austin) saying how they're competing for $500,000.

It shows Wes (Austin) and CT (Paris) in a screaming match during their duel.

Aneesa (Chicago) announces that she is not trusting anybody.

Brad (San Diego) is being confronted in a group by several other people. He then gets up and says that the conversation is fuc&*4 up.

Wes proclaiming that it is stupid for anyone to go against him in a duel. Going against him would be going against Satan.

Aneesa is fighting with Robin (San Diego) in the kitchen and Aneesa saying that Robin is a disgrace to women.

Then they show the now-infamous Beth/Tina altercation and the first few seconds after Tina throws the first punch.

So far, Overdrive hasn't uploaded the video. There were many flashes of both duels and hook-ups that we didn't mention because we didn't catch them. New promos are also being run that show extended scenes, such as the argument between Beth and Tina that leads up to the fight. We'll be providing more information as we gather it.

Denver season slated to premiere on October 12, not October 2

TVGuide is displaying the premiere date for The Duel to be on October 3. This comes as a change and makes sense, as there won't be a season of The Real World airing until December. Right now, Two-A-Days is airing on Tuesdays, but that series is wrapping up. Parental Control airs on Mondays. The first episode airing on the 3rd, will be a casting special according to TVGuide.

Update: Promos are now being run on MTV saying that the premiere date of The Duel will be on Thursday, October 12. No word yet on whether or not the October 3rd special date is still valid.

Confessional takes on "Aspen forest theme" in Denver; The Denver house is profiting 600K from sale

OK, Part III of the Denver description. The confessional room, which has always been somewhat of a centerpiece in the house, will continue the Colorado theme. The room will be taking on an "Aspen forest theme".

And Get Real Denver is reporting that the house is getting ready to be sold, although it's not officially on the market yet. BMP actually bought this property for $2.7 million dollars. What's the estimated price on the property now? $3.3 million dollars.

"Evergreen Room" joins "Mountain Peak" in the themes of the Denver house

Another update on a room of the Denver house: One of the other bedrooms, one of the two-person bedrooms, is called the "Evergreen Room", matching the Colorado theme and keeping in theme with the "Mountain Peak" room. One more slight detail will be revealed tomorrow and how they built the confessional room this time around.

Denver house has three bedrooms; First bedroom is revealed to be "Mountain Peak"

Some more updates on the Denver house: There are three bedrooms in total. One with three beds and the other two with two beds apiece. Each bedroom has a "Colorado theme" and the larger bedroom is called "Mountain Peak". No word yet on who takes the larger bedroom, but there are four guys and three girls, so the girls may just end up taking that bedroom.

AOL updates us on the whereabouts of SF's Puck and Hawaii's Colin

AOL came out with a feature article updating on the whereabouts of Reality TV stars of the past. In the gaggle of stars they include, both Puck (San Francisco) and Colin (Hawaii) are mentioned. Again, Puck welcomed his second child recently with his wife Betty and Colin is busy with the college lecture circuit and his book. Check out the article here.

Denver to carry Colorado theme similar to Texas theme of Austin

The new Denver house is apparently heavily themed. Similar to the Austin house, with its huge Texas theme, the Denver house will pay homage to its home state of Colorado.

The common areas include a yellow Jeep with a spider design near the pool table, with the Jeep acting as a sitting area. Also, the Colorado flag is represented in the upstairs floor behind the computer area, emblazoned across the wall. There's also a ski lift that has been re-designed to serve as another sitting area. There are three bedrooms with its own distinctive Colorado theme and the confessional also has its special Colorado theme.

We'll be providing more details about the house in the coming days as more becomes available.

MTV opens up the Duel website... finally

Ladies and gentlemen... the website for The Duel is now up.