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American Gladiators :: Alex Castro as "Militia"

American Gladiators starts its second season tonight @ 8pm on NBC ...

Here are some new shots of Alex Castro as "Militia" ...

NBC Upfronts :: 52-Week Strategy

NBC announced its 2008-2009 television schedule on Wednesday ...

Absent from the schedule is Scrubs ... which is moving to ABC ...

The network announced renewals for Lipstick Jungle and Friday Night Lights ... and is adding the freshman dramas Knight Rider, Merlin and Robinson Crusoe ... as well as a version of the Australian hit comedy Kath and Kim ...

NBC's new "52-week strategy" was created to guarantee new programming year-round ...

Here is NBC's complete primetime schedule for the 2008-2009 television season ...

MalePerfection.net :: Alex Castro

On February 17 ... American Gladiators' Alex Castro debuted on MalePerfection.net ...

The following shots are a Papi Chulo's BLOG Exclusive ... You won't be able to see these pictures anywhere else ...

MalePerfection.net :: Alex Castro

Here is an exclusive sneak peek of Alex Castro on MalePerfection.net ...

Alex premieres exclusively on MalePerfection.net on February 17 ...

For more on this series ... Click Here ...

~Papi Chulo~

Alex Castro Conquers Mainstream Media

Papi Chulo's BLOG favorite Alex Castro was interviewed by Pink Mafia Radio just before the whole "scandal" erupted ... The interview was posted five days before his hit show American Gladiators premiered ...

Rod 2.0: Beta uncovered the interview ... where Alex discusses his vegan diet ... his love for America ... the reason he joined the Marines ... and his enthusiasm for his show ...

Alex Castro: "At age 19, I escaped from Cuba with my three best friends and my cousin. We were on a boat, my father's boat, and, there was a very bad storm. My cousin died and so did two of my three best friends. We were rescued by the Marine Corps and that was one of the reasons that I later joined."

Alex also discusses his website ... AlexanderCastro.net ... which will open soon ...

The interview is done by Steven Blank from Pink Mafia Radio ... The video clip is an interview/photo shoot hybrid ... Alex is photographed by Steven Blank, Kurt R. Brown and Gregory Prescott ... modeling Rufskin attire ...

Here are a few shots from the photo shoot ...

For the full interview ... Click Here ...

~Papi Chulo~

"Sarah Connor" Trounces Globes

The Golden Globes ratings dropped 70% from last year ... In 2007 20 million viewers watched the glitzy awards show ... This year ... sans an actual show ... beaten down to a one-hour Access Hollywood-style news conference ... The not-so-glitzy awards show drew a weak 5.8 million viewers ...

The dressed-down awards show was carried live by a variety of networks ... in a 30-minute press conference version on CNN ... E! and TV Guide Channel ...

The two-hour Dateline NBC special that aired prior to the news conference ... that featured interviews with the nominees ... drew in an average of 4.4 million viewers ...

The American Gladiators re-run that aired after the news conference ... received 4.3 million viewers ...

The big winner of the night was the FOX network's series premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ... The premiere averaged 18.3 million viewers ...

~Papi Chulo~

Writers' Strike :: Globes "Show" Turns Into News Conference

The stars won't be out ... the red carpet has been rolled up and stored away ...

The Golden Globes will proceed as announced but not in its usual way ...

There won't be a big flashy production featuring celebrity presenters and acceptance speeches ... With a SAG boycott and WGA protest ... the Hollywood Foreign Press decided earlier this week to cancel its awards dinner and its three-hour telecast ...

Airing instead will be a one-hour news conference ... a Dateline NBC special ... and an encore showing of an American Gladiators episode ... not in that order ...

Although the awards show has been canceled ... Writers Guild of America members will still be picketing the news conference ...

But for now ... NBC is sticking to the above schedule ... From 7 to 9pm it will air Going for Gold ... a Matt Lauer-hosted Dateline NBC special ...

At 9pm NBC will air the Golden Globes news conference ... and at 10pm NBC will air an "encore broadcast" of American Gladiators ...

All of NBC's Golden Globes coverage is being produced by its news division as an attempt to discourage picketers ... which ... unfortunately for the network ... hasn't worked ...

~Papi Chulo~

American Gladiators :: Meet the Cast

NBC premieres their brand-new ... revamped ... American Gladiators program on Sunday @ 9pm ...

Here are the twelve all-new American Gladiators ready to take on 24 fierce competitors ...

American Gladiators :: The Trailer

Here is the trailer for the brand new American Gladiators ...

~Papi Chulo~

Even MORE Alex Castro!

Here is another clip of model ... and new American Gladiator ... Alex Castro ...

~Papi Chulo~

More Alex Castro!

Alex Castro certainly has become a hot search commodity on the web ...

I just uncovered some more clips of Alex from his work on the website MuscleHunks.com ...

Here they are ...

For more information on Alex Castro on American Gladiators ... Click Here ...

~Papi Chulo~

COLT Man Elian Cortez Nabs Mainstream Coverage For COLT Studio

COLT Studio Group has been getting a lot of mainstream attention ever since it was reported online that American Gladiators' Alex Castro once worked for the studio as Elian Cortez ...

Ever since the media announced Alex was a COLT Man at one point ... COLTStudioGroup.com received an unexpected amount of visitors ... the site was temporarily shut down by the massive amount of traffic ...

John Rutherford (COLT Studio Group President): "We had so much traffic from it in such a short amount of time that our servers crashed. We're still receiving a high volume of traffic, but we've made changes to our system to take on the online demand. [Cortez's] photography is not scandalous and very tasteful as all COLT Men photography is. We have not survived 40 years as a gay lifestyle brand for nothing and our men as well as all our products are high-q