Nezumi - Thanks for the info/link. Wow, this really is a mess. I'm starting to wonder if they'll end up cancelling RM altogether, or if they'll struggle to keep it going for a while before it just dies off (from a sharp decrease in viewership?).
I haven't had the heart to Google much more about it since stumbling onto that article... I'm still really bitter about the whole thing. As is my husband. We've been watching RM together, every week, for years. Even when it was going through a slump, we still stuck with it for the members alone, because we loved them all so much.
Ehh... :( Oh, well. We've been thinking about looking for another R/V show to follow, and Law of the Jungle looks really fun and interesting. But I've only been able to find it consistently subbed from episode 163 onwards. :(