Naked and Afraid: Alone will strand returning/veteran Naked and Afraid participants all by themselves for 21 days. Of course, there will still be camera crews and producers.
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Whale Wars: Watson’s Last Stand is not new. It’s from 2012.
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The best reality TV of 2019
Andy Dehnart’s selection of outstanding reality TV and documentary reality shows from 2019.
Gabrielle Union was fired from America’s Got Talent. What we’ve learned since then about AGT’s “toxic culture”
Reports have detailed a “toxic culture” at AGT that Gabrielle Union tried to address but was labeled as “difficult.”
Spy Games: the cast, premiere date, and trailer for the new Bravo competition
Bravo has announced details about Spy Games, its reality competition whose producers include Survivor’s former showrunner and a former ABC exec who developed The Mole.
Man vs. Bear: a review, plus interviews with the producers of this insane competition
A new competition has people facing off against bears in five challenges. I talked to producers about how exactly it came together.
Why Drag Race UK proved to be a ‘much betta’ version
The first season of BBC Three’s Drag Race UK, which aired on Logo, was a brilliant season and a bloody good time.
Project Runway, Making It, Holiday Wars, and all the rest of this week’s reality TV debuts
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Winter 2020 reality TV schedule and guide
This winter reality show 2019 and 2020 schedule is a frequently updated list of premieres for broadcast, cable, and streaming reality TV shows, documentary series, game shows, and other prime-time nonfiction TV.
Three wonderful podcasts: Awesome Etiquette, Every Little Thing, and Office Ladies
Three recommendations for wonderful podcasts to listen to—perhaps this Thanksgiving weekend, while you travel or when you need to listen to something other than your family and friends.
Wrap Battle is an imperfect but welcome Christmas gift
The gift wrapping competition Wrap Battle is a lot of holiday fun despite some baffling judging and discordant choices.
College Behind Bars: a ‘more realistic’ look at prison life, and actual rehabilitation
An interview with College Behind Bars director Lynn Novick and producer Sarah Botstein about their four-part series, which goes into prisons to follow students in the Bard Prison Initiative.
The 7 holiday reality competitions premiering this week
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Survivor players didn’t know what the producers’ meeting was about
Survivor: Island of the Idols players Aaron and Missy both say they had no idea what the production meeting was about, even though it was a result of Kellee’s confessional about Dan.
Life After Lockup season 2’s cast and premiere date
Love After Lockup: Life After Lockup season 2’s seven couples and premiere date have been announced by WE tv.