How Name That Tune was produced and filmed (in Australia!)

ABC’s summertime mini golf competition Holey Moley will be back for at least two more seasons, while its producers are now adapting the classic 1980s video game Frogger into a reality competition.

In my interview with new-ish Magical Elves CEOs Jo Sharon and Casey Kriley, they talked about their vision for the company, developing shows like Netflix’s Nailed It and Best Leftovers Ever, and what TV networks want production companies to pitch to them.

This week’s dozen reality TV premieres include Tim Allen and Richard Karn’s new competition Assembly Required and the return of HGTV Design Star—though it won’t be on HGTV.

Survivor: The Australian Outback episode 4 may be best known for Michael Skupin’s pig slaughter, which is quite graphic, but it also has a Tribal Council first, and a surprising amount of strategy talk at camp.

What reality TV stars have won two or more different reality TV competitions? And will The Amazing Race creators’ new competition Race fo the Center of the Earth air in Canada?

A story from Real World San Francisco—involving Cory, Mohammed, Pedro, Sean, Pam, and Judd—is at the center of this excerpt from Amanda Ann Klein’s new book Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming.

CuriosityStream promises “an extensive and unrivaled library of films and series that dives deep into nature, history, science, travel and every category of the factual genre.” But there are no shows about LGBTQIA+ people or issues. I asked its executives about that.