Posts from: September 2016

Welcome to a new reality blurred feature: a curated monthly selection of long-form writing that looks in-depth at reality TV: people, shows, and the industry.

Logo’s Finding Prince Charming, the gay dating show, could have done something original. Instead, it cast a boring bachelor and badly copied The Bachelor.

A recap of Survivor Millennials vs. Gen X’s second episode, “Love Goggles,” on which Figgy and Tails’ make-out sessions made them a target.

A list of newly renewed and newly announced reality shows, including a competition to find new Mythbusters and a Dance Moms-ish series about kid cooks.

The unlikely story of Ben Taub, a Princeton student whose audition for The Voice eventually led him to Syria and a job writing for The New Yorker.

CBS announced the 12 houseguests who will be on Big Brother: Over the Top, and most of them—including one returnee—are in their 20s, as usual.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars did not simulcast its most anticipated episode, “Revenge of the Queens,” on VH1. How did that affect the show’s ratings?