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.
Archives for November 2019
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
Wrap Battle, a gift-wrapping competition and Top Elf, a competition between kids, are just two of the new reality shows on their way this Thanksgiving week.
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.
History Channel is getting into the convention game, too, with HistoryCon
HistoryCon will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the network, and will include reality shows from Alone to Pawn Stars, but also actual historians.
Marvel’s Hero Project is Disney+’s celebration of amazing kids. And Marvel.
The Disney Plus reality series profiles truly incredible kids who are doing awesome work, and also does a lot of advertising for Marvel.
Jeff Probst’s insufficient apology and response, and more on Survivor’s failures from Kellee, Jamal, and Josh Wigler
In this story, two Jeff Probst responses, exit interviews with Kellee and Jamal, Josh Wigler’s exit from Survivor, but no recap. I’m done covering this season as entertainment, but will continue reporting on it.
Almost all of ABC’s ‘summer fun & games’ reality shows are returning
Nearly all of ABC summer game shows and reality competitions and their hosts will return in the summer of 2020.
Back in the Game: fallen celebs get Alex Rodriguez as an accountability partner
On his new CNBC show, Alex Rodriguez isn’t as invested Marcus Lemonis is on The Profit, though it turns out Alex and Marcus were friends in high school (!).
Food Network Challenge is being revived
An early Food Network competition is returning, with its original host as a judge, and a Sharknado star as its new host.
All of BravoCon’s big news: a new Housewives, Top Chef’s return, Vanderpump spin-off…
BravoCon wasn’t a Fyre Festival-level disaster, but an opportunity for Bravo to announce news about some of its shows.
Blind Date is back, and so is Nailed It! Holiday: this week in reality TV
Also among this week’s reality TV premieres: a new season of Love It Or List It, and a Netflix doc about the founder of Bikram yoga.
Is Kings of Pain science or stupidity? An interview with a History Channel executive
An interview with a History Channel executive about Kings of Pain, on which two men are bitten and stung to see how much it hurts.