This week in reality TV, besides several marathons, we’ll get new seasons of Nailed It!, The Challenge, The Real Housewives of New York City, and other reality shows.
Archives for March 2020
River Monsters’ Jeremy Wade is back (again) with Mysteries of the Deep
Jeremy Wade, who hosted several shows for Animal Planet and Discovery Channel, is back with a new Science Channel series.
On Making the Cut, Heidi and Tim are back and having a blast
Making the Cut has sheared away the minutiae of the clothing-designing process, and replaced it with twirling, cinematic shots of New York and Paris. A review of the Amazon Prime Video reality competition.
Sandra didn’t quit Survivor. Stop saying she did.
Even Jeff Probst is defending Sandra, saying, “I don’t think it changes her legacy in any way. Sandra is a legend.”
The Survivor queen has one final power move before the last pre-merge vote
Survivor: Winners at War had its final pre-merge episode, with one more person sent to the Edge of Extinction—where the newest resident, Sandra, did something no one else has done.
Top Chef Masters 3 winner Floyd Cardoz has died
Floyd Cardoz, who won Bravo’s Top Chef Masters 3 in 2012 and was featured in an episode of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious season 2, has died.
Making the Band premiered 20 years ago. A look back at the reality TV ‘breakthrough’
Making the Band premiered on March 24, 2000, and besides forming a boy band, O-Town, it brought The Real World’s genre to broadcast TV, and helped change television forever.
Love is Blind and The Circle return in 2021 with two seasons each. Plus: a new Marie Kondo show
Netflix has renewed two of its biggest reality shows, and ordered a brand-new show starring Marie Kondo.
The 8 reality shows and 7 docs premiering this week
Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum return to TV along with chef Vivian Howard, The Kardashians, and The Great Food Truck Race.
Why a two-time cancer survivor and ‘Cajun mermaid’ did Naked and Afraid
Lisa is an ER nurse and boat captain who survived breast cancer twice and is now spending 21 days navigating 25 miles in the Bahamas.
Penguin live feeds, Party Down, and other charming things to watch
A few recommendations for happiness-inducing things to watch, from Judi Dench to excellent shows from Starz, which is offering show free to non-subscribers.
Welcome back, Top Chef! Now please rise to the level of your all-stars
I’m thrilled to have Top Chef back and the premiere was a fun watch, but it also felt surprisingly stale after the reinvention of Project Runway and the pomp of Survivor: Winners at War.
Brutal, brilliant backstabs at Survivor’s two Tribal Councils
“Somebody’s going to get backstabbed and screwed over,” Nick said early on in Survivor: Winners at War’s sixth episode, and twice, his words turned out to be an understatement.
Maggie Griffin, co-star of My Life on the D-List, has died at age 99
Maggie Griffin was a hilarious, wine-drinking central cast member on her daughter Kathy Griffin’s Bravo reality show My Life on the D-List.
Buddy vs. Duff 2 review: it’s a vastly improved show
Buddy vs. Duff 2 is not the odd and flimsy competition that season one was. It’s a lot more playful and fun—though it’s still a little sketchy.