A&E’s June 5 and 6, 2020, episodes of Live PD, including the show’s special 300th episode, have been pulled off the schedule, as has Paramount Network’s premiere of Cops season 33.
Samantha Brown calls out the ‘void of diversity’ in travel, food, and home reality TV hosts
Former Travel Channel host and current PBS host Samantha Brown says “the most important” thing TV networks can do now is “to embrace that diversity in their own programing.”
Dance Moms’ Abby Lee Miller was racist, a producer and cast members say
“Today I am tired of being silent because of a contract,” a season 8 mother wrote, while a Dance Moms producer posted that “Seeing a 7 year old little black girl be put in a box in a corner and treated so violently because of the color of her skin was heartbreaking.”
From Cops to Big Brother to Live PD, reality TV is a big part of the problem
Reality TV shows, from Cops—which is still on the air, and about to premiere its 33rd season—to Live PD, need to change to stop contributing to systemic racism. Will they?
Summer 2020 reality TV schedule and guide
This summer reality show 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.
Survivor Borneo: revisiting Survivor’s first season, 20 years later
Survivor: Borneo premiered 20 years ago. I’m going to spend the summer rewatching and doing what I didn’t do back in 2000: writing recaps analyzing the reality show that changed everything.
Why Hannah Brown’s racism matters even more than Donald Trump’s
From Amy Cooper calling police in Central Park on a black man to a Minneapolis police officer killing a black man who was crying for help, this week has given us even more evidence of explicit racism. But we also need to focus on implicit, casual racism perpetuated by reality TV and its stars.
Holey Moley questions, answered: Where is Steph Curry? Why did some holes change? and so much more
Holey Moley II: The Sequel made several changes from season one, and I talked to one of its executive producers about those changes, including why Stephen Curry is now animated instead of on the course.
Why quarantᎥning Big Brother, The Circle, or Survivor casts isn’t an easy solution
Why aren’t networks and producers just taking the casts of our favorite shows and keeping them in hotel rooms for two weeks? Because that would ignore a key part of reality TV.
AGT, Vanderpump’s reunion, and 20+ other reality shows premiering this week
America’s Got Talent, Match Game, World of Dance, Titan Games, and several other big summer shows return this week, along with premieres on cable and streaming.
Holey Moley 2: The Sequel is better than the original
Holey Moley’s first season was great fun. Season two is even better, which is to say it’s far more insane and more like Wipeout—yet also more of a legitimate competition.
Labor of Love: Marcus Lehman on how Survivor prepared him for dating reality TV
Survivor Gabon cast member Marcus Lehman is one of the men former Bachelor contestant Kirsty Katzmann is choosing from on Fox’s new dating reality show Labor of Love. I interviewed him about his experience.
Celebrity Escape Room is a lot of fun, even when the celebs are a little dumb
Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Adam Scott, and Ben Stiller are certainly not the world’s best escape room team, but with Jack Black as their game master, they are quite entertaining.
Ultimate Tag, Fox’s new competition, has some surprises in its arena
Fox’s Ultimate Tag, hosted by JJ, TJ, and Derek Watt, is significantly better than similar reality shows that came before it. But it’s also not the next American Ninja Warrior or American Gladiators.
Will BB22 and Love Island be on this summer? Here’s what CBS says
For Big Brother 22 and Love Island 2, CBS says “we anticipate having those shows on this summer.” But there’s a question about when that is.