Star Trek: Discovery’s makeup and creature effects, including the new Klingon design, was done by Face Off judges Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page.
This week: Survivor and Shark Tank are back; The Voice returns with an American Idol
Four big network reality competitions return this week: Survivor, Shark Tank, The Voice, and Hell’s Kitchen, but there’s more reality TV than those shows.
David Lyle, who helped make reality TV ‘the cornerstone of modern television,’ has died
David Lyle, a longtime television executive who worked primarily in reality TV, from American Idol to the Fox Reality Channel, died Thursday from cancer.
Gordon Ramsay will spend even less time renovating restaurants on 24 Hours to Hell & Back
Gordon Ramsay will attempt to turn around failing restaurants, but on 24 Hours to Hell & Back, he’ll have just 24 hours to do that.
Why the Queen of Versailles is on Flipping Out with Jeff Lewis
An interview with Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel, about her appearance on Bravo’s Flipping Out with Jeff Lewis, and more.
Big Brother viewers give Cody $25,000 despite his bigotry
Paul lost Big Brother, again, and Big Brother sanitized one of its houseguest’s comments, again.
Who to blame for this abysmal season of Big Brother
Big Brother 19 has been a terrible season. So who do we blame? Returning houseguest Paul Abrahamian? Producers Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan? Or CBS?
There will be a Trading Spaces spin-off
Trading Spaces isn’t just returning with its six original designers and long-time host: it’s putting its three new designers and two new carpenters to the test with a spin-off series called Training Spaces. TLC says that in the spin-off, which will be online and on TLC GO, “alum designers and carpenters will put the ‘newbies’ to… continue reading
After years of wandering, SYTYCD is back to being broadcast TV’s best talent competition
Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance is back to being an exceptional competition: the show with the greatest density of talent on any of the big four networks.
DWTS, AYTO, and The Little Couple return, plus more reality TV this week
Your guide to reality shows, new reality TV to check out, and documentaries airing this week, Sept. 18 to 24, 2017.
The Voice wins the Emmy for competition reality show. Again.
NBC’s The Voice won its third consecutive Emmy for outstanding reality competition program, because the Television Academy doesn’t care about reality TV. At least, that’s my cynical takeaway. The award was presented by Lea Michele and Kumail Nanjiani and accepted by executive producer Audrey Morrissey, who said she accepted “on behalf of our Voice family.”… continue reading
The Vietnam War: 18 hours of exceptional television that try to ‘say what happened’
Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War attempts to tell the story of it through “the experiences of ordinary people who lived through it from all sides.”
5 deep dives into reality TV shows and personalities, plus 19 news stories
Big Brother, Donald Trump, Kathy Griffin, the UK’s show Eden, and The Bachelor franchise are the subjects of this group of reality TV longreads.
Trading Spaces’ six original designers are returning
The six original, central Trading Spaces designers are returning for the reboot of the TLC series.
Colin Cloud’s “Ellen. Rome. Cheese” trick revealed, then edited out on America’s Got Talent
America’s Got Talent seemed to give away how Colin Cloud predicted the selection of a tweet that said Ellen, Rome, and cheese.