Bethenny Frankel started her reality TV career on on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, produced by Mark Burnett. Now she’ll produce shows for the studio he runs, MGM Television.
A podcast that goes behind the scenes of an ABC drama’s creation, and Hollywood itself
An interview with The Fix’s showrunners, Liz Craft and Sarah Fain, from the reality shows they watch and love to what it’s like being a writing team in Hollywood.
Netflix’s next choose-your-own-adventure: Bear Grylls’ pseudo-reality show You vs. Wild
You’ll be able to choose what Bear Grylls does next on Netflix’s interactive, pre-taped show.
This week’s reality TV premieres, March 18 to 24
Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos are the subject of a new documentary. Other premieres include Spring Baking Championship and a new Fox game show.
How While You Were Out differs on TLC and HGTV, and improves on Trading Spaces
A review of While You Were Out, which is back after 16 years, with pairs of designers from Trading Spaces and HGTV surprising someone with a redesigned space.
Was that Top Chef Kentucky finale twist really necessary?
A solid series of episodes in Macau ended an enjoyable season with a deserving winner, but there was a pointless final elimination before the finale.
Back on Bravo, Project Runway relaxes and focuses more on its characters
A review of Project Runway 17’s first episode, the show’s return to its birthplace, Bravo.
Survivor switches tribes, and the ‘voluntary torture’ continues
The tribe swap was an excellent metaphor for this season: nothing happened.
Press Your Luck and Card Sharks are being resurrected by ABC
Two more classic game shows are coming to ABC, and both are now casting.
How Dating Around was filmed, according to Lex and two producers
Behind the scenes of Dating Around, the Netflix series that follows one person going on five blind dates.
The Bachelor lost something far more interesting than Colton’s virginity
Imagine if ABC marketed this season around Colton’s compassion, honesty, and vulnerability instead of his virginity?
Was The Bachelor finale predicted by this 21-year-old footage?
You can’t leave, Colton. You belong here, with me. Talk to me.
This week: reboots of While You Were Out and Project Runway, plus Queer Eye, Trading Spaces, and more reality TV
Reality shows that promise to transform people’s rooms, houses, and lives are among the 12+ premieres this week.
Survivor is ignoring one of its two black cast members, who says it’s ‘disheartening’
Julia Carter has been essentially ignored so far on Survivor: Edge of Extinction, and she called out Jeff Probst and CBS for that.
Survivor threatens betrayals and chicken beheadings, but delivers neither
Jeff Probst said that this “a very complex, layered game only eight days in,” but saying a thing does not make it true.