Exclusive: Gold Rush season 10 will include the return of The Dirt, and Christo Doyle will return to host. An interview with him about The Dirt and Gold Rush.
Interviews with reality TV show producers, cast members, and television executives about how shows are produced, what happened on certain episodes or seasons, and what's fake and what's real.
How Queer Eye’s editors work together to ‘help the audience connect with the hero’
Three of Queer Eye’s Emmy-winning (and once again Emmy-nominated) editors discuss their process of taking raw footage of the Fab Five and turning it into episodes for Netflix.
Lt. Joe Kenda on Homicide Hunter’s end, how the show is produced, and what’s next
An interview with Joe Kenda about his long-running Investigation Discovery show, how it’s helped him, and how Homicide Hunter even saved lives.
Black Love creators Codie and Tommy Oliver on marriage, representation, and working together
Codie and Tommy Oliver talk about how they created and produce OWN’s hit series Black Love—and what they’ve learned about relationships.
How Chasing the Cure will try to solve medical mysteries, live
“They’re not celebrities. They’re not reality stars at all. We’re meeting people where they are.” An interview with the showrunner of TNT’s Chasing the Cure, Kim Bondy.
Undercover Billionaire is ‘Naked and Afraid in the business world’: a review and interviews with its producers
Discovery Channel’s new show sends billionaire Glenn Stearns to Erie, Penn., with $100 to see if he can build a $1 million business in three months. But it also tries to argue that you, too, can do the same.
Why Serengeti’s director tried to create the opposite of ‘big spectacle’ nature TV
The creator of American Idol and Pop Idol was inspired to create Serengeti, and its director has spent a lot of time finding ways to creatively film animals.
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted’s producer, chefs, and network respond to criticism of the show
I interviewed chefs who appeared on Uncharted (“I needed a lot of convincing before I said yes”) and its showrunner (“When viewers tune in to see Gordon Ramsay, they want to see something through Gordon Ramsay’s point of view”).
Why Cajun Navy’s stars and producers hope the doc—about people who save lives—will affect our lives
An interview with the producers and subjects of the new Discovery Channel documentary, which follows the volunteers known as the Cajun Navy.
Robert Irvine on Restaurant: Impossible Revisited, and what’s changed on his show
“There are other restaurant shows out there; they come up with a big truck, spend five days or whatever, they’re never there, they don’t care about the people, it’s TV. To me, it’s not TV, it’s somebody’s life.”
How local news footage of the JFK assassination led to the idea for a new kind of doc
NatGeo’s Apollo: Missions to the Moon is the latest documentary from Tom Jennings that doesn’t tell viewers about historical events, it immerses them in the story.
Secrets of Scare Tactics, the horror/prank show that’s now on Netflix, uncensored
The creator of the hidden camera horror/prank reality show discusses whether the show will return, the surprising way Scare Tactics is cast, how a lawsuit affected the production, and much more.
RuPaul’s Drag Race and Guy’s Grocery Games: how their sets were designed
Reality TV production designer Scott Storey shares behind-the-scenes details about his designs of two of cable TV’s most well-known reality competitions.
How Mexican Dynasties became Bravo’s first show with an all-Latinx cast, and why it matters
“I can’t tell you the last time I saw rich Mexicans being as silly and over the top as The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills or the Shahs of Sunset. I don’t see that, and I grew up as an American loving reality TV.”
Lisa Whelchel on how Survivor changed her life, and on her new reality show
“Being able to accept all of myself, and not just part of myself, was a real transformational gift that Survivor gave me.”