The Discovery Channel has acknowledged that the first episode of Deadliest Catch‘s fourth season, which was the highest-rated debut in the network’s history (3.5 million viewers watched), used footage from two different events and pretended they were from the same event, but denies that anything was re-eneacted despite a production outline that says otherwise. The …
Tonight, two shows conclude their seasons: NBC’s The Biggest Loser 5 and Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City. But it’s also a busy night for new reality show debuts, as two familiar series return and two new ones kick off. At 9 p.m. ET, Deadliest Catch returns for its fourth season on the …
The Aleutian Ballad, the ship knocked over by a wave during the second season of Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, now offers tourists a chance to experience crab fishing aboard that very same vessel. The four-hour, $189 tours on the boat run from “July 25th through September 29th,” according to the tour’s web site, and are also …
While broadcast and some cable networks regurgitate clones of clones of reality shows that are increasingly boring, many cable networks–especially those that have turned their schedules almost entirely over to reality-based programs–are offering innovative reality shows. They’re often shot as documentaries but edited dramatically, and thus generally don’t have casts of fame-seeking whores, but instead …