The 26 women who stand next to briefcases on Deal or No Deal include a two-time Survivor player and a contestant from America’s Next Top Model.
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CBS forces Les Moonves to resign after more reports of sexual harassment, assault, and retaliation
Moonves continued to play an active role in CBS’ reality TV shows, including approving final casts of shows such as Big Brother and Survivor; he also previously defended Big Brother’s bigotry and bad behavior.
A family was harassed after their truck broke down. The Diesel Brothers offered help.
The Diesel Brothers fixed, overhauled, and rebuilt Jose Caballero’s truck after he and his family were harassed in a video that went viral.
Recommended: Million Pound Menu, which combines Shark Tank with Top Chef’s restaurant wars
A review of BBC Two’s Million Pound Menu, which is now on Netflix.
Miz & Mrs gets more episodes. Is it reality TV or scripted comedy?
Mike “The Miz” Mizanin and Maryse will be back for 14 more episodes. Mike says to think of the show like The Office or Modern Family.
Southern Charm’s Thomas Ravenel quits; two women accused him of sexual assault
Thomas Ravenel has been accused of sexually assaulting two different women. Now he says he’s quitting the show.
Love Island is coming to CBS. Will it work?
CBS is bringing Love Island, the hit British series that follows single people cavorting and hooking up in-between competing in challenges, to the United States.
Why Food Network—and Discovery networks—choose entertainment over information
I explored the difference between Food Network and Netflix food reality TV—and got some candid insight into how Food Network and Discovery networks view their reality TV programs.
Million Dollar Mile: CBS’ new obstacle course competition, from Big Brother’s producers
Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan are producing the new CBS competition series with LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s company.
Review: ABC’s Castaways, a survival series with shades of Survivor, Lost, and Alone
ABC’s new survival series is familiar and promising, and flashes between the cast’s attempt to survive and their home lives, but it also drags.
New Fox reality TV: Celebrities singing in masks, and an ‘obstacle course for the mind’
Fox just announced two new reality competitions: The Masked Singer, on which celebrity singers compete but in disguise, and Mental Samurai, a game show with physical elements that’s hosted by Rob Lowe.
Recommended: Tabloid Wars, a Bravo reality show filmed at the paper that just fired half its staff
Tabloid Wars aired just six episodes on Bravo back in 2006, and went behind the scenes of The New York Daily News’ daily reporting. It’s still great reality TV.
How Pink Collar Crimes is trying to reinvent the true crime series
The new CBS true-crime series doesn’t have murder, but it does have surprising crimes told in a new way. An interview with its producers about how it was made, plus a review of the first episode.
Jeff Goldblum and Gordon Ramsay will each have their own NatGeo reality shows
National Geographic Channel will air The Curiosity of Jeff Goldblum and Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, and Bear Grylls will host NatGeo’s new series Hostile Planet.
Shark Week and Shark Fest 2018: their full schedules
Discovery’s Shark Week 2018 will revisit its 2013 Megalodon lie, and also have Naked and Afraid- and Shark Tank-themed specials. First up, though, is Shark Fest on NatGeo WILD.