You’ll be able to choose what Bear Grylls does next on Netflix’s interactive, pre-taped show.
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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.
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.
How Final Table’s culinary cultural diversity crumbled over time
In this edition of The Confessional, Aiyanna Maciel writes about her appreciation for Netflix’s The Final Table—and her disappointment with its outcome.
FX is returning to reality TV as ‘a sustained and enduring part’ of its programming
The cable network home of scripted shows such as The Americans, American Horror Story, Atlanta, Fargo, Pose, Better Things, and Legion is developing several unscripted and documentary TV shows.
Netflix’s Dating Around has romance, clever editing, and more than just straight white guys
One person has five first dates on Dating Around, which gives us multiple episodes with queer people of color dating other queer people of color. That shouldn’t be remarkable, but it is.
Four Drag Race queens, Josh Gates & mummy, Atlanta child murders, and the Serengeti: four new specials
Discovery’s family of networks—including TLC, ID, and Discovery—announced four upcoming reality TV specials today.
Details about Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn’s new Amazon show, from its casting application
Not much is known yet about the Untitled Fashion Series that the two former Project Runway stars are creating, but there are some interesting details in the application.
Dynasties is slower, but it’s far more moving than previous Planet Earths
BBC America’s latest Planet Earth series takes a different approach, and one that’s quite effective.
How Antiques Roadshow works behind the scenes, and what’s changing
Antiques Roadshow executive producer Marsha Bemko on how much appraisers are paid, how the show is filmed, and why it made a major change this season.
Review: Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, a clutter-free Netflix reality show
Marie Kondo brings her organizational strategies to people’s homes, and to reality TV.
Homestead Rescue is returning for season 4
The show starring Marty Raney has been off the air for more than a year, but will return in January 2019.
A belated review of America to Me, a vital look at high school, race, and us
“Go to your neighborhoods, go help somebody that look like me, go help somebody that look like you, but take away from this that this doesn’t need to happen anymore.”
Why A&E pulled The Devil Next Door before it even premiered
A&E has again been accused of paying documentary reality show participants, but this time, something’s different.