MTV Studios will reboot old MTV shows and try to sell them to streaming services—and also produce new shows, like a The Hills-ish series called The Valley.
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ABC’s Castaways looks like Alone (and Lost), but with resources and a twist
A new reality series that’ll be paired with Bachelor in Paradise will strand people and flash back to their regular lives.
Preview: On Wahlburgers, Donnie offers Paul feedback and life advice
An exclusive preview of tonight’s episode of Wahlburgers, on which Donnie gives Paul some surprisingly comical and heartfelt feedback.
A few of Netflix’s 50+ reality series coming this year
Adriano Zumbo will judge a competition produced by Top Chef producers Magical Elves; Great British Baking Show producers Love Productions will try to reinvent the docu-soap with a musical series; and a cooking-with-weed show will have 10-minute episodes.
Anthony Bourdain has died
The star of CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and Travel Channel’s No Reservations also judged ABC’s The Taste and Bravo’s Top Chef.
Family Food Fight: a new cooking competition on ABC, imported from Australia
ABC has ordered a U.S. version of an Australian cooking competition, Family Food Fight, which will have families cooking and competing against each other. Ayesha Curry will host and judge.
Matt LeBlanc is leaving Top Gear after season 26
Top Gear season 26 will be LeBlanc’s last as co-host.
How The Carbonaro Effect is produced: an interview with Michael Carbonaro
Michael Carbonaro talks about production and editing of The Carbonoaro Effect, on which unsuspecting members of the public see him do magic tricks.
Review: The Fourth Estate has access to The New York Times, but less insight
The look inside The New York Times is often compelling reality television. But there’s also something missing.
A new Bravo show merges Real Housewives with Mad Men and a terrific 2000s era format
Bravo announced eight new series in development that suggest the network is looking to move outside of the rut it’s dug for itself for years now.
Food Network host’s racist jokes surface after he argues ‘straight white male’ is a racial slur
The star of Food Network’s series Ginormous Food’s argument that “straight white male” is now a racial slur resulted in people on Twitter surfacing past tweets, which included mocking references to stereotypes about black people and Asian people.
The Case Against Adnan Syed: The story from Serial is becoming an HBO series
HBO says the four-part series will be “a cinematic look at the life and 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and conviction of Adnan Syed.”
Review: Netflix’s Evil Genius, an intriguing but unsatisfying true crime series
A review of Netflix’s new documentary reality series about the mysterious case of a pizza delivery man who robbed a bank and then was killed by a collar bomb.
The Great Interior Design Challenge is the splendid makeover that the interior design competition needed
My new reality TV competition obsession from the UK has amateur designers redecorating rooms in buildings already blanketed with history.
A new show will try to find damning Trump footage from The Apprentice
Tom Arnold and Viceland will try to do what a presidential campaign and media organizations could not: get access to The Apprentice footage to see if now-President Donald Trump says anything damning on it.