In this week’s look at what’s ahead in reality TV: Netflix’s The Circle is ending its first season and a new natural history documentary series is starting.
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Recommendations, round-ups, and other lists of reality TV shows and news about unscripted entertainment.
James Holzhauer’s final Jeopardy answer, and other reality TV that warmed my week
What I’m grateful for in reality TV this week, from a moment on Jeopardy! to an Oscar-nominated director’s reality TV habits.
The Bachelor, AGT: The Champions, and 25 more reality TV premieres this week
This week, Catfish and Ink Master are both back with new twists, K9 teams from Live PD will compete, and a former cast member returns to Love & Hip Hop: Miami.
Introducing my reality stars: 5 things sparked joy for me this week (and last year)
This year, I’m going to practice noticing more about what I love about reality TV, and sharing those things with you.
It’s 2020, and these 26 reality shows will premiere in its first five days
2020 will bring many new and returning reality shows to television and streaming services, from The Circle to Dr. Pimple Popper, Supernannny to Naked and Afraid: Alone.
The last 7 reality shows to premiere this year, plus a Star Wars doc series
Restaurant: Impossible, Flirty Dancing, and Food Network Challenge are among the shows premiering before the calendar turns to 2020.
Love & Hip Hop’s fiction and reality, RuPaul’s influence, Jersey Shore at 10, and other must-read stories
Seven terrific stories about reality TV shows, stars, and the genre itself. Plus: Eight bonus news stories and quick reads.
Born This Way’s end; Voice, Masked Singer, Temptation Island, and Survivor finales; and more this week
Besides the season finales of several reality shows, there’s a new season of Love & Hip Hop: New York, a new Very Brady Renovation special, and a show about service animals.
Great American Baking Show returns, Making It ends, and other reality TV coming this week
Reality TV and documentary shows and specials premiering this week include one more holiday baking competition, plus car shows and several holiday specials.
Project Runway, Making It, Holiday Wars, and all the rest of this week’s reality TV debuts
Among the 20 reality shows premiering this week are Ex on the Beach: Peak of Love, Man vs. Bear, Growing Up Hip Hop, Garth Brooks’ Biography, and The Great Christmas Light Fight.
The 7 holiday reality competitions premiering this week
Wrap Battle, a gift-wrapping competition and Top Elf, a competition between kids, are just two of the new reality shows on their way this Thanksgiving week.
Blind Date is back, and so is Nailed It! Holiday: this week in reality TV
Also among this week’s reality TV premieres: a new season of Love It Or List It, and a Netflix doc about the founder of Bikram yoga.
The reality TV that Disney+ is adding to the streaming fray, and other premieres
Reality TV premieres this week include more Thanksgiving cooking competitions, and Disney’s initial entrants into the streaming wars.
Suddenly, it’s Christmas: holiday baking reality TV starts this week
In reality TV premieres this week: Antiques Roadshow turns 500, The Profit, RHONJ, and Running Wild with Bear Grylls return; and more.
This week in reality TV: RHOA, Halloween specials, Queer Eye in Japan, and more
90 Day Fiance season 7, a new Hollywood Squares spin-off, and Apple TV+’s first unscripted show are among this week’s reality TV premieres.