Hotel Inspector: a charming British B&B makeover show, now streaming free
The Hotel Inspector, a long-running British reality TV show starring Ruth Watson and Alex Polizzi, is now streaming free in the United States. Highly recommended!
UK reality TV shows
This elimination on a UK reality show is brutally shocking—but not new
David Birtwistle from Netflix’s Too Hot To Handle stars as the bachelor in a new UK dating competition, The Love Trap, that has a shocking elimination that’s been getting attention.
The Repair Shop ‘will resurrect, revive, and rejuvenate treasured possessions,’ and my day
The Repair Shop—a BBC series that’s now available on Discovery+, and on which objects are restored—is charming, warm, and set in a barn. In other words, it’s perfect.
Sharon Osbourne out of X-Factor UK a month after calling contestants “little shits”
Sharon Osbourne told Howard Stern X Factor auditions were “fucking karaoke” and said Simon Cowell “will do whatever he has to do to get that fucking fat face on TV.”
An interview with Spencer Sutherland, X Factor UK’s first American finalist
An interview with Spencer Sutherland, the fist American artist to compete as a finalist on The X Factor UK—and the first person voted out this season.
Bromans, in which bros compete as faux Roman gladiators
ITV2’s Bromans is a reality competition series that has eight men in thongs—and their girlfriends—compete in gladiator-style challenges.
A reality show ended, and some U.S. media misled their readers about it
Channel 4’s social experiment reality show Eden ended this month. For some reason, several U.S. publications lied to their readers about what happened.