Reality TV
‘Love Island USA’ Season 6 Winners on Going From Friends to Lovers and What Comes Next
[This story contains spoilers from Peacock’s Love Island USA season six finale.] Talk about a friends-to-lovers trope. That’s what Serena Page and Kordell Beckham — the Love Island USA season six winners — were giving throughout their time in the villa. It started as a slow burn when Serena told Kordell, the brother of football […]
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Reality TV Has a Major Parity Issue
American Idol. Dancing With the Stars. Shark Tank. Survivor. They’re all major unscripted formats — and they’re all created by men. According to a new study, which was commissioned by content behemoth Banijay Entertainment in concert with Everywoman Studios and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, three in four reality TV creators are men. The […]
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Heather Dubrow and Tamra Judge Say ‘RHOC’ Feels Like the “Glory Days” After a Tumultuous Season 17
Being a reality TV housewife is big business. Not just for the Bravo network which, upon the premiere of season 18 of The Real Housewives of Orange County on Thursday, marks 100 seasons of The Real Housewives franchise over a span of 18 years and 11 cities. But also for the women who are chosen […]
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Why Ryan Serhant Returned to Real Estate Reality TV With Netflix’s ‘Owning Manhattan’
To be lured back from his hiatus from the reality TV universe after 10 seasons on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing: New York, NYC-based celebrity broker Ryan Serhant knew he wanted to do something different. “I didn’t want to make Million Dollar Listing: New York 2.0, or a spinoff of Selling Sunset, which has its own […]
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Racquel Chevremont Joins ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ Season 15
Racquel Chevremont is joining the Real Housewives of New York City for season 15. Bravo announced Chevremont will be joining the previously announced cast of Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield as a main cast member. Rebecca Minkoff, it has been previously reported, is also joining the […]
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The Greening of Reality TV
When Cyle Zezo left The CW last year after a decade working in unscripted, he knew he didn’t want to leave the world of reality TV behind. (He segued to a new role as executive producer, on such shows as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Mysteries Decoded.) But he also wanted to serve his original […]
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30 Production Companies and Studios Join Sustainability Push in Unscripted TV
Just two months after launching their formal initiative to make unscripted TV more sustainable, eco-entertainment organization Reality of Change and environmental nonprofit Rare have assembled 30 studios and production companies to work on an advisory committee to address the climate crisis across the industry. Gathering for the first time in late May, the committee will […]
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Noma Super-Chef René Redzepi on His New Series ‘Omnivore’ and How Restaurants Can Combat Climate Change
René Redzepi has built Copenhagen restaurant Noma — ranked five times as the No. 1 restaurant in the world by the World’s 50 Best list — into a culinary institution, and now he has his sights set on changing how the world thinks about food. The famed chef has co-created the new Apple TV+ docuseries […]
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‘We’re Here’ Drag Queens on Educating Viewers: “We Are Natural, We Are Normal”
Since its inception, Max’s We’re Here has had a bold premise: Three real-life drag queens sashay out onto the streets across small-town America to coach ordinary people to perform in drag onstage, and hopefully foster some enlightenment and community along the way. For season four, the series underwent a complete overhaul, seeing the departure of […]
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“Dear Remy”: This Week He Helps an AI Victim, a Depressed Producer and an Unsexy Cartoon Critter
The Unintended Role: An Actor Faces Their AI Doppelgänger Dear Remy, As an actor whose voice has apparently been hijacked by the specter of artificial intelligence, I find myself in a perplexing, and frankly infuriating, scenario. Picture this: a bustling tech unveiling, all eyes and ears tuned to the debut of the latest AI marvel […]
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Donald Trump Used Racial Slur on ‘The Apprentice’ Set and Other Revelations From Producer’s Tell-All
Twenty years after The Apprentice debuted on NBC, putting the catchphrase “You’re fired” on the nation’s lips and starring Donald Trump, the expansive nondisclosure agreements signed by its producers are beginning to expire. This week, one of the show’s top producers during seasons one and two is sharing previously unheard details — just as Trump’s […]
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Reality of Change and Non-Profit Rare Launch Initiative to Make Unscripted TV More Sustainable
Eco-entertainment organization Reality of Change and environmental non-profit Rare are teaming up to improve sustainability in unscripted television, both onscreen and behind the camera. Spearheaded by Reality of Change founder (and former head of alternative programming at The CW) Cyle Zezo and senior director of Rare’s Entertainment Lab Ellis Watamanuk, the new partnership’s first priority […]
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