Alan Cumming admitted that he "was a bit judgy" of reality TV shows prior to hosting 'The Traitors' while speaking at the New Yorker Festival on Friday, Oct. 25.

Reality TV gets a bad rap. I’ve said it again and again, and again. Believe me, I’ve heard it all before. “I don’t watch reality TV.” “I think it’s all scripted.” “There’s ...

So far in 2025, it seems the biggest television stinkers are half-baked reality TV shows. At least, that's according to viewers on IMDb.

When reality TV first exploded in the early 2000s, network execs thought they’d discovered a goldmine whose treasures would never be depleted. Shows like Survivor, The Bachelor, The Osbournes ...

Reality shows are often presented in terms of heroes and villains. Indeed, Rolling Stone went as far as to declare 2023 “the year of the reality TV villain”. This so-called villainy is a ...

Reality TV shows can sometimes promote dangerous or irresponsible financial advice, leading to serious consequences. This risk is particularly significant when the audience includes impressionable ...

Between shows like “Hunted” that turn civilians into fugitives or dating multiple copies of "your type" on “Game of Clones,” here are some of the wildest British reality shows I've ever ...

In February 2020 — a day before Valentine’s Day, and mere weeks before the world shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic — a new reality dating show with a kooky hook called “Love Is ...

Extreme as some reality TV shows are, they can reflect back our social preoccupations, our fault lines, our deep-rooted conservatism. “These shows show us ourselves in amplified forms, and we ...