Reality TV
‘Exhausting’ psychological reality show finds new celebrity victims
The local version of The Traitors has taken a leaf out of the US playbook and recruited reality stars and an actor to play the game.
- by Nicole Elphick
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The Real Housewives fight back: Reality TV faces its moment of reckoning
Inspired by the Hollywood strike, performers on massively popular reality TV shows are starting to organise and demand better pay and conditions.
- by Nell Geraets
Actors slam Hollywood A-listers as shutdown drags on
Which productions have shut down, why are some actors still working, and why are some reality stars ‘lawyering up’?
- by Nell Geraets
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A new batch of starry-eyed singers pray the judges will spin their chairs
The talent show may be as old as TV itself, but the blind auditions of The Voice are a reminder of why singing competitions are so hard to resist.
- by Ben Pobjie
Tears, tall poppies and Japandi style: An architect takes on The Block
Steph and Gian Ottavio are the youngest couple to ever appear in the reality show, but Steph’s qualifications proved a blessing and a curse.
- by Bridget McManus
Twenty years on, The Block’s co-creator won’t consider downing tools
When Julian Cress and David Barbour came up with the idea of a show where contestants would renovate and live together for 120 days, they had no idea it would turn into a juggernaut.
- by Ben Pobjie
‘I’m experimenting’: Abbie Chatfield on developing her own off-screen style
“I spend a lot of time fully glammed up on TV in outfits I love but that someone else has chosen.”
- by Georgie Gordon
Survival shows are our latest TV obsession, but how long can it last?
From Survivor to Alone, The Summit to Million Dollar Island, our screens are awash with people doing it rough in the wild. What’s behind the fascination?
- by Karl Quinn
This Netflix show is typical reality schlock, so why are people obsessed?
In The Ultimatum: Queer Love, six couples enter. How many will survive?
- by Nell Geraets
Singer, dancer, actor Christie Whelan Browne is a triple threat. Just don’t call her a star
Despite the difficulties it posed, Whelan Browne found an invitation to appear on Dancing with the Stars was too good to pass up.
- by Ben Pobjie
Abbie Chatfield has a lesson for men in the romantically farcical FBoy Island
This provocative-sounding show escalates the dating shows you’ve seen in the past ... but in a good way.
- by Sinead Stubbins