https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/05/contestant-hulu-review-allen-funt-candid-camera-reality-tv-history/678393/
The cruelty with which Nasubi was treated seems horrifying now, and outrageously unethical. Before he started winning contests, he got by on a handful of crackers fed to him by the producers, then

https://www.vox.com/culture/356854/cue-the-sun-review-emily-nussbaum-book-reality-tv-history-bethenny-frankel-survivor
Kyndall Cunningham is a culture writer interested in reality TV, movies, pop music, Black media, and celebrity culture. Previously, she wrote for the Daily Beast and contributed to several

https://www.grunge.com/1598319/disturbing-things-happened-reality-shows/
The 'Flavor of Love' poop incident. Debuting in 2006 and running for three seasons on VH1, "Flavor of Love" was one of the weirdest dating shows ever. In it, a slew of young women convened in a lavish mansion to compete for the affections of William "Flavor Flav" Drayton — the famously, er, eccentric Public Enemy hype man and proponent of

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/books/review/cue-the-sun-reality-tv-emily-nussbaum.html
Bolstered by more than 300 interviews, Nussbaum describes reality TV through the eyes of the people who made it happen, offering cleareyed accounts of how exploitative and dangerous such shows

https://time.com/6588093/we-ruined-reality-tv-essay/
January 24, 2024 2:19 PM EST. Wittmer is a freelance writer who covers film, television, and pop culture. H eather Gay is standing on the beach, her long blonde hair and pale yellow-caped dress

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/emily-nussbaum-reality-tv/
The Invention of Reality TV traces the genre's roots—from the 1940s radio phenomenon Queen for a Day to the ethical ambiguities of Big Brother and beyond—to tell a story that, contrary to

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/magazine/reality-tv-frontier-house.html
Producers selected three families to mimic late-19th-century homesteaders over five months. The resulting quarrels make the "Real Housewives" seem tame. By Caity Weaver Reality TV has become

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-cruel-social-experiment-of-reality-tv/ar-BB1mvz00
A woman (played by Lenora Crichlow) groggily wakes up in a strange house whose television sets are broadcasting the same mysterious symbol. When she goes outside, the people she encounters

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/love-them-or-leave-them/202307/why-we-love-to-hate-reality-tv-contestants
Reality TV contestants have shared some of the critical, cruel, and frightening messages they've received from complete strangers, usually on social media, and it's not just one person or one time

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/supreme-court-josh-duggar-child-porn/index.html
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who asked the justices to toss out his child pornography conviction. Duggar, whose family and devout

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/29/miriam-death-of-a-reality-star-review-as-grubby-as-the-cruel-show-that-ruined-her-life?ref=upstract.com
From the start, Miriam: Death of a Reality Star struggles to tell a nuanced story. Woven through the account of the reality show's chaotic production is a portrait of Rivera's early life.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/entertainment/the-contestant-hulu-documentary-nasubi/index.html
Before "The Truman Show" hit theaters or "Big Brother" turned George Orwell's "1984" concept into a TV show, there was Nasubi, the unlikely (and unwitting) centerpiece of a cruel

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-06-25/the-swan-reality-competition-20th-anniversary
'The Swan' was a spectacle called cruel and sadistic, but former contestants don't really see it that way. The reality makeover competition foretold the era we live in.

https://www.primetimer.com/features/greatest-reality-tv-villains-bracket-final-four-championship
The reality television landscape is littered with entitled, cruel, and downright intolerant personalities, but who is the worst of the worst? That's what we set out to answer in Primetimer's Ultimate Reality TV Villains Bracket, a four-part competition pitting the worst liars, narcissists, bullies, and all-around trash humans against one another.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnygn/theres-100-manipulation-the-inner-workings-of-reality-tv-according-to-a-producer
November 27, 2022, 9:19pm. Snap. No love for Bachelor Honey Badger / 9 Network. Though the TV show Unreal is fictitious - a dystopian look into the lives of producers on reality shows like The

https://ew.com/tv/outlast-netflix-reality-tv-villains/
just introduced the biggest villains in reality TV history. Stealing sleeping bags, ransacking shelters, destroying rafts. All in an episode's work. By. Dalton Ross. Published on March 10, 2023 12

https://ew.com/gallery/worst-reality-tv-shows-ever/
Cruel, offensive, and worst of all, boring. 04 of 19. Britney and Kevin: Chaotic (UPN ... Thank this two-hour special for the advent of reality TV nuptials. The importance of thorough background

https://podsauce.com/articles/harsh-reality-tells-how-one-show-still-casts-a-cruel-shadow-over-reality-tv/
The 2004 reality dating show featured the beautiful and mysterious 21-year-old Mexican model Miriam Rivera and six gorgeous men vying for her heart. Over the course of the six-episode season, the men would try to woo her until she picked a winner in the final episode. But there was one cruel twist: the men, and the audience, were kept in the

https://apnews.com/article/julie-todd-chrisley-fraud-tax-evasion-appeal-983ca240f0a631e075ef5dd911ebfe26
Reality TV's Julie Chrisley must be resentenced in bank fraud, tax evasion case, appeals judges rule. FILE - Todd Chrisley, left, and his wife, Julie Chrisley, pose for photos at the 52nd annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Reality TV star Julie Chrisley's sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion has been

https://www.distractify.com/p/most-dangerous-reality-tv-shows
We've rounded up six of the most dangerous reality TV shows currently releasing new episodes. We stayed away from the shows that are celebrity-based, so no The Kardashians or Vanderpump Rules — even though they're extremely dangerous for the emotional well-being of all cast members. Source: MTV Entertainment Studio.

https://impactnottingham.com/2022/04/its-time-to-rethink-the-ethics-of-reality-tv/
Channel 4's documentary Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime analysed the consequences of one of the UK's most popular reality TV shows - most recently, the suicide of Steve Dymond in May 2019. When a guest takes their life just a week after filming, for a show that repeatedly faced criticism over its unethical nature, we should be urged to investigate the roots of the issue, as clearly

https://www.nickiswift.com/87116/reality-tv-shows-went-far/
Born in the Wild. Lifetime. Lifetime's 2015 reality series Born in the Wild captured the experiences of couples who ventured off into remote places to give birth, without the help of a traditional

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/entertainment/kinds-of-kindness-yorgos-lanthimos-cast-interviews/index.html
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film delivers three pitch black parables, enlisting an A-list cast topped by Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons to get down and dirty in the moral morass.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/06/23/house-dragon-recap-season-two-episode-two/
Olivia Cooke, left, as Queen Alicent Hightower, and Phia Saban as Queen Helaena Targaryen in HBO's "House of the Dragon." (Theo Whitman/HBO) On last week's "House of the Dragon" Season 2

https://theweek.com/tv/35579/pros-and-cons-reality-tv-shows
Reality TV is vulgar and shoddy. By creating pseudo-celebrities it contributes to the debasement of popular taste. It is often cruel, exposing the participants to gross humiliation for our amusement.

https://www.reddit.com/r/atlanticdiscussions/comments/1cu4bpr/the_cruel_social_experiment_of_reality_tv_the_new/
The episode's grand reveal, a television staple by the time it premiered in 2013, is its own kind of punishment: The extravagant theatrics serve as a reminder that everything that's happened to the woman has been a deliberate construction—a series of manipulations in service of other people's entertainment.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a785495/the-7-cruellest-meanest-reality-tv-shows-ever-from-space-cadets-to-the-swan/
5. THE SWAN. View full post on Youtube. Look, there is a way to do makeover shows. How To Look Good Naked , 10 Years Younger … they're basically empowering programmes about making women feel

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/reality-tv-sustainable-reality-of-change-cyle-zezo-1235925202/#!
Scripted television has been working in climate stories for years. Now activists are urging reality shows to follow. By Mikey O'Connell TV Features Editor Climate representation — the inclusion

https://www.tvfanatic.com/2024/06/tiktok-star-murders-the-true-story-of-ali-and-ana-abulaban/
TikTok Star Murders premieres on Peacock on June 25, 2024, and it's telling a wild story about the dangers of social media. The true crime documentary details the sad story of the Abuladan family

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/jeremy-kyle-show-love-island.html
British Reality Television Is a Theater of Cruelty. It was obvious that "The Jeremy Kyle Show" was wrong. But someone had to die for it to be stopped. Jeremy Kyle's daytime TV program