“This is not the truth; it’s a narrative,” an anonymous, masked friend warns Jerrod Carmichael about his HBO series in the premiere, calling it “exhibitionist.” And it’s true because Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show is an irrefutable vanity project. The show, which airs its finale on May 17, is equally awkward and transfixing. It unravels the comedian’s relationship with his parents, friends, boyfriend, peers, and even himself. The most important one, though, is his love affair with the masses,...
Netflix’s hit show The Circle recently introduced an AI chatbot contestant, a potentially worrying sign of where we’re headingAccording to his profile, Max, a contestant on season six of the Netflix reality show The Circle, is 26 years old, brunette and into his Australian shepherd, Pippa. He is a veterinary intern from Pismo Beach, California, and a bit cheeky – “single, but my dog is taken”. He enters into the Circle chat, the fake social media service contestants use to vie for $100,000,...
In the new documentary The Contestant, a Japanese man is put through an astonishing TV experience for more than a yearWhen Tomoaki Hamatsu, an aspiring comedian from the Japanese province of Fukushima, auditioned for the reality show Susunu! Denpa Shōnen in January 1998, he arrived with zero expectations and a dream for some fame. Reality television was still in its wild west infancy – no contracts, no protections, still just a handful of home-grown personalities. The new frontier of reality...
TOKYO >> Naked and frail, a shaggy-haired man films himself as he endures solitude in a tiny room for months, and months more.
This was a crazy weekend for sports, with the Kentucky Derby decided by a nose, the closest NASCAR Cup Series finish in history, wild NBA playoff action, Caitlin Clark’s WNBA debut and more. So that might explain how most everyone missed Philadelphia Phillies color analyst John Kruk pondering behind-the-scenes drama on the reality show Dance
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have announced that the are reuniting for a new reality TV show.
In news that simultaneously caused every single person you know who owns a bow tie to sit up and pay terrible, exuberant notice, Netflix revealed today that it’s working on a reality show based around Willy Wonka. This, despite the fact that the the last time Wonka attempted to intrude into our reality, it went so poorly that it produced public apologies, waves of social media derision, and an actual stage musical chronicling the horrors that emerged. In what might actually be even more...
Sources told TMZ that the unnamed show will differ from their 2000s smash hit, “The Simple Life.” It’s unclear when the new project will air.
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are getting ready to be reality TV stars all over again -- 'cause the 2000s darlings are teaming up anew to run it back but for a whole new project. Production sources tell TMZ Paris and Nicole are both on…
While the many young stars of Dance Moms didn't always appear on the same seasons, they still have a bond -- a "trauma bond." The cast -- Chloe Lukasiak, JoJo Siwa, Kendall Vertes, Kalani Hilliker and Brooke and Paige Hyland -- sat down with E! before the reunion airs, in which they revealed some secrets about their relationships over the years. "I don't think people know that we're friends," Kalani said of the group. "And there's so many different storylines on the show between...
As this documentary smugly rehashes the transphobia that made Miriam Rivera’s life hell – claiming it would never happen today – it becomes just as tawdry. Has TV learned nothing in the past 20 years? It was, all in all, a moral quagmire of a TV format. In 2004, There’s Something About Miriam saw six men vie for the attention of Miriam Rivera, a 21-year-old Mexican model who unbeknown to them had a “secret”: she was transgender. Even before it aired, this British reality-dating show had whipped...
Naked and frail, a shaggy-haired man films himself as he endures solitude in a tiny room for months, and months more.