Hulu has just added Britain’s first all-male dating show, I Kissed a Boy, and while it’s basically Love Island’s format, it’s refreshing and full of fun drama.
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Great reality TV shows, outstanding documentary series, must-read stories about reality show stars and productions, and must-listen reality podcasts—everything that reality blurred editor and TV critic Andy Dehnart recommends. (Learn more about Andy.)
My review of The CW’s new The Big Bakeover, a bakery shop makeover show starring The Great British Bake-Off season five winner Nancy Birtwhistle.
Plus scenes from an iPhone scam, and the biggest Hollywood Ponzi scheme ever.
Usually a game show host’s banter just seems like filler. On Amazon Prime Video and Fox’s The 1% Club, Patton Oswalt’s conversations with contestants is a large part of the entertainment.
Julia Fox’s avant-garde E! fashion competition OMG Fashun is like Chopped meets Project Runway’s unconventional materials challenge meets Dragula, and is a ton of fun.
Actor John Lithgow wanted to make a show like Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy but with the arts, and that became Art Happens Here. It’s a joy—but also just one episode.
The actor Dulé Hill does not take center stage in his new PBS show. Instead, it focuses on artists, crafting beautiful portraits of them and their world-changing work.