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Top Chef 22’s final four and final challenge in Canada: let’s discuss!

5 days ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

Traveling to Calgary seems to have woken up Top Chef: Destination Canada’s producers, who suddenly remembered what makes this show great: spectacular scenery, strong challenges, information about Canada, César toasting ants and apologizing to them. Alas, right as it’s found its groove—and its final four chefs—Top Chef show is leaving for Milan.
Summer 2025 reality TV schedule and guide

6 days ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

A quarter century has passed since Survivor became a massive hit in the summer of 2000, which is when Big Brother also premiered and somehow survived its disastrous first season. Will summer 2025 offer any reality TV show premiere that will change television and last for another 25 years?
Summer 2025 docs and reality TV show specials

6 days ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

Summer has reality TV, and plenty of feature documentaries and reality TV specials. This summer, that includes the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Sally RideThis guide I’ve compiled—and will continue to update throughout the next three months—has premiere dates and details of documentary features and reality TV specials making their debut on broadcast, cable, premium, and streaming TV services, including PBS, HBO, Bravo, Netflix, Hulu, and ID.
Survivor turns 25! Introducing a new series of cast interviews

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

Wednesday, May 31, 2000, 8 p.m. Eastern. A new TV show premiered on CBS, with the episode title “The Marooning.” That was, of course, Survivor. I still remember watching that very first episode, which I reminisced about on my podcast this week. By the end of the season, Survivor broke television ratings records, becoming the highest rated show of the year—and only the finale of Friends would have higher ratings that decade.
Erik Reichenbach and his ‘weird relationship’ with Survivor

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

When he was 22 years old, Erik Reichenbach played a game in which he trusted someone, and that trust led to a spectacular betrayal. Now, 17 years later, that moment from Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs Favorites prompted someone to DM him at 1:57 a.m. and scream in all caps:“BRO … NO WAY YOU DID THAT BRO PLEEEEEASEEEEE WHYYYYYY FOOORRR WHATTTTY!??? IT MADE ZERO SENSE LITERALLY.
Josh Martinez on Destination X’s ‘mindfuck,’ and why its cast was ‘refreshing’

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

“I would say that I’m a very polarizing person,” Josh Martinez said during Destination X’s first episode, and that’s probably an understatement. From Big Brother to The Challenge, he’s been known for “altercations combined with his emotional outbursts,” as the Big Brother wiki describes his time on BB19.
This footage of Josh Gates locked inside the Titanic sub is terrifying

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

There are several documentary specials about OceanGate’s Titan submarine, which imploded and killed its creator and four others two years ago. The Discovery Channel’s special, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, and has some particularly harrowing footage filmed two years before the disaster.
Andy Dehnart’s reality blurred podcast S2 E19: Survivor’s 25th

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

Andy Dehnart's Reality Blurred Survivor premiered 25 years ago. Where were you?
Here’s the Survivor 50 cast: its biggest ever

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

CBS just announced the Survivor 50 cast this morning, and it matches the cast list posted online last week. It’s a mix of classic players we’ve seen many, many times—like, again? times—and newer players we just saw, plus some curious choices. Perhaps the most exciting part is that the cast has expanded to 24 players from 18, which is what we’ve had every season in the new era.
Destination X is so close yet so far from reality TV greatness

1 week ago | realityblurred.com | Andy Dehnart

Destination X seems designed for me: a competition criss-crossing Europe, like the original season of The Mole; players living on a bus, just like the original reality TV competition, Road Rules; deciphering clues, like Claim to Fame. This game, based on a format from Belgium, is simple: players have to locate where they are. It’s basically The Mole season one’s spectacular second challenge turned into an entire series.