What reality shows do you watch? — Page 2

Currently watching or recently completed seasons:
MasterChef (Australia) - the best of all the MasterChef franchises.
The Great British Bake-Off and its after-show, An Extra Slice with Jo Brand
The Great British Sewing Bee

No longer airing:
I also used to watch the visual art series, Work of Art
Circus! - about the Big Apple Circus on PBS
Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within - documented select performers from Cirque’s show Varekai from rehearsals through production.

This was the first season I've watched RuPaul's Drag Race and I've loved it!

Other than that, my reality television taste consists mainly of Real Housewives (Beverly Hills, New York, and Atlanta, NOT Potomac or Dallas) and Dance Moms.

None anymore. But I love the show UnReal.

ok...I'll admit to watching one trashy reality TV series on occasion, Shahs of Sunset.

It's produced by Ryan Seacrest and features an eclectic & volatile mix of Persian- or Iranian-American frenemies, some Jewish and some Muslim, who all tend to live slightly above their means. It's a real hoot. But, it has engendered considerable controversy in the Los Angeles area for its portrayal of Iranian Americans. A couple of the ladies on the show have very nice hourglass figures.

Only one I watch now is Dance Moms. Even that has gotten boring now though. I think it has become so contrived. I guess as the original girls are leaving now as well, they aren't doing a good job to make me root for the new ones.

I enjoy Big Brother, The Voice, America's Got Talent, Real Housewives (ONLY Atlanta. Can't stand any of the others), and MasterChef Canada. I haven't seen Australia, but for me, Canada is much better than the other MasterChef shows.

I stopped watching a lot of reality shows I used to watch (Top Chef, Project Runway, RHNY, to name a few) but there are a few reality shows that I still indulge in.



I've kind of become obsessed with the Reality Show "The People's Couch" which is basically a reality show filming people watching reality shows as well as scripted shows that dominated social media that week. I don't know why but I find it hilarious.



I will say it's because of BWW that I now watch the CBS reality shows; Big Brother, Survivor, and Amazing Race. Accidentally opening the Big Brother thread during the premier day of BB14 was my first exposure to BB and any other CBS reality show. Way late to the party as those shows never sounded like something I would enjoy, but catching the premier episode of BB14 and I've been hooked ever since. I blame/thank Whizzer and Mister Matt for Piquing my interest and starting my obsession.



Besides that, the only reality shows I still regularly watch would be SYTYCD, Dance Moms, and MTV's RW/RR The challenge. But I believe this season will be the last I can handle of The Challenge.



And speaking of SYTYCD.... I haven't chimed in on the current threat yet (but have read it occasionally) and I will say that I am in the minority and actually really enjoy this season with kids. I started to find the show to become extremely boring and stale and last year the format change felt refreshing to me. Changing it up again this year made it stay fresh and I'm glad it has become only an hour long, once a week. As someone who was one of those kids and dance was my life growing up, and now being a dance instructor; I can appreciate the exceptionally talented kids. Maybe next year they can come up with a new format (and ditch Nigel as a judge which is what the show needs, but his ego won't allow that to ever happen) and keep the show refreshing. Hopefully something will bring viewership up so it doesn't get cancelled for good. Again... Ditching Nigel as a judge would help.