Reality TV has come a long way over the years. While the genre gained traction during a previous writers' strike, it has been around for decades. Here are several of the very first reality television ...

Reality TV shaped Bennett Graebner into a sharper storyteller by teaching speed, structure, and authentic character development that no film school could match.

A new dad revisits his lifelong reality TV timeline through Taran Armstrong’s deep, personal history of ‘Big Brother’ ...

The pessimist in me assumed that we watch reality TV because we can’t help but wallow in others’ pain. (That Tom Sandoval is getting what he finally deserves!) But maybe that’s actually a much smaller ...

“Take a breath and go ahead,” Robert Galinsky says, eyeing his student from across a Zoom screen. Dylan, a 45-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona, dressed in a light blue button-down, exhales and begins to ...

Abby Meyers is a reality TV features writer at Collider. In school, her college majors in creative writing and gender studies prepared her well to watch and write about reality television. She has ...

In more than three decades in entertainment journalism (good lighting hides my age well!), I’ve met hundreds of celebs — in interviews, at award shows and parties — some have even become good friends.