Love Island dumps CBS. Plus: Love is Blind? AGT EXTREME!!! and more
Dear newsletter friends,
I love learning about how reality TV comes together behind the scenes, and that’s why I was so thrilled to publish this incredible piece about music selection.
It explores how editors make choices, the constraints they have—and how they deal with the fact that they probably can’t use great pop music when shows go to streaming.
Highly recommended! Here’s the full piece:
The big reality TV news this week, besides Todrick Hall learning how his Celebrity Big Brother actions were being perceived—and then cancelling all interviews—was some industry drama:
Yes, Love Island is moving to streaming starting this summer. Narrator Matthew Hoffman better go with it, too!
I reviewed:
Love is Blind season 2 on Netflix
I recapped:
Amazing Race 33’s penultimate episode—we’re almost to the finale!
Reality TV news
A website run by Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star Jason Lee reported that the Queen of England had died; she hadn’t. Buzzfeed explains what happened.
America’s Got Talent singer Jane "Nightbirde" Marczewski died
We’re Here and Drag Race star Eureka is in rehab and posted about their recovery
A new Pokémon game is being advertised with reality TV parodies: Antiques Roadshow and a cooking competition
Hosts, including some reality TV hosts, talk about how their jobs have changed
🤩 I recommend
Things I’ve found amusing, helpful, fascinating, amazing, and/or all of those things:
This video of a Price is Right contestant getting lost on stage 😂
This video of someone revisiting a dangerous place Bear Grylls visited. Even if you know Bear Grylls is great at pretending—he admitted to me that producers plant dead animals for him to “find” on Running Wild—it’s amazing footage
This week's TAR for the editing during the rock challenge alone. Brilliant!
This article with ways to help people in Ukraine
That’s everything from me. I hope you have a great weekend.
best,
Andy
🌄 This is Reality in Focus issue 279, first sent Feb. 25, 2022, and it’s not sure if love is blind but is convinced that reality TV may not the best way to meet a life partner
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