Dear newsletter subscribers,

Good Sunday evening! I hope you’ve enjoyed your extra hour of sleep! Besides the time change, it’s the start of a new month, and this week will deliver the end of a long election season and the start of vote-counting.

It's also the start of Christmas-themed reality TV—Holiday Baking Championship!—and the end of another "summer" reality TV show, American Ninja Warrior, which ends its season Wednesday at 9.

So let's look at the reality TV and televised documentaries premiering this week.