Dear newsletter subscribers,

Hello! This is your Sunday evening briefing about what's new and premiering this week in reality TV, even as reality itself presents new challenges for many of us. I hope you're well, and doing what you can to keep yourself and others well, too.

If you just need an escape from the news or social media for a minute, I've put together a list of 9 quiet, relaxing, distracting reality shows to watch or stream—now including Ken Burns' Baseball, which PBS brought back this weekend, because actual baseball is cancelled for now, like so many other things.

The big premiere of the week is the return of Top Chef, which returns after a year away with its second all-star season. The last all-star season aired almost 10 years ago, and had what I thought then was the best all-star cast ever assembled.