What's your top 5 favorite REALITY SHOWS ... ?

[PiscesChic]

Top 5 fav REALITY SHOWS ...

- Survivor
- The Amazing Race
- The Mole
- Top Chef
- Girls Next Door

:o

[Cindy1230]

Top 5 fav REALITY SHOWS ...

- Survivor
- The Amazing Race
- The Mole
- Top Chef
- Girls Next Store

:o
Girls Next Door?
Welcome to the forums :)

I'd have to say -
Kathy Griffin
Project Runway
Survivor
American Idol
Flipping Out

Wow,.. Bravo has me hooked.

[bqmeister]

Survivor
the Apprentice
American Idol
Hell's Kitchen

Is it ok if I only name 4?

[LifeIsABeach]

1. Survivor
2. Beauty & the Geek
3-5 Tie between Surreal Life, Chris Knight's reality shows, and Scott Baio's reality shows.

[TonyTheTiger]

Top Chef (by a country mile!)
Hell's Kitchen
American Idol
So You Think you can Dance
America's got Talent

[pmyers]

I can't lie....just about all of them!

but defintely:
Survivor
Big Brother
Amazing Race
Hell's Kitchen
SYTYCD
DWTS

[tanyatnt]

Wow ... as a Reality TV "ho" it's hard ;) to narrow it down to 5 but here goes ...

1) AMAZING RACE (early seasons were better)
2) SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
3) AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW
4) MAKING THE BAND (w/ Danity Kane mostly but I liked O-Town too)
5) tie between TOP CHEF/PROJECT RUNWAY (interesting to watch shows about stuff I know NOTHING about :) )

[bengalfreak]

1) Biggest Loser
2) surreal Life
3) Most Extreme Elimination Challenge


That's about it.

[JLucPicard]

Amazing Race
Survivor
The Mole
Last Comic Standing
Manhunt (short lived, rigged, but I-I-I-I-I Liked it! :))

[BeanMeScot]

The Amazing Race
The Mole
Big Brother
Survivor
?

[gadgetgrrll]

So You Think You Can Dance
The Amazing Race
Hell's Kitchen
Gene Simmon's Family Jewels
Survivor (the early ones)

[mwhip]

SYTYCD
Top Chef


That might be all I watch.

[David Platt]

The Amazing Race
So You Think You Can Dance
Survivor
Project Runway
Top chef

[MickeS]

I don't think I watch 5 anymore...

All-time though I'd say

Survivor
Amazing Race
The Mole
Joe Schmo
First season of "The Surreal Life"

[dansee]

So You Think You Can Dance
Hell's Kitchen
Dancing With the Stars

...those are the only ones I watch...

[jstack]

The Amazing Race
Hell's Kitchen
Beauty & the Geek

[MikeekiM]

I can't lie....just about all of them!


Wow ... as a Reality TV "ho" it's hard ;) to narrow it down to 5

I'm with you both! I even watched Pirate Master and Kid Nation :D

My watch list is too long...and I have a hard time narrowing to five...but here it goes...


Survivor
Amazing Race
Big Brother
American Idol
Hells Kitchen

[flyers088]

Amazing Race
The Mole
Deadliest Catch
The Next Food Network Star.
Black Gold

[pmyers]

I love Deadliest Catch but I just don't consider it Reality TV like I do Survivor or Amazing Race.

[Rosincrans]

Survivor
Amazing Race
Big Brother
American Idol
Hells Kitchen
That's mine as well.

The first season of the Mole was probably my favorite season of reality tv ever, but the latest incarnation doesn't break the top 5 for me.

[TheDewAddict]

Wow, this will be tough:

1. The Amazing Race
2. Survivor
3. Hell's Kitchen
4. Girls Next Door
5. So You Think You Can Dance

[sushikitten]

Amazing Race
Survivor
Kathy Griffin
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
The Mole

[IJustLikeTivo]

TAR
Survivor
Biggest Loser

I can't stomach any of the others. Even BL needs a lot of FF. The only one I never ever miss is TAR.

[TonyTheTiger]

I love Deadliest Catch but I just don't consider it Reality TV like I do Survivor or Amazing Race.

I agree, otherwise my list would include:

Top Gear.
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (UK version).
No Reservations.
Bizarre Foods.
Deadliest Catch.

[MegaHertz67]

1. Survivor
2. Survivor
3. Survivor
4. Survivor
5. Survivor

Last Comic Standing gets an honorable mention. And Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was fun for a while.

[MasterOfPuppets]

Any reason it has to be a game show?
I watch a lot of reality TV.

Survivor
The Mole
Man vs. Wild
It Takes a Thief
Hell's Kitchen
I Survived a Japanese Game Show...some people used less than 5, I'm picking up the slack.

I also watch America's Got Talent (love the autistic singer kid), Top Chef (buy some Glad), Baby Borrowers (much more interesting than I expected), Wife Swap, Kitchen Nightmares, Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters, The Ultimate Fighter, Gene Simmons, The Two Coreys, Pros vs. Joes, whatever that show on Spike was about the Detroit SWAT team and I always get sucked into The Surreal Life, hopefully the long rumored next season eventually happens and includes some of the rumored people.
I also wish Discovery would bring back Last One Standing.

[pmyers]

I don't think of shows like Man vs Wild, Survivorman, It takes a thief, Deadliest Catch, as reality shows. Those are more like documentaries to me. I know it's a hard line to draw though.

[MasterOfPuppets]

I don't think of shows like Man vs Wild, Survivorman, It takes a thief, Deadliest Catch, as reality shows. Those are more like documentaries to me. I know it's a hard line to draw though.

I think those are the real reality shows.
After all, Cops is the original reality show.

Shows like Survivor, The Mole, etc are game shows. There's very little reality taking place. But, for whatever reason, those are the shows people think of when "reality TV" is mentioned.

Bear showing how you can be stranded in the African desert and get a "drink" by squeezing the moisture out of fresh elephant dung is a lot more real than someone finding a fake idol on a nice beach. :p

That's just my view on the subject.
I know what the majority are talking about when they mention reality TV.

[TonyTheTiger]

I think those are the real reality shows.
After all, Cops is the original reality show.

Shows like Survivor, The Mole, etc are game shows. There's very little reality taking place. But, for whatever reason, those are the shows people think of when "reality TV" is mentioned.

Bear showing how you can be stranded in the African desert and get a "drink" by squeezing the moisture out of fresh elephant dung is a lot more real than someone finding a fake idol on a nice beach. :p

That's just my view on the subject.
I know what the majority are talking about when they mention reality TV.

Wasn't that show outed as fake recently?

[MasterOfPuppets]

Wasn't that show outed as fake recently?
There's more about the controversy here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6911748.stm). The British version, anyway.
Personally, I don't know that Bear ever claimed to be spending all of his time out in the elements.
Rather, the show is more about things that you could do out in the wilderness.

Unfortunately, he's not out there competing for a million bucks, a restaurant job, or something similar. :p

[MonsterJoe]

1. Top Chef
2. Big Brother
3. Next FoodNetwork Star
4. Intervention
5. Flipping Out

Honorable mentions (because my wife watches them)

Shear Genious
Kitchen Nightmares
Project Runway

I like Man vs. Wild too...it just didn't make a list. It is not intended to come off as a documentary or a dude surviving on his own...rather, a how-to guide or tips and tricks in the event that you find yourself caught up in that ****.

[Neenahboy]

1. The Amazing Race
2. Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (BBC)
3. The Mole (Anderson Cooper years)
4. Top Chef
5. Survivor

[pmyers]

I started a new thread so we can debate what makes a show a reality show:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=401660

;)

[gossamer88]

1. Survivor
2. The Amazing Race
3. Big Brother
4. Top Chef
5. All Mark Cronin shows (guilty pleasures)

[ebockelman]

The Amazing Race
The Mole (with leanings to the first two seasons)
Kitchen Nightmares (both US and UK, plus Revisited)
It Takes a Thief
Last Comic Standing

[The Flush]

in no particular order...

The Ultimate Fighter
Survivor
Deadliest Catch
Road Rules/Real World Challenge
Surreal World

[The Flush]

On second thought, I probably like Tapout better than either Road Rules/Real World Challenge or Surreal World.

[timr_42]

1 Survivor
2 TAR
3 Big Brother
4 Top Chef
5 Hell's Kitchen

[Bierboy]

NHL Hockey
ML Baseball
NFL Football
MSL Soccer
Thumb Wrestling.

[MasterOfPuppets]

On second thought, I probably like Tapout better than either Road Rules/Real World Challenge or Surreal World.

Forgot all about Tapout.
That's a fun show to watch.

SunSHINE!

[Bob Coxner]

The Amazing Race
Project Runway
Top Chef
Survivor

[Inundated]

The Amazing Race. Anxiously looking forward to TAR13 this fall.

I think I would have gotten into The Mole in the Anderson Cooper years, but I never got a Round Tuit as far as watching it.

And that's about it.

Well, unless you count a certain past reality TV parody show and its spinoffs that a bunch of us basically lived through, through this very forum...

[jtlytle]

Big Brother
Mole
Amazing Race
Survivor
Kid Nation


also:
Project runaway
Design star
Top Chef
Next FoodNetwork Star

Used to watch but not anymore:
Hell's kitchen
Kitchen Nightmares
Bootcamp


Never watched:
Tapout
The Ultimate Fighter
Deadliest Catch
Road Rules/Real World Challenge
Surreal World
It Takes a Thief
Last Comic Standing
Shear Genious

[RonDawg]

I love Deadliest Catch but I just don't consider it Reality TV like I do Survivor or Amazing Race.

Shows like "Deadliest Catch", "Ice Road Truckers", or for that matter, "COPS", are far closer to the definition of "reality" than many so-called "reality shows."

While there has been some creative editing, and overemphasis on certain events with these programs, these shows basically depict what a group of people do for a living. You can't get much more "real" than that.

I don't consider shows like "Survivor", "The Apprentice", "Hell's Kitchen", or similar programs to be a "reality show" but rather simply a variation of a game show, in which participants undergo a series of exercises and challenges towards the ultimate goal of winning.

[goblue97]

Forgot all about Tapout.
That's a fun show to watch.

SunSHINE!

...and cowBOYYY!

My top five would be:
Amazing Race
Survivor
Ultimate Fighter
Mole
Family Jewels (even if it is mostly scripted/staged)

[Mr. Soze]

The 3 we watch.

American Idol
Top Chef
Hells Kitchen

The whole family watch Idol now (past 2 years) and me and the kids watch the food ones.
My daughter and I also watched a few episodes of The Next Food Network Star.

[DreadPirateRob]

Survivor
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