Reality TV
# reality-tv - Yesterday’s News
Here’s all you need to know about the Kim Kardashian Baby
Don’t act like you’re not interested.
# reality-tv - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
How Irish people react to a TV star tweeting their penis
We are filled with national pride. Oh wait, that would be revulsion.
# reality-tv - Monday 29 April, 2013
14 alarming situations explored on The Jeremy Kyle Show
Reality is a dark, dark place.
# reality-tv - Saturday 30 March, 2013
Ryan Lochte’s ‘What Would Ryan Do?’ is going to be the most brotastic show on telly
‘When you think of America, you think of hot-dogs’.
# reality-tv - Friday 1 March, 2013
VIDEO: This man does not know how to fill a kettle
This clip from a Russian reality TV show will put Big Brother contestants in perspective.
# reality-tv - Friday 22 February, 2013
How we should REALLY choose our Eurovision contestants
Let’s spice up the Eurosong final.
# reality-tv - Saturday 26 January, 2013
So these 1990s stars now have reality TV shows…
Toni and T-Boz and Tamera, oh my!
# reality-tv - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
6 reality TV series to make you question humanity
You’ll hate them. Or love them. Or love to hate them.
# reality-tv - Monday 17 December, 2012
Brazil’s Ronaldo loses 17 kilos in reality show
“Il Fenomeno” has gone from a 42-inch waist to 37 inches as part of a Brazilian reality TV show.
# reality-tv - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
# reality-tv - Saturday 24 November, 2012
Former Premier League star Muamba set for Strictly Come Dancing
The ex-Bolton midfielder will appear on a Christmas special nine months after suffering a cardiac arrest.
# reality-tv - Saturday 27 October, 2012
‘Real World’ star settles with MTV over rape claims
Tonya Cooley alleged that she had been attacked by fellow contestants but Hollywood Reporter says the case has been settled.
# reality-tv - Monday 15 October, 2012
Hulk Hogan to file lawsuits over sex tape
The Hulk says the tape was secretly filmed six years ago.
# reality-tv - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
Big Fat Gypsy Wedding ads “offensive”, says UK watchdog
Two out of four Channel 4 poster ads were slammed by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority, which described them as “offensive and irresponsible”.
# reality-tv - Monday 1 October, 2012
Is The Valleys the worst reality show ever?
Yes, probably.
# reality-tv - Friday 21 September, 2012
“Go at ‘em like dogs” – Celebrity Bainisteoir gets fierce*
*In more ways than one.
# reality-tv - Sunday 16 September, 2012
VIDEO: Reality star Paddy Doherty overwhelmed by Croke Park visit
“On my babies life, you’d think you’re in church,” said the Celebrity Big Brother star at GAA HQ.
# reality-tv - Friday 10 August, 2012
VIDEO: Conjoined twins get their own reality TV show
Because that’s where we’re at right now.
# reality-tv - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
RTÉ looking for participants for another wedding reality show
Are wedding-themed programmes the new interiors/cooking phenomenon for TV?
# reality-tv - Monday 26 March, 2012
Poll: Do reality TV shows set a bad example for home drinking?
Have your say in today’s poll…
Students focus on side of drink culture ‘neglected by reality TV’
DrinkAware.ie says its competition looks at the aspects of home drinking which are glossed over on shows like the Geordie Shore and Tallafornia.
Column: Tallafornia isn’t real – but it is normalising bad behaviour
“Four men and three women were plucked from the desperate masses and replanted in a Tallaght semi, cultivated on Grey Goose and a terrifying amount of eggs, and kept at a near tropical temperature so as to render clothes completely unfeasible.”
# reality-tv - Friday 6 January, 2012
And the winner of Celebrity Come Dine With Me is…
The first ever series of Celebrity Come Dine With Me Ireland was broadcast this week – and the winner has just been announced…
# reality-tv - Saturday 3 December, 2011
Watch: This may be the worst first kiss you’ve ever seen in your life
One couple in a new reality tv show chose to wait until their wedding day for their first kiss – with somewhat unfortunate results.
# reality-tv - Thursday 1 December, 2011
The Apprentice is NOT being cancelled, says TV3
TV3 said that a newspaper report saying the show was being cancelled was “untrue and misleading”.
# reality-tv - Thursday 27 October, 2011
China plans to limit ‘overly entertaining’ reality TV shows
Programmes dealing with marital troubles and matchmaking, talent shows, game shows, variety shows, talk shows and reality programming have been singled out.
# reality-tv - Friday 7 October, 2011
Beavis & Butthead are making a comeback
On October 27, MTV in the US will air the first new episode of the cult phenomenon since 1997.
# reality-tv - Friday 30 September, 2011
Who’s the daddy? Oh I am – 70 times over
What would you say if your fiancé told you he had 70 or so biological children in the world? Watch this man break the news on new reality show.
# reality-tv - Monday 22 August, 2011
WATCH: How did the Irish guy do in The Glee Project?
Damian McGinty was among the last entrants left in the contest to win a role in the next series of Glee. So how’d he do?
# reality-tv - Tuesday 16 August, 2011
Every hour of TV shortens your life by 22 minutes – study
That’s the word from the University of Queensland. Just think how much life you’ve lost to all those Friends re-runs…
# reality-tv - Wednesday 13 July, 2011
Rubberbandits vs Jersey Shore: There can only be one winner
MTV channel is following the terrible twosome from Limerick in four-part web series as they take on New York… and yes, the Jersey Shore.
# reality-tv - Thursday 7 July, 2011
Take 5: Thursday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# reality-tv - Wednesday 29 June, 2011
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# reality-tv - Tuesday 10 May, 2011
News Justin: Australia is hit by ‘Baby Bieber’ fever
Young Australia’s Got Talent contestant Jack Vidgen being tipped as the next pop sensation after
# reality-tv - Friday 6 May, 2011
Teen Mom inspires new rash of US baby names
Pregnant teenage reality TV stars and their offspring make ‘trending’ list for 2010 – but Elvis has left the building.
# reality-tv - Tuesday 26 April, 2011
# reality-tv - Tuesday 5 April, 2011
Channel 5 “confirms Big Brother to return”
Formal announcement expected to come in next day or two – with suggestions that Charlie Sheen might be approached for celebrity version in August.
# reality-tv - Tuesday 1 March, 2011
Piers Morgan overtakes Alan Sugar in Twitter followers
Brit TV stars argue over who is more popular on social networking site.
# reality-tv - Tuesday 11 January, 2011
Snooki wowws Letterman with 10 reasons to buy her book
Jersey Shore reality figure offers free, er, “grind” at nightclub with anyone who can show her receipt from bookstore.
# reality-tv - Thursday 9 December, 2010
West Wing creator accuses Palin of making a “snuff film”
Aaron Sorkin calls Palin “deranged” and a “witless bully” for reality TV show segment in which she shoots a deer.


























































