#reality-tv

#reality-tv

The Running Man is the fourth Stephen King novel to get a screen adaptation in 2025, and it doesn't feel terribly far off from our current national hellscape. Glen Powell stars as Ben Richards, a working-class family man so desperate to save his sick daughter and wife from destitution that he signs up for the titular competition: a reality show of sorts where contestants must survive 30 days of being hunted by professional killers, including Pace's bloodthirsty masked villain, Evan McCone.

"really fun and gets on with everyone"

Hilarious co-op video game Overcooked is making the move to the real world. A24 has acquired the rights to the popular indie hit and reports that the company is working with Netflix to develop the concept into an unscripted competition reality TV series. I adore this idea, and with the right people behind it, I think it could be a masterwork of reality TV.

Three episodes into Bravo's Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition, I'm ready to call this experiment a noble failure. The highly produced Wife Swap format clashes with the surprisingly nuanced family drama we get on Real Housewives, which means the women we know and love are flattened into two-dimensional types. There's very little commitment to the idea of actually trading lives - Angie was never going to use a composting toilet - and the show seems completely averse to conflict.

"There's been a lot going on, I've enjoyed life tremendously, I feel like life is going great," he said.

The teaser begins by regaling the audience with all the ways the original Pump Rulers entertained us through the years. It starts with Stassi Schroeder promising in the show's very first episode that "I am the devil, and don't you forget it" and ends with Scandoval. That's probably a mistake. Any trailer would suffer by comparison to 11 years' worth of great moments, and this one is no exception.

Squid Game: The Challenge, the unscripted reality TV adaptation of the mega-hit South Korean drama, returns to Netflix for its second season. Season 2 features hundreds of new contestants to follow and brand new games exclusive to the reality spin-off. So, with Thanksgiving plans consuming all your attention, you might need a little help knowing when you can watch the new episodes. Much like a masked guard hovering over your shoulder, Esquire has your back.

The former England rugby player, 35, is one of the cast members of the first series of The Celebrity Traitors. At the time of writing he's still in the game as a 'Faithful' and is hot on the case of one 'Traitor', Jonathan Ross. In the last episode (Thursday 23 October), Marler was confronted at the roundtable over his demeanour and approach to the game, being called "cocky" by other contestants.

The security hedge has fallen, and the brokerage has been compromised. Two men disguised as butlers infiltrate The O Group on a rare day when almost everyone (except Mary) is in the office. They are there to issue a decree through song: Bre is having a Galentine's Day party. Everyone is invited to this bacchanal of botox and fire dancers, but everyone seems to understand that this is actually the opening salvo of the war that's been brewing between Mary and Chrishell's respective fiefdoms.

Henderson, 26, is joined under the bright lights by three other finalists - Alyssa Delpopolo (a brassy R&B singer who gives Mariah Carey a run for her money), Cle Morgan (a former child actor who brings a heart-wrenching gravitas to her ballads), and Bella Parnell (whose rich tonality excels in classics by Nina Simone and Donny Hathaway) - but she's the only one who is both a reality-show alum (she appeared on The X-Factor New Zealand in 2013)

We are living in the golden age of Real Housewives spin-offs, where the executives at Bravo (and Peacock if ya nasty) are throwing every possible concept at the wall and seeing what sticks. Their latest offering merges Wife Swap with our beloved Bravolebrities - but no, Housewives from different cities aren't swapping lives with each other. Instead, glamorous Real Housewives (and Emily Simpson) will be swapping lives with everyday people,

"When families go on vacation, they often post the highlight reel: angelic kids, joyful candids, gorgeous scenery. But this California couple decided to do the opposite. Reality TV producer Devin McGovern and his story editor wife Marlene Martinez took a family trip to Hawaii and created an Instagram reel that showed what it looks like when parents stop being polite and start getting real. There was screaming, crying, angst, despair - and yes, even a middle-of-the-night slap heard 'round the island."

Christine Brown Woolley grew up in Utah with a dad and two moms, in a polygamist community called the Apostolic United Brethren. When she became an adult, she joined a polygamist marriage as a third wife, helped raise more than a dozen kids, and became co-star of the TLC reality show Sister Wives. Fast forward to 2025, and she has left her marriage and her polygamist faith.

This season of has been a merry-go-round of accusations about how Katie Ginella bent the truth in various ways and Gretchen Rossi and Tamra Judge accusing each other of assassinating the other's character. opened with two story lines surrounding Stacey Rusch: whether she paid TJ Jones to be her boyfriend last season and if she was lying about creating a cannabis line to compete with Eddie Osefo's Happy Eddie.

Let's begin with Kiki Barth, who looks absolutely resplendent in a turquoise gown that evokes Old Hollywood Glamour in a way that every Project Runway contestant has tried to channel and ultimately failed. We should expect nothing less of Kiki, who always looks as good as a Whooper right off the assembly line. Marysol is next, and I love her ice-blue beaded gown with a weird hoop around one shoulder that looked like it was made for Judy Jetson.

Luckily for us, it seems like the season is going to end on the trip, like it has for the past several seasons on both The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. That means while the ladies are still in the O.C., they need to tie up all of their personal storylines. Josh Flagg and Josh Altman still haven't sold Heather Dubrow's house, but don't worry, they offloaded it in August for $16.5 million.

this week that reason is the fact that the episode begins with Whitney planning a garden party and singing an elaborate song (limerick?) about her friends for no apparent reason. And then, before we can even recover from that, Mary wonders why Whitney chose the venue that she did, informing us that the former owner killed his wife and himself on Christmas Day in front of their dog.

ALISON BEARD: I'm Alison Beard. ADI IGNATIUS: I'm Adi Ignatius. This is HBR IdeaCast. ALISON BEARD: Adi, you are very familiar with both of the guests on today's show. One is a comedian and talk show host, Jimmy Fallon. The other is a marketing executive turned reality TV star, Bozoma Saint John. But what they have in common beyond TV is an expertise on how to create breakthrough moments for themselves, their offerings, and all of the brands that they're associated with.

Living in the mansion, she says, was like the sorority experience she never got to have. "[Our room] was the party room," the 65-year-old health care CEO and mom of three tells Bustle, recalling delightfully hectic getting-ready scenes. "We'd have one in the shower, one on the toilet, one brushing her teeth, and one putting makeup on. And not just mascara - I mean, full face, just chatting. It was a blast."

"Gabriella's boyfriend actually ended up surprising her for her 21st birthday. She had no idea," Gia shared. "She likes to say that she kind of had some clues."