Favorite Reality-Type Shows?

[JosephC.Myers]

I was sitting here watching "Deadliest Catch" on TV and got curious as to what type of "reality shows" the people of SportsJournalists.com happen to like and/or watch. I watch "Deadliest Catch", "Ax Men", "Devil's Ride" and "Wicked Tuna" pretty regularly and some others infrequently.
Also, if you watch something not everybody may have heard of, throw it out there for general consumption.

 

[imjustagirl]

All of them.

 

[JosephC.Myers]

All of them.

Nothing in particular you like any more than the others? I forgot that I like "Swamp People", too.

 

[JosephC.Myers]

All of them.

Nothing in particular you like any more than the others? I forgot that I like "Swamp People", too.

I'll second what Creosote said. LOL

 

[imjustagirl]

Nope. I like all kinds.

 

[JosephC.Myers]

Nope. I like all kinds.

OK. Your answer was kind of vague. Didn't know if there were any certain ones you liked better than the rest.

 

[Batman]

My latest guilty pleasure is "South Beach Tow" on TruTv. It's an absolute train wreck, it's pretty obvious most of the situations are staged, but I can't turn it off once I start watching. If it's not 90 percent (or more) fake, then Miami Beach has to be the best town to get your ass kicked in in America.

 

[imjustagirl]

What's vague about "all of them?"

 

[JosephC.Myers]

What's vague about "all of them?"

Well, maybe not vague. Just thought you might have one or two you liked better than the rest is all.

 

[93Devil]

Auction Hunters and Storage Wars

 

[JosephC.Myers]

My latest guilty pleasure is "South Beach Tow" on TruTv. It's an absolute train wreck, it's pretty obvious most of the situations are staged, but I can't turn it off once I start watching. If it's not 90 percent (or more) fake, then Miami Beach has to be the best town to get your ass kicked in in America.

Most of the towing/repo things strike me as being staged. Like you, when I get started watching one of them, it's hard to change the channel because of just how much of a train wreck it is.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I find Storage Wars fascinating. Shortly after college, I had a neighbor who would buy units and I helped him move stuff a few times... I was definitely intrigued by what he was doing, but never enough so to do it myself.

I also like that with the DVR you can watch an episode in about 15 minutes...

 

[JosephC.Myers]

I find Storage Wars fascinating. Shortly after college, I had a neighbor who would buy units and I helped him move stuff a few times... I was definitely intrigued by what he was doing, but never enough so to do it myself.

I also like that with the DVR you can watch an episode in about 15 minutes...

I like that show, too. Always interesting to see what they come up with and how much it's worth.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

The Two Coreys was a very guilty pleasure.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

American Pickers and Swamp People.

I have a really short attention span with these shows. Once they start inserting drama, I'm done.
If it's fake, that's a deal breaker. That's why I quit Pawn Stars and Operation Repo.

I liked Storage Wars but burned out on it pretty quick.


I used to watch Deadliest Catch.. Dropped it after Phil died, but was losing interest anyway. The inserted drama in Deadliest Catch really pissed me off. God Damn the show was interesting enough before they started screwing with it.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Any Top Chef shows are must watch for me. And I've kept up with Big Brother the last three years, tho it seems to end up the same damn things year after year. I'll give Glass House a try, if it ever makes it to air.

 

[ColdCat]

does Top Gear count?
if not I don't really watch any of them now, but I always did like the ones PBS had about 10 years ago like 1900 House and The Colony. Basically a modern group would try to live using the technology of whatever era they were emulating. To make things more fun, each show would detail all the possible ways these people could die. On The Colony a group of native Americans showed up and the narrator said "They could be here to trade. Or they could be here to kill everybody." On 1900 is was the lead paint and doing laundry with boiling water, showing the kids wash clothes while the narrator explained that in 1900 alone, 2000 children in London died doing laundry

 

[tripleoption34]

Does 1,000 Ways to Die count?

 

[JosephC.Myers]

does Top Gear count?
if not I don't really watch any of them now, but I always did like the ones PBS had about 10 years ago like 1900 House and The Colony. Basically a modern group would try to live using the technology of whatever era they were emulating. To make things more fun, each show would detail all the possible ways these people could die. On The Colony a group of native Americans showed up and the narrator said "They could be here to trade. Or they could be here to kill everybody." On 1900 is was the lead paint and doing laundry with boiling water, showing the kids wash clothes while the narrator explained that in 1900 alone, 2000 children in London died doing laundry

Top Gear does count. I don't watch that show regularly, but when I've flipped through, it seemed pretty interesting. Hoarders, First 48 and Intervention are all shows I watched regularly in the past, but not so much anymore. Still, all 3 are pretty compelling TV.

 

[imjustagirl]

How is Top Gear a reality show?