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omg, ellebud. I have total secret crushes on two of those guys :o . Even though I could probably be their mothers. </p>
<p>My 2 indulgences:
Project Runway but I only started watching at the end of last season.
I also love Design Star (hgtv). </p>
<p>Like somebody else mentioned, I don’t watch any of the “big” ones. Survivor, A idol, dancing w/ stars, etc.</p>
<p>DrDrewsmom: </p>
<p>Which ones? One of the boys we’ve known since he was 4.</p>
<p>I don’t remember their names, but the ones who don’t have the black hair with the bowl cut.</p>
<p>My name is ghostfire and I am a reality show addict. Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order and including some that are dearly departed):</p>
<p>Survivor
Top Chef
Project Runway
Next Food Network Star
Hell’s Kitchen
Kitchen Nightmares
Dancing With The Stars
So You Think You Can Dance
American Idol
Girls Next Door
Rock Star
Surreal Life
Celebrity Fit Club
Charm School
House Hunters
John and Kate Plus Eight
Little People, Big World</p>
<p>And I know that I must be forgetting something. In my defense, most of these shows are on satellite and repeat constantly, thereby enabling me to catch most episodes without being glued to the TV.</p>
<p>I can barely express how much I dislike reality shows. All of them. Well, I’ve seen Iron Chef a couple of times while on vacation, and I’ll admit to having liked that. (But I wouldn’t want to see it every week.)</p>
<p>Every so often, I wind up watching one for 15-20 minutes while I’m cooking dinner. That’s how I know my hatred hasn’t abated, and that it doesn’t matter which show. Well, yes it does, some shows are even more creepy and manipulative than others.</p>
<p>My kids really like Flava of Love. I watched it with them. Once. (And I LIKE Public Enemy; they barely had any idea who Flava Fav was.)</p>
<p>In the US - Americas Next Top Model, Project Runway, Workout, and Ice Road Truckers</p>
<p>If you have BBCAmerica, check out You Are What You Eat and How Clean Is Your House? Every time I threaten the kids with calling the local health department on them, I watch the latter and shudder to think what conditions other people live in, scary…</p>
<p>BBCAmerica had another show on where they would take some average Joe/Jane off the street and turn them into a certain type of person/career in a very short time, then put them to the test to see if experts could tell whether they were really a fake - forgot the name of the show, but it was great!</p>
<p>Top Chef
ANTM
What not to wear
Kitchen Nightmares- just saw this for the first time, I like the premise of fixing a broken business, not just reality TV, but maybe making a real difference
For the same reason, Tabatha’s salon, could be really guilty fare
Runway
So you think you can dance </p>
<p>I guess Bravo weekend marathons when house cleaning is how I got hooked!</p>
<p>My youngest loved Laguna Beach, watches The Hills…! She was offered a part in a reality show and I went ballistic. She can watch other people’s meltdowns, but I refuse to watch her meltdowns…on national television no less.</p>
<p>For me, it’s either Project Runway(began watching during season 3) or Top Chef (started during the last season), I don’t watch any of the other reality shows.</p>
<p>Project Runway
Survivor
Amazing Race
Dancing with the stars</p>
<p>zebes, who requires a plot for the rest of her viewing pleasure, so I end up taping the reality programs if they come in conflict with the dramas.</p>
<p>Top Chef is the only other one we’d actually bother to make time for. I do enjoy What Not To Wear though. Stacy and Clinton are highly entertaining.</p>
<p>I’m not much of a television watcher, or a reality show viewer, and I don’t watch Runway, but I do watch and thoroughly enjoy Bravo’s Flipping Out. </p>
<p>I admire Jeff Lewis’ commitment to renovating single-family houses most other real estate developers would promptly demolish and replace with an ugly but functional multiplex. I also admire Lewis’ commitment to revitalizing so-called “transitional” neighborhoods. Most of all, I admire, respect, and profoundly understand Lewis’ commitment to workmanship excellence–to doing the “perfect” job while staying within (or as close as possible to) budget. </p>
<p>I consider Lewis to be a visual artist who “works in” three-dimensional structure rather than in two-dimensional canvas.</p>
<p>Behind-the-scenes glimpses of the trials and tribulations of an entrepreneur fascinate me. It’s tough to be an entrepreneur today, especially in the field of real estate development. Lewis is smart and gutsy. He takes carefully-calculated risks, and those risks usually pay off for him, due to his own hard work. Moreover, he thinks long-term; he never takes his short-term successes for granted, and he is always looking forward to his next project.</p>
<p>Jeff Lewis is a real winner. If I could afford to do so, I’d hire him–or someone exactly like him–in a heartbeat. (I’d work for him, too.)</p>
<p>I watch Top Chef, and also Shear Genius (which I didn’t think was as good the second season as the first). I watched the first season of Top Design, and thought it was awful. </p>
<p>I used to watch America’s Next Top Model, but haven’t seen any of the last two cycles. I guess I got bored with it – always the same thing.</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot – I’ve seen a couple of episodes each of “Real Housewives Orange County,” and the New York City version. Ugh. Embarrassing.</p>
<p>My favorite show is House Hunter. It’s the only show that I can get a good night sleep after watching it. With all the news on TV, I’m nervous to watch anything or read anything.</p>
<p>Haha. Most of these shows I can get a good night’s sleep DURING.</p>
<p>I can’t deal with the "Real Housewives . . . " Sorry, there’s no “real” there.</p>
<p>Forgot that we do like Iron Chef America, and Next Food Network Star.
Anyone watch Big Daddy’s show? I’m so glad he won!</p>
<p>Do the rest of the Food Network count as “reality TV”?</p>
<p>I dunno, Chevda, having lived in OC and spent time in the Newport area, it reminds me of some people I knew ;)</p>
<p>There was a show on the food network where they built huge, elaborately constructed cakes and decorated them in certain themes. Don’t know the name, but D’s loved it.</p>
<p>Another we found strangely entertaining a year or two ago was a Japanese game show that had been dubbed into English called Ultimate Extreme Challenge or Extreme Elimination Challenge(?) or something like that, with all kinds of crazy obstacle courses. Idiotic, but fun. </p>
<p>And as for “reality” tv - I wonder WHY people agree to be on some of these shows in the first place. In so many cases it just seems to open them up to ridicule and criticism. How much they are paid for losing their privacy?</p>
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Oh, I didn’t say they don’t exist; I just said they’re not real. ;)</p>