In this quick episode: An update on the premiere of Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV season 6, which is coming the morning after Survivor 51’s premiere.

Also, a recommendation: Nation's Dumbest on Fox

In this special episode: My husband Nick and I chat about our wedding, some highs and lows, with Emily Post's great-great grandchild, Lizzie Post, in this excerpt from the podcast Emily Post Wedding Stories.

Listen to the full episode here, and also check out Emily Post Wedding Stories and Awesome Etiquette—and our great photographers, Live Happy Studio.

Credits

• Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
• Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
• Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.

After this week’s Big Brother 28 elimination, I’m revisiting an interview I did with Big Brother producers Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan about the show’s format. Has anything changed in 12 years? What still needs to change?

Plus: recommendations for two shows and one podcast episode, and stick around to the end for life advice from reality TV, once again from Mister Rogers.

Great Tape: an interview with Big Brother’s producers

• Is BB28’s Jason vs. Kamu just game? Or a shame?
• BB28’s players unanimously vote for ‘a boring, boring season’
• Will Big Brother ever get out of its rut?
• Why this was Big Brother’s best cast in years

Recommendations

• Restaurant Impossible: Last Call, Food Network
• Nation's Dumbest, Fox
• "The Mel Robbins Griftpocalypse (with Princess Weekes + Kat Tenbarge)" on A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Credits

• Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
• Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
• Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.
• Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan portraits by Sonja Flemming/CBS

Life Advice from Reality TV

• Everyone has lots of ways of feeling, Mister Rogers Neighborhood

Two words in a reality TV star's contract can change their post-show life—but also may not be that big of a deal? A dive into exclusivity clauses.

Plus: news I broke about Love is Blind, recommendations, and life advice from Canada's Drag Race.

Unscripted Updates, where I discuss something from the news

• The Love is Blind assault lawsuit was settled—days after a judge ordered these disclosures
• Read the Love is Blind cast contract—and production's employee handbook

Industry Insight, where I look at the business behind reality TV

• Love Islanders on DWTS? Maybe! Don’t believe the bad reporting

Recommendations

• Drag Race Canada, WOW Presents Plus
• Great British Bake-Off baker Henry Bird's video
• The Wainwright Prize 2026 longlist: 68 books!

Credits

• Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
• Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
• Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.

In this very special episode: A Project Runway 22 episode 2 recap and review, with a special guest star! Plus: news about The Challenge and a reality TV couple, plus recommendations for two shows that are polar opposites.

Unscripted Updates

• The Challenge: Cutthroat is on Paramount+, not MTV, starting Aug. 5
• Matt Rogers and ‘Below Deck’ Star Fraser Olender Break Up

A Couple of Recappers

• My Project Runway season 22 episode 1 review
• My Project Runway season 22 episode 2 recap

Recommendations

• Sam Neill's The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook
• Nation's Dumbest, Fox

Credits

• Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
• Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
• Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.

This week: A dramatic reading of my very first reality TV recap—to celebrate reality blurred’s 26th birthday today!

Also: recommendations, and, at the very end, life advice from a Survivor 50 player who’s on Big Brother 28!

Intro:

• Join me July 8 at 8 p.m. ET for a special AMA on Bluesky and/or Surf!
• BB28’s cast: Salina EsTitties, Rick Devens, Dee Valladares
• Big Brother Watchtower on Surf Social

Why and How I Wrote That: The Real World Hawaii

• My Real World Hawaii premiere recap
• All my Student.com recaps and writing

Recommendations

• RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 episode 9
• Guess the World

Tip Tips: real recommendations + affiliate links!

• Open an Ally bank account
• Hilton Honors
• Marriott Bonvoy

Credits

• Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
• Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
• Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.
• Oʻahu and Diamond Head photo by Cosmin Serban/Unsplash

Love Island and Big Brother have a history of casting hot dummies who sometimes turn out to be people who behave badly and maybe shouldn’t be on TV. How do they find them? How does casting work? We'll dive into two parts of the process.

Also: recommendations, including for some podcasts, and stick around to the end for life advice from reality TV, this time from The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.

Unscripted Updates

• In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood by Collin Gosselin
  • Kate Gosselin speaks out on estranged son Collin after scathing post
• Another Love Islander disappears for using racial slurs
  • Alannah's bad apology
• Comcast spinning off NBCUniversal and Comcast
  • Versant cable networks

Behind the Scenes

• Love Island USA application
• Big Brother finals casting process: how it works, rules finalists must follow
• Ian and Dan discuss Sucks, Jokers strategy, how Big Brother finals casting hasn’t changed in years
• Big Brother contract: the legal agreement houseguests sign

Recommendations

• Nick and I on Emily Post Wedding Stories with Lizzie Post. Listen here!
• 15 great podcasts from the other AIR New Voices AMPLIFY podcasters and creators
• The Real Housewives of Rhode Island (Peacock)

Credits

• Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
• Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
• Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.