Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV

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On today’s show: Making mistakes in public as a blogger and journalist, feedback, and the scourge of reality TV network notes. Plus, recommendations from the Emmy nominations, and life advice from a writer.

Mentioned

  • How reality shows are ruined, explained by popular movies
  • Jon Collins' blog, Jeez Jon
  • Matt Kiser's What the Fuck Just Happened Today?
  • SRCCON
  • All the 2025 reality TV Emmy nominees
  • Love on the Spectrum producers on casting, filming, and season 3’s ‘spectacular crescendo’
  • 12 truths I learned from life and writing by Anne Lamott
  • Shitty first drafts: my favorite writing advice

    • Recommendations

    • Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Hulu
    • Life Below Zero, NatGeo/Disney+
    • Love on the Spectrum, Netflix
    • 100 Foot Wave, HBO
    • Pee-Wee As Himself, HBO

      • Credits

      • Andy Dehnart’s Reality Blurred is copyright 2025 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.
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        Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TVBy reality blurred's Andy Dehnart