10 Best Reality Shows of 2024, Ranked

2024 has been fairly the 12 months for actuality TV. Now, the style has at all times had its share of loyal followers. Whether or not it’s peculiar individuals being thrown into unknown conditions, or the world’s most well-known celebrities being stripped of their fame and standing to compete in opposition to one another — all bets are off in relation to actuality TV. To not point out that there’s a actuality present for virtually everybody on the market. The viewers can select from barely scripted reveals that observe a set format, akin to Survivor or Large Brother, to the household drama on The Kardashians, or relationship competitions just like the Bachelor franchise.

This 12 months particularly has been fairly experimental for actuality TV. The 12 months 2024 has seen lots of new actuality reveals which have put a spin on the codecs followers are used to seeing. However the 12 months has additionally seen the return of some all-time fan favorites with fashionable twists. A number of well-known franchises have expanded into different nations and cultures, and that simply goes to point out that the fact style isn’t operating out of steam anytime quickly.

10 ‘Love is Blind UK’

Season 1

The Love is Blind franchise kicked issues off with Love is Blind USA again in February 2020. The present is designed to be a social experiment the place the contestants attempt to meet their good match with out seeing their faces. The contestants solely get to satisfy one another as soon as they’ve fallen in love and gotten engaged. The premise of Love is Blind is to show that real love is about emotional connection greater than anything. Over time, Love is Blind USA has develop into one among Netflix’s most well-known relationship actuality reveals. So, it was no shock when the franchise expanded to the U.Okay.

Love is Blind UK premiered on August 7, 2024, and carried out method higher with the viewers in comparison with its U.S. counterpart. For starters, Love is Blind UK featured contestants who appeared to come back in with the intent of discovering love. However, the casting for Love is Blind US has been just a little questionable throughout the present’s more moderen seasons. After Trevor Sova’s secret relationship outdoors the pods, the followers haven’t actually been in a position to belief anybody on Love is Blind US anymore. However I’ve to confess that the UK model of the fact present has been a breath of recent air. Contestants like Steven Smith and Sabrina Vittoria and even playboy Ollie Isaac come throughout as genuine, which solely makes you wish to preserve watching extra.

Launch Date

August 7, 2024

Solid

Emma Willis , Matt Willis

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Actuality

Seasons

1

9 ‘The Traitors USA’

Season 2

The US version of The Traitors would possibly simply have one-upped its British predecessor with its second season.The Traitors US Season 2 premiered in January 2024 and featured a fairly fascinating solid. Even earlier than the present had aired, it was making headlines for casting some fairly standard members of The Actual Housewives franchise, together with Phaedra Parks, Larsa Pippen, and Tamra Decide. To not point out that the present additionally featured notable actuality stars akin to Peter Weber from The Bachelor and Maksim Chmerkovskiy from Dancing with the Stars. All in all, although, the present options each celebrities and peculiar individuals, which is what makes it a lot enjoyable to look at.

The present adopted the identical format the place a small group of contestants had been chosen to be the secret Traitors working collectively to get rid of the opposite contestants and win the grand prize. The remaining contestants are referred to as the Faithfuls, whose aim is to establish and kick the traitors out of the sport. As reported by Selection, The Traitors USA Season 2 turned the most-watched actuality collection on Peacock.

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The Traitors (US)

Launch Date

January 12, 2023

Seasons

2

Creator(s)

Stephen Lambert , Marc Pos

Writers

Lee Grant , Christine Rose

Showrunner

Stephen Lambert

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8 ‘Survivor’

Season 47

Survivor is likely one of the longest-running actuality competitors reveals of all time. With each new season, the present solely features extra loyal followers. That goes to point out the format of Survivor, the place a gaggle of contestants is distributed to a distant location and left to fend for themselves within the wilderness. The contestant who outlasts everybody else is the winner of the present. Like lots of different actuality reveals, Survivor options celebrities and peculiar individuals as they attempt to use the extent of their bodily and psychological strengths to outlive with none primary utilities.

Survivor 47 featured some notable solid members, together with Rob Has a Podcast star Aysha Welch and President Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Lovett. Nonetheless, what I like concerning the present is that it actually brings all of its contestants all the way down to the identical place to begin, and so they all have to show that they’ve what it takes to be the winner.

Solid

Jeff Probst

Launch Date

Could 31, 2000

Ranking

Seasons

45

Studio

Story By

Jeff Probst

Writers

Jeff Probst

Community

CBS

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu , Netflix

Administrators

Jeff Probst

Showrunner

Jeff Probst

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7 ‘Sister Wives’

Seasons 18 & 19

2024 has been a roller-coaster journey for Kody Brown and his plural household. After three of his 4 wives, particularly Christine, Janelle, and Meri Brown determined to go away him in 2021, 2022, and 2023 respectively, followers had no thought what the long run held for his or her long-running TLC present Sister Wives. Nonetheless, submit Brown’s three splits, the present has continued to heart across the lives of its contestants. The one distinction is that they’re not a plural household anymore! As a result of Robyn Brown stays the last-standing sister spouse, Sister Wives Season 18 and 19 have closely targeted on how she has handled the aftermath of Kody Brown’s splits.

However, Sister Wives Season 18 gave the followers a glimpse into Christine Brown’s relationship with David Woolley together with their fairytale wedding ceremony. Sister Wives Season 18 additionally follows the ultimate breakdown of Kody and Janelle Brown’s marriage, together with Meri Brown coping with her personal difficult feelings. Sister Wives Season 19 begins with Kody Brown’s first three wives beginning their very own lives after leaving him, whereas he and his youngest spouse cope with their very own relationship points. To not point out the foremost household dispute over the plural household’s Coyote Go property. General, the final two seasons of Sister Wives have damaged away from the standard narrative of the present and targeted extra on what occurs when polygamy fails. And for somebody who has adopted the Brown household since Sister Wives Season 1, it’s fascinating to see how a lot their lives have modified.

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Kody Brown , madison Brown , Janelle Brown , Tamron Corridor , Aspyn Brown , Robyn Brown , Andrea Canning , Gwendlyn Brown , meri brown , Logan Brown , Christine Brown , Sukanya Kirshnan

Launch Date

September 16, 2010

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Actuality

Seasons

18

Cinematographer

Doug Monroe, Callan Griffiths, Richard Alexander Walkling, Anthony Derosa, Matthew Thompson, Ray Farmer

Distributor

TLC

Filming Areas

Nevada, Utah, Arizona

Foremost Characters

Timothy Gibbons, Kirk Streb, Deanie Wilcher, Christopher Poole, Invoice Hayes

Producer

Deanie Wilcher

Manufacturing Firm

Puddle Monkey Productions, Determine 8 Movies

Variety of Episodes

167

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6 ‘Promoting Sundown’

Season 8

Promoting Sundown Season 1 premiered on Netflix in 2019, and it kickstarted a wave of actuality actual property reveals. However you understand what they are saying, imitation is a type of flattery! As a result of Promoting Sundown, with all its drama, catfights, messy relationships, and, in fact, million-dollar properties, is likely one of the most entertaining actuality reveals of all time. After Promoting Sundown Season 7 ended on an especially bitter be aware, with tensions between Chrishell Stause and Nicole Younger at an all-time excessive, the followers couldn’t await the present to be again with a bang. And let’s simply say it did far more than that.

Proper earlier than the premiere of Promoting Sundown Season 8 in September, Stause, Emma Hernan, and Chelsea Lazkani took to social media to name Younger out for mendacity about one thing on the present. Whether or not this was a PR transfer, or a real response to Younger implying that Hernan had been with a married man, it made everybody wish to tune in to meet up with all of the controversy. Not simply that, months forward of the premiere of Promoting Sundown Season 8, the information about Chelsea Lazkani’s ex-husband dishonest on her broke out. And the truth that her office rival Bre Tiesi had one thing to do with it was additionally a serious plot level throughout the present’s newest season. On the finish of the day, Promoting Sundown Season 8 delivered every thing that the present is understood for: over-the-top outfits, unending workplace feuds, and a few actual property right here and there.

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Promoting Sundown

Launch Date

March 21, 2019

Solid

Mary Fitzgerald , Chrishell Stause , Jason Oppenheim , Christine Quinn , Heather Rae Younger

Seasons

7

Watch On Netflix

5 ‘The Actual Housewives of New Jersey’

Season 14

The Actual Housewives of New Jersey Season 14 premiered in Could 2024. Amongst all of the reveals within the Actual Housewives franchise, this one needs to be my favourite. Not solely does the present star a few of the most iconic housewives of all time, akin to Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Dolores Catania, and Margaret Josephs, however it additionally brings in all of the drama you possibly can ever hope for! In the course of the filming of RHONJ Season 14, Jennifer Aydin and Danielle Cabral truly acquired right into a bodily altercation and had been suspended.

The most recent season confirmed the solid being pushed additional aside. In fact, there have been candy moments, akin to Giudice and Josephs sending their daughters off to school. Nonetheless, issues between the sisters-in-law remained as icy as ever. The finale alone ended with Jennifer Fessler strolling out of a gaggle dinner due to how poisonous the women had been with each other. Throughout all of this, Jackie Goldschneider revealed that she contacted Luis Ruelas’ ex-girlfriend whereas she was feuding with Teresa Giudice to get grime on him. All of this pressured the producers to exchange the standard reunion with a watch celebration the place the women had been divided into separate teams to stop any extra fights. Contemplating that the producers are at the moment planning a serious RHONJ overhaul, Season 14 will certainly go down in popular culture historical past.

Launch Date

Could 12, 2009

Solid

Teresa Giudice , Jacqueline Laurita , Caroline Manzo , Dina Cantin , Danielle Staub , Melissa Gorga , Kathy Wakile , Teresa Aprea , Amber Marchese , Nicole Napolitano , Dolores Catania , Siggy Flicker , Margaret Josephs , Jennifer Aydin

Foremost Style

Actuality

Seasons

13

Franchise

The Actual Housewives

Creator(s)

Scott Dunlop

Producer

Andy Cohen

Manufacturing Firm

Sirens Media

Writers

Scott Dunlop

Variety of Episodes

222

Streaming Service(s)

Bravo , E! , Peacock

Franchise(s)

The Actual Housewives

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4 ‘Large Brother’

Season 26

With all this discuss Synthetic Intelligence taking on in 2024, Large Brother accepted the problem and made AI an enormous a part of its gameplay. An AI character named Ainsley, which stands for Synthetic Intelligence Community Self-Studying Entity, was built-in into the sport and will management sure recreation components and work together with the houseguests in methods they would not count on. The A.I. Area twist in Large Brother 26 launched a 3rd nominee every week, who competed alongside the opposite two nominees in a problem to safe security. To not point out the introduction to the memorable JANKIE, who tortured the houseguests by making them attend a carnival straight from hell.

All of those unpredictable components made Large Brother 26 a standout actuality present in 2024. For the primary time since Season 13, the present resulted in an all-female finale. Chelsie Baham emerged because the winner in a historic 7-0 jury vote and have become the primary girl within the present’s historical past to realize a unanimous victory.

Launch Date

July 5, 2000

Creator

Solid

Julie Chen Moonves

Ranking

Seasons

25

Studio

Writers

John de Mol

Community

CBS

Administrators

Mark W. Roden , Quinn Saunders

Showrunner

Allison Grodner

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3 ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Season 33

Dancing with the Stars Season 33 premiered in September 2024 and immediately took over the world of actuality TV. The present initially made waves by casting con artist Anna Delvey, who was the inspiration behind Netflix’s Inventing Anna. Nonetheless, the present additionally featured some notable actuality TV celebrities, together with first-ever Asian Bachelorette Jenn Tran, The Bachelor star Joey Graziadei, and Phaedra Parks from The Actual Housewives of Atlanta. The present adopted its conventional construction, with every week divided right into a theme with the contestants performing completely different dance types.

Graziadei emerged because the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 33 alongside together with his skilled dance accomplice Jenna Johnson. This marks the first time in historical past {that a} Bachelor star has gained a dance competitors.DWTS Season 33, Episode 8 additionally marked the present’s five hundredth episode, which makes this season all of the extra particular.

Launch Date

June 1, 2005

Solid

Carrie Ann Inaba , Bruno Tonioli , Len Goodman , Tom Bergeron , Cheryl Burke , Tony Dovolani , Derek Hough , Mark Ballas , Karina Smirnoff , Maksim Chmerkovskiy , Kym Johnson , Sasha Farber , Val Chmerkovskiy , Emma Slater , Sharna Burgess

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Watch On Disney+

2 ‘The Golden Bachelorette’

Season 1

The Golden Bachelor premiered again in September 2023 and was an prompt hit with followers who had been searching for a recent spin on The Bachelor Franchise. The thought of the present was to function senior residents who wished to offer love a second probability, and it turned ABC’s most-watched premiere ever on streaming. The finale of the present aired in November 2023, and featured main man Gerry Turner getting married to Theresa Nist. Nonetheless, they determined to finish their marriage three quick months later. So, naturally, followers anticipated higher from The Golden Bachelorette, which stars Joan Vassos because the main woman.

Vassos initially appeared in Turner’s season however needed to go away the present early as a consequence of a household emergency. Whereas she wasn’t precisely a fan-favorite selection to start with, Vassos actually got here into her personal as the first-ever Golden Bachelorette. She was susceptible and genuine in her journey to discovering love as she moved on from the dying of her first husband. Vassos even modified the best way the franchise’s iconic Fantasy Suites labored, as a result of she wished to maneuver at her personal tempo. In the long run, she finds her good soulmate in Chock Chapple, and the 2 of them are nonetheless going robust.

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The Golden Bachelorette

Launch Date

September 18, 2024

Solid

Joan Vassos , Jesse Palmer , Gary Levingston , Pascal Ibgui , Jonathan Rone , Charles Chock Chapple , Charles Ling , Keith Gordon , Man Gansert , Jordan Heller , Mark Anderson , Daniel Roemer , Gil Ramirez , Charles King , Kim Buike , Gregg Lassen , Michael Stevens

Foremost Style

Actuality

Seasons

1

Character(s)

The Golden Bachelorette

Community

ABC

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu

Franchise(s)

The Bachelor

Showrunner

Bennett Graebner

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1 ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’

Season 1

I’ve to confess, Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives needs to be the breakthrough actuality present of 2024 for me. Nobody noticed this one coming. With an already fascinating premise, because of Taylor Frankie Paul’s swinging scandal in June 2022, all the world wished to know what the world of MomTok was all about. And the present delivered past expectations! Starring a gaggle of MomTok influencers, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives offers the followers a glimpse into what life is like for these girls as they reside in Utah, reside life in keeping with their Mormon religion, and sip on soiled sodas. Belief me once I say that the primary episode the place Paul offers with the aftermath of her scandal, alongside together with her 2023 home violence arrest, is sufficient to hook you proper in.

The present has already been picked up for a second season as a result of the followers simply can’t get sufficient after Season 1. From Paul’s on-and-off relationship with Dakota Mortensen to Whitney Leavitt’s feud with the remainder of the group and Jenn and Zac Affleck packing as much as go away Utah throughout the Season 1 finale — there’s a lot the present has left unanswered. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has all the weather of a profitable actuality present which you could look ahead to senseless leisure — and I say we will by no means have sufficient of that.

Launch Date

September 6, 2024

Foremost Style

Actuality

Seasons

1

Watch On Hulu

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