Reality TV, reconsidered

Formats that once felt like harmless television, reopened years later by the people who were in them. What looked like entertainment at the time turns out to have had a cost, and these films go looking for who paid it.

• Predators (2025) ★★
• Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model (2026) ★
• Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action (2025) ★★★
• Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser (2025) ★
• The Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime (2022) ★