
Creepy Guy Meets Recording Device: The True Origins of Reality TV
From No One Saw It Coming
Published 7/28/2025

From No One Saw It Coming
Published 7/28/2025
If you thought reality TV began in the ‘90s or early 2000s with MTV’s The Real World or Big Brother, think again… According to Pulitzer-Prize winning critic and New Yorker staff writer Emily Nussbaum, the genre actually pre-dates television altogether, beginning with audience participation shows on…