Best reality series ever

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch reality shows from all over the world, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    Top Gear 2002

    This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.

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    The Grand Tour 2016

    Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back with a show about adventure, excitement and friendship... as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it's even a show about cars. Follow them on their global adventure.

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  • Poster for Clarkson's Farm

    Clarkson's Farm 2021

    Follow Jeremy Clarkson as he embarks on his latest adventure, farming. The man who on several occasions claims to be allergic to manual labour takes on the most manually labour intensive job there is. What could possibly go wrong?

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  • Poster for Survivor

    Survivor 2000

    A reality show contest where sixteen or more castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for roughly 39 days. Frequent physical challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “Immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their players.

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  • Poster for RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race 2009

    Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and eliminations while helping guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge.

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  • Poster for Hell's Kitchen

    Hell's Kitchen 2005

    Aspiring restaurateurs brave Ramsay and his fiery command of the kitchen as he puts the competitors through an intense culinary academy to prove they possess the right combination of ingredients to win a life-changing grand prize.

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  • Poster for Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1998

    The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Not a talk show, not a sitcom, not a game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a completely unique concept to network television. Four talented actors perform completely unrehearsed skits and games in front of a studio audience. Host Drew Carey sets the scene, with contributions from the audience, but the actors rely completely on their quick wit and improvisational skills. It's genuinely improvised, so anything can happen - and often does.

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  • Poster for Queer Eye

    Queer Eye 2018

    An all-new “Fab Five” advise men on fashion, grooming, food, culture and design in this modern reboot of the Emmy Award-winning reality series.

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  • Poster for The Voice

    The Voice 2011

    The strongest vocalists from across the United states compete in a blockbusters vocal competition, the winner becomes “The Voice.” The show's innovative format features four stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts and, finally, the live performance shows.

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  • Poster for Shark Tank

    Shark Tank 2009

    Aspiring entrepreneurs pitch various business ideas to "The Sharks" -- tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoons -- in hopes of landing an investment.

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  • Poster for Squid Game: The Challenge

    Squid Game: The Challenge 2023

    In this reality competition show inspired by "Squid Game," 456 players put their skills to the ultimate test for a life-changing $4.56 million prize.

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  • Poster for The Amazing Race

    The Amazing Race 2001

    This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning the race and the $1 million prize.

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  • Poster for MasterChef

    MasterChef 2010

    This hit cooking competition series sees award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay and other celebrity chefs put a group of contestants through a series of challenges and elimination rounds, in order to turn one home cook into a culinary master.

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  • Poster for Gold Rush

    Gold Rush 2010

    Follow the lives of ambitious miners as they head north in pursuit of gold. With new miners, new claims, new machines and new ways to pull gold out of the ground, the stakes are higher than ever. But will big risks lead to an even bigger pay out?

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  • Poster for Love is Blind

    Love is Blind 2020

    Nick and Vanessa Lachey host this social experiment where single men and women look for love and get engaged, all before meeting in person.

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  • Poster for Keeping Up with the Kardashians

    Keeping Up with the Kardashians 2007

    A peek inside the exploits and privileged private lives of the blended Kardashian-Jenner family, including sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé.

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  • Poster for Kitchen Nightmares

    Kitchen Nightmares 2007

    Chef Ramsay attempts to do the impossible: turn one ordinary and empty restaurant into the most popular, sought-after venue in town. There's no time for polite small talk as he embarks on his mission to turn around the fortunes of each restaurant in just one week and save them from their living nightmares.

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  • Poster for Drawn Together

    Drawn Together 2004

    The world's first animated reality series gathers icons from all corners of the cartoon universe and lets them loose, with plenty of cameras to catch their exploits. Here's what happens when eight cartoon characters stop being polite and start getting real.

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  • Poster for Too Hot to Handle

    Too Hot to Handle 2020

    On the shores of paradise, gorgeous singles meet and mingle. But there’s a twist. To win a $100,000 grand prize, they’ll have to give up sex.

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  • Poster for Big Brother

    Big Brother 2000

    American version of the reality game show which follows a group of HouseGuests living together 24 hours a day in the "Big Brother" house, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy for three months.

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  • Poster for The Curse of Oak Island

    The Curse of Oak Island 2014

    Follow brothers Marty and Rick Lagina through their effort to find the speculated - and as of yet undiscovered - buried treasure believed to have been concealed through extraordinary means on Oak Island.

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  • Poster for Pawn Stars

    Pawn Stars 2009

    Go inside the colorful world of the pawn business. At the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on the outskirts of Las Vegas, generations of the Harrison family run the family business, and there’s clashing and camaraderie every step of the way.

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  • Poster for The Circle

    The Circle 2020

    Status and strategy collide in this social experiment and competition show where online players flirt, befriend and catfish their way toward $100,000.

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  • Poster for The Great British Bake Off

    The Great British Bake Off 2010

    This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone on to start a career based on baking.

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  • Poster for Deadliest Catch

    Deadliest Catch 2005

    Forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…it's all in a day's work for these modern day prospectors. During each episode we will watch crews race to meet their quota and make it home safely.

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  • Poster for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 2012

    The most celebrated competitors from RuPaul's Drag Race vie for a second chance to enter Drag Race herstory. This drag queen showdown is filled with plenty of heated competition, lip-syncing for the legacy, and, of course, the All-Stars Snatch Game.

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  • Poster for Physical: 100

    Physical: 100 2023

    In this fierce fitness competition, one hundred contestants in top physical shape compete to claim the honor of best body.

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  • Poster for America's Got Talent

    America's Got Talent 2006

    A weekly talent competition where an array of performers – from singers and dancers, to comedians and novelty acts – vie for a $1 million cash prize.

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  • Poster for Alone

    Alone 2015

    Hardcore survivalists are put by themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness, without camera crews, teams, or producers – on a single mission to stay alive for as long as possible.

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  • Poster for Beast Games

    Beast Games 2024

    I gathered 1,000 people to fight for $5,000,000, the LARGEST cash prize in TV history! We're also giving away a private island, Lamborghinis, and millions more in cash throughout the competition! Go watch to see the greatest show ever made!

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  • Poster for Catfish: The TV Show

    Catfish: The TV Show 2012

    Nev and his co-hosts -- from Max to Kamie to celebrity guests -- help people in dubious online relationships track down their baes IRL so they can sort out what's fact and what's fiction.

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  • Poster for Top Chef

    Top Chef 2006

    An American reality competition show in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges and are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode.

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  • Poster for Jersey Shore

    Jersey Shore 2009

    Eight people live together as housemates in a vacation home, party, work in the area and compete with each other to win the grand prize.

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  • Poster for Face Off

    Face Off 2011

    In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.

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  • Poster for American Idol

    American Idol 2002

    Each year, hopeful singers from all over the country audition to be part of one of the biggest shows in American television history. Who will become the new American Idol?

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  • Poster for Project Runway

    Project Runway 2004

    Aspiring fashion designers compete for a chance to break into the industry. Each week, a designer is eliminated from the competition after exhibiting their work in front of a judges' panel.

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  • Poster for Ghost Adventures

    Ghost Adventures 2008

    Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, search for haunted locations both domestically and internationally. During their investigations, Zak and crew acquaint themselves with the general area; interview locals about the hauntings; and go face-to-face with the evil spirits who reportedly haunt these locations.

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  • Poster for MasterChef Australia

    MasterChef Australia 2009

    MasterChef Australia is a Logie Award-winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Shine Australia and screens on Network Ten.

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  • Poster for Dirty Jobs

    Dirty Jobs 2005

    Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.

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  • Poster for Ink Master

    Ink Master 2012

    A group of the country's most creative and skilled tattoo artists compete for a hundred thousand dollars and the title of Ink Master. The stakes couldn't be higher with "living canvasses" donating their skin to be permanently marked in this adrenalized competition elimination.

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  • Poster for America's Next Top Model

    America's Next Top Model 2003

    Aspiring models compete for a chance to break into the business with a panel of judges critiquing their progress throughout the competition.

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  • Poster for Storage Wars

    Storage Wars 2010

    When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items in the form of a cash-only auction. The show follows professional buyers who purchase the contents based only on a five-minute inspection of what they can see from the door when it is open. The goal is to turn a profit on the merchandise.

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  • Poster for The Great British Bake Off

    The Great British Bake Off 2017

    Britain's best amateur bakers compete in the iconic white tent - all united in their aim to prove their baking skills and impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith

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  • Poster for Selling Sunset

    Selling Sunset 2019

    The elite agents at The Oppenheim Group sell the luxe life to affluent buyers in LA. Relationships are everything, and that often means major drama.

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  • Poster for Naked and Afraid

    Naked and Afraid 2013

    What happens when you put two complete strangers - sans clothes - in some of the most extreme environments on Earth? Each male-female duo is left with no food, no water, no clothes, and only one survival item each as they attempt to survive on their own.

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  • Poster for Nailed It!

    Nailed It! 2018

    Home bakers with a terrible track record take a crack at re-creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. It's part reality contest, part hot mess.

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  • Poster for Long Way Round

    Long Way Round 2004

    In 2004 Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman embarked on an epic challenge to bike 20,000-miles across 12 countries and 19 time zones in just 115 days. Watch as two friends ride around the world together and, against all the odds, realize their dream.

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  • Poster for Duck Dynasty

    Duck Dynasty 2012

    At first glance the Robertsons look like a typical Louisiana family who lives for duck hunting season. A closer look, however, reveals they live very well because of duck hunting season. The Robertsons own and operate Duck Commanders, which specializes in fabricating duck calls and decoys out of salvaged swamp wood. The company has grown from a mom-and-pop operation to a multimillionaire sporting empire, established in 1973 by family patriarch Phil (aka the Duck Commander) and now run by his business-savvy son, Willie. "Duck Dynasty" follows the Robertsons and their booming business, which also employs Willie's wife, Korie, his brother Jase and Uncle Si, a Vietnam vet and colorful character who keeps the guys in the workshop occupied with his many stories.

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  • Poster for The Mole

    The Mole 2022

    A high-stakes competition series where twelve players work together in challenges to add money to a pot that only one of them will win at the end. Among the players is one person who has secretly been designated "the Mole" and tasked with sabotaging the group's money-making efforts. In the end, one player will outlast their competition and expose the Mole to win the prize pot.

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  • Poster for The Masked Singer

    The Masked Singer 2019

    Celebrities compete in a singing competition with one major twist: each singer is shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costume, complete with full face mask to conceal his or her identity. One singer will be eliminated each week, ultimately revealing his or her true identity.

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  • Poster for Cops

    Cops 1989

    COPS is one of the first (and only) true and UNSCRIPTED reality shows, it follows the activities of police officers by embedding camera crews with police units. The show’s formula follows the Cinéma vérité convention, with no narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact. COPS has followed officers in 140 different cities in the United States and also has been shot in Hong Kong, London, and the former Soviet Union. Each episode is approximately 22 minutes in length and typically consists of three segments, with each segment being one or two self-contained police incidents.

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  • Poster for Below Deck

    Below Deck 2013

    The upstairs and downstairs worlds collide when this young and single crew of "yachties" live, love and work together onboard a luxurious mega yacht while tending to the ever-changing needs of their wealthy, demanding charter guests.

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  • Poster for So You Think You Can Dance

    So You Think You Can Dance 2005

    Dancers selected in open auditions across America take part in a rigorous competition designed to best display their talents, training and personalities to a panel of judges and viewers as they strive to win votes and avoid elimination.

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  • Poster for The Traitors

    The Traitors 2022

    Get them before they get you. 22 strangers, one castle, £120k - Claudia Winkleman hosts the ultimate reality game of trust and treachery. Let the mind games begin.

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  • Poster for The Devil's Plan

    The Devil's Plan 2023

    It's the ultimate showdown of wits, brains, strategy, and alliances for a chance to win 500 million won.

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  • Poster for American Pickers

    American Pickers 2010

    Pickers like Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are on a mission to recycle America, even if it means diving into countless piles of grimy junk or getting chased off a gun-wielding homeowner’s land. Hitting back roads from coast to coast, the two men earn a living by restoring forgotten relics to their former glory, transforming one person’s trash into another’s treasure.

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    8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 2013

    Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.

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  • Poster for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 2010

    A reality series that follows some of the most affluent women in the country as they enjoy the lavish lifestyle that only Beverly Hills can provide.

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  • Poster for Forged in Fire

    Forged in Fire 2015

    Competitors re-create weapons from historical periods ranging from Japanese katanas to medieval broadswords to ancient throwing blades. Each entry is judged on its artistry as well as its functionality and accuracy.

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    Comic Book Men 2012

    A show for Fanboys by Fanboys. Set in uber-geek Kevin Smith's iconic comic shop Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the show explores every nook and cranny of Fanboy culture from A to Z. Endless circular debates about the technical accuracy of the USS Enterprise's warp-core schematics? Snarky comic aficionados with an encyclopedic knowledge of every Marvel back issue? You bet.

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  • Poster for Tidying Up with Marie Kondo

    Tidying Up with Marie Kondo 2019

    In a series of inspiring home makeovers, world-renowned tidying expert Marie Kondo helps clients clear out the clutter -- and choose joy.

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  • Poster for Hotel Hell

    Hotel Hell 2012

    Chef Gordon Ramsay, along with a team of hospitality experts, travels the country applying his high standards to struggling hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts in an effort to get the owners and staff to turn their establishments around. Ramsay's signature no-holds-barred style will make it clear to those he coaches that there is no place for dirty rooms or incompetent staff if one hopes to remain in business.

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  • Poster for The Kardashians

    The Kardashians 2022

    The family you know and love is here with a brand new series, giving an all-access pass into their lives. Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie bring the cameras back to reveal the truth behind the headlines. From the intense pressures of running billion-dollar businesses to the hilarious joys of playtime and school drop-offs, this series brings viewers into the fold with a rivetingly honest story of love & life in the spotlight.

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    WWE Raw 1993

    A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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  • Poster for Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father

    Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father 2017

    Comic Jack Whitehall invites his stodgy, unadventurous father to travel with him to odd locations and events in an attempt to strengthen their bond.

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  • Poster for Ridiculousness

    Ridiculousness 2011

    Rob Dyrdek takes the funniest amateur internet videos and builds them into an episode of edgy, funny, and most importantly, timeless television.

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