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What do you do during a pandemic when it’s a struggle to film Reality TV?
Make a documentary about it, which is kind of ironic given most observers feel the genre emerged from Documentaries in the first place.
In
For Real: The Story of Reality TV presenter Andy Cohen casts his eye over American reality television but the results are closer to
20 to One clips with allied commentary, rather than considered critique.
The timeline begins unexpectedly with an
I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy gave birth to Little Ricky, an art-imitates-life event which mirrored Ball’s own birth to Desi Arnaz Jr. America was gripped by the synergy, which enables Cohen to segue into Celebrity Reality stars for Episode 1.