Andy Dehnart

Contributor

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Andy Dehnart has been obsessed with reality television since The Real World's second season, and has been writing about reality TV since The Real World Hawaii in 1999. His reporting and criticism has appeared on NPR and in Los Angeles Times, Vulture, The Washington Post, Playboy, The Daily Beast, and other publications.

• POSTED August 22, 2023

  
  Richard Hatch Pushed Boundaries to Define Reality TV Villainy
  The Survivor alum unapologetically played the game, making the way for ever more dishonest and manipulative behavior in reality TV.
• POSTED October 4, 2021

  
  Revisiting the Seinfeld Pilot: What Stuck and What Got Dropped
  The show’s 1989 pilot is vastly different from the series it ultimately spawned.
• POSTED June 2, 2021

  
  Revisiting the Frasier Pilot: What Stuck and What Got Dropped?
  The soon-to-be revived 90s sitcom arrived more fully formed than most.
• POSTED May 20, 2021

  
  It Took a While, But Streaming Has Finally Embraced the Reality Competition
  Netflix et al. are now delivering some of the genre’s best and most innovative shows.
• POSTED January 6, 2021

  
  How Celebrities Killed the Career Game Show Host
  Alec Baldwin, Leslie Jones and Jane Krakowski have replaced the Gene Rayburns, David Ruprechts and Bill Cullens of the world.
• POSTED September 24, 2020

  
  It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's... Reality TV to the Rescue
  How the networks are delivering more new unscripted content this fall than ever.
• POSTED June 11, 2020

  
  ABC’s Don’t and the Rise of the Low-Stakes, High-Comedy Game Show
  The latest entry in a burgeoning reality TV subgenre sticks with the silly.
• POSTED May 18, 2020

  
  Summer Comes Early For Reality Television
  As the scripted content well dries up, networks are looking to their store of unscripted summer programming to help fill the void.