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"The Real World's" Ryan speaks

By Caitlin Shamberg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

As he prepares to return to Iraq, the MTV reality show star discusses how it feels to be redeployed -- and to learn about it on camera.

"The Real World" offers Transgenderism 101

By Thomas Rogers — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

MTV's reality dinosaur (finally!) gets a trans cast member. How painful is this going to be?

TV rehab

By Salon staff — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

There are shows we love even when they don't love themselves. For them, Salon staffers stage an intervention.

I Like to Watch

By Heather Havrilesky — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

The new Worst Show on Television, "The Real World" crosses the line, and we all savor the final days of "Six Feet Under."

Casting couch

By Benjamin Wallace — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

We sit in as reality TV pros pick the contestants on Fox's "The Rebel Billionaire," making sure they're angry, ill-informed, hyperbolic and have beautiful skin.

"The Real World," with beer bongs

By Heather Havrilesky — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

MTV's "Fraternity Life" brings back all the boneheaded bluster and enforced insularity of campus Greeks and their semi-anarchic pack mentality.

New Jack City

By Heather Havrilesky — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

From "The Bachelorette" to "documentaries" on the Bunny Ranch, America is wallowing in boobs and butts like never before. But just how nasty do we wanna be?

Tom Daschle's little MTV problem

By Jake Tapper — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

A "Real World" star's sexual hijinks cause some grief for her brother -- a Daschle speechwriter whose colleagues are decidedly unamused.

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 3, 2001

"The Real World" refuses to grow up

By Andy Dehnart — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

The show that spawned reality television comes back for its 10th season, forgetting the lessons it taught everyone else.

The week in dirt

Read by Amy Reiter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

"Survivor" Amber gets naked, but not paid. Plus: Classic rock is dead; Republican senators wrestle Arnold Schwarzenegger; a "Real World" cast member's unusual quest for "social healing."

"Survivor" stripper strapped

By Amy Reiter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Amber shows some skin -- but nobody pays her to do it; Julia Roberts' head size debated by knitters. Plus: Classic rockers get the classic diss, and a "Real World" vet lands in real trouble.

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2000

Oh, behave!

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

The adults are psychotic on "Big Brother" and "The Real World," but the kids are all right on "American High."

"Big Brother," meet "Survivor"; "Survivor," meet "The Real World"

By Andy Dehnart — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

What reality TV shows should learn from one another.

Who's the real voyeur?

By Damien Cave — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

An adult Web site claims CBS's "Big Brother" TV program steers too close to its own online "reality show."

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, June 13, 2000

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Weekend, May 5-7, 2000

Men II Boyz

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

The new reality series "Making the Band" exposes the emasculating truth about boy bands.

The wacky world of television

By Gavin McNett — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

On American game shows, you answer questions and win money. In the rest of the world, you get naked and bob for false teeth in a bucket of pig eyeballs.

"The Real Island"

By Carina Chocano — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

It's not what you know, but who you know -- and what they think of your hair -- that determines whether you'll survive!

Island fever

By Dylan James — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

I was willing to spring my gay porn past on my unsuspecting family if it would get me on the TV show "Survivor." But would it?

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1999