(JTA) — Many people have curbed or curtailed their big Shabbat dinners during the COVID-19 pandemic, but not the cast of the “The Real Housewives of New York City.” On the episode that aired Tuesday, the cast of the Bravo reality TV series about socialites in the city is shown attending a drama-filled event described…
“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” chronicles the lives of a small subset of plastic-surgery prone women in the capital of the Mormon world. It may not seem like a very Jewish show, but there’s only one word to describe our feelings about it: dayenu. It would have been enough to watch one housewife,…
Last weekend, Netflix made the fantasy of every millennial woman who raised her hand too much in middle school a reality: Now, whenever we want to, we can watch Zac Efron listen with bated breath while a confident and qualified female scientist whispers facts about her chosen field in his ear. It’s a gray afternoon…
I was a junior at Stern College for Women when I stumbled upon my first “Bachelor” party. I was foraging for a late-night snack from the vending machine in my dorm building, when I noticed that the lounge’s couches were filled with girls, crowding around the TV and talking about what sounded to be the…
4,000 episodes later it seems we have decided that reality is bad enough as it is — the salacious talk show “Jerry Springer” has been canceled after 27 seasons. Daytime drama junkies, don’t panic — “Springer” will still be shown in syndication, plus producers say “there is a possibility” of more original episodes, which doesn’t…
(JTA) — An Israeli production company is creating a reality television show format inspired by the #MeToo movement. The show, called “The Silence Breaker,” will use hidden cameras to go under cover and document sexual harassment in real workplaces, The Hollywood Reporter first reported on Wednesday. Each episode will tell the victims’ stories and end…
There was a time when you might have prayed, “May my daughter never grow up to be a star on the reality TV show ‘Real Housewives.’” Now you can change that prayer to, “Should my daughter grow up to be a star on ‘Real Housewives,’ may she be like Siggy Flicker.” In a dreamlike turn…
A reality TV host came under fire after uttering an anti-Semitic slur, the New York Post reported. Toni and her sister Donna Snow are the hosts of “Texas Flip N Move,” a reality show where the sisters refurbish houses and then “flip” them for a profit. In a January 12 episode, they sold a refurbished…
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