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Paramount+’s “Team Moms: Baseball” begins with youth baseball at the center of nearly every family’s life, but by the end of its first season, the biggest competition is no longer taking place on the field. The parents of the boys at Scottsdale’s Legendary Prep Academy spend the season moving through friendships, arguments and shifting alliances,…
The Traitors: New Blood introduced an entirely civilian cast to the American version of the competition, giving viewers a group of people whose lives were largely unknown before they arrived at Ardross Castle. Arisa Thomas quickly stood out because her everyday profession is very different from the lawyers, doctors and business professionals around her. Arisa…
The Traitors: New Blood spent its opening episodes proving how easily a confident theory can send the Faithfuls in the wrong direction. Episode 4, titled The Death Parade, continues that pattern, but it also ends with the group closer than ever to identifying one of the actual Traitors. Katie Fites has barely settled into her…
The Traitors: New Blood enters Episode 3 with its most interesting experiment still unresolved. Joe Vanella and Tomica Adams have been operating as the castle’s original Traitors, but Katie Fites and Xavier Scruggs were secretly given a chance to compete for the third place in their group. The Traitors Are Watching finally reveals who wins…
For more than two decades, “Hell’s Kitchen” has tested whether ambitious chefs can turn individual talent into the discipline Gordon Ramsay expects inside a professional kitchen. Season 25 arrives with a fitting twist for the show’s milestone year. Every contestant is 25 years old or younger, creating a cast largely made up of chefs who…
Aaliyah Puglia entered “Survivor 51” believing that adaptability would be one of her biggest strengths. The 24-year-old chef had already moved between different cities, traveled on her own and built a career in demanding professional kitchens, experiences she believed would translate well to a game built around uncertainty. Her time in Fiji, however, ended much…
Netflix’s Wonka’s The Golden Ticket takes the familiar idea of Charlie Bucket entering Willy Wonka’s mysterious factory and turns it into a full reality competition. Twelve Golden Ticket holders are invited inside, but each one gets to bring an important person with them, creating 12 pairs and 24 total contestants. The relationships range from parents…
“Survivor” returned for season 51 with a premiere that wasted little time showing what Jeff Probst means by the show’s new “Open Era.” Episode 1, titled “Permanent Uncertainty,” introduced 21 new castaways, brought back Exile Island, put an old-school immunity idol into play, and even allowed the contestants to weigh in on whether one of…
Wonka’s The Golden Ticket was filmed in Australia, with its main factory sets at Village Roadshow Studios on Queensland’s Gold Coast and additional filming at White Bay Power Station in Sydney. The two locations play different roles: the Gold Coast supplied the purpose-built competition spaces, while Sydney supplied a real industrial backdrop. The show was…
Fox’s “The Floor” returns for Season 6 with a major change to its usual formula. Rob Lowe is back as host, but the 100 contestants stepping onto the floor this time are not ordinary trivia hopefuls. The premiere, titled “100 Champions Enter the Ring,” brings together champions, record holders and accomplished competitors from a wide…
The mothers of Team Moms: Baseball do not all approach youth sports in the same way, and Paramount+’s introduction to Nina Scoffone makes her personality particularly clear. Nina appears alongside AJ Scoffone and their son Rocco, with Paramount characterizing her as the kind of mom willing to say what others may only be thinking. The…
Melanie Dunmar enters Team Moms: Baseball with one of the more unusual professional backgrounds in the cast. While the Paramount+ series concentrates on the families surrounding Legendary Prep Academy, Melanie’s life away from youth baseball has largely unfolded in the gaming industry, where she has spent well over a decade working her way through a…
