# Good Reality TV shows. (Probably a very short thread).

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**Created:** [January 9, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-reality-tv-shows-probably-a-very-short-thread/646648 "2013-01-09T18:03:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-reality-tv-shows-probably-a-very-short-thread/646648/41 "2013-01-14T01:55:12Z")

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> [@SciFiSam](#):
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> Castaway 2000 was a BBC show that sent maybe 40 people, including children and oldish people, to live on a remote Scottish island for a year. There was a degree of artifice in that they had no tv, phones or internet, but otherwise their hardships were caused by trying to build a community, farm, warm their houses, etc. It was a social experiment, really.

I liked that show, partly because there was no competition introduced; it was just about how the people get along with each other. Generally, _some_ of the UK reality shows are better than the US equivalent. (For example, the UK episodes of Kitchen Nightmares are better than the American ones.)

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