No idea if it will be back but it made me laugh and I actually picked up a couple of household tips. (No, not grabbing a leftovers box in a restaurant and walking around to the other tables asking people, "Are you going to eat that?) 
Other than that, maybe the original Survivor, that aired over the summer when nothing else was on. Kathy Griffin’s show on Bravo because I kinda like her.
Is televised poker considered reality television or sports? Because I watch a lot of that.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the PBS “house” shows, depicting families living in historical conditions. PBS aired Colonial House, Frontier House, 1900 House, 1940’s House, and Manor House. There was some prehistoric living show as well. From what I remember, the participants could not last long under prehistoric conditions.
http://www.amazon.com/The-PBS-House-Series/lm/R2AZTD9S0TEZZD
And what a real renovator looks like, too. 
I watched my first episode of “Top Gear” today - I really enjoyed it.
I like “What Not To Wear,” too. I was surprised by the attitudes on “What Not To Wear” - they never focus on people being skinny or losing weight, but instead always focus on dressing the best for how you look right now. It seems awfully shallow to focus on how you dress, but it really does seem to make a difference to people, to pull them out of their lives that might be going nowhere and get them moving in the right direction again.
I like that show, too, although I don’t seem to know when it’s on. I have my cheapskate tendencies; I think that show could stop me from going too far at times. Although too far is so subjective and cultural; in one episode I saw, a woman took cakes from a dumpster and served them to her family. The cakes were in plastic clamshells, and weren’t in contact with any garbage, but the idea of eating from a dumpster is still very icky to us.
I have a fondness for the wedding shows. I like to see pretty, poofy dresses and reception halls all decked out. 
And Holmes Inspection.
Mmmmm-hmmmm…
One person’s frugality is another’s bat-shit insanity.
There have only been seven episodes so far and the pilot aired more than a year ago. They ran the other six last October and I haven’t heard if it will be returning.
I have my frugal tendencies, e.g. I always hit up the dollar store before visiting the supermarket because, why spend $5 for something when you can get it for $1?
When I was in the market for an e-reader, I set up a search term on Craigslist and fed it into my Google Reader. Whenever an ad was posted, it would show up almost immediately. I wound up with a Sony PRS-505 for $20.
I’ve eaten road kill or, more accurately, building-kill when a large pheasant once flew into our building at work killing itself. It almost quitting time so I took it home and we had it for dinner.
My family had no problem eating a road-killed deer my father had hit with a pickup. Of course, we knew how fresh the meat was and how to properly process it.
Roadkill rules slay me.
Alaska: anyone who finds roadkill must call a state trooper, who turns the carcass over to charity “if it’s not too smooshed.”
Illinois: The driver of a motor vehicle involved in a vehicle-deer collision has priority in possessing said deer. If the driver does not take possession of the deer before leaving the collision scene, any citizen of Illinois may possess and transport the deer.
New Jersey: a permit is required for those who want to eat what are sometimes referred to as furry frisbees.
Obsessed, available on Netflix instant, does a great job conveying the reality of living with an anxiety disorder (especially OCD), and the therapist actually uses evidence-based treatments.
I would have never predicted that I would like this show but I really like Pawn Stars. It’s a fun family and you always get to learn something cool.
I like Rehab Addict, set in Minneapolis starring a Barbie lookalike named Nicole Curtis. She’s a home remodeler who specializes in restoring homes to their original roots; not just slapping up some drywall and painting. Her latest work was the Minnehaha mansion that was just so stately and elegant, that I was jealous I couldn’t afford it.
This was rural Oregon, mid-1970s, and might have been during hunting season, so there might well have been a deer tag in the pickup anyway.
A friend of mine downloaded a few episodes of Pawn Stars and something related called … American Restoration? Kings of Restoration? I put off watching those because I didn’t think they sounded good, but once I watched, they turned out be great.
EDIT: I see from above I was correct with American Restoration. I thought that’s what I remembered, but at a friend’s house upcountry for New Year’s, on his cable it appeared as Kings of Restoration. Does it appear under two different names in different markets?
Is Pawn Stars a reality show? I do enjoy it, but a lot of it seems… contrived. I mean, if you’ve got a Civil War-era cannon taking up space in your garage, realistically are you going to put it on the back of the ute and drive to that pawnbrokers on the TV show, where they’ll offer you practically nothing for it (but not until after they’ve taken it to the firing range to make sure it works!), or are you going to make some enquiries among serious collectors and then sell it for the sort of money associated with a decent new car?
They seem to have a few people on the show with things which, in my opinion, it looks like they’ve got no realistic intention of selling but have brought on the show because it will make interesting viewing. I know “reality TV” isn’t real, but even so.
Holmes on Homes
Holmes Inspection
American Pickers
American Restoration
Gold Rush - guys trying to get rich in Alaska by digging for gold. Completely with poor prior planning, equipment breakdowns, unrealistic expectations, weather snafu’s and less than normal amounts of bickering just for the sake of bickering.
I like Income Property. The designs are usually good and the host is yummy.
I’m on Reddit regularly and sometimes people that work for the shows come on and field questions about whether they’re contrived or not.
American Pickers an intern that worked on the shop end claimed the phone calls were entirely scripted (she wasn’t along on the actual pick)
Pawn Stars, one person claimed people are handed items in the parking lot to bring in, another person claims the people actually owned the items and the negotiations are real, but the show solicits them to bring it in to sell.
A person who actually buys storage units for a living claims even if they edited out all the duds there’s no way that they’re finding that much awesome stuff at a single auction.
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.
Another social experiment is 7 Up, which told the stories of 7-year-olds from different social groups across the uk. It returns every seven years and is now on 56 Up, with most of the original participants.
Grand Designs follows people who are building their own homes or at least heavily involved in the building of homes to their own unusual designs.
The “Up” series is excellent, but it’s not a reality show- it a documentary film series where the participants are interviewed every 7 years, with a few clips thrown in. Not reality TV by any definition.
But I am waiting eagerly to see the latest installment!
TAR
Deadliest Catch
old school The Real World
Alaska The Last Frontier
any of the survivalist shows on Discovery
I was unsure if it counted, but wanted to recommend it anyway.