Fox Reality Channel was an all reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 channel available on cable and satellite television in the United States. It was launched on May 24, 2005 and was owned by the Fox Entertainment Group

Fox Entertainment Group

The Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties...

. It featured many shows that were previously on the Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 network (or produced by Fox). Fox Reality Channel also featured reality shows syndicated from other networks (like ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

, CBS

CBS

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, NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

, The CW

The CW Television Network

The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...

 and MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...

), as well as many international shows from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, Australia

Australia

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, and New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

.

Shutdown and replacement

In October 2009, it was announced that Fox Reality Channel would be discontinued on most providers on March 29, 2010 and re-branded into an American version of National Geographic Wild

National Geographic Wild

Nat Geo WILD is a cable TV channel focused on animal-related programs. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel and it is the latest channel to be jointly launched by the National Geographic Society and Fox Cable Networks. It first launched in Hong Kong on January 1, 2006, focusing...

. Also on that date, the channel's old website was taken down and redirected to its archived programming on Hulu.com, as well as National Geographic Wild's new site. National Geographic Wild was launched on Dish Network on April 19, 2010. DirecTV removed Fox Reality and added National Geographic Wild on June 30, 2010.

Original programming

• The Academy
  The Academy (TV series)
  The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox...
  
  , provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Academy as recruits go through a 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
  The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is a local county law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. It is the fourth largest local policing agency in the United States, with the New York City Police Department being the first. The second largest is the Chicago Police...
  
  . The program premiered in May 2007, and is shared with sister broadcast network MyNetworkTV
  MyNetworkTV
  MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
  
  .
• American Idol Extra
  American Idol Extra
  American Idol Extra was a television show that was shown on the Fox Reality Channel and Star! and billed as "the show that picks up right where American Idol leaves off"...
  
  , The official "post-game" show of the immensely popular American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
  . This show includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with eliminated contestants.
• Battle of the Bods
  Battle of the Bods
  Battle of the Bods is a Fox Reality Channel show, hosted by Olivia Lee. Devised by Endemol, it is based on the short lived British show Hot Tub Ranking ....
  
  , is a steamy reality show in which five nerdy girls rank themselves in order of attractiveness and try to match the rankings of a panel of male judges. The program premiered January 19, 2008.
• Busted and Disgusted is an original series bringing viewers clips of the most disgusting and outrageous behavior caught on camera. The show premiered on April 1, 2009.
• Camp Reality
  Camp Reality
  Camp Reality is a reality show that appeared on Fox Reality Channel. It was hosted by Burton Roberts. Contestants included former reality stars Toni Ferrari, Adam Larson, Scott Long, Michelle Deighton, Jonny Fairplay, Coral Smith, Brennan Swain, Tammie Sheffield, Rebecca Cardon, John "JP" Palyok,...
  
  , Burton Roberts (Survivor: Pearl Islands
  Survivor: Pearl Islands
  Survivor: Pearl Islands is the seventh season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed in 2003 and debuted in the United States on CBS on September 18, 2003....
  
  ) organizes a trip into the California woods for a number of his former reality-show friends for a series of fun contests, including water-orb races and a milk chugging
  Milk chugging
  Milk chugging, or gallon challenge, is the process of consuming a large amount of milk within a set period of time. Although there are variations in procedure, many adherents follow to the mostly general parameters; a person is given 60 minutes to drink a full gallon of whole milk without...
  
   contest. The friends of Burton's who participated in this event included Toni Ferrari (Paradise Hotel
  Paradise Hotel
  The first season of Paradise Hotel aired on Fox from June 18, 2003 to October 1, 2003 with thirty episodes and was hosted by Amanda Byram. A similar show called Forever Eden was produced the following year...
  
  ), Rebecca Cardon (The Amazing Race 6
  The Amazing Race 6
  The Amazing Race 6 is the sixth installment of the reality television series The Amazing Race. It premiered on November 16, 2004, and concluded on February 8, 2005.Freddy Holliday & Kendra Bentley were the winners of this Race....
  
   and Work Out
  Work Out
  Work Out was a reality television series on Bravo. The show was centered around Jackie Warner, owner of a gym and spa in Beverly Hills, California. It features many of the trainers who work for Warner, aspects of the gym and its clients and Jackie's other fitness ventures, and also covers aspects...
  
  ), Brennan Swain (co-winner of The Amazing Race 1
  The Amazing Race 1
  The Amazing Race is the first installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race...
  
  ), Coral Smith (The Real World
  The Real World
  The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...
  
   and several MTV Challenges), Nikki McKibbin (American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
  ), Michelle Deighton (America's Next Top Model
  America's Next Top Model
  America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....
  
  , Cycle 4), and Jon "Jonny Fairplay" Dalton.
• Corkscrewed, follows American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
   producers Ken Warwick
  Ken Warwick
  Ken Warwick is a television executive producer and director, most noted for producing the reality television series American Idol, and Pop Idol. Before being a producer he was a dancer. Warwick has received numerous awards for his television programs including a BAFTA, the Golden Rose of Montreux,...
  
   and Nigel Lythgoe
  Nigel Lythgoe
  Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...
  
   as they purchase a vineyard in Paso Robles, California
  Paso Robles, California
  Paso Robles is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Paso Robles is the fastest growing city in San Luis Obispo County: Its population at the 2000 census was 24,297; in 2010 it recorded some 29,793 residentsLocated on the Salinas River north of San Luis Obispo, California,...
  
  , and experience the ups and downs of the wine business. The program premiered on November 30, 2006.
• Gimme My Reality Show!, has a group of seven former celebrities compete to win their own reality show.
• Househusbands of Hollywood
  Househusbands of Hollywood
  Househusbands of Hollywood was a Fox Reality Channel series that documented the lives of five househusbands and their wives who provide the primary household income, while they tend to their homes, and in some cases, their children.-Billy Ashley:...
  
  , follows the lives of five men and their successful, breadwinning wives. The 10-episode series premiered on Saturday, August 15, 2009.
• Long Way Down
  Long Way Down
  "Long Way Down" is a single by the Goo Goo Dolls from their breakthrough album, 1995's A Boy Named Goo. This song is often overshadowed by the low-key ballad "Name", which launched the band to household names...
  
  , profiles actor Ewan McGregor as he bikes through 18 countries from John o' Groats in Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa.
• Rob and Amber: Against the Odds, follows the lives of reality couple Rob Mariano
  Rob Mariano
  Robert Carlo "Boston Rob" Mariano is an American television personality, widely known for appearing in several reality shows, including Survivor, and The Amazing Race with his wife, Amber Brkich Mariano. Mariano won Survivor: Redemption Island and the $1,000,000 prize after competing on the show...
  
   and Amber Mariano
  Amber Mariano
  Amber Joy Mariano is an American television personality and winner of Survivor: All-Stars, after appearing as a contestant on one of its predecessors, Survivor: The Australian Outback...
  
   as Rob tries to become a professional poker player.
• My Bare Lady
  My Bare Lady
  My Bare Lady is a 2006 United Kingdom-based reality TV show that aired on the Fox Reality Channel. The series followed four American female porn stars as they took acting lessons and performed in scenes from classic drama alongside British actors in London's West End...
  
  , gives adult film stars the opportunity to try out different careers. The program premiered on December 7, 2006.
• Paradise Hotel 2
  Paradise Hotel 2
  Paradise Hotel 2 is the second season of the US reality TV-show Paradise Hotel on MyNetworkTV and Fox Reality Channel. The show began airing on February 4, 2008. The second season of the show aired four years after season one aired on sister network Fox...
  
  , follows a group of single men and women who are given the opportunity to live together in an exclusive resort. The program premiered February 4, 2008 and was shared by MyNetworkTV.
• Seducing Cindy
  Seducing Cindy
  thumb|right|240px|Cindy Margolis hosting the “Seducing Cindy” Finale Party, Studio City, CA on March 18, 2010Seducing Cindy was a Fox Reality Channel original series that followed the newly single Cindy Margolis on her search for love. The eight-episode, one-hour series premiered on Saturday,...
  
  , follows Cindy Margolis, once the most downloaded woman on the Internet, as she searches for a new love. The program premiered on January 30, 2010 at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central.
• Solitary
  Solitary (TV series)
  Solitary was a reality show on the Fox Reality Channel whose contestants were kept in round-the-clock solitary confinement for a number of weeks with the goal of being the last contestant remaining in solitary, for a $50,000 prize. It was the channel's first original series commission with its...
  
  , turns the concept of solitary confinement
  Solitary confinement
  Solitary confinement is a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact, though often with the exception of members of prison staff. It is sometimes employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a prisoner, and has been cited as an additional...
  
   into a game show
  Game show
  A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
  
  . The program, which features an unseen host presiding over "treatments," or challenges, premiered on June 5, 2006.
• The Search for the Next Elvira
  The Search for the Next Elvira
  The Search for the Next Elvira is a television series created by Eric Gardner and Cassandra Peterson and the show is a search to be the next late-night horror cult movie host Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.-The Judges:*Cassandra Peterson as Elvira...
  
  , 13 contestants vie for the chance to become Elvira's newest handmaiden of the dark in a Fox Reality Channel original series. The program premiered on October 13, 2007.
• Sex Decoy: Love Stings, set inside the private life and professional world of Sandra Hope and "Mate Check Private Investigations". Each episode chronicles specific cases in which a spouse or significant other hires Sandra and her team of decoys to "tempt" their potentially wayward lover and expose infidelity. The show also follows the ups and downs of Sandra's dysfunctional family, including her daughters, who work for her as decoys. The program premiered on May 23, 2009.
• Smile...You're Under Arrest!
  Smile...You're Under Arrest!
  Smile...You're Under Arrest! is a reality show on Fox Reality Channel where individuals with outstanding felony warrants are lured into police custody using various fake scenarios....
  
  , uses elaborate sting set-ups to lure wanted-criminals out of hiding. Improvisational actors assist with the scenarios before police officers step in to arrest the criminal. The program premiered on December 27, 2008.

Acquired programming sample

• Amazing Adventures of a Nobody
  Amazing Adventures of a Nobody
  Amazing Adventures of a Nobody is a reality-travel entertainment TV series that follows Leon Logothetis, the presenter and creator, on his travels around the U.K. on just 5 pounds a day. The 5 pounds have to cover food, accommodation and travel; the 5 pounds reflecting an average hourly wage,...
  
  
• The Amazing Race
  The Amazing Race
  The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
  
  
• American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
  
• Arrest & Trial
  Arrest & Trial
  Arrest & Trial is a syndicated American nonfiction television program which follows individual criminal cases via a combination of reenactments and real trial footage. Episodes run for 30 minutes, and the program aired during the 2000 television season...
  
  
• Average Joe
  Average Joe (TV series)
  Average Joe is an American reality television show broadcast on the NBC beginning in 2003. There were a total of four seasons, the first two following the original show premise, and the last two bringing back contestants from prior seasons.-Show Premise:...
  
  
• Beauty and the Geek
  Beauty and the Geek
  Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series on The CW. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora....
  
  
• The Biggest Loser
• Blind Date
• Celebrity Boxing
  Celebrity Boxing
  Celebrity Boxing was a FOX television show, in which celebrities whose careers and/or notoriety had diminished were pitted against each other in exhibition boxing matches. The contestants wore headgear during the fights, which were scheduled for three rounds apiece...
  
  
• Celebrity Mole
• Divorce Court
  Divorce Court
  Divorce Court is a judge show about cases which only involve divorcing couples. Out of the shows currently airing in the court-themed genre, Divorce Court is the oldest...
  
  
• Don't Forget the Lyrics!
  Don't Forget the Lyrics!
  Don't Forget the Lyrics! is a game show that originally aired on Fox from July 11, 2007 to June 19, 2009, hosted by Wayne Brady and produced by RDF USA, part of RDF Media. The launch of this show prompted NBC to move up the launch of their similar game show The Singing Bee...
  
  
• EX-treme Dating
  EX-treme Dating
  EX-treme Dating is a reality television show that paired two people on a blind date. The couple was chaperoned on the date by two of the person's ex-partners. They talked to the other person via an earpiece, feeding hints for conversation topics and comments on the date itself. At the end of the...
  
  
• For Love or Money
  For Love or Money (TV series)
  For Love or Money is an American reality television show initially broadcast as summer programming on NBC in 2003 and 2004. Four seasons of the program were shown in linked pairs, and all seasons were hosted by Jordan Murphy. It was produced by Nash Entertainment with Bruce Nash and J. D...
  
  
• Ghosts Caught on Tape: Fact Or Fiction
• Hell’s Kitchen
  Hell's Kitchen (U.S.)
  Hell's Kitchen is an American reality-television cooking competition broadcast on Fox...
  
  
• Kitchen Nightmares
  Kitchen Nightmares
  Kitchen Nightmares is an American reality television series broadcast on the Fox network, in which Chef Gordon Ramsay spends a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. It is based on the British show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. The show is produced by ITV Studios...
  
  
• LAPD: Life On the Beat
  LAPD: Life On the Beat
  LAPD: Life on the Beat , was an American reality television series which aired in syndication, about the Los Angeles Police Department that aired from 1995-1999,...
  
  

• LAPD: Life On the Beat
  LAPD: Life On the Beat
  LAPD: Life on the Beat , was an American reality television series which aired in syndication, about the Los Angeles Police Department that aired from 1995-1999,...
  
  
• Last Comic Standing
  Last Comic Standing
  Last Comic Standing is an American reality television talent show that has aired from 2003 through 2010.The goal of the program is to select a comedian from a group, who will receive a development contract with the NBC network, and a television special first to air on the cable-TV network Comedy...
  
  
• Mad Mad House
  Mad Mad House
  Mad Mad House is a 2004 reality television series about a group of ten contestants competing for $100,000. The contestants live together in a house inhabited by another group of people known as the alts...
  
  
• Maximum Exposure
  Maximum Exposure
  Maximum Exposure is a reality TV show which featured video clips on a variety of subjects. As its various slogans attest, the show was targeted at teens and young adults...
  
  
• The Mole
• My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance
  My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance
  My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé was a one-shot television reality show on the Fox Network during the 2003-2004 season. The show consisted of six hour-long episodes.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Outback Jack
  Outback Jack
  Outback Jack was a 2004 reality TV show filmed in Outback, Australia. It was produced by Nash Entertainment. It starred Vadim Dale, a 6-foot-tall former underwear model, as Outback Jack, and started with twelve women who vied for Vadim's attentions to be selected as the woman he would choose to be...
  
  
• Punk’d
• Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
  Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
  Real Stories of the Highway Patrol was a half hour syndicated television series which ran in the United States for six seasons from 1993 to 1999 for a total of 780 episodes, capitalizing on the success of "real-life" police series such as COPS...
  
  
• Real TV
  Real TV
  Real TV is a reality television program that ran in syndication from September 9, 1996 to September 7, 2001. It aired footage of extraordinary events that were not usually covered in mainstream news. It was often played on Spike TV and the Fox Reality Channel.-The Idea:Real TV usually showed home...
  
  
• The Restaurant
• Seducing Cindy
  Seducing Cindy
  thumb|right|240px|Cindy Margolis hosting the “Seducing Cindy” Finale Party, Studio City, CA on March 18, 2010Seducing Cindy was a Fox Reality Channel original series that followed the newly single Cindy Margolis on her search for love. The eight-episode, one-hour series premiered on Saturday,...
  
  
• Sexy Cam
• So You Think You Can Dance
• Street Patrol
  Street Patrol
  Street Patrol is a reality television series in the United States. It airs on truTV in the United States and Crime & Investigation Network in Australia. The show is produced by Morgan Langley & John Langley, the producers of the reality television series COPS. Street Patrol is made up of outtake...
  
  
• The Swan
  The Swan (TV series)
  The Swan is a 2004 American reality television program broadcast on Fox in which women who were judged to be 'ugly' were given "extreme makeovers" that included several forms of plastic surgery...
  
  
• Train Wrecks
• Who Wants to Marry My Dad?

See also

• Fox Reality Channel Reality Awards
  Fox Reality Awards
  The Fox Reality Awards is an awards show to honor achievements in reality television. It was broadcast by the Fox Reality Channel from 2006 to 2009 when the channel was replaced in 2010 by National Geographic Wild.-Favorite Fight:...
  
  
• MyNetworkTV
  MyNetworkTV
  MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
  
  - sister network with a once mostly-reality format.