When stand up comic Maryum Ali entered a prison as a fake inmate for a groundbreaking reality show, it was no laughing matter.

It's the biggest test facing any new couple emerging from a romance reality show like The Bachelor. Are they for real?

It's official: The Block NZ will return for season five, and they're going to have to start basically from scratch.

The cast of The Real Housewives of Auckland are not allowed to alter their appearance without the written permission of the show's producer, it has been revealed.

Jordan Mauger hasn't seen his new girlfriend since filming wrapped on The Bachelor NZ more than a month ago.

This is Four's third official re-brand since it launched in 1997, so before Bravo takes over we examine a brief history of NZ's "youth channel".

Following Mark Weldon's resignation this morning, we look at the highs and lows at TV3 in the last couple of years.

We take a look at the new reality shows coming to Mediaworks and NBC's new channel Bravo and decide if it's worth tuning in.

COMMENT: Selective restrictions on lending for investment property in Auckland appear merely to have caused the cancer to spread to nearby cities.

COMMENT: The Big Ward's greatest achievement is simply getting a serious public health issue into a time slot usually occupied by reality shows.

COMMENT: "As a feminist, I find few things more torturous than watching The Bachelor".

Can you scheme, bitch and bully? Are you manipulative and arrogant? Producers of Survivor NZ would, no doubt, be delighted to hear from you.

Caitlyn Jenner's offer to be a "trans ambassador" to US Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has drawn criticism from some members of the LGBT community.

MediaWorks has confirmed the 23 bachelorettes vying for the final rose will have access to professional help and a hotline to their families.

A reality show starting on TV2 this week will follow the weight-loss efforts of people who fit the unfortunate term.

A new reality show gives a warts and all view of weight loss. Russell Blackstock reports.

Three Kiwi families are to battle it out for reality TV DIY supremacy and the chance to get their kids on to the property ladder.

Ratings panic led to most brutal 12 months in channels' history.

With the live auction finale of The Block NZ: Villa Wars looming, we assess some of our favourite moments from a year full of reality TV highs and lows.

The four homes from the first season of The Block NZ will be bulldozed to make way for almost 100 high-rise apartments.

Bachelor Art Green and Matilda Rice are still inseparable after the series ended. But what became of the other girls and their quest for true love?

Ratings hit Dancing with the Stars could be the next reality TV show on the chopping block.

The Block Australia winners Dea and Darren Jolly - may end up losers if a Melbourne council has its way.

Having a tragic back story is almost as important as a decent voice on The X Factor, but one contestant is being accused of making his up.

TV chefs are New Zealand's most powerful reality television stars according to Spy.co.nz's inaugural power ranking.

Is there life after MasterChef? Well there certainly has been for best-selling cookbook author Chelsea Winter, discovers Greg Dixon.

Reality TV queen Julie Christie has agreed to sell for nearly $1.5 million a house she built on land originally acquired for The Block NZ.