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

COMMENT: For those not wanting to take the drastic step of surgery, there are still benefits to losing even a little weight.

New Zealanders are about to see for the first time how police solved the grisly murder of Carmen Thomas.

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.

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.

The world's most outrageous and cattiest celebrity reality TV show is set for a Kiwi reboot.

American Idol, the TV creation of British producer Simon Fuller, begins its 15th and final season this week with bosses promising an "amazing" send-off.

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.

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.

X Factor Australia host Luke Jacobz had viewers wondering if he had just "come out" on national TV after he asked one of the male acts to be his boyfriend.

Hayley Marie Bilton says she'd happily cook the dish that got her eliminated from the finale of MasterChef again.

MasterChef contestant Glenda Clark has been sent home but the Cantabrian says she wouldn't change a thing, calling the experience one of the best of her life.

A new format twist on The X Factor Australia had several young men in tears.

Kiwi miner Tangaroa Te Tai turned up to auditions in his work boots and safety jacket but still wowed judges.

Richard Harris has been eliminated from MasterChef after muddling the mascarpone in his dessert dish - but the Cantabrian says he "can't complain at all".

As many Kiwis struggle with weight gain, a new reality TV show will go behind the scenes of Middlemore Hospital's obesity ward.

The hot-stepping antics of some of our most-loved celebrities on Dancing with the Stars has contributed $70,000 to Kiwi charities.