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reality television

genre of television programming that documents unscripted situations and actual occurrences
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Summary

reality television is a television genre[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of television genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,214 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: genre[3]
  • Subclass of: television program[4]
  • Commons category: Reality television[5]
  • Said to be the same as: reality show[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Reality television[7]
  • Model item: reality show[8]

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Influence

Things named for reality television include Dutch Reality Awards[9], an award[10], in Netherlands[11], founded in 2023[12].

Why It Matters

reality television has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 126 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Entities named for it include Dutch Reality Awards[9], an award[10], in Netherlands[11], founded in 2023[12].

Related Entities

Jackass Man vs. Wild Running Man The Hunger Games The Hunger Games: Catching Fire The Truman Show

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/reality-TV
    Harper's tag → reality-television
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: reality-television, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289953746|reality television (#289953746)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1AT0IH
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Library of congress authority id → sh95006119
    Subclass of → television program
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|14 */ Yso id: 203, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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