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Best Reality Shows
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These reality shows are the kind that are educational, or feature animals, or document the human experience, inspire creativity.


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TV Show: I Shouldn't Be Alive ( 2005 )
What lengths would you go to in order to survive in the wild where you have to battle the forces of nature and the elements? I Shouldn't Be Alive presents viewers with this very question, allowing them to re-live the harrowing, true stories of real people who survived fascinatingly dire circumstances and lived to tell about it. Viewers find the experience of I Shouldn't Be Alive to be an emotional one - the featured tales often deal with unimaginable scenarios, moral dilemmas, split-second decisions and chance occurrences that determine life or death. This highly engaging series constantly leaves viewers in awe and forces them to ponder: Do I have it within me to do the same?
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TV Show: Blown Away ( 2019 )
Blown Away sees a group of talented and creative artisans from all over North America compete over the course of the series in the highly skilled art of glass blowing. In each episode the glass blowers create beautiful works of art, which are assessed by a panel of expert judges. One artisan is eliminated each week until a winner is announced in the final episode.
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TV Show: Face Off ( 2011 )
Face Off is a competition/elimination series exploring the world of special-effects make-up artists and the unlimited imagination that allows them to create amazing works of living art. Each week the artists are tasked with using their considerable talent to create original movie-worthy characters such as aliens, human-animal hybrids, horror villains, cyborgs and others. Challenges incorporate a wide range of skill sets including design, sculpting, molding and application. It all builds to incredible reveals of the competitors' finished work and the drama of one artist being sent home by the expert panel of judges.
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TV Show: Monsters Inside Me ( 2009 )
These days, we're faced with the atrocious fear of viruses like Ebola because we've seen it cross our borders. But there's more than Ebola out there. Prepare to be shocked, disgusted and afraid... very, very afraid. An organism could be inside you, feeding on you or infecting you at this very moment! A parasitic, bacterial, viral or fungal attack is like a tumultuous roller coaster within the body that can take terrifying - sometimes deadly - twists and turns. Host/biologist Dan Riskin provides scientific perspective throughout this 10-part series that vividly recounts the stories of people tormented by sinister creatures that have invaded their bodies.
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TV Show: Inside the World's Toughest Prisons ( 2016 )
Investigative journalists become voluntary inmates in the world's most volatile prisons, where intimidation and brutality rule.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid ( 2013 )
Each week on Naked and Afraid, a new pair of complete and total strangers - one man and one woman - will find themselves stranded in and, quite literally, exposed to one of the world's most extreme weather environments. This duo will be left high and dry with no food, no water... and no clothes. They must survive on their own for a full 21 days, with nothing but one personal item each and the knowledge that the only prize is their pride and sense of accomplishment.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid XL ( 2015 )
A group of the best survival experts in the world are taking on an un-survivable situation that has never been attempted before: 12 people. 40 days. 40 nights. No food. No water. No clothes. The ultimate trial of human endurance and will to survive.Naked and Afraid XL is a 40 day challenge, making it exponentially more difficult than anything that's ever been tried in the past. Six women and six men, all extreme survivalists with their own expertise, find themselves stranded in a remote equatorial jungle of Colombia and this time, they will all be fighting for the same limited resources.All being inserted separately, how will these survivalists encounter and respond to each other? Will they band together as one large group or break apart into smaller groups to survive?These 12 survivalists have proven that they have physical and mental strength, endurance, intelligence, a fantastic survival skillset, and the will to survive in some of the harshest environments on the planet during their Naked And Afraid challenges. In a challenge this big, however, the survivalists will need to master the environment and push themselves far beyond their breaking point if they want make it out alive. By the 40th day, will even one of them have successfully proven they have what it takes to endure?
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid: Alone ( 2020 )
Naked and Afraid has dropped survivalists in pairs and in groups into the most remote areas of the world to endure the elements together. Through skill and teamwork, many have been able to face their fears and showcase what it takes to be stripped of everything, left completely vulnerable and survive the ultimate challenge. Now, the series takes the challenge to a new level by bringing the best of the best to the most isolated areas around the globe, leaving them there with nothing on their backs and no one by their side.
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TV Show: Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords ( 2015 )
The show is a documentary series in which cameras follow the victims and villains of the buy-to-let boom.
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TV Show: Doomsday Preppers ( 2012 )
Doomsday Preppers explores the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Unique in their beliefs, motivations, and strategies, preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of life's uncertainties. And this season, forget expensive, elaborate bunkers and builds--we're going back to the basics.
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TV Show: Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge ( 2014 )
Ten aspiring creature creators competing to out-imagine one another in a series of challenges where they build everything from mechanical characters to whimsical beasts, bringing high-end creature designs to life. The contestants compete for a prize worth up to $100,000 including the opportunity for the job of a lifetime - a contract working at the world-renowned Jim Henson's Creature Shop™.
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TV Show: Escaping Polygamy ( 2015 )
Escaping Polygamy follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a secretive polygamist group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as the Order, as they help both loved ones and strangers break free of polygamy. The series follows three sisters – Andrea, Jessica and Shanell – who, over 10 years ago, bravely escaped polygamy. Now, their mission in life is to help other young men, women and children escape the abusive polygamous lifestyle into which they were born and raised, and manage their new lives on the outside.
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TV Show: My Cat from Hell ( 2011 )
My Cat from Hell is an American reality television series that airs on Animal Planet and premiered in May 2011. It stars Jackson Galaxy, a cat behaviorist by morning (and a musician by night) who visits the homes of cat owners in order to resolve conflicts or behavior issues between the owners and their cats or between pets.
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TV Show: River Monsters ( 2009 )
In River Monsters, join host, biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade, as he catches the extraordinary and supersized fish that lurk in our planet's rivers and lakes. Traveling the globe and risking his life, he searches for mysterious freshwater predators, on a mission to test the myths surrounding these almost supernatural creatures.
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TV Show: Paranormal Witness ( 2011 )
In Paranormal Witness, real people relate true tales of supernatural hauntings and explanation-defying paranormal experiences, which are brought to life through recreations.
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TV Show: Extreme Paranormal Witness ( 2020 )
Tales of ghostly encounters, UFO sightings and supernatural experiences that defy explanation with interviews, personal photos, real-life footage and re-creations.
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TV Show: The Vet Life ( 2016 )
The Vet Life follows veterinarians, Dr. Diarra Blue, Dr. Aubrey Ross and Dr. Michael Lavigne, as they navigate the balancing act of running their newly-opened animal hospital while managing the everyday stress of raising their families alongside their wives. The series captures the doctors' home life with their spouses, children, parents, in-laws, pets and large group of friends.
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TV Show: The Zoo ( 2017 )
The first-ever series to go behind the scenes at the world-famous Bronx Zoo, The Zoo shares an unscripted look at the knowledge and diverse skills needed to operate a zoo. It focuses on the level of care given to the animals, the bond that exists between the animals and the staff, and how the higher purpose of zoos and aquariums is conservation of species in the wild.
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TV Show: The Zoo ( 2010 )
Much-loved series The Zoo makes its anticipated return to RTÉ One on 2 April. The show will air in a new timeslot of 6.30pm on Sundays, making it perfect viewing for the whole family.Back for a seventh season, 'The Zoo' will once again showcase the passion and expertise the team at Dublin Zoo has for the animals in their care. This season, viewers will be able to follow the happenings at the Zoo over eight episodes during an incredibly exciting time for all involved there!This series there is great excitement at the Gorilla Rainforest when the keepers discover that Lena, the Western lowland gorilla, is pregnant. Viewers can see how her pregnancy progresses right up to the moment when she gives birth and feeds her new born baby for the first time. An impressive new habitat the Orangutan Forest, inspired by the natural environment of the Bornean orangutans, the tropical rainforests of Borneo, opens at the Zoo. Viewers can watch the Bornean orangutans take their first steps into their new habitat and meet their new neighbours, the siamang gibbons, who they will be sharing their home with.The new series will once again leave the Phoenix Park to follow the zookeepers as they visit some of the Irish and international conservation projects supported by Dublin Zoo. Helen Clarke-Bennett takes an incredible journey deep into the swamps and rainforests of the Republic of the Congo to visit a project dedicated to helping protect forest elephants and Western lowland gorillas. Closer to home the Dublin Zoo team will visit some fascinating Irish conservation projects, including protecting lapwing chicks in the Irish countryside and going out on call with Hedgehog Rescue Dublin.Other stories include a lion cub with an injured leg receiving attention from zoo keepers and a Sumatran tiger with a toothache requires a dental appointment with the veterinary team. Of course, there's plenty of time for fun too when we catch up with the progress of Dublin Zoo's eldest elephant calves Kavi, Ashoka and Samiya. Other species featured this season include meerkats, two-toed sloth, southern white rhinoceros, green tree python, Asian leaf turtle, red panda, red river hogs, African painted dogs, scimitar-horned oryx and many others.The Zoo is produced and directed by Shane Brennan and John Higgins of Moondance Productions for RTÉ One and is narrated by Tom Dunne.
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TV Show: The Zoo: San Diego ( 2019 )
From the producers of Animal Planet's The Zoo and The Aquarium comes The Zoo: San Diego. An all-new series that provides Animal Planet's global audiences with a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Zoo Global, whose mission is to save species worldwide while inspiring passion for animals and nature. Featuring two parks, the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, as well as the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global is home to more than 700 species and 6,500 animals. Their stories will be featured in every episode of The Zoo: San Diego.
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TV Show: Secrets of the Zoo ( 2018 )
Secrets of the Zoo goes behind the scenes at The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, one of the largest and most popular zoos in the country. In this one-hour series, veterinarian extraordinaire Dr. Priya Bapodra and the zoo staff provide medical care to animals, recover and rehabilitate rescued animals, work to preserve endangered species, and educate the public through its animal ambassador program.
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TV Show: The Secret Life of the Zoo ( 2016 )
The Secret Life of the Zoo takes a look behind the scenes of Chester Zoo. Using a range of filming techniques, including micro-rigs to capture close up animal behaviour, it will explore what the animals get up to, as well as their relationships with the keepers.
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TV Show: Inside the Zoo ( 2020 )
Documentary that goes behind the scenes with animals and keepers at Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.
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TV Show: The Aquarium ( 2019 )
Georgia Aquarium, which plays a crucial role in aquatic conservation throughout the world, opens its doors to global audiences with unprecedented access to the aquatic animals and inner-workings of the Western Hemisphere's largest aquarium. The Aquarium introduces and shares the stories of the amazing animals who call the 10 million gallons of water at the Georgia Aquarium home, including rescued southern sea otters, endangered African penguins, rescued California sea lions, and manta rays, among others.
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TV Show: Supernanny ( 2004 )
Each week, Supernanny promises to transform the lives of a different family and put a stop to the unruly bad behaviour of children who are driving their parents insane. Having tackled tantrum-prone toddlers in series one, this time Jo takes on a range of problem children from terror tweens to troublesome teenagers, and from destructive daughters to children who won't eat, sleep or go to school. In her frank and upfront style, Jo forces each family to confront the real issues behind the bad behaviour. Then, with her recipe of strict discipline and tried-and-tested techniques, she sets about teaching the parents how to turn their kids around; but can she meet these tough new challenges with each family in just three weeks?
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TV Show: Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa ( 2020 )
Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa embraces the wild side of the Sunshine State. With a stellar zoo team devoted to the exotic cast of animals, this dedicated team cares for both their lovable zoo family as well as rescues and rehabs animals in need, including orphaned black bear cubs, injured panthers, manatees, otters and alligators.
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TV Show: Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina ( 2020 )
North Carolina is home to the world's largest zoo, with 2,600 acres, large natural habitats and more than 1,800 animals in its care. The show features several Zoo staff, including keepers and veterinarians, and highlight stories, including routine animal husbandry, emergency procedures and the Zoo's work in conservation and rescue and release of injured wildlife
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TV Show: Taronga: Who's Who in the Zoo? ( 2020 )
A behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to run the Taronga Zoo Sydney, Australia's largest zoo, located on the shores of Sydney Harbour.
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TV Show: Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby ( 2017 )
Rob Rinder and Monica Galetti roll up their sleeves to work alongside staff in some of the most extraordinary hotels across the globe.
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TV Show: Project Runway ( 2004 )
Project Runway designers are given an opportunity to launch their careers in fashion.
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TV Show: Project Runway All Stars ( 2012 )
It's judgement day ... again on Project Runway All Stars! "Project Runway" fans – and more than a dozen of the Emmy® Award-nominated series' past contestants – will have to wait no more. World-famous designers Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman will serve as judges on the new series, which will be hosted by supermodel Angela Lindvall and feature fashion tastemaker and Marie Claire Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles as mentor for the "Runway" veterans. Guest judges include the iconic Miss Piggy, supermodel Miranda Kerr, musician and producer Pharrell Williams.
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TV Show: Project Runway Junior ( 2015 )
It's time for a different set of school supplies - scissors, sewing machines and fabric! The new school year brings the freshman class of young designers in the inaugural season of Project Runway Junior (#ProjectRunwayJunior). This next generation of up-and-coming fashionistas, ages 13 to 17, will be mentored by Emmy® Award winner Tim Gunn who co-hosts alongside supermodel Hannah Davis. Kelly Osbourne, designer Christian Siriano and executive fashion editor at Cosmopolitan and Seventeen Magazine Aya Kanai, serve as judges to determine who will make the grade. Actress Bella Thorne joins panel as guest judge for the final challenge.
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TV Show: Survivor ( 2000 )
Eighteen to twenty castaways will compete against each other on Survivor. All castaways will compete to outwit, outplay, outlast and ultimately be crowned Sole Survivor.
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TV Show: Shark Tank ( 2009 )
An exciting new reality show that, in these trying economic times, gives budding entrepreneurs a chance to make their dreams come true and become successful - and possibly wealthy - business people. But the entrepreneurs must first try to convince five tough, multi-millionaire tycoons to part with their own hard-earned cash and give them the funding they need to jumpstart their business ideas.Enter the Sharks of Shark Tank, who lifted themselves up by their bootstraps to make their own entrepreneurial dreams come true and turned their ideas into empires. The five Sharks of this ruthless panel are real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, "infomercial" industry pioneer Kevin Harrington, technology innovator Robert Herjavec, fashion icon Daymond John and financial expert Kevin O'Leary.
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TV Show: The Amazing Race ( 2001 )
From athletes and actors to tattoo artists, social workers and musicians - a diverse mix of teams will need to utilize their street smarts and savvy know-how to compete in the race of their lifetime.
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TV Show: Abstract: The Art of Design ( 2017 )
In Abstract: The Art of Design, step inside the minds of the most innovative designers working today in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.
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TV Show: Supernanny ( 2005 )
Drawing on 30 years of professional experience, Jo is back to help stressed-out parents tackle social and behavioral challenges as well as new issues faced by modern-day families. With a recipe of honest, direct and nurturing support, Jo offers real-life solutions to parents — uplifting families with advice, techniques, and tips to iron out the chaos in their lives, helping families evolve.
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TV Show: 60 Days In ( 2016 )
60 Days In following seven innocent participants who enter the dangerous world of incarceration at the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in an effort to expose internal issues and what really happens behind bars. As a result of the facility's recent corrupt history, Sheriff Jamey Noel has devised a program where seven participants will live among the facility's general population for 60 days without officers, fellow inmates, or staff knowing their secret. Around-the-clock cameras captured this unparalleled access in an effort to bring problems to light and give viewers a first-hand look as the participants adapt to unfamiliar and terrifying surroundings. 60 Days In is a warts-and-all view of what life is like behind bars, through the eyes of people who have never been charged with a crime or done time.
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TV Show: Bar Rescue ( 2011 )
Bar Rescue follows Jon Taffer, one of the country's top restaurant and bar consultants, will give failing establishments one last chance to succeed. The show will delve into every business facet of running a bar from creating a profitable drink/food menu to crowd management to music selection to managing disgruntled employees. This marks the first food/beverage-themed show for Spike TV, furthering its effort to expand and broaden its audience.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid: Savage ( 2018 )
Naked and Afraid alumni are stranded together in the wilderness without food, clothing or shelter. To survive, they'll need to master the brutal environment, create their own society with rules and try to resist the urge to tap out.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid: Solo ( 2023 )
NAKED AND AFRAID survivalists have endured the most grueling environments on earth and proved the value of teamwork in overcoming brutal conditions. In this all-new series, eight of the franchise's most battle-tested survivalists will attempt to endure 21 days completely SOLO. This arced series takes place in some of the most remote and harshest environments in the world – and in locations spread out over three continents. Whether it's a bug-infested South American rainforest, a frigid African scrubland or a blistering Mexican jungle, each episode follows multiple survivalists as they take on the most difficult challenge of their lives.With no one to lean on for help, their success depends solely on their own ingenuity, skills and will to survive. Enduring 21 days naked with a partner is hard enough. Enduring 21 days solo will test the most experienced survivalists in the world – and bring many to their knees.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid XL Frozen
accordingt to press release and discovery page it is the new season of naked and Afraid XL, episodes have been transferred to there.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing ( 2023 )
Twelve of Naked and Afraid's toughest and most experienced all-stars take on South Africa's punishing Oribi Gorge in a completely new type of challenge. For the first time ever, survivalists will compete head-to-head through a grueling, multiphase challenge and have their primitive skills tested for the chance to win $100,000. The competition is fierce, as survivalists can use any means necessary - even sabotage - to take home the grand prize. At the end of 45 days, only one can be crowned the Last One Standing.
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TV Show: Naked and Afraid Castaways ( 2023 )
Nine challengers are abandoned at a remote tropical island, with no maps or tools, miles away from civilization. In teams of three, they must swim to different ecosystems on the same island - sun-scorched beach, twisted mangrove swamp and dense jungle - to begin their distinct survival journeys. They must use only their navigational skills and fashion everything they need to survive from wreckage and debris strewn across the island, including a shipwreck, an abandoned military jeep and a crashed airplane. Without knives, pots, and fire starters, challengers will need to scavenge the area to find what they need to create those items from scratch, using only their ingenuity and will to survive.In a Naked and Afraid franchise first, remaining survivalists will need to travel to the same extraction point on Day 21 and signal a boat for rescue.
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TV Show: Hoarders ( 2009 )
The Emmy-nominated and Critics Choice Television Award-winning series Hoarders explores the world of extreme hoarding and provides an in-depth look at real-life stories of those directly affected by compulsive hoarding. Viewers are introduced to individuals from across the country as a team of experts try to help clean out their massive hoards and help to set these individuals up for future success. Psychologists Dr. Robin Zasio and Dr. David Tolin work in tandem to extreme clean up experts Matt Paxton, Cory Chalmers, Dorothy Breininger and new expert Brandon Bronaugh in an effort to help these families deal with a hoarding crisis of epic magnitude.
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TV Show: Intervention ( 2005 )
Intervention is an American television reality show dealing with the struggles faced by many different kinds of addicts. Each episode follows one or two participants, each of whom has a substance dependence or other mentally and/or physically damaging problem. The subjects believe they are being filmed for a documentary on their problem, but their situations are actually being documented in anticipation of an intervention by family and/or friends. During the intervention, each participant is given an ultimatum: go into rehabilitation immediately, or risk losing contact, income, or other privileges from the loved ones who instigated the intervention. Often, other tactics are used to persuade the addicted person into treatment, which vary depending on the situation; some of these include threats to invoke outstanding arrest warrants, applying for custody of the addict's children, foreclosing on the addict's property, and break-up of marriages or other relationships. The producers usually follow up months later to monitor the addicted person's progress and film it for "follow-up" episodes of the series or for shorter "web updates" available on the show's website.