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Apr 2022
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Part One: The Bastards of Reality Televi...

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Robert sits down with David Bell to talk about some fucked up shit that happened in reality shows because, damn, that Kissinger series was hard.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/11/a-catalogue-of-exploitation-the-maker-of-adocumentary-about-the-jeremy-kyle-show-speaks
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/13/jeremy-kyle-show-death-on-daytime-reviewa-shocking-expose-of-the-itv-series
  3. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/former-jeremy-kyle-show-viewers-ashamed-
  4. 100331877.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig= AQAAAAZWgpvLwCbf6hmmQQWlA3xWu_MZyFTeGYxHHhcO3AJO2qBXMvj8SdwkheQErRgVyOKss5QVZf lkaNF4Hb6rZCr-c4Ohyc_Ctyh-
  5. 58oGaoEstnukpGOzWDp_gmNDq1VrqvWn1TEzotD_TIOaQ9wQ5iTFYrUsxN7DcMlAGwByPqRX
  6. https://www.the-sun.com/news/4893340/jeremy-kyle-breaks-silence-steve-dymond-documentary/  https://www.the-sun.com/news/4893340/jeremy-kyle-breaks-silence-steve-dymond-documentary/
  7. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/3102437/jeremy-kyle-lie-detector-itv-fife/
  8. https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph
  9. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/the-reality-principle
  10. https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/tv/three-love-island-suicides-raise-concerns-about-reality-show1.69761973
  11. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-
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