The Reality Machine

RNZ

After 20+ years in the TV industry, including inside some of the country’s biggest reality shows, Dylan Reeve is pulling back the curtain on what makes Reality TV what it is.

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The Reality Machine

Episodes (2)

Yesterday What Even Is Reality?
Thu Oct 1st Introducing: The Reality Machine

The Reality Machine

Oct 11, 2026
46½ minutes
64 MB

Dylan Reeve dives into the fuzzy origins of reality TV in Aotearoa to try and figure out what we even mean when we say ‘Reality’. He looks at our local shows, ranging from fly-on-the-wall docuseries like Motorway Patrol into heavily constructed social strategy games like Treasure Island and The Traitors, exploring how a format with almost no fixed rules managed to grow into one of our biggest pop-cultural touchstones. Greenstone’s Rachel Antony and The Spinoff founder Duncan Grieve help us unpack where documentary ends and unscripted entertainment begins, framing the broader story of how local broadcasters develo...

The Reality Machine

What Even Is Reality?

RNZ

00:00 -46:29