How real is reality TV really? “The ‘Extreme Makeover’ bus drove forwards and backwards no fewer than nine times” | TV

The revelations in ‘Extreme Makeover’, the arguments in ‘Temptation Island’, the freezing temperatures in ‘The Expedition: Greenland’ and now also the much-discussed ‘Astrid and Natalia: Back to Reality’. 23 years after the first edition of ‘Big Brother’, there are a lot of reality shows on TV. But how ‘real’ are they actually? “The viewer always knows a little that not everything is as it is shown.”