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Emily Nussbaum

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Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

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How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV

The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on June 15, 2024

The Healing Buzz of "Drunk History"

Sweet, filthy, and forgiving, it’s a corrective to the authoritative, we-know-better tone of most historical nonfiction.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 16, 2018

The TV That Created Donald Trump

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017

A collage of a still from "All in the Family" on a stylized television with another television in the background.

Fandom's Great Divide

The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.

by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on March 31, 2014

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