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Best Reality-TV TV Series of the 2000s

Top 500 most popular Reality-TV series that started in the 2000s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Playing It Straight

★ 5.8
232 8 2004–present
Reality-TV

Farmer Wants a Wife

★ 2.2
232 19 2008–present
Game-Show · Reality-TV · Romance

Boy Meets Boy

★ 5.3
231 6 2003–2003
Game-Show · Reality-TV

Australia's Got Talent

★ 4.9
230 135 2007–2022
Game-Show · Reality-TV

Pros vs. Joes

★ 6.4
230 47 2006–2010
Game-Show · Reality-TV · Sport

Tommy Lee Goes to College

★ 5.3
229 7 2005–present
Reality-TV

Reality Bites Back

★ 6.8
228 9 2008–2008
Comedy · Game-Show · Reality-TV

Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive

★ 3.0
228 8 2005–present
Adventure · Reality-TV

Making the Band 4

★ 5.9
226 37 2007–present
Reality-TV

Road Wars

★ 7.5
226 2 2003–present
Crime · Reality-TV

American Inventor

★ 5.3
226 24 2006–2007
Reality-TV

The Adam Carolla Project

★ 8.0
225 14 2005–present
Reality-TV

Being Bobby Brown

★ 4.9
225 11 2005–2005
Documentary · Reality-TV

Confessions of a Teen Idol

★ 6.4
225 8 2009–present
Reality-TV

Homewrecker

★ 6.3
225 8 2005–present
Reality-TV

Estate of Panic

★ 7.5
223 6 2008–2008
Reality-TV

While You Were Out

★ 6.4
222 81 2002–present
Reality-TV

Survivor Türkiye

★ 3.7
222 87 2005–present
Adventure · Game-Show · Reality-TV

What Not to Wear

★ 5.7
221 9 2003–present
Reality-TV

Maximum Exposure

★ 7.5
220 52 2000–2002
Crime · Reality-TV

Selling Houses Australia

★ 8.4
219 201 2008–present
Reality-TV

Backyard Science

★ 7.5
219 3 2003–present
Family · Reality-TV

Feasting on Asphalt

★ 8.4
219 14 2006–present
Reality-TV

All Worked Up

★ 3.9
218 51 2009–2011
Reality-TV
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