Reality Life with Kate Casey
Daily podcast about unscripted television. Kate Casey interviews the talent, producers, and directors of reality shows, documentaries, and docuseries. Saturday episodes tell incredible person stories.
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing. She is the co-author of the textbook....
Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing. She is the co-author of the textbook....
Herb Baumeister lived a quiet family life in a nine thousand square foot estate in Westfield, Indiana, while authorities believe he secretly targeted gay men at Indianapolis nightclubs during the 1990s, luring them back to his property where he killed them before dying by suicide in 1996. Director and executive producer Alex Jablonski returns for a second conversation, this time about the follow up to the Emmy nominated docuseries ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup has given us everything great unscripted television requires. Underdogs. Heartbreak. Redemption. Kate breaks down why this tournament deserves your attention, from Cabo Verde's improbable run to Erling Haaland rewriting Norway's history, and why it is citizens, not world leaders, who are bringing the world together right now.
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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo), Big Brother (CBS), The Man Will Burn (HBO), and Miguel Ángel Blanco: The 48 Hours that Changed Spain (Netflix).
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After twenty-six years in the Coast Guard and a hard-earned retirement in a Margaritaville-branded community in Daytona Beach, Florida, Emily thought her next chapter was set. Then she noticed her husband's niece had vanished from his brother's Facebook page. What followed was a discovery that the seven-month-old had been placed in Florida's foster care system, and the beginning of an eighteen month legal battle that included a thr...
Kate discusses the Prime Video documentary Gloriavale and the new Paramount+ series Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal, both diving into the closed Christian community on New Zealand's West Coast.
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Anna Peele, author of Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island, returns to break down what is really going on behind the cameras this season, from how Casa Amor gets cast and edited to how production handles a crisis when it hits. Whether you have been watching since day one or are just catching up, this is your guide to what makes this season different.
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Carlos Alonso Ojea, director of Abandoned on Hulu, the real-life mystery of three siblings—aged 2, 4, and 6—who were discovered at a Barcelona train station in 1984 with no identification and no memory of who they were or where they came from.
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Sarah Galli, host of Andy’s Girls podcast joins Kate to discuss the final part of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo.
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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion: Part 2 (Bravo), Abandoned (Hulu), Worst Neighbor Ever (Netflix), and Love Is Blind: Argentina (Netflix).
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Ellen Skrmetti is a comedian, author, and viral storyteller from Ripley, Mississippi, now based in Birmingham, Alabama. She first broke through with her "If the Queen Died in the South" series on Instagram, followed by her beloved "Hey Jesus, It's Me" videos, short, sharp sketches about faith, family, and Southern life that have been viewed millions of times. Her debut book, Hey Jesus, It's Me, is out now from Hachette. Ellen joins...
Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, returns to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
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Ruby Wrenn, co-host of Bad TV podcast, joins Kate to break down Million Dollar Nannies on Hulu.
Million Dollar Nannies (Hulu / Freeform) follows a group of eight young, elite nannies, including an ex-Kardashian-Jenner family nanny, a New York City "manny" with a social media following, and a professional dancer. They head to Ibiza to launch a luxury childcare agency catering to the world's wealthiest families. They're promised...
Rebecca Gitlitz is the two-time Emmy-winning director of Chris & Martina: The Final Set, the new Netflix documentary about Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. The film traces their legendary rivalry, eighty matches over sixteen years, sixty of them finals, fourteen of them Grand Slam finals — and the unlikely friendship that emerged decades later when both women were diagnosed with cancer. The documentary features never-...
Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo.
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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion (Bravo), Next Gen NYC (Bravo), Chris & Martina: The Final Set (Netflix), Love Island (Peacock), and Would You Rather: Decide to Survive (Prime Video).
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At 38 years old, Katie Delimon opened a DNA test expecting to confirm what she'd always believed about her heritage. Instead, she discovered the man who raised her wasn't her biological father, and that the truth had been hiding in plain sight her entire life. A man her family called "the beach guy," someone she'd actually described as "creepy" in her first memoir, turned out to be her biological father. Both he and her mother had ...
Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
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Kate breaks down the post-Summer House reunion special about the aftermath of the West and Amanda affair and scandal.
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