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.
Episodes
Chris DeRosa, co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to break down Netflix's wildly addictive reality series The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, the dating experiment that asks couples on the brink of marriage to separate, date other people, and enter "trial marriages" before deciding whether to get engaged or walk away for good. Kate and Chris unpack the season's biggest twists, the couples they rooted for (and quest...
Chris DeRosa, co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to break down Netflix's wildly addictive reality series The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, the dating experiment that asks couples on the brink of marriage to separate, date other people, and enter "trial marriages" before deciding whether to get engaged or walk away for good.
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Kate discusses what to watch this week including My Grandfather Charles Manson (Hulu), A Toxic Love Story (Netflix), People Magazine Investigates: The Cult of the Soulful Journey (ID), and Real Housewives of London (Bravo).
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Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys...
Lacy Nicole talks about her life before stepping in front of Bravo's cameras on The Valley, what it's really like building a relationship with Jesse Lally under the glare of reality TV and internet scrutiny, and the mission driving her work off-screen: supporting women who've faced trauma and helping them find their way back to themselves.
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True crime author, podcaster, and journalism professor Kate Winkler Dawson, host of Tenfold More Wicked, Wicked Words, and co-host of Buried Bones, joins Kate to unpack Netflix's new documentary Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea, which revisits the 2012 sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, a disaster that killed 32 people.
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Producer Shannon Furman joins Kate to take listeners behind the scenes of Netflix's Quarterback, offering an intimate look at the pressure, preparation, and personal lives of four NFL quarterbacks: Baker Mayfield, Jayden Daniels, Cam Ward, and Joe Flacco. Shannon shares what it's like to earn the trust of elite athletes while documenting some of the most pivotal moments of their careers, revealing how family, resilience, leadership...
Jordan Belfort's story got the Scorsese treatment in 2013, but The Wolf of Wall Street was only ever half the picture. On this episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey, executive producer and investigative journalist Jason Leopold unpacks Paramount+'s new documentary The Real Wolf of Wall Street, built from over 15,000 pages of previously unreleased government documents and new interviews with the people who actually lived it. Jason...
Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the season premiere of The Real Housewives of Orange County and The Valley on Bravo, plus Love Island on Peacock.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com
Kate discusses what to watch this week including The Real Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount+), The Ultimatum (Netflix), Dancing With the Stars: Next Pro (ABC), and Quarterback (Netflix).
Reality Life with Kate Casey
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com
The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey
Pamela Colloff, reporter for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, joins the show to discuss her debut book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast (Knopf). The book examines Paul Skalnik, a con man and jailhouse informant whose testimony helped convict dozens of people, including James Dailey, a Vietnam veteran sent to death row for a 1985 murder despite the absence of physical ev...
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.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.subst...
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).
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary
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.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary
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.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
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.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair....
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.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this
Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary
What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com
Patreon: http:...
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