The TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming is an award given by the
Television Critics Association
The Television Critics Association (TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian television critics, journalists and columnists who cover television programming for newspapers, magazines and web publications. The TCA accepts a ...
for
reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...
formats.
Winners and nominees
Multiple winners
;2 wins
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The Amazing Race
''The Amazing Race'' is an adventure reality game show franchise in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams. The ''Race'' is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in forei ...
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* ''
Queer Eye''
Multiple nominations
6 nominations
* ''
The Amazing Race
''The Amazing Race'' is an adventure reality game show franchise in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams. The ''Race'' is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in forei ...
''
5 nominations
* ''
Survivor
Survivor(s) may refer to:
Actual survivors
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*Last survivors of historical events
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities
* Survivors, characters in the 1997 ''KKnD'' video-game series
* ''The Survivors'', or the ''New Survivors Found ...
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4 nominations
* ''
The Great British Baking Show''
* ''
Shark Tank
''Shark Tank'' is an American business Reality television#Investments, reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC.Hibberd, James (May 10, 201'Dancing,' 'Bachelor,' and a bigger 'Shark Tank' ...
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* ''
Top Chef
''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo on March 8, 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional che ...
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* ''
The Voice''
3 nominations
* ''
Nailed It!
''Nailed It!'' is an American reality television series that premiered on March 9, 2018 on Netflix. The series is a bake-off competition in the style of reality television, where three amateur bakers compete to replicate complicated cakes and co ...
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* ''
RuPaul's Drag Race
''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is an American reality competition television series, the first in the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the f ...
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2 nominations
* ''
Cheer''
* ''
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth''
* ''
Dancing with the Stars
''Dancing with the Stars'' is the name of various international television series based on the format of the British TV series ''Strictly Come Dancing'', which is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the form ...
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* ''
The Glee Project''
* ''
Legendary''
* ''
Making It''
* ''
Queer Eye''
* ''
The Real World Homecoming''
Total awards by network
* Netflix – 5
* CBS – 2
* A&E – 1
* ABC – 1
* Fox – 1
* HBO Max – 1
* Logo TV – 1
* Showtime – 1
* Starz – 1
References
External links
Official website
Reality Programming
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