2024 Emmy nominations ballot: See the 38 Best Unstructured Reality Program hopefuls from ‘Below Deck Down Under’ to ‘Welcome to Wrexham’
In 2014, the TV academy began honoring structured and unstructured reality programs separately in order to better recognize achievements in both genres. This year, 38 shows have been submitted for Best Unstructured Reality Program consideration, which is down by seven from last year and 27 from 2022.
All 20,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 24 to cast their ballots for their favorite unstructured reality shows. Each person is limited to five selections that will simply be tallied in order to determine the nominees.
Only five of the shows listed below (with plot descriptions) will end up as official nominees on July 17. Which do you think should make it into the final lineup?
Below Deck Down Under
Captain Jason and Chief Stew Aesha reunite for another season on the vintage M/Y Northern Sun, with a lively new crew and wild guests in the stunning waters of Cairns, Australia – the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.
Big Freedia Means Business
Big Freedia is back and bigger than ever! In control of her life and brand, her HUSTLE is off the charts. Still shaking up the dance floor, now she’s shaking up the business world. Girl, down! Cheer on the hardest twerkin’ diva in the business.
The D’Amelio Show
From relative obscurity and seemingly normal life to being thrust into the Hollywood limelight almost overnight, the D’Amelio’s are faced with new challenges and opportunities they could not have imagined.
Dance Moms: The Reunion
Features fan favorites JoJo Siwa, Chloe Lukasiak, Brooke Hyland, Paige Hyland, Kendall Vertes and Kalani Hilliker together as they take a look back at the show that became a worldwide pop culture sensation and made them household names.
Deadliest Catch
As Alaskan crab prices reach all-time highs, a new generation ventures to the Bering Sea hoping to earn their share of the sky-rocketing payday. But when high crab prices lure Russian vessels, rookie and veteran captains must band together to defend America’s most valuable fishing grounds from an external threat.
The Family Stallone
This season, after four decades as one of Los Angeles’ most famous families, the Stallones are leaving Hollywood for good and moving east.
Friends in Low Places
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood embark on building the honky-tonk of their dreams in Nashville. Paying tribute to his roots, Garth enlists the help of friends and an all-star hospitality group to open the four-story bar on Lower Broadway.
Gold Rush
The price of gold has never been higher or competition greater. Filmed by embedded teams over five months, Gold Rush follows three mine crews as they battle succession, addiction, breakdowns, and the elements in a race to get to the gold before winter freezes their hopes and ambitions.
Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise
This docusoap follows a group of uber-rich and on-the-rise locals and expats navigating the rocky waters of their relationships, friendships and careers in the paradise that is Grand Cayman.
The Grand Tour: Eurocrash
Jeremy, Richard and James head to Central Europe on a road trip nobody has ever thought of, in cars nobody would ever dream of. This epic 1400-mile journey takes them from Gdańsk in Poland, through Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia.
The Grand Tour: Sand Job
In the remote African country of Mauritania, our trio follow in the footsteps of the legendary Paris-Dakar rally. Instead of bespoke Dakar racers, the boys must complete their journey in modified highly desirable sports cars, but high mileage ones that have been bought on a budget.
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show
A darkly funny series about Jerrod’s tumultuous quest for love, sex, and truth.
Jersey Shore Family Vacation
The Shore family is back to heat things up, from the shocking return of Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola to Sammi reuniting with her ex when Ronnie Ortiz-Magro joins the trip in Nashville. Jersey Shore Family Vacation will bring revelations, confrontations, and reunions years in the making.
The Kardashians
The family heads to Cabo San Lucas, but Kourtney and Kim get into a heated argument that changes the dynamic of the trip.
Kevin Hart’s Muscle Car Crew
After Kevin Hart bought each of his closest friends their dream car, they decide to build a garage/home base in the Atlanta area. The crew go on a journey to learn everything they can about car culture while locating and opening this brick & mortar spot.
The Last Cowboy
Chronicles the lives of the cowboys and cowgirls competing in the high-stakes sport of horse reining. Culminating in a $1M competition, the series follows the reiners as they prepare for the biggest bout in the sport’s history: The Run for a Million.
Life Below Zero
Faced with the growing uncertainty of Mother Nature’s volatile whims, Alaskans must push their boundaries and enter a new dawn of survival.
Love on the Spectrum U.S.
Single people with autism — including new romantic hopefuls and familiar faces — search for the perfect partner in this dating reality series.
Love Undercover
Pro athletes have it all: extreme wealth, adoring fans, lavish lifestyles. But fame and fortune can come at the price of true love. These 5 international soccer stars are going undercover in the US to find love for who they are, not what they have.
Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake
A fish-out-of-water story, Luann and Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake follows socialites Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan of The Real Housewives of New York City as they pack up their trunks and help spruce up a small Midwest town that was devastated by the pandemic.
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys
The high-stakes ranching and farming world of McBee Farm & Cattle is on the brink of becoming either a billion-dollar business or a financial disaster.
Meet Me in Rome
Ready to risk it all for love, three real women arrive in Rome and become leading ladies in their very own rom-com. Handsome suitors and steamy romance await – will our leading ladies find the love they’re looking for or leave as single as they came?
Naked and Afraid
After disrobing and entering uninhabited wilderness completely naked, two survivalists meet for the first time. To make it 21 days in the wild, they must constantly strategize to solve problems and overcome both physical and mental obstacles—while putting their lives in the hands of a stranger they’ve just met.
90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way
Americans move to a foreign country all in the name of love, facing challenges like culture shock and winning over soon-to-be in-laws, all while trying to make it down the aisle. Will uprooting their lives in the United States pay off, or will they be moving back to America brokenhearted?
Paris in Love
Paris Hilton and her husband welcome their first child in secret as a way to protect him from the media, which throws her family for a loop. As she learns to navigate motherhood and career demands, Paris also drops a bombshell memoir revealing decades of traumas, rocking her world.
Project Greenlight: A New Generation
Pulls back the curtain on the filmmaking process from start to finish, offering a unique, 360-look into selected director Meko Winbush’s experience as she directs her first feature film, Gray Matter. Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, and Gina Prince-Bythewood serve as mentors throughout the season.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Delves into the undiscovered world of Salt Lake City within an exclusive social circle made up of seven successful women who’ve created their own paradise filled with luxury homes, shopping sprees and multi-million-dollar businesses.
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacy
Reunites pop culture icons Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Ramona Singer and Kristen Taekman as they jet off to beautiful St. Barths for an epic adventure of a lifetime.
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Running Wild with Bear Grylls is back with new episodes featuring some of the biggest celebrities learning to survive with Bear out in the wild!
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked
Takes you behind-the-scenes for all of the shade, struggles and laughter that you didn’t see on the runway while the queens anxiously await their fates backstage as they compete to become America’s Next Drag Superstar.
Selling Sunset
The agents hustle to move houses in a tough market, but bad blood and unfinished business could bring down what they’ve built. Can they keep it together?
Sister Wives
With four wives and 18 children, the Brown household has more than their fair share of family drama. Kody Brown and his wives share an intimate glimpse into their relationship, and both the challenges and the joys at the heart of this unconventional family structure.
Summer House
Follows a group of friends who, after toiling away at their jobs in the city during the week, share a house in the Hamptons on the weekends. Booze-filled brunches, charity galas, bonfires and drama-filled romances are on the docket for the young professionals in their summer playground.
Theresa Caputo: Raising Spirits
Follows Theresa as she explores the next phase of her personal life and embarks on the tour, Theresa Caputo Live! The author shares her incredible gift as a medium while balancing new family dynamics like divorce and becoming a grandmother.
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment
At an Arkansas detention facility, a sheriff implements a radical social experiment to grant men who are incarcerated more agency.
Vanderpump Rules
The former SURvers attempt to pick up the pieces following a scandal that jolted the tight-knit friend group. With resentments, forgiveness and shifting alliances, they attempt to navigate the lines drawn in the sand while rebuilding friendships, developing their businesses and healing from past relationships.
Vanderpump Villa
Follows the hand-picked crew of Lisa Vanderpump’s opulent French villa as they live and cooperate to satisfy each extravagant want of their affluent visitors.
Welcome to Wrexham
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds run Wrexham Football Club as they try to create an underdog story the world can root for. From Hollywood to Wales, the docuseries tracks their crash course in ownership and the interwoven fates of a team and a town.
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