1. The Amazing Race
This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning the race and the $1 million prize.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
2. Big Brother
American version of the reality game show which follows a group of HouseGuests living together 24 hours a day in the "Big Brother" house, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy for three months.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
3. MasterChef Junior
American version of the culinary competition series that gives talented kids between the ages of 8 and 13 the chance to showcase their culinary abilities and passion for food through a series of delicious challenges. Celebrated food experts coach and encourage the promising hopefuls to cook like pros and teach them the tricks of the trade along the way.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
4. Grand Designs
British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Mercy Street
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
6. Australian Survivor
Australian Survivor sees 24 tough and tenacious people marooned on a tropical island with little more than the clothes on their backs and the drive to be the sole survivor. Contestants are deprived of basic comforts and must build their own shelter, light their own fires, gather their own food and fend for themselves.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
7. Shahs of Sunset
Follow a group of affluent young Persian-American friends who juggle their flamboyant, fast-paced L.A. lifestyles with the demands of their families and traditions.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
8. Polseres vermelles (Polseres vermelles)
Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a hospital patient. Espinosa and director-producer Pau Freixas had previously worked together on the film Herois.</p><p></p><p>The show tells the story of a group of Catalan children and teenagers who meet as patients in the children's wing of a hospital. Themes include friendship, the will to live, and the desire to overcome adversity. The show was originally planned for four seasons, with the second one premiering on January 2013.</p><p></p><p>In October 2011, it was announced that Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and Marta Kauffman had reached an agreement with TV3 for an American remake of Polseres Vermelles.</p><p></p><p>The Spanish channel Antena 3 aired the first season, dubbed into Spanish as Pulseras rojas, in summer 2012.</p><p></p><p>On 11 December 2012, TV3 announced 14 January 2013 as the premiere date for its second season. Antena 3 will premiere it dubbed later in 2013.
It has an average vote of 8.1 on TMDB.
9. Apparitions
Apparitions is a BBC drama about Father Jacob Myers, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, played by Martin Shaw, who examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also performs exorcisms. As he learns, Jacob's duties run deeper than just sending demons back to Hell; he later must prevent them all from escaping.</p><p></p><p>Unlike most portrayals of exorcism and spirit possession in fiction, Apparitions is more religiously accurate and fact-based, incorporating the nature of demonic possession as described by the Church. It also recounts historical events associated with Christianity and other Abrahamic religions, which may have been caused by Heaven or Hell, indicating that the War described in the Bible may not have fully concluded.</p><p></p><p>The series is written by Joe Ahearne.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
10. Odd Mom Out
Acclaimed author Jill Kargman plays a version of herself as she navigates the treacherous and elite ecosystem of New York's Upper East Side, and the uber-wealthy mommy clique inhabiting this fantastically outrageous domain.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
11. Dragons' Den
Canadian version of the reality show in which budding entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hopes of securing business financing.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
12. The Real World
Each year, seven strangers in their twenties, from different backgrounds and countries, are chosen to come live together in a major city.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
13. Double Shot at Love
Twenty eligible ladies will face off against one another hoping to avoid the elimination ceremony, while the boys must compete for the affection of the contestants as well.
It has an average vote of 8.6 on TMDB.
14. Bondi Rescue
Follow the day to day life and work of lifeguards on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
15. That's My Jam
This star-studded, music-comedy game show from Executive Producer Jimmy Fallon is infused with his one-of-a-kind comedic style and feel-good energy, featuring a carousel of his classic and brand new music-based games, like "Wheel of Musical Impressions," "Musical Genre Challenge" and "History of Rap." Each week, a new group of celebrities go head-to-head and mic-to-mic in a variety of music- and dance-inspired games, sketches and challenges that promise unforgettable -- and hilarious -- performances.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
16. Kontoret (Kontoret)
The Swedish version of the British TV series "The Office".
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Man, Woman, Wild
Mykel Hawke is a former Special Forces survival expert. His wife Ruth is a television journalist. Together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the two find common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
18. La Isla: El Reality (La Isla: El Reality)
La Isla also known as La Isla: El Reality is a Mexican reality show that aired on August 20, 2012 It was produced by Be-Tv together with TV Azteca and is based on the Colombian Reality Desafío Caracol TV.. The program shows three groups of players: the first two are composed of Mexican characters, known as famosos and showbiz celebridades, and a third team players called The Desconocidos.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
19. Mysteries of the Missing
Explore the most startling disappearances of the modern era, looking at what we know happened that fateful day, what the theories behind their vanishing are – and what science can tell us about what really happened.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
20. Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head
Two teenage heavy-metal music fans occasionally do idiotic things because they're bored. For them, everything is "cool" or "sucks."
It has an average vote of 7.591 on TMDB.
