The news about the reality TV viewership increase helps to explain one reason why Netflix ultimately decided to get into creating its own reality programming in 2017.
A year ago, Netflix was openly stating it wasn’t interested in reality programming because of its “disposable nature”, but this year will actually mark a big turnaround for Netflix, which was adamantly stating in the past that it neither wanted to get into sports nor reality programming.
You can check out the first trailer for that unscripted program already.
The sports thing is still not happening at Netflix, but the subscription streaming service is gunning hard to create new unscripted originals like Ultimate Beastmaster, which is sort of a streaming take on American Ninja Warrior.