The competition is high and so are the stakes for the U.S. version of The X Factor. Judges have been selected from the cream of the celebrity music crop and with a recording contract worth $5 million the winners in each category will need to be at their best and give the performances of their lives. Simon Cowell is creator of The X Factor and will oversee the talent as well as the judges, assuring the show goes on in an audience pleasing manner. Each of the judges will handle one of the four assigned categories that include boy singers (ages 12-25), girl singers (ages 12-25), group singers, and those who are over the age of twenty five. Unlike other programs of this sort there is no upper age limit for the competitors. Judges will mentor those in their category and offer help and advise as the competition progresses. Getting that advise from the likes of Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger, L.A. Reid, or Simon Cowell himself will be invaluable to the aspiring singers as they have helped fashion many super stars in the music industry. There are to be five competitive stages involved: Auditions by the producers, auditions by the judges, a Bootcamp, visitation to the judges houses, and finally the live shows where it all comes down to a single winner or group. As the five stages of the competition progress, it promises to get more exciting each week

Hot Ones is a popular YouTube show that features celebrity guests being interviewed while eating spicy hot wings. The show is hosted by Sean Evans, who asks his guests a series of questions while they try to handle the increasingly spicy wings. The heat levels of the wings are measured in Scoville units, a unit used to measure the spiciness of chili peppers.

When reality television star Khloe Kardashian married Lamar Odom he might have suspected his personal life would turn into a three ring circus but he went ahead with it anyway. Most likely because he loves the krazy Kardashian and just might love the limelight as well being he is a basketball superstar in his own right. Khloe & Lamar are a couple in love and in the early months of a marriage there is usually plenty of sex happening and this couple is definitely no exception. The big difference is the couple is doing it (well almost) on television! Khloe decides a sex swing is just what they need to have kinky fun and so she and her friend Malika try to install one in Khloe's bedroom with hysterical results! When she and hubby Lamar try out the contraption they discover she did not secure it to the ceiling very well and the couple and swing fall on top of the bed. This is but one example of the crazy plots involved in this reality sit-com. Others include Lamar handcuffing his bride to him to teach her a lesson on babying him. Plenty of laughs especially if you're already a Kardashian fan!

Reality television has come a long way but a shoot off competition seems to be heading in the wrong direction. But the premise works! This popular program combines sharpshooting with challenging elimination rounds until there is only one left standing. Beginning with sixteen contestants who are then split up into two teams (eight to a team) they face a variety of shoot off challenges. They have time to familiarize themselves with each weapon used with help from a well experienced trainer before taking on the next challenge and the team with best scores will win the day's competition and are safe from elimination (similar to other reality show competitions but with guns). Colby Donaldson, from the TV reality series Survivor hosts Top Shot and he will hand out the $100,000 prize. Contestants include retired police officers, a former Federal Air Marshall and firearms instructor, former Marine and US Army soldier who is a 4 time winner of the "Rifle Expert" award, member of the USA National Rifle Team, and a competition shooter that was platoon commander with the British Army. They are a very capable and competitive group of contestants that make this much more than merely a shooting range competition.

"60 Days In" is a reality TV show that follows a group of volunteers as they go undercover in a county jail for 60 days. The goal is to gain insight into the jail system from the perspective of a prisoner, identify potential problems, and suggest improvements. The volunteers have no prior criminal record and are given false identities to protect their safety.

Arguably television's first monster hit in the reality genre, another British import that found its proper home in America, a cultural phenomenon in its first two years, "Survivor" may have evolved into a cruel double entendre: After a decade on the air, "Survivor" describes not only the cast's situation but also the show's stubborn capacity for hanging on to its place in the CBS line-up by the slimmest of slim threads. "Survivor" is the MySpace of its niche: Do people still go there? Dropped into exotic wilderness settings"”places where their handhelds get absolutely no bars"”contestants vie for cash and prizes. The last survivor goes home with a cool million American dollars. As the physical, psychological, emotional, and intellectual trials and tests develop, contestants vote one another out of the competition. For the first half of each season, would-be survivors compete in teams; in the second half, they go solo in a full-on destruction derby. Observant viewers discern "Survivor" depends more on workplace treachery than anything anyone might have learned in Boy Scouts or Campfire Girls. Tribes, challenges, alliances, and immunities prove the wilderness differs very little from everyday life in major American corporations"”except the dress code encourages fashionable swimwear.