Andy Dehnart

—Joe Ray and Cindy Lewis, and their daughters Molly, Emma, and Sarah, were on the show’s first season, which aired on Animal Planet, and on its second season, which shifted the series to the Discovery Channel. They didn’t return for season four, which is now airing (and previously covered the death of another cast member, Bob Harte—though his legacy lingers, as you can see in this clip from the Jan. 6 episode “Finding New Trails”). So, I asked the network, and now we have a definitive answer as to why the Lewis family is no longer part of The Last Alaskans cast, despite being beloved by viewers and the show’s production company. As viewers saw, one of Ray’s passions became the houseboat that he built and we featured in [season two].As the family spent increasing amounts of time on the houseboat, they spent less time in the refuge.

Social media reaction is not a good predictor of, nor correlated to, actual television ratings, but I think Fox will have a decent hit on their hands—or at least, decent premiere ratings. That’s because The Masked Singer creates an instantly compelling mystery, and that’s the genius of this format (which already succeeded in South Korea, so Fox imported a proven hit). Also, I was at least expecting someone really famous, like a star who’d appeared on Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition, not something like Dancing with the Stars (Antonio Brown placed fourth on season 22). Since their singing really wasn’t worth much at all, though, after we meet the other six costumed celebrities, I may just DVR and fast-forward to the end.

You can see that in this clip from the season premiere, as the participants tell their friends and family members about why there are camera crews filming them:After setting its first two seasons in New York, Married at First Sight followed the early Real World model and moved to a new city every season. She aspires to build the same kind of love and stability with which she was raised and hopes the panel of experts in the Married at First Sight experiment will uncover her Barack Obama.”“Will was raised by his mother and felt blessed to not only have a great father, but a wonderful step-father as well. He is financially, emotionally, and mentally ready for the next phase in his life, and is eager to see if the panel of experts in the Married at First Sight experiment can help him find his perfect match. Kate is ready and open to meeting the right person to spend the rest of her life with, and knows she would be a great candidate for the Married at First Sight experiment because she is open to having the panel of experts find a match for her without interfering with their process.

But I haven’t read Marie Kondo’s I like the idea of thinking about whether something gives you joy or not, but Kondo’s strategies sounded like lunacy, like they’d add stress, not make it magically disappear. So when I watched Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Netflix’s new eight-episode series, I certainly didn’t expect to be so charmed by Marie Kondo, and so delighted by the simplicity of her ideas. As a result of this, though, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo also resists the tropes of other makeover shows: there aren’t explosive confrontations, there isn’t a sense that the cameras’ presence is exploitative.