Tiara Sukhan – The Conversation

Contestants stand on platforms and watch a countdown in a still from the ‘Beast Games’ teaser trailer. Contestants compete for a potentially life-changing sum of money in the reality show. (Amazon MGM Studios)

September 27, 2026

From Fear Factor to Beast Games: Why watching people suffer for money still makes compelling TV

Tiara Sukhan, Western University

Reality competitions once used money to motivate the game. MrBeast puts the money itself at the centre of the spectacle.

What actually shapes the success or failure of relationships with significant age gaps revolves around the advantages that shape how we move through the world, including youth, health, accumulated power or life experience. (Unsplash)

March 31, 2026

Reality TV is testing age‑gap relationships — but the real issue runs deeper

Tiara Sukhan, Western University

What determines the success or failure of these relationships is not so much the age difference but the imbalance in resources.

In ‘Love is Blind, Mexico,’ the betrothed couple, Chema and Silvia, disrupted their producer’s script and ran away at the wedding. Love is Blind Mexico/Netflix

September 10, 2024

International productions of ‘Love is Blind’ are joyfully disrupting ‘happily ever after’

Tiara Sukhan, Western University

International casts of the ‘Love is Blind’ franchise are joyfully disrupting the marriage as end-game narrative put forth by the original U.S. producers.

A group of policemen in Marseille, France, pass in front of a bus shelter featuring a poster from the television series ‘Paris Police 1900’. (Shutterstock)

June 10, 2021

Cop shows: Should they be cancelled or rebooted?

Tiara Sukhan, Western University

The classic cop show is now a problematic genre, but if it can change, then perhaps real world policing can too.

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