“I teach for a living, but I read as a hobby”: The Business of Reality TV, Santa Clause Andy Cohen and the #HonH Holiday Special with Dr. Martina Baldwin

In which the Historians break out their textured jingle-bell sweaters for a special in-studio holiday edition of HonH to discuss the history of Santa Clause, put to rest the eternal question of whether Coto de Caza is the sticks, learn the long and storied history of BravoTV as well as about critical media literacy, the (lack of) guilty pleasures in watching reality television, hear about what interviewing two Bravolebs was like and get a little tea, discuss the technical expertise of WWHL, listen to Kacey jingle some bells, attempt to answer the oldest chicken and the egg question: do the audiences shape the shows or the shows shape the audiences, and much, much more!

Image courtesy of CSU Fullerton

Image courtesy of CSU Fullerton