Laurie Ouellette is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Lifestyle TV, Better Living Through Reality TV (with James Hay), and Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People, and editor of The Media Studies Reader, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (with Susan Murray), and A Companion to Reality Television. She writes the “TV on Demand” column for Film Quarterly and is editor-in-chief of Television & New Media.