Unlikely Netflix series hailed ‘greatest reality show in history of television’
Unlikely Netflix series hailed ‘greatest reality show in history of television’
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. WWE legend Paul Heyman has insisted SmackDown should be acknowledged as the ‘greatest reality show’ in television history.
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For the last four and a half year the longrunning weekly programme, which now streams after Friday night on Netflix, has focused on the saga of Roman Reigns and The Bloodline with the lines blurred as the real life family took centre stage. Heyman, who takes centre stage as cover start and the voice of this year’s Showcase mode in WWE 2K25, exclusively told Metro how Roman’s storyline shift in 2020 turned SmackDown into something more comparable to reality TV.
![[SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - NOVEMBER 22: Sami Zayn, Roman Reigns, and Jimmy Uso and Silo Sikoa in ring during WWE SmackDown at Delta Center on November 22, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by WWE/Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_230595486-a594.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘When Roman went home during the pandemic, and in his mind he was finished, he was retiring, and came back for the opportunity to be the Tribal Chief,’ he explained. ‘The one word, besides relevance, that kept resonating with us was authenticity,’ he added.
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‘If we could present an authentic version of the tribal chief Roman Reigns, if SmackDown could become the greatest reality show in the history of television by following the rise to power of this conflicted Tribal Chief…. ‘This Head of the Table that will do anything it takes to protect the family, even if he has to go outside the bounds of the codes of honor that the family represents.
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