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* A dark parody is seen in ''Series/DoctorWho'', where in the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]" the Doctor, Rose, and Jack end up in the far future on a series of reality shows where anyone who is eliminated is seemingly disintegrated. [[spoiler: At the end of episode, it is revealed that the contestants weren't being disintegrated, but teleported to a fleet of Dalek ships that have been orbiting Earth for around two hundred years, tying into [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame a previous episode]], where it is revealed that the Daleks have been [[ManBehindTheMan the forces]] [[GreaterScopeVillain behind the events]] of these two episodes. The [[Recap/DoctorwhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways following episode]] also reveals that these Daleks are being commanded by none other than the Dalek Emperor, who managed to survive the Time War, after the Doctor seemingly destroyed all of the other Daleks and Time Lords.]]

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* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' is the TropeNamer.

* Creator/{{Univision}} has a regular rotation of these shows on Sunday nights. There's ''Nuestra Belleza Latina'' (a beauty pageant), ''Mira Quién Baila'' (a celebrity dance-off), and ''Parodiando'' (a celebrity-imitation competition), all of which include some combination of judge and audience voting.

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-->'''Cuddy''': When your extended job interview/reality TV show [[spoiler: killed a patient]], you lost your veto power.

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** The British version, ''StrictlyComeDancing'', also uses a combination of audience and judges' votes. In some series, including the 2012 one, the two pairs with the lowest combined scores have to perform again in the Dance Off, where the judges decide who stays and who goes.

** ''TheBiggestLoser'' works the other way: an objective weigh-in determines who will be liable for elimination, then the losing team has to vote off one of their own members. The winning team has no say in the matter.
* ''BigBrother''. Most nations have this as something the viewing public does via a phone line; the US version had it for the first season, but switched over to an internal system among the contestants for later seasons.
* ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver'' is an inversion; a team of judges vote on who 'graduates', getting their keys or license back and leaving the Driver Rehabilitation Center...in this Reality Show, leaving is a GOOD thing. The longer you're on, the worse you are!

* TheHistoryChannel's ''TopShot'' has the members of the team choose the two members to have a competition (one of whom goes home) by shooting a ''handgun'' at a target with the person's name.

* {{Creator/Univision}} has a regular rotation of these shows on Sunday nights. There's ''Nuestra Belleza Latina'' (a beauty pageant), ''Mira Quién Baila'' (a celebrity dance-off), and ''Parodiando'' (a celebrity-imitation competition), all of which include some combination of judge and audience voting.

* ''SoYouThinkYouCanDance'': Audience votes for their favorite to stay in.

* Referenced in a ''FoxTrot'' strip where the kids attempt to vote [[GranolaGirl their mother's]] latest [[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou healthy, beet-based dish]] off the dinner table.

* ''TotalDramaIsland'' uses this as part of its general reality show parody.
* ''KimPossible'''s TrappedInTVLand episode briefly drops Kim into a Reality TV igloo as she's voted out - "You'll have to hand in your fish."

* ''Series/HellsKitchen'': Fellow competitors vote for who should leave the kitchen, but TheMeanBrit has the final say. He's even added people to the chopping block, or straight-out kicked people without even letting them get their say. On the other hand, on a couple of occasions he's mixed it up by asking one of the losing team members who s/he thinks should go.

* In ''TheWeakestLink'', the contestants would vote to determine who would not go to the next round. This usually resulted in the best players being eliminated.

* Used as a punishment in later seasons of {{MTV}}'s ''RoadRules''. The vote was only cast [[strike:if]] when the team failed a mission.

* ''DancingWithTheStars'': a complicated scoring hybrid, both the judges' scores and the TV audience votes (via phone, text message, or website) determine who goes home. In case of a tie, the audience vote is the tie-breaker.

** The British version, StrictlyComeDancing, also uses a combination of audience and judges' votes. In some series, including the 2012 one, the two pairs with the lowest combined scores have to perform again in the Dance Off, where the judges decide who stays and who goes.

* "House votes" on whether to evict a cast member would occasionally crop up during early seasons of proto-reality show ''TheRealWorld'', but weren't a regular part of the show's structure.
** Likewise, later seasons of ''RoadRules'' would have it so that if the team failed one too many individual challenges, they'd have to vote off a member.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Russell Hantz ''[[EliminationHoudini finally]]'' being voted off the island on ''{{Survivor}}''.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Russell Hantz ''finally'' being voted off the island on ''{{Survivor}}''.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:A castaway being voted off the island on ''{{Survivor}}''.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:AndTheFandomRejoiced (unless they were fans of Russell).]]

[[caption-width-right:300:A castaway being voted off the island on ''{{Survivor}}'']]

* ''Canada's Worst Driver'' is an inversion; a team of judges vote on who 'graduates', getting their keys or license back and leaving the Driver Rehabilitation Center...in this Reality Show, leaving is a GOOD thing. The longer you're on, the worse you are!

* ''AmericanIdol'': Audience votes for their favorite to stay in.