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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]] ''almost'' breaks the FourthWall with one (unseen) show-within-a-show. There is a scene with a television in the background, on which a continuity announcer can be heard saying "This is [[Creator/TheBBC BBC television]], the time is quarter past five, and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc-" at which point the scene ends.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]] ''almost'' breaks the FourthWall with one (unseen) show-within-a-show. There is a scene with a television in the background, on which a continuity announcer {{continuity announce|ment}}r can be heard saying "This is [[Creator/TheBBC BBC television]], the time is quarter past five, and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc-" at which point the scene ends.
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*In ''Series/HimitsuNoHanazono2007'', this is a given since the rom com focuses on the life of an overworked manga editor, but the most prominent is Ninpo Arabesque, an action manga about a MagicalGirl kunoichi that uses ballet while wearing a maid outfit.
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* George Micheal Bluth in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is obsessed with the scandalous French movie "Les Cousins Dangereux", about two cousins in love.
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* ''Series/GLOW2017'' is a multiple example of the trope. The show itself is about creating a fictionalized version of the real ''Wrestling/GLOW'' TV show. One of the stars, Debbie Eagan used to be in a soap opera called ''Paradise Cove'' until being written out during pregnancy. The director hired for GLOW, Sam Sylvia is a director of a number of B horror movies, which also often starred Cherry Bang and her husband Keith who work on the GLOW production as well, and we see clips of two of them; ''Death Disco'' and ''Gina The Machina''. At the end of season one, Cherry Bang is hired for a lead role in a new police procedural, ''Chambers and Gold'', but as she has trouble oing dialogue, Sam pulls her back to GLOW, while pitching the network to rework ''Chambers and Gold'' to be just about the other partner and "call it something like "Good As Gold"". Season two, episode eight "The Good Twin" is a broadcast version of the in-universe GLOW [[spoiler:being watched by the mother and step-brother of teenage runaway Justine who spot her in one of the comedy skits]]

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* ''Series/GLOW2017'' is a multiple example of the trope. The show itself is about creating a fictionalized version of the real ''Wrestling/GLOW'' ''Wrestling/{{GLOW}}'' TV show. One of the stars, Debbie Eagan used to be in a soap opera called ''Paradise Cove'' "Paradise Cove" until being written out during pregnancy. The director hired for GLOW, Sam Sylvia is a director of a number of B horror movies, which also often starred Cherry Bang and her husband Keith who work on the GLOW production as well, and we see clips of two of them; ''Death Disco'' "Death Disco" and ''Gina "Gina The Machina''. Machina". At the end of season one, Cherry Bang is hired for a lead role in a new police procedural, ''Chambers "Chambers and Gold'', Gold", but as she has trouble oing dialogue, Sam pulls her back to GLOW, while pitching the network to rework ''Chambers "Chambers and Gold'' Gold" to be just about the other partner and "call it something like "Good As Gold"". Season two, episode eight "The Good Twin" is a broadcast version of the in-universe GLOW [[spoiler:being watched by the mother and step-brother of teenage runaway Justine who spot her in one of the comedy skits]]
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* ''Series/GLOW2017'' is a multiple example of the trope. The show itself is about creating a fictionalized version of the real ''Wrestling/GLOW'' TV show. One of the stars, Debbie Eagan used to be in a soap opera called ''Paradise Cove'' until being written out during pregnancy. The director hired for GLOW, Sam Sylvia is a director of a number of B horror movies, which also often starred Cherry Bang and her husband Keith who work on the GLOW production as well, and we see clips of two of them; ''Death Disco'' and ''Gina The Machina''. At the end of season one, Cherry Bang is hired for a lead role in a new police procedural, ''Chambers and Gold'', but as she has trouble oing dialogue, Sam pulls her back to GLOW, while pitching the network to rework ''Chambers and Gold'' to be just about the other partner and "call it something like "Good As Gold"". Season two, episode eight "The Good Twin" is a broadcast version of the in-universe GLOW [[spoiler:being watched by the mother and step-brother of teenage runaway Justine who spot her in one of the comedy skits]]
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* ''Series/Castle2009'': The title character is a DetectiveLiterature author who has two major series that we know of that play significant roles in the plot. The series begins shortly after he killed off his previous protagonist Derrick Storm after getting bored with writing him, then, after a SerialKiller stages three murders to look like scenes from the Derrick Storm novels, he gets involved with the police investigation as a consultant and uses Detective Kate Beckett (a fan of his other books, [[{{Tsundere}} though just try getting her to admit it]]) as the inspiration for his new protagonist Literature/NikkiHeat (which was [[{{Defictionalization}} turned into]] a TieInNovel series). This book series in turn was adapted into a film later in the show, though it ultimately went DirectToVideo due to TroubledProduction.
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* On ''Series/TheNewNormal'' Bryan is co-creator and showrunner of a teen show called ''Sing'', which is implied to be very similar to ''Series/{{Glee}}''.

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* On ''Series/TheNewNormal'' In ''Series/TheNewNormal'', Bryan is co-creator and showrunner of a teen show called ''Sing'', which is implied to be very similar to ''Series/{{Glee}}''.



** In "A Special Edition", the journalist Donald Rivers presents a news magazine show called ''The Whole Truth''.
** In "Judgment Day", the titular ImmoralRealityShow airs on the Justice Channel and features the relatives of murder victims being given 24 hours to hunt their loved one's killer. Declan [=McMahon=], who was framed for murder by the producer Jack Parson, described it as "voyeuristic" and a "moral outrage".

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** In "A "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E18ASpecialEdition A Special Edition", Edition]]", the journalist Donald Rivers presents a news magazine show called ''The Whole Truth''.
** In "Judgment Day", "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E1JudgmentDay Judgment Day]]", the titular ImmoralRealityShow airs on the Justice Channel and features the relatives of murder victims being given 24 hours to hunt their loved one's killer. Declan [=McMahon=], who was framed for murder by the producer Jack Parson, described it as "voyeuristic" and a "moral outrage".
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** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E23AWorldOfDifference A World of Difference]]", Gerald Raigan plays the title character in the film ''The Private World of Arthur Curtis''.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E85ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]", the title character stars in a popular [[TheWestern Western TV series]] about [[TheDanza a heroic marshal of the same name]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E120TheBard The Bard]]", Creator/WilliamShakespeare writes the script for a television film called ''The Tragic Cycle'', which is credited to Julius Moomer.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]", the immortal woman starred in the SilentMovie ''Queen of the Nile'' in about 1920, under the name Constance Taylor, and in its [[TheRemake 1940 remake]], under the name Pamela Morris. In the interim, she starred in ''Trails West'' in 1935.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Cold Reading", Milo Trent is cast as the title character's younger brother Timmy in the UBS radio series ''Dick Noble, African Explorer''.

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** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E23AWorldOfDifference "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E23AWorldOfDifference A World of Difference]]", Gerald Raigan plays the title character in the film ''The Private World of Arthur Curtis''.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E85ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E20ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]", the title character stars in a popular [[TheWestern Western TV series]] about [[TheDanza a heroic marshal of the same name]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E120TheBard "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E18TheBard The Bard]]", Creator/WilliamShakespeare writes the script for a television film called ''The Tragic Cycle'', which is credited to Julius Moomer.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E23QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]", the immortal woman starred in the SilentMovie ''Queen of the Nile'' in about 1920, under the name Constance Taylor, and in its [[TheRemake 1940 remake]], under the name Pamela Morris. In the interim, she starred in ''Trails West'' in 1935.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Cold Reading", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E18 Cold Reading]]", Milo Trent is cast as the title character's younger brother Timmy in the UBS radio series ''Dick Noble, African Explorer''.
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* ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} Highlander the Series]]'': The episode "The Return of Amanda" is set partly in Berlin, Germany in the mid-1930s, where Amanda is working as a singer in a sleazy nightclub.


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* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' had an episode that opened on the set of a "Jerry Springer"-esque TV talk show. The show became the setting for the murder-of-the-week, broadcast live on the air.

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* ''Series/{{Swarm}}'': In a bizarre example, there is not only a documentary on the supposed story of Dre and the murders she commited, but the Prime video series gets mentioned as based on them too. So apparently it's also a show in the ''documentary'''s reality as well.


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* ''Series/{{Swarm}}'': In a bizarre example, there is not only a documentary on the supposed story of Dre and the murders she committed, but the Prime video series gets mentioned as based on them too. So apparently it's also a show in the ''documentary'''s reality as well.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]] has the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find themselves [[TrappedInTVLand trapped]] in lethal versions of popular British reality shows ''Series/BigBrother'', ''Series/TheWeakestLink'' and ''Series/WhatNotToWear''. The Doctor's reaction when he finds himself on the ''Big Brother'' set: "You have ''got'' to be kidding!"
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]]: Lost Shakespeare play ''Love's Labours Won'' is part of an evil alien plot.



* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]] has the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find themselves [[TrappedInTVLand trapped]] in lethal versions of popular British reality shows ''Series/BigBrother'', ''Series/TheWeakestLink'' and ''Series/WhatNotToWear''. The Doctor's reaction when he finds himself on the ''Big Brother'' set: "You have ''got'' to be kidding!"
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]]: Lost Shakespeare play ''Love's Labours Won'' is part of an evil alien plot.



* One episode of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' features the rather farcical ''Gay as Blazes'', which sarcastically parodies common criticisms of the show.

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* One episode of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS'' features the rather farcical ''Gay as Blazes'', which sarcastically parodies common criticisms of the show.
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* A short-lived 1989 ABC series called ''Studio 5-B'' was about a fictional morning show of the same name; it only lasted for 3 episodes, from Jan. 24 to Feb. 5, 1989.
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* ''Series/{{Swarm}}'': In a bizarre example, there is not only a documentary on the supposed story of Dre and the murders she commited, but the Prime video series gets mentioned as based on them too. So apparently it's also a show in the ''documentary'''s reality as well.

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