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Split Screen

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Welcome to Split Screen, an examination of the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. From reality TV gone awry, to the cult of celebrity, each season of Split Screen takes listeners on an evocative journey inside the world of showbiz. Ex-contestants, producers, and cultural critics uncover complicated truths behind TV’s carefully curated facades, and question what our entertainment reveals about us. Split Screen: sometimes reality is twisted. Season 1 | Kid Nation: The true story behind one of reality TV’s most controversial experiments. Season 2 | Thrill Seekers: A multi-million dollar media experiment. Would you fall for it? Season 3 | Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Was the Canadian punk pop sensation replaced by a look-alike? Season 4 | Bachelor of Buckingham Palace: The story behind one of the world’s most bizarre reality dating shows.

Latest episodes

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Split Screen Introduces: Discount Dave (and the Fix)

Everyone has a party story. Host and creator of Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix) Rebecca Auerbach’s involved in a run-in with rock icon David Lee Roth (you know, f

Jun 10
20 min

Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 6: In Reality

 ’I Wanna Marry Harry’ makes its prime time debut. Things do not go as planned. Scott begins to question what we really mean when we call something “reality” TV?

Dec 15 2025
29 min

Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 5: Not So Happily Ever After

As filming wraps, the girls fly back home, and the producers have a surprise waiting for them when they land. As surprises go, this isn’t exactly a great one.

Dec 8 2025
25 min

Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 4: Princess Material

Who is Matt Hicks? A questionable Prince Harry lookalike… but also the man who might be able to tell us what was really going on behind-the-scenes. All we need to do now

Dec 1 2025
29 min

Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 3: The Believers

Film crews, cults and coercion. A handy guide on how to get people to believe what you want them to.

Nov 24 2025
26 min

Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 2: Fever Dream

Just whose idea was this anyway? And how did they intend to pull off such an absurd stunt? Scott needs answers. And he knows just who he needs to speak to. Danny Fenton —

Nov 18 2025
28 min

Bachelor of Buckingham Palace, Episode 1: The Fairytale

Kimberly and Meghan audition for a secret new reality dating show. Producers won’t tell them anything about where they’ll be going, what they’ll be doing, or who they’ll

Nov 10 2025
30 min

Introducing: Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace

This is the inside story of "I Wanna Marry Harry", one of the world’s most bizarre and ballsy reality dating shows. Coming soon, wherever you get your podcasts on Nov. 10

Nov 7 2025
1 min

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 6: My Happy Ending

Joanne is back Canada… she has something she really needs to tell Avril. After months of digging – Joanne has finally tracked down the source of this rumour. SO Avril DE

Mar 10 2025
33 min

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 5: Wish You Were Here

Joanne was beginning to come to terms with the fact that this might all be nonsense. She turns her sights on who started this conspiracy. Where did it come from? Joanne

Mar 3 2025
32 min

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 4: Don’t Tell Me

Joanne and her producer Sophie set up a war room with all of the evidence about Avril being replaced layed out. Her clothing, height, make up, song lyrics, voice.. it’s a

Feb 24 2025
34 min

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 3: Complicated

Avril’s career hit something of a bump in the road. At one point she appeared to fall off the radar completely, all while the rumours about her being replaced were swirli

Feb 17 2025
30 min

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 2: Here’s to Never Growing Up

Joanne arrives in Napanee, Ontario – Avril’s hometown. She plunges into Avril’s early career. The young superstar-Avril was under a lot of scrutiny and pressure. Was she

Feb 10 2025
40 min

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 1: What The Hell?

Joanne LOVES conspiracy theories… and there’s one she can’t get out of her head. Is it true that Avril Lavigne died, and was replaced by a body double? Joanne digs deep i

Feb 3 2025
31 min

Introducing | Split Screen: Who Replaced Avril Lavigne?

Joanne McNally LOVES conspiracy theories… and there’s one she can’t get out of her head. Is it true that Avril Lavigne died, and was replaced by a body double? Joanne dig

Jan 30 2025
2 min

Thrill Seekers, Episode 6: Back to Earth

Space Cadets: where are they now? We learn how the contestants struggled to adapt to life after the show. We bring them together after 20 years, to finally reflect on how

Oct 28 2024
34 min

Thrill Seekers, Episode 5: Spacewalk

Four cadets are sent to space and have a profound experience as they view the Earth from above. Back on the ground, producers scramble to find a satisfying end to the ser

Oct 21 2024
36 min

Thrill Seekers, Episode 4: Hoax TV

The reviews are rolling in, but they’re not what the crew were expecting. Psychologist Cynthia McVay examines whether the manipulations integral to reality TV can be ethi

Oct 14 2024
25 min

Thrill Seekers, Episode 3: Behind The Curtain

Before the cadets begin auditioning, a production team is hired to make the show. They too were sworn to secrecy as they were challenged to tackle a job they didn’t even

Oct 7 2024
32 min

Thrill Seekers, Episode 2: Star City

The contestants are flown to a Russian cosmonaut base and put through the most gruelling training of their lives in preparation for their mission. But as the training bec

Sep 30 2024
33 min

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#23
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#118 ▲ 29 TV Reviews US

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Never even heard of kid nation but I’m not a reality tv gal. However, Loved the pod. Fast paced, narrator is lovely to listen to, the right balance of journalism and story telling.

Lmilly · Jul 2024

Great podcast, fun to listen to in the background when I’m doing something else. Nice analyzation of society and kids’ portrayal of it reflected in their world

penguin 🐧🐧🐧 · Jun 2024

Finally a podcast about kid nation! I thought kid nation was a fever dream I made up when I was 8. A great listen about one of the strangest reality tv shows of all time.

polkadotpollo · Jun 2024

This seems like it is going to be hard-hitting journalism into the exploitation of kids, but it ends up being a celebration of the format. It comes complete with breathless recaps manufactured dramatic moments and after-the-fact interviews with participants. The intent might be to create a critique, but the host becomes an unwitting cheerleader of everything terrible about "reality" television.

Otherlleft · Jun 2024

The topic is fascinating, and when the host stays on topic the podcast is great, but…when the editorializing kicks in, or when today’s political points get inserted into events that took place 20 years ago, the podcast goes wrong. It is almost too cringy at points to listen to, a major editorial error.

AKALynnie · Jul 2024

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