Next up in the Geektown Awards 2025, we come to what is affectionately known in the Geektown office as “Gray’s Category”… largely because he watches far more of these shows than the rest of us combined.
The Best Factual / Structured Reality / Entertainment Show category always produces an eclectic shortlist, throwing competition shows, reality TV, factual series, and long-running entertainment formats into the same pot. As ever, it makes for some fascinating results… and probably a very happy Gray.
Here’s how you voted.
Best Factual / Structured Reality / Entertainment Show
Nominees:
Celebrity Race Across the World – BBC
Celebrity Traitors, Season 1 – BBC
Clarkson’s Farm, Season 4 – Prime Video
Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham, Season 1 – Sky Max
Last One Laughing, Season 1 – Prime Video
Race Across the World – BBC
Squid Game: The Challenge, Season 2 – Netflix
Taskmaster, Season 19 – Channel 4
The Traitors, Season 3 – BBC
Welcome To Wrexham, Season 4 – Disney+
Bronze: Taskmaster, Season 19 – Channel 4
Silver: Clarkson’s Farm, Season 4 – Prime Video
Gold Winner: Celebrity Traitors, Season 1 – BBC
After finishing just outside the podium last year, Celebrity Traitors storms to the top of the category in 2025, taking gold with a commanding share of the vote.
The celebrity spin on the already hugely popular format clearly paid off, delivering all the paranoia, betrayal and water-cooler conversation viewers expect, while adding just enough new energy to keep things feeling fresh. Its win also marks a shift in the category, with audiences rewarding big, buzzy event television over returning comfort favourites.
Close behind, Clarkson’s Farm continues its remarkable run, following last year’s gold with a strong silver finish for Season 4. Meanwhile, Taskmaster once again proves its consistency, claiming bronze and maintaining its status as one of British television’s most reliable entertainment formats.
Elsewhere in the shortlist, the continued popularity of Race Across the World — both celebrity and civilian versions — underlines how well the format still connects with audiences, while Squid Game: The Challenge and Last One Laughing show that global streaming hits can still make a meaningful impact in this category.
Whether Gray is happy with the outcome this year is, of course, debatable… but once again, this category perfectly captures the broad mix of shows people genuinely enjoy sitting down with week after week.
More Geektown Awards 2025 results are coming very soon, as we continue to reveal the TV shows, films, and games that made the biggest impression on Geektown readers over the past year.
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