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Show	Status	Notes
Real Housewives of New Jersey	Active
Real World	Permanent Hiatus	There was a time when people could not stop talking about The Real World. These days, however, the reaction is usually closer to "That's still on?!" Sure, Bunim/Murray created a pop-culture phenomenon when they stuck seven strangers together in a house, and made way for the reality-television craze we're still being skated and duetted to death with. But things change, and with the death of Mary-Ellis Bunim, the franchise began focusing more on casting shallow drunkards to interact with products such as Ford cars or Pepsi than real representative young people with opinions, true individuality, or something to say. In the age of MySpace and bling, cute and bratty seemed like the way to go, rather than interesting and multi-faceted; TWoP readers disagreed, however, as the oldest dog on the site (perhaps?) is put out to pasture. Run free, old trope. Run free!
Real World - Road Rules Challenge	Permanent Hiatus	These people may haunt future generations -- but not us any longer.
Reality TV
Reaper	Permanent Hiatus	We don't fear it, we just don't like it.
Rescue Me	Permanent Hiatus	Started out on fire, then cooled off into predictable provocation.
Revelations	Permanent Hiatus	Who'd have thought the end of the world would be so slow-moving and tiresome? The battle between good and evil is over. Who won? The recapper, who won't have to watch the second half of this miniseries.
Revenge	Active
Revolution	Active
Ringer	Permanent Hiatus	The former slayer's much-heralded return to The CW turned out to be a one-season bust. Even two Sarah Michelle Gellars don't equal one Buffy (or even one Lying Game).
Road Rules	Permanent Hiatus	Ah, the agony of defeat. Most people experience it in fleeting moments, but some of us experienced it every Monday night at 10 PM. No more. Three seasons of also-rans riding around in an RV was more than enough. They continue without us, they even head into sydication in some markets, but really, if six destined-for-obscurity adolesents fall down in the forest and no one hears....
Road to Stardom	Permanent Hiatus	Oh, the programming and publicity geniuses at the UPN. They took a show that sounded really, really stupid, used the spare change in their pocket to promote it, and put it up against two insanely popular shows thinking, "Well this should get some of the Top Model runoff, right?" Wrong. And then the show proved to be awesome but no one knew, because no one was watching. UPN, you's a mess.
Rock Star	Permanent Hiatus	After helping INXS to find a new lead singer in the un-recapped Season 1, Rock Star returned in Season 2 with an attempt to launch a brand-new supergroup called "Supernova." The ultimate results ended up being more like a black hole in almost every imaginable way, so CBS quietly (and wisely) stopped trying to make music history for a while. Rock off.
Rock of Love	Suspended Animation
Rockville CA
Rome	Permanent Hiatus	We come not to praise Rome, but to bury it. For two seasons, we watched everyman protagonists Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo as they Forrest Gumped their way through two decades of Roman history without aging a day. They lived through Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul, his assassination, and Mark Antony's eventual defeat by Octavian. This was an HBO version of events, where the "B" stands for "blood, beheadings, boobies, boinking, and blue language." But when the crushing expense of all those sets, costumes, props, and extras (and only one major battle) caught up, Rome was history in more ways than one.
Roswell	Permanent Hiatus	No one could have expected that this WB-cum-UPN show about approximately four-to-seven-or-so aliens living undercover in New Mexico would capture the hearts and minds of America for three stunning years of blazing success. And then it didn't. So everyone was right. Relive three years of Max's rapid aging, Michael's rapid waist-expansion, and Liz's voice-over profundities right here.
Rubicon	Permanent Hiatus	Was this glacially paced code-breaker drama just AMC's way of punishing us for not watching their Prisoner remake?
Runaway	Permanent Hiatus	Donnie Wahlberg was framed for murder, so he took his family on the run and moved to where nobody could find him. Including viewers. Smooth move, Ex-lax.