Reality TV

Editor's note: We learn new things in the most unexpected of ways, so with this initial segment, TX. reporter Rachel Badali offers a periodic look at some of the knowledge she's discovered.

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Some Things I Learned From Reality TV:

When in doubt ... storm out.

We all say things we wish we wouldn't have.

Hair height may vary depending on your vicinity to Texas or Jersey.

Heartbreak only lasts a few episodes, and then it's time to move on.

When throwing a party, invite everyone (including your enemies).

DETROIT -- "All-American Muslim," the reality TV show on TLC based in Dearborn, Mich., that ignited a national controversy, will not be back for a second season, the Detroit Free Press has learned.

NEW YORK -- A television show about members of a Muslim community in Michigan is focusing what may be its second-to-last episode almost entirely on the conflicted feelings that its featured participants have about marking anniversaries of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone.

As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the TLC "Sister Wives" family is asking a federal judge to overturn part of Utah's bigamy law because it bans them from living together and criminalizes sexual relationships between unmarried consenting adults.

LOS ANGELES -- Living in the farther reaches of basic cable are a growing number of television series about what might be called "ordinary people" at work in what most of us would consider extraordinary jobs. It is lazily tempting, though not quite right, to describe these shows as redneck or blue-collar or rural, but they are mostly set away from big cities in places that -- apart from these shows -- you don't often see on TV: Southern places and prairie places and backwoods places.

The horses gallop toward one another, churning the dirt into clouds of dust with their huge hooves. The horses carry a heavy load: 200 pounds of man and 130 pounds of armor.