29. Mystery Diners
The Food Network has a lot of great shows, but ‘Mystery Diners’, a series where restaurant owners contact Charles Stiles to set up a sting operation to out bad employees, takes the cake as an idea that may have been better left in the production boardroom. Most of the time, the “bad employees” are hired actors, paid on the premise of signing non-disclosure agreements. Radar Online even went as far as to pinpoint a character called “Chef Dave” from The Grove Bar in Arizona, who was actually an actor named David Gilbert, the owner of his own production studio. If that doesn’t tell you how fake the show is, nothing will.
Mystery Diners
30. South Beach Tow
While many of the companies featured on ‘South Beach Tow’ are real, the incidents shown during each episode are 100% dramatized and in many cases, total works of fiction at the hands of the production team. The show may follow two towing companies and their endeavors to be first to help people get their cars towed, but previous employees have spoken out about just how scripted the series is. While the incidents are based on real-life scenes, a lot of the noise made by castmates about “rival towing companies” and how they are stealing tows is fabricated, with names of employees for these companies completely made up by the production team.
South Beach Tow
