I don't watch a lot of "reality" TV. You can tell by the quotes around the word that it's hard for me to take most of it seriously. But the best of any genre is worth watching, and like anything else, reality TV has its good and its (really, really) awful.

Now TVWW has a columnist who specializes in sorting those out. Ronnie Gill's new Altered Reality column debuts today -- and her keen analysis is worth your attention.

Lots of internet readers know this already, having followed her American Idol blog, I'm the One That You Want, for years. Now Ronnie joins the ranks at TVWW, bringing us her expertise in assessing what works in reality TV, what doesn't, and why things fall on either side of that assessment.

Ronnie and I worked together for years at New York's much-honored newspaper Newsday, covering television intensely in the days when daily print was riding high and newspapers like our multi-Pulitzer winner spent lots of space, manpower and money covering this most pervasive of the mass media.

Now, of course, most newspapers -- or should we call them "content providers"? -- have cut back on space and ambition. They mostly devote their precious column/web space to the celeb-of-the-moment, who's in court, who's in rehab, et al. But that doesn't much help the quality viewer, faced with hundreds of channel choices (not to mention DVD, VOD and more), to find the rare wheat among the overwhelming chaff.

So much the better for us here at TV Worth Watching. We're here to offer what so many others can't or won't -- a tight focus on the best that's out there, and a critical look at why what's good or what's awful ends up enriching/polluting the airwaves.

Ronnie Gill extends our mission to unscripted TV, where there's plenty that stinks but also some truly wonderful watching. Count on Ronnie to help you figure out where to find it.