What makes Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team so enduring?

The Daily Beast

The reality show, returning Friday, is CMT's longest-running series, having premiered in 2006. Kelli Finglass, director of the Cowboys cheerleaders, said viewers love the show's brutal honesty. “I do think that television audiences really have grown to like the shows where they get to be judges, and get to be critics, and with our show, we kind of peel back the curtain a little bit and people can see our cheerleaders behind the poms,” says Finglass, who also serves as an executive producer on the show. “And people seem to like to judge and critique and be validated with their own opinions and predict outcomes.”