The ironic thing is that an honest TV show about FIRE people would be so boring as to be unwatchable. The path to FIRE should be boring, if you're doing it right. There's little to no entertainment value in watching people cook meals at home, patiently invest most of their paycheck in index funds, and go for long walks instead of driving to amusement parks.
And that's an excellent reason why you shouldn't trust reality-TV producers. They need conflict and drama to make their show entertaining, and if there isn't any, they'll manufacture some. They're capable of filming you for months just to cut together the twenty minutes of footage that make you look like a crazy person.
I'm trying to even imagine what a FIRE reality tv show would look like, and you're right, there would be NO PLOT if it included anyone doing it properly.
No matter what tensions arise in life, if you are doing it properly, then things should be less stressful and dramatic. I often say that becoming disabled and losing my high earning career was not the end of the world solely because I'm mustachian. It could have been life ruining. Instead, my life is easier than those of most able-bodied people.
You could make a news segment or a documentary about it and make it interesting, but I can't fathom how you would do a reality show, unless it was a Gail Vaz Oxlade type show, where Pete travels the country verbally abusing consumer suckers into changing their lifestyles?
Actually, I would watch that.
