Photo: Simon Thomas By 2018, Love Island was a sensation. The British series had just won a BAFTA award for Best Reality and Constructed Factual show and was about to debut its fourth season, which would increase viewership more than 60 percent over the previous year. The reality dating show had become nightly event television with its real-time production — everything from games to hand jobs was filmed mere hours hours before airtime of the episodes, which came out six days a week. Love Island