Five kids fighting for their lives against cancer.

Now that’s riveting reality television.

“A Lion in the House,” a four-hour documentary airing Wednesday and Thursday on PBS, provides a powerful, unprecedented and unfiltered look at five Cincinnati area children — and their families — coping with the deadly disease.

Nearly nine years in the making, filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar from Yellow Springs, Ohio, capture the emotional roller coaster of remissions and relapses of the Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital Medical Center patients since 1997.

Little Alex Lougheed fights over Barbies with her sister in their Cincinnati area home. Later she’s listless from leukemia.

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