Is there a connotational difference between "Reality" and "Actuality"?

I'm aware of no distinction between the two. It appears that the folks at truTv are trying to distance themselves from "reality tv."

truTV isn't reality, its new slogan states. It's actuality.

"Reality has a connotation of not being real, of being phony," said Marc Juris, executive vice president and general manager of truTV. "We felt that because [our programming] was real, we couldn't call it reality."

From http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2004097354_trutv01.html

I believe there is a distinction quite apparent in journalism:

In sum, "actuality" is regarded as a fundamental criterion of news selection that governs both the mass media's and the individuals' construction of reality.
The shared "actuality" among social members, I suppose, would create a feeling of being present and a moment of participating in a common reality, and, therefore, function as the basis for making up that common reality.

Considering that:

truTV is television's destination for real-life stories told from an exciting and dramatic first-person perspective and features high-stakes, action-packed originals that give viewers access to places and situations they can't normally experience.

, one can understand the goal of TruTv for reporting an "actuality" in order to help the viewers to rebuild the reality of the reported situations.

When we see things the way they actually are, this is reality.

Actuality is stronger than reality in that it is something abstract, a fact, that existed even before we knew it was there. It never has been subject to being true or false. Whereas what I see as reality now may have been seen as imaginary before.

• The following dialog may make my point clear:

  -Do you see that black car over there?

  -Actually, it is not black, it is blue.

  -Let me see. Oh yeah, you are right, it really is blue.

This is a distinction mobilized by certain philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, who uses a phrase from Bergson to define what he calls the 'virtual': he says it is "real without being actual."

However, it is admittedly a somewhat obscure or at the least fairly subtle distinction, and in common usage the difference is minimal and would relate to context.

(In the case of the slogan it is almost certain they are simply referring to reality television, not reality as an ontological principle.)