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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
As opposed to what... your basic sit-com? At least reality shows are real people being coached, not pure actors putting on a 100% fake scene. There is a fascination with taking a bunch of actual people off, putting them in strange scenarios (Big Brother/Survivor), and watching them yell at/make out with other people.
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Here's the thing - Sitcoms don't claim to be real. The very name "Reality TV" makes a claim that the interactions and situations are real when in fact they are usually very contrived. That's my problem with them. The genre makes a claim to being real when it really isn't.
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Not to mention something like The Ultimate Fighter, a show that you couldn't do any way other than 'reality' television.
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No arguement there. Before the dawn of the Reality Television era a show like The Ultimate Fighter would have been in the realm of game shows because that is essentially what it is - a competition with all the backstage antics filmed for television.
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Maybe... I'm not so sure the reason reality tv has become popular is because writing tv is so expensive... I think people actually like it and want to watch it.
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I didn't say that the expense of television writers was why Reality Television is popular. I fully realize that there are a large number of people who watch the shows. The deduction of the cost of writers is the reason why it is so popular with the
television studios.