Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
Reality TV has taken over.
But reality television is here to stay.
For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
Reality TV is anything but.
Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
I've never seen a reality show. I don't watch television.
I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.
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