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I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Reality TV is anything but.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

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.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.

For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.