"Reality" shows?

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i think endemol started some, there may be others idk
they were already trash tv before faking fake reality

social engeneering is the thing
trash is fashion, fake is the best

wait what's that, disney got in it as well,

I've been thinking about "Reality TV" off and on since the thread was created.

One thought I had was everything we watch presents a narrative and sometimes a completely different narrative depending how it is edited and pieced together. Documentaries, for example, should be a representation of what was recorded. However, compare the documentary Let It Be with Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back. Same raw film to work from, but two very different stories.

Drive to Survive, which has made Formula One so popular in parts of the United States is very much the same. The makers of that show edit the footage into a narrative the audience will hopefully find entertaining. It's a tad different from what one experiences watching the races. Even the races, watching F1 with Sky commentary versus F1 Live is different. The footage is the same, but commentators place their emphasis on different things, and that's where opinions are formed. The commentators for IndyCar have a similar task of creating a task of creating a narrative for the viewer. Much of it is contrived. I think all sports presentation do this, although I don't watch all sports. The narrative of the players, and teams are controlled by the commentary. The ultimate "Reality TV" sports is of course Professional Wrestling, which more like live theater. It is possibly the older brother of the modern day "Reality TV" show. So "Reality TV" is for people who are not interested in sports.

Basically, everything we watch, that is presented to an audience is contrived, sometimes scripted, sometimes a story pieced together from available footage, or a scripted narration.

A great reality TV show would be to take eight billion individuals, stick them on a relatively small planet, and let them run amuck. So much drama. So many versions of the same story depending on the point of view.
(I'm in a mood. I'm rambling. )

I don't fret about "Reality TV."

Reality shows contain unscripted dialogue between various people, thus making it more 'reality' than in shows where people have carefully rehearsed lines.

Reality show participants might be thrown into a stressful situation, so that fireworks can occur between them (figuratively), to the end of entertaining a watching television audience.

For me the early seasons of Endemol's Big Brother were essential viewing.

Of course it wasn't reality, but it was basically ordinary people trying to function in a very unreal environment. I found it fascinating.

I felt like the production companies lost confidence in what they had. They started worrying that naturally interesting situations weren't enough. They had to start engineering situations and deliberating finding people with more extreme/volatile personalities who would play up to cameras.

Perhaps it was inevitable, once people figured out how it worked, that reality TV would tend towards less and less reality.