One of the biggest focuses in pop culture in the past few years has been on reality TV. It is literally taking over television networks and changing the way television is viewed in the present day. Television use to portray real life situation done by actors, but everything now is based on reality, even if it isn’t even close to being real. I feel as if reality television at times can be even more scripted than normal television programs or series. When I said that reality TV is taking over networks, I was trying to express how every other show is a reality show and they are even playing on specific networks like History channel and Discovery channel. These networks are playing reality TV shows that having nothing to do with what their network is supposed to be geared toward. From shows such as Man vs Wild to Big Brother, the idea of reality TV has been lost somewhere in the frenzy of entertainment. Thinking of reality TV, you picture it to be all real life as if the cameras weren’t there, but, “participants of reality TV shows are sometimes willing to go outside of their boundaries and do things that they would not necessarily do in their normal lives, without the cameras following their every move (Russell, 2005) ”. This defeats the whole purpose of reality TV. For the most part, I think all the reality television shows are lame. There are a few exceptions such as Ice Road Truckers, because it is hard to get too far off of being real when they are pretty much in a truck for 90% of the show. I just am not a fan of the reality TV, because I think TV was great before this boom.
Bibliography
Russell, M. (2005, May 6). How Real Is Reality TV. Retrieved October 17, 2010, from http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Real-is-Reality-TV?&id=191704
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