When will Reality TV end?
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When will Reality TV end?
I liked reality tv 10 yrs ago when it was interesting and original but now i find it very tedious and exploitative, and worse yet people who are famous these days are only famous for doing nohing in a big house and get bog bucks for spouting garbage in a newspaper! When do you think reality tv will end and do you still watch and enjoy reality shows in 2011?
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Some shows I have little tolerance for, like celebrity dancing. But shows like Jersey Shore? Throw it out the window..
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Hey there SKM, I agree with everything you said, especially the part of people getting big bucks simply for being on a reality TV show. The bad part is I really don't think it will ever end, they just seem to be coming out with more and more of them covering everything from marriages to swapping families. I am waiting for the day that shows like "The Running Man" and "The Long Walk" come out. Maybe Stephen King is prescient.StephenKingman wrote:The past 25 years have seen a huge change in what we watch on tv and the standards of broadcasing. When i was a kid we only had 2 channels and spent only a few hours watching the news, Home and Away or Glenroe! Since about 2000 and the start of "Big Brother", reality TV has practically replaced all scripted drama and all the big money and sponsors go behind shows like X Factor, Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Dancing, etc, and genuinely innovative shows like 24, Criminal Minds are destined for cult staus as they don have the clout of a Reality TV audience or big money behind it so a lot of times if you want an interesting and new show, you have to trawl through the hundreds of channels available to watch it.
I liked reality tv 10 yrs ago when it was interesting and original but now i find it very tedious and exploitative, and worse yet people who are famous these days are only famous for doing nohing in a big house and get bog bucks for spouting garbage in a newspaper! When do you think reality tv will end and do you still watch and enjoy reality shows in 2011?

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As mentioned above, maybe Stephen Kings The Running Man is not a million miles away and pretty soon people won want to see arguments and romance on the box, they want bloodshed and death and mutilation..
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