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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?

I never liked them shows, they annoy the crap out of me.

I would rather be named Polly as a boy and be named after the song "Polly" by Nirvana, for the songs meaning.

Some shows I have little tolerance for, like celebrity dancing. But shows like Jersey Shore? Throw it out the window..

Apart from Come Dine with Me I don't watch any 'reality' shows. I have a huge admiration for actors, writers and all kinds of artistic and talented performers and I think it is insulting to fill our screens with halfwits, hasbeens and no talent nonentities purporting to be stars.

Wouldn't waste my valuable time on any of them

I'm not really a reality show fan either. The only one I'm actually addicted to is Top Model(America's and New Zealand's). The reality shows that annoy me most are the excess of cooking shows like master chef, top chef, my kitchen rules, hell's kitchen. My husband once went flipping through the channels and there was a cooking show on every one of them! I think people are just running out of creative ideas and are money hungry.

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?

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.

Reality shows suck big time. Ive watched a few of them and I cant see anything to them. I watched Survivor when it first came out, it didnt make any sense to me. A bunch of yo-yo's backbiting each other, it didnt look like any of them had many smarts. They should run them on Saturday mornings with the other childrens programs. Come to think of it, that wouldnt be such a good idea. They might influence kids to be a bunch of brainless dorks.

I think that reality show process will be rather hard to stop. It's a machine and this machine eats our minds and money. I don't really care about our generation, because we have a choice ton to watch it, but what a bout kids..... Hope that in a couple of years people will back to classical tv and it will be fashionable and may be they will cal it vintage.

i think there is no ending for tv series
it would keep moving

I hate TV shows, specially long series are just crap. I have never waste my time for such useless programs. The reality shows are another crap on the TV. In my opinion their is no end of these programs.

Where I live theres no tv, only one station thats off more than its on. I dont miss tv at all. I buy movies and watch them, that way I can see what I want. They havent had decent tv since the 1970's. The 50's and 60's was the best era. Shows like Jackie Gleason, Dragnet, Medic, really classic stuff something you could watch without wondering if it was ok for your kids. Another thing that always bugged me, is nowdays they show the same thing over and over again. TV has really gone down the toilet.

Never, they're too popular.

I admit that there are a few reality shows I watch Mainly it's something like So You Think You Can Dance.. but for the most part I think these shows are just trash. But I believe that they are taking over television and soon we won't have as many good shows it will just be these stupid reality shows. Here's to hoping people gather their senses soon and stop watching these trashy shows!

Bookworm, right on! The only decent TV is PBS and some of that is not so great.

^I do watch Come Dine With Me and Three in a Bed as they are interesting concepts and the show is as much about the food as the arguments but the likes of Big Brother used to be fresh and original and the people in it were just being themselves as they had no concept of post-show fame or interviews but now they are all so savvy and aware that the element of surprise is gone and you are left with nothing more than mentally unstable attention seekers

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..

For me, reality TV cannot end soon enough!!!!!