Reality TV

[Evan3]

i CANT STAND MOST OF IT.

Most reality TV I think is just way too boring, I dont like shows with alliances (cuz I am a good guy, and watching the good guy get screwed a la Weakest link, and Survivor p**ses me off).

American Idol I feel is just a little too much, i mean come on now, if these people were really so good, they would have made it somehow.
The one reality show I truly enjoy is Fear Factor. A few stunts truly do scare me, and I enjoy watching people pass or fail on their own merit, as it should be done. You can tell they have more to prove then just the lame ass prize money you can get (250,000 is the prize).

I must admit I enjoy Scare Tactics immesely. I am just trying to think of something to do to my college roomates this year. I have something in mind, if only I can get on the show.


But when does one cross the line? on the season finale of the Osbournes, I hear that the son beat his dog to death in his sleep, and the documentors just taped it. I think that really just crossed the line, why not just follow a serial killer around all day (bad comparison I know, but is that the next step?)


What do you think of reality TV (and I actually do enjoy Real TV too, despite the fact that it chronicles how life can be so unfair at times, when a guy running from the law at 100 MPH and flips his car a million times can jump out and continue to run, but some little girl is hit by a drunk driver, boom she is dead).

[Ash]

I just thought of something funny!

instead of "American Idol" they should make "Iraqi Idol".

Can you f**king imagine it!

The chicks would walk out onstage with AK-47's & RPG's on their shoulders dressed in the latest fashions!

Hahaha!



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[Brother Ragnarok]

You mean the kid was asleep or the dog was?  Regardless, animal violence p**ses me off.  I love dogs.  Do NOT f**k with the puppies.
And yes, sparing a tirade I will simply say, reality TV sucks cow berries and everyone involved should be fed to zombies.

Brother R

[Chris K.]

Reality TV has, evidently, taken a downfall. Don't get me wrong, I really dislike reality television.

It's like the Italian zombie craze during the 80's: Lucio Fulci makes ZOMBI 2 in 1979, and by the 80's a whole slew of films emerge from THE NIGHTS OF TERROR (1980; U.S. Title: BURIAL GROUND) to HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (1983) to AFTER DEATH (1988). And believe me, their is more on the list. Because of this, the Italian film distribution was heavily saturated that wolrd sales were quite limited due to being offered the same product: a gory zombie flick. The upside, however, was that it the Italian producers were able to at least get a distribution deal in one worldwide area (i.e., United States, France, Japan, Middle East) they would get their money back.

Ever since SURVIVOR reared it's ugly head, channels like Fox have saturated the reality television market to the point where it's just a waste of space to fill in an empty slot. And what's even more amazing is that since the market is so saturated with third-rate rip-off reality shows that have been ignored by the public, most of them are still on the air!

It's so sad that the television industry had to conjure up the reality TV craze during this early era of the 21st Century. Yet, lets keep this in mind that television is after the Allmighty Dollar, and they are still making money with these dull shows.

[Fearless Freep]

So called "Reality tv" is probably cheap to produce so once someone had the idea, everyone realized how cheap and easy it was to do.

But it's hard to think of something as 'reality' when you take a whole bunch of people who have to pass an audition process, put them in a contrived environment and give them a contrived goal with artifical rules.  Sounds like a glorified game show to me

[Neville]

The former Iraqi minister of (des)information could host it. How did the media called him? Ali The Comedian?

[Dolph Lundgren]

I'm totally with ya, Evan.  There's only so much I can stand, and that's Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, if that's even considered to be reality TV.  Fear Factor is okay too, if only for watching meatheads and hot chicks eat gross s**t.  That's pretty amusing in and of itself right there.

And as for the Osbournes finale, I was pretty p**sed at reading the same thing.. although I then heard that it was a practical joke that they were playing on Ozzy.  This is just what I heard, though.  So I don't know if it was actually a joke or not.  I'm thinking it had to be one.. do you honestly think PETA would let them get away with this?  Not a chance.  Either way, it's a strange idea for a practical joke, IMO.

I think it would be crazy if in Survivor they actually had to, you know, survive.  Like they have man eating crocodiles and traps and stuff like that.  I guess that's the Running Man influence that's rubbed off on me.

Nick

[Fearless Freep]

"Running Man" and "Death Race 2000"...now *that's* reality TV worth watching!

[JohnL]

>The one reality show I truly enjoy is Fear Factor. A few stunts truly do scare me,

 I like Fear Factor also, but I consider it a gameshow, not reality TV.

>I must admit I enjoy Scare Tactics immesely. I am just trying to think of something
>to do to my college roomates this year. I have something in mind, if only I can get
>on the show.

I also like Scare Tactics, although it seems kind of fake to me. How is it they're able to get multple camera angles and perfect shots of the people they're playing the pranks on, often following them as they move around. It doesn't look like any other hidden camera show I've seen, which usually have fixed cameras.

>What do you think of reality TV

I don't like the shows like Survivor, American Idol, Joe Millionaire, Who Wants to Marry Our Dad, etc.

[Scott]

Some may not be reality shows, but they are close enough. My Favorite Reality TV Shows are:

Candid Camera (original)
Fear (loved the locations and some of the dares, gone now)
Scare Tactics (wild)
Fear Factor (the eating contest)
Tough Enough (cool)
America's Funniest Video's (fun)
Amazing Race (not bad)
Extreme Elimination Challenge (how bout that dubbing?)
The Worlds Scariest Places (gone now)
Totally Hidden Camera (good fox version of candid camera years ago)

Others that I've watched:

Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire (shocking curiosity)
Survivor I (first one was intriguing)
Joe Millionaire (eegad)
Mister Personality (uhg)

My daughter said that "The Last Comic Standing" was great, but I didn't see it.

[Dolph Lundgren]

Yeah, I knew I forgot one.  Last Comic Standing was great.  Unfortunately, it slipped into the "form an alliance and try to eliminate everyone else" type of show.  Thankfully though, the alliance was taken down and the right guy won (IMO).

All of the rest of the shows can just go away.

Nick

[Fearless Freep]

What little I've seen of scare tactics, with the camera angles, I suspect it's not real.  That and the fact that no one's gotten really mad and seriously injured someone or started a lawsuit yet.

[dean]

reality tv isn't only made because it's cheap.  it is for advertising, plain and simple.  pretty much every reality show i've seen has truman show style product placement, where the contestants drink a certain kind of soft drink etc.  and for every two minutes of program they have three of ads!! well thats for the worst of them, but just watch the ads during the shows and see how much of those products are actually in.

reality shows, while some are watchable, annoy the living hell out of me.  they just serve to remind me of how evil producers are in their desperate grab for cash.

maybe we could have a 'reality show' based on van damme's movie hard target, and a bunch of ppl go and hunt reality show producers to the death.  the ones who survive get to have their idea for a show made.

oh yeah, btw Scott, i personally put who wants to be a millionare in the game show category, a little different from reality shows, as you can participate by trying out your knowledge as well, and that way you actually have some form of stimulation, unlike the recent series of big brother we had here, which included an 'up late' program which basically showed a couple of hours of the ppl sleeping or reading or whatever.  whoever thought of that one should be forced to actually watch their shows for the rest of their days


yes as you can see i'm very bitter about reality tv! :P

[The Burgomaster]

Reality TV will run its course in a year or two. Then the TV big-wigs will think of another way to insult our intelligence.

[Fearless Freep]

Then the TV big-wigs will think of another way to insult our intelligence.

What's worse, that they keep trying or that we keep letting them succeed?