Reality-TV is it real or a con? (918 views, 25 replies)

Has anyone actually believed a 'reality-tv' show?

Is this what the massive world broadcasting has came to? For the simple fact it's cheap? No acting required. No writers. Just, well, No education at any level. Except, accept and be stupid?

To some extent. Watching "Deadliest Catch" about the Alaskan crab boats I can see a lot of it is real, but they don't swear enough for true reality on a crab boat (worked them when I was younger). But the way that there always happens to be a main theme/plot/disaster each episode is obviously for drama, would make boring TV to watch them work on a calm sunny day with no issues. At the same time what they show in the drama can be very real and deadly (the young lad who replaced me when I left was lost at sea after only 3 weeks).

If you mean programs like Big Brother or Love Island, then as they have no link to any form of reality I wish to acknowledge, I just ignore them.

I would just like a filter on this site to ignore anything with the "Reality-TV" tag. Nothing 'real' about any of them. They just seem to fill the site.

Somewhat... However, at the end of the day it is all for entertainment purposes so I don't give it much thought unless it is the real extra cheesy ones that are quite obviously scripted.

I think some of it is real but I think producers egg on fights or promote a "bad guy" in reality shows. I think they edit and cut scenes to make them look a certain way or to show someone in a certain light. I think a great example is season 6 of American Horror Story - Roanoke. If you haven't watched that season than do. They did an amazing and creative way of showing probably how the inner workings of a reality show.

I would say that most reality shows are fake.

Scripted comedies are mind numbingly fake. Rom-coms are lethal!! Half the documentaries lean toward photographic and editing wonder than science. Wrestling; oooh and those talent shows!! Now those will give ya whiplash smh!! It's all crap entertainment. All of it. Even fishing shows are staged. So gotta wonder why we be pickin' on reality TV?
(wait) "...talk host announces this seasons bachelor is a virgin marine."
Nevermind you win...
Carry on... 0.0

Yeah, most of em are fake and staged I believe.I go to WE NETWORK to watch old law & orders,and the black reality shows are SO OVER THE TOP they're really just soap operas planned.But I only see their ads--the ads are wild enough! I think they're mostly for women maybe not.Yes, all the tv shows are bad;I try to catch old movies on Turner Classic Movies.We have some here."CLAWS" about nail salon owners looks so funny!!!hah hah the ads are funny!

!watch these stations late at night and sat. night really old fantasy and old sci fi tv shows."Voyage to the bottom of the sea" "Lost in space.""land of the Giants Battle Star Galactica" series.good sat. night fun.Hey, old tv westerns--! gunsmoke ect, Rawhide

That's the only good tv OLD TV.There are independent stations of "all old tv shows"MeTV" There's a small cheapo station from Oregon"COMET TV."on cable all o;f scifi and horror really bad stuff hah.You can get both on Comcast.Cable tv now is nothing but RERUNS anyway.they rely on all OLD TV SHOWS.
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. just try those scifi and horror stations,COMET and METV.fun.Good tv is in the PAST.i miss old good tv, like The Defenders.series I cannot find em.

I recommend also the horror comedy show on sat. night(forgets name)this character shows old horror films and sings stupid songs about them and puns!!PUNS!!AWFUL PUNS!!You know the one I mean?silly jokes and rubber chickens.I like SOME animal shows,CATS.my cat loves it too. oh oh "EL REY" NETWORK has old kung fu movies they're great.its a weird independent station with weird wrestling shows. hah

And I watch a lot of adult or weird CARTOON SHOWS. RICK AND MORTY--SOUTH PARK. American Dad is so funny hysterical. all the talent went into cartoon shows. I hope other folks here try them(yes its Comcast)
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Total Corn. Examples;
Mr. Bear Gryles staying in hotel suites when he was supposed to be surviving in the wild. that survival family from Alaska, the Bush Family? yeah, not so much from the bush, they've even been in the courts for their bs fake crap.
The list could go on & on & on. Its all scripted. All of it, somehow to a point, or completely scripted. Even Survivorman was known to survive off of the known trails and right off of highways and stuff. There is proof everywhere on the internets.. Its all a sham, one way or another. Production values for the most views equal $$$

May be some time real but most of the time it's con.

I would have to say that I think most are scripted and setup to be entertainment so they are not "Reality" at all.

Ye sure they are scripted. But don't they come free in cereal boxes?
I just don't like 'Reality-TV' shows! Luckily I watch entertainment through the internet and have lots to choose from. It's just that they take up a lot of pages. Would be nice to be able to filter them out.

I REALLY dislike the so-called reality shows and was happy to see this thread. I thought people for the most part believed they are real and it made me wonder just how deluded society has become. I have only watched one but did as a series not as reality. It was totally obvious how unreal it could have possibly been because what they were doing was fiscally impossible not to mention they lived and worked in freezing weather and you never saw their breath!

i think some people know it's fake, but they still watch to see others making assh*les of themselves and maybe catch some of them strutting around half nakey. truth be told, fake shows like jerry springer and maury are the only ones who are keeping it real

Alone. (This is one YES example, but there are loads of NO examples as well.)

dosmovies.com/watch_tv_show/Alone....

Hoarders: buried alive. That one is real, although it it’s more like a doc, I guess. The others are soft-scripted mostly. And you can tell because those reality tv “actors” are terrible, lol. But, most of the “stupid” is REAL. And it’s compunded stupid. They are drama queens who want attention, so they wouldn’t use a filter even if they had one. Live PD isn’t scripted. It’s on about a 30 min delay, but it’s pretty much just a cam following cops or the cam is right on the cops.