Wednesday, December 1, 2010
New trend in Reality TV
After our discussion of reality TV shows, it occurred to me that most of my favorite TV shows are reality shows. This may sound bad if one envisions I'm talking about Jersey Shore or The Real World, but my favorite reality shows are following a different trend, that of actually (to some extent) portraying reality, and being more educationally based than your typical reality show. This is evidenced by the popularity of American Pickers, Pawn Stars, and Hollywood Treasures. Such shows show genuine people, and genuine historical items, and explain the significance and importance of them. I feel this is a good trend, that of the 'smart' reality shows.
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Do you think most people would like to watch these shows; the ones that you watch or do you think most people are stuck on the stupid reality shows?
ReplyDeleteI agree. TO an extent, almost everything shown on Discovery now is a reality show. Things like Swamp People and Dirty Jobs. To an extent these shows are just for fun, but yet they educate. Do you agree?
ReplyDeleteI do agree, it is possible to have smart fun shows. I think that the networks like Discovery and History are on the cutting edge of realizing that.
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