Reality television has been sweeping the television stations for the past 10-years but over the last 5-years nightly line-ups have been bombarded with talent, love and many other types of shows. It all started with American Idol but other shows such has America has talent, Dancing with the Stars. In addition to talent shows there are the seeking love shows such as Bachelorette, For Love or Money, and Average Joe. (Wikepedia, 2007) Even the cable channels have hopped onto the band-wagon and started their own reality shows, HGTV and Fine Living both have reality shows about selling homes, fixing up homes. The Discovery Channel has a show about a man living in the outdoors in a foreign country, trying to survive. It seems very channel has gotten caught up in the hype of capturing the American public’s viewpoint on love, music, and everything else in-between.
I can remember the first reality television show that came on at the end of the 80’s, Cops. It premiered on the Fox Channel and it was about following various police stations cops, following them around throughout the night as they arrested, mediated and fought with those in trouble with the law. I believe that show is still on to this day. Another long running reality show is Survivor, which airs on WCCO. That show started in the 1990’s and has been the base of which all other reality shows were based on. Every other channel quickly created their own competition for money reality show where a number of people were expected to compete against each other in extreme conditions. My last example of reality television is celebrity based shows. Anna Nicole Smith, Jessica Simpson, Tori Spelling are just a few of the stars that allowed cameras into their personal lives to be video taped and broadcast across the United States.
I can remember the first reality television show that came on at the end of the 80’s, Cops. It premiered on the Fox Channel and it was about following various police stations cops, following them around throughout the night as they arrested, mediated and fought with those in trouble with the law. I believe that show is still on to this day. Another long running reality show is Survivor, which airs on WCCO. That show started in the 1990’s and has been the base of which all other reality shows were based on. Every other channel quickly created their own competition for money reality show where a number of people were expected to compete against each other in extreme conditions. My last example of reality television is celebrity based shows. Anna Nicole Smith, Jessica Simpson, Tori Spelling are just a few of the stars that allowed cameras into their personal lives to be video taped and broadcast across the United States.
Wikipedia. 2007. Reality Television. Retrieved on September 30, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television
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