[Jason Vines]

"Reality" television series dominate the airwaves these days, and that's depressing. If I want to see reality, I can either turn on the news or go into the world and experience something called life. Entertainment television should be, as it was, an escape from reality where imagination runs free. It should turn one's TV into a geyser of humor and adventure. Reality shows, IMO, have substituted that with cheap mundanity.

Why try to craft engaging scripts every week when you can summon a bunch of dorks to live in a house and plop down a camera in front of them.

Reality shows aren't even "real," anyway. Remember the Heisenberg Principle: Observation changes that which one observes. In that vein, the presence of cameras alters human behavior. People act differently for the camera. So these shows aren't real life, just unscripted laziness.

[Rorschach]

Scorned, on Sep 17 2005, 10:12 AM, said:

There is no such thing as reality programming when everything is "under the lights" and "cameras are in everyones faces".

Its a fad.  It will eventually go away.
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It will go away, yes, but not before every last variation or perversion of the concept of reality TV has been used & run into the ground.

I thought that flavor-of-the-moment celebrity hosted talk shows would die off after a year but they JUST KEEP COMING!

[Noah Vale]

Well reality televison isnt new.
remember the show called 'real people' and 'that's incredible' frim the '70s?
going back further, theres 'candid camera' from the '50s. And sicne the reality shows involve competition, is Amreica;s top model any different from the Miss America pagent? Plus sporting events may qualifyas reality telvision.
Reality television has been very big in Japan for a long long time, they ahve proven that people will watch it even if it isn't good. Lots of people are watchng and being entertained by it.

Its not going to go away any time soon