Reality Television It’s Sunday night‚ the work is done and you are ready to sit down and relax. You walk down the stairs‚ make some popcorn‚ cuddle up on the couch‚ and flip on your favorite reality television show. On that Sunday evening you will not only have one reality show to choose from but many because reality television is becoming commonplace. These shows range from competitions to find your future spouse to episodes documenting the life of celebrities. What each show has in common
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Authenticity of Reality TV Saturday night‚ you have nothing to do so you turn on the TV‚ and the first show it displays is Man V.S. Wild. You wonder whether or not this show is true in its content‚ because the host could be getting some support behind the scenes. Reality TV is not truly authentic because the word “reality” has been trivialized‚ the content in the shows are often times distorted‚ and the advertisement for the shows portray only insignificant scenes. “Reality” in reality TV has morphed
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reasons that reality television has become popular today. The three that I will focus on are the concepts of money‚ instant fame‚ and the guilty pleasure phenomenon. The first catalyst for reality television being popular today is money. Today’s shows offer huge sums of money to people who do not necessarily possess the career skills that would make them a productive enough member of society to amass such wealth through honest work. Simplified‚ dumb people get lots of cash. Now‚ some shows do in fact
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After being raised with three sisters‚ I’ve come to notice that your typical teenage girl spends the majority of her time thinking about clothes‚ school‚ and boys. While I could be wrong about the clothes and school part‚ the numbers give me a leg to stand on when it comes to boys‚ 76.4 girls per 1‚000 females who are pregnant are spending all of their time worrying about bringing a child into the world due to teen pregnancy (Henshaw‚ 2004). Within the past decade or so‚ the perception of teenage
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1970s‚ you’ll remember these TV shows: All in the Family‚ The Carol Burnett Show‚ Bob Newhart‚ Little House on the Prairie‚ The Waltons‚ Marcus Welby‚ MD‚ M*A*S*H‚ Happy Days‚ The Rockford Files‚ The Brady Bunch‚ The Mary Tyler Moore Show‚ Sanford and Son‚ Good Times‚ Dallas‚ The Jeffersons‚ Columbo‚ Hawaii Five-O‚ and Starsky and Hutch. Some say that the 1970s were the‚ “Golden Age of Television.” Unlike‚ most of today’s TV shows‚ during the 1970s‚ television shows were family oriented. They were
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Paper 7 Dec 2010 What Makes Reality Television Survive? In the year 1992 a new idea was introduced to America and it was called reality television. MTV produced a show called‚ The Real World that had seven strangers living in a house together and had everything they did filmed. After many failed attempts at trying to make this reality trend catch on‚ CBS launched Survivor‚ which pioneered the way for all reality shows to follow in the next decade. It was a show about people battling it out in two
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REALITY SHOWS SHOULD BE BANNED Reality television is a programming genre that presents unscripted or “Humorous” situations‚ documents actually events and usually features ordinary people instead of real actors. Usually involves love‚ violence‚ and money. Examples of these types of shows are‚ “jersey Shore”‚ “Toddler’s & Tiara’s”‚ “bachelor” and “The Real World”. In my opinion I believe such reality shows that promote anorexia‚ partying‚ lust for money‚ violence‚ should be banned for
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The popularity of reality TV shows continues to grow with every season since the first episode of "Survivor" aired in 2000. Every evening‚ millions of people sit in front of their television sets to watch the latest episode of "Big Brother‚" "Jersey Shore‚" or "Real Housewives." Although not a new genre‚ reality TV shows since "Survivor" have started a next generation of programming‚ but the negative effects of these shows may be greater than the actual enjoyment False Reality Because most viewers
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Kenneth Nevling Professor Whitworth ENG 114: First draft- Reality TV 07 November‚ 2010 Reality TV and It’s Effect on Society A reality TV show stars a non-celebrity or a volunteer who wants to participate in the program. The core role is to see what their reactions in certain scenarios are‚ and how they face given situations. The audience feels like they have a connection with the show’s stars as they feel that they are real and normal people representing them. Viewers are then entertained
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Price TVCC Family TV shows by decade Starting off with the 1960’s‚ Most of the sitcom shows contain the same core themes. The 1960’s were still concerned with the nuclear family unit‚ white suburban middle class‚ and the traditional patriarch of the 1950’s. Society was also slowly moving away from these cornerstones of social behavior. ’My Three Sons’ is a show that started in 1960‚ featuring a single father with three boys. The family platform here clearly lacks a mother. A single father
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