Too Much Is More Than Enough.
(A rant or a commentary)
I confess, other than "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader" I do not watch any reality TV Show; there is already too much drama in real life for my taste. I understand everyone is different and everyone has the right to be, but it escapes my reasoning why somebody would enjoy the ups and downs, tears and joy of a wannabe model, or cook, or singer, or dancer, or weight ditcher*, or whatever common place dweller that proliferate in all those shows. I understand competition but not the drama that the networks insist in attach to it in order to appeal to the morbid section of the human mind.
There are more and more people everyday washing their dirty laundry on TV with more and more Judges that all of a sudden become celebrities. The newest one gets the palm, "Street Justice". I don't know about you, but these really tend to dilute my respect for them. It is a Roman Circus now. And it might be new for some, but is not news.
Reality TV seems to be a recent innovation, but "Candid Camera" was a forerunner that doesn't receive enough credit. Nobody would disagree to the fact that reality television is the ultimate peep show.
The programs that ran in the 50's can solely be put in the category of reality TV. What are the options for saying "Truth or Consequences", To Tell The Truth", or "What's My Line"? Although some referred to them as "game shows", they were actually reality television.
Reality shows on television have got much expansion over the years. Over the last fifty or 60 years, this genre has exploded.
Reality television is very, very big right now. Once the reality show "Survivor" became a huge hit on CBS, other networks wanted to cash in on the trend. In case you have been disconnected from society for the last five years, "Survivor" is a reality TV show which records the contestants struggling together in a remote island environment. While they attempt to undermine one another and vie for the great reward -One Million ($1.000.000), the participants were able to cooperate.
There are several different reality television shows on the big 4 channels. (Networks such as NBC, FOX, CBS and ABC). It is not just those networks where the reality televisions are expanding. Every station wants to have a reality television and cable networks which jump on its own between various programs.
There are now subcategories of reality television, such as documentary, historical re-creation, science, dating, law enforcement, make-over shows, changing of lifestyles, fulfilling fantasies, hidden camera, game shows that pay money and searches for talent.
At the same time we are witnessing (in my humble opinion and that of some others) the decline of quality fiction storytelling in Movies and TV. Scripts fail to grab the attention of the public and producers are more and more inclined to remakes. May be sooner than later a "brilliant" mind will envision the integration of the everyday increasing surveillance cameras, traffic cameras, web cams, etc into our daily lives via television and we will only watch ourselves in our most insignificant acts between commercials and political speeches.
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* Slang
a. To get rid of; discard: ditched the old yard furniture.
