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REALITY PROGRAMMING
Reality programming is an expansive television industry label which includes both syndicated and "on-net" (network) programs such as "tabloid" television newsmagazine shows (Entertainment Tonight, Hard Copy, A Current Affair, Inside Edition, Day One, Dateline NBC), video-verite (Cops) re-created crime or rescue programs (Top Cops, Rescue 911, America's Most Wanted, Unsolved Mysteries, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol ), and family amateur video shows (America's Funniest Home Videos, America's Funniest People). While the corpus of programs grouped under this generic rubric is admittedly varied, the one consistent characteristic which underscores each of these genres is a visible reference to, and dramatization of, "real" events and occupations.
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http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/realityprogr/realityprogr.htm
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SOME BACKGROUND INFOMATION ON REALITY SHOWS
Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents supposedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the current explosion of popularity dates from around 2000. Documentaries, and nonfictional programming such as the news and sports shows are usually not classified as reality shows.
Reality television covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother.
Critics say that the term "reality television" is somewhat of a misnomer. Such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television
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THE FUTURE OF REALITY TV
http://www.nmk.co.uk/article/2003/07/07/reality-tv
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