During a recent post-meal conversation I entered into a debate about the definitions of TV programming. The crux of the debate was that (perhaps foolishly) as a viewer, I made a comment about 'yet another reality tv programme' was about to be aired....
The big question is "What makes a TV programme a reality one?" Is is the fact there is a prize (?), is it one whereby over time, we slowly cull a list of prospective candidates (?), is it a one-off where we put two extremes of Joe and Josephine Public together waiting for the car crash to happen(?)....
Today I've set the challenge in various forums to see how people are defining 'reality TV programming'. I think what's happened is that if it's not fitting into one of the traditional content buckets of 'situation-comedy','soap', 'Documentary' etc, then it has a high propensity of becoming 'reality'...
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