These reality TV shows are a way in which some of these subjects can be explored. The reality TV format is the sacrifice and price you pay to get a big audience to watch it.
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What plays out in this will decide whether or not this segment of TV remains a kind of Wild West, non union shop genre, or whether reality TV is going to organize its own set of definitions or be absorbed into already established ones.Robert Thompson
One reason we watch these shows is the cheese factor. This ups the cheese equity of American Idol , as opposed to the (1950s) quiz shows scandals, which undermined the very value of what those shows were.
Robert Thompson
The uniformed cop just ignored him and kept on walking. You could hear the pleading in Smith's voice, asking the officer what he was going to do, saying, 'Look, you can't just ignore this,' and the cop just kept on walking. It was compelling television.
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The Next Action Star and Starlet were bad ideas because you can't deliver that. Even on The Apprentice, you can't turn those people into captains of industry. You can, in fact, say We're doing a show on the Food Network and whoever wins gets a show on the Food Network. How can we do that We're the Food Network. These are networks that can do what they promise to do.
Robert Thompson
This time, because there was something else a little more important in the headlines for these newsgathering operations to deal with, they virtually didn't cover this at all. Consequently, I would say on the order of several million people who probably would like to have watched 'Survivor' might not even have known it was on.
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