Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Reality TV
"Where are you! You STUPID BITCH!!" -Classic Portia Quote
Classic Flavor of Love episodes
The first reality television show that I'm familiar with is Fear Factor, and I never watched it because it was so gross I couldn't stomach it. But wow TV has come a long way to provide wonderful, educational and age appropriate programming for everyone!
NOT!
Now I'm going to admit right now that I LIVE for Bad Girls Club. Every Tuesday I made sure I was free at 9pm Central Time (DePaul doesnt have Oxygen channel therefore hindering me watching episodes faithfully like back in high school). I'm a sucker for the drama as I'm sure millions are, and that's why channels like MTV, VH1 and Oxygen love us. They cater to our desires and in return we provide them with high ratings. For example the first season of Flavor Of Love, Flava Flav chose Hoops over New York. From this show spun I Love New York 1 and 2 in addition to a 2nd and 3rd season of Flavor of Love. Countless other shows have been created as well with celebrities searching for love, normally ending in them choosing a person who they do not even end up staying with for long. But while the shows last there's plenty of fights, arguments and generally interesting drama that one can kick back after a long day of school and enjoy unfold on the screen before you while you think "if i was there..!!!" or "glad that's not my life" (especially in the case of the MTV show 16 & Pregnant)
But reality TV isn't limited to just dating shows anymore! And not all the shows are negative. Celebrity Fit Club creates a competition where overweight celebrities compete in various activities and whoever loses the most weight during the show wins. This creates a positive image, because when viewers see their favorite celebrity making an effort to get healthy, and see how good they look in the end, more people will be willing to get in shape.
There are numerous reality tv shows some may have a central purpose (Scream Queens looked for the next female to star in Saw VI), looking for love (Tila Tequila had it hard!), or the betterment of ones self (Bad Girl's Club original aim was to deal with anger issues and things of that nature that the girl's possessed, I don't know what the purpose is anymore however, there were more fights this season than last couple seasons combined). So when is reality TV going to DO something for the viewer? And what do we want it to do besides entertain us? I would like to see more College Life shows. I would gladly watch someone chronicle a semester in college and see it turn out positively so that I can feel like "I can do it too!". Or a show chronicling a woman's battle with STD's or Pregnancy then going around to different schools speaking to them about safe sex methods and ways to stay protected (because my friends from Texas say they never learned anything but abstinence based education).
Where for art thou quality reality television?
Here's a link to a listing of all reality tv shows http://www.realitytvworld.com/realitytvworld/allshows.shtml
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Good point. Why is this the television we have? What nework would be the place for what you suggest? How does media convergence maybe open a space for such content? (webisodes?)
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