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Rad! Now I can rewatch MTV videos before the channel was utterly destroyed by low budget "reality TV" game shows.
by erickhill 3y ago
Rad! Now I can rewatch MTV videos before the channel was utterly destroyed by low budget "reality TV" game shows.
- cortesoft 3y ago"The Real World" started in 1992
- clairity 3y agoreal world boston was the only reality tv show i watched more or less all the way through. it was fun while it lasted but once it was over, reality tv felt "done" and i didn't really want to watch much more of it. i still don't understand the lasting appeal tbh.
- erickhill 3y agoIt's cheap to produce, yet gets enough eyeballs to validate its existence. No more paying actors, script writers (at least, not at the same level), etc.
- BeefyMcGhee 3y agoTrue story!
- Apocryphon 3y agoA good video about how that came to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1gqLVHZWo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1gqLVHZWo
- PopAlongKid 3y agoReality TV and game shows are two different things. MTV's first game show (and first non-music programming) was "Remote Control" begun in the late 1980s.[1] I used to watch regularly -- funny how I remembered the names of Colin Quinn and Kari Wuhrer, but couldn't remember the host's name without looking it up. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Control_(game_show) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Control_(game_show)
- erickhill 3y agoI would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to "win" something).
- dragonwriter 3y ago> I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to “win” something). Reality competition shows are definitely a kind of game shows, but not all reality ahows are reality competition shows; MTV’s The Real World was not – nor was its loose inspiration, PBS’s An American Family. Expedition Robinson from 1997 (and the international version, Survivor, from 2000) really kicked off the reality competition format.