How does Hill define reality TV?
To my knowledge ‘reality TV’ is ‘staged’ TV programmes about real people, situations and experiences, as it is designed to be entertaining rather than informative. This includes documentaries, sports, news, arts and other genres, which lie within this description. Hill (2005) implies that reality TV is linked to everything and anything i.e people, pets, cars, death and birth and it would make this genre very diverse.
There are many examples of reality TV, but just to name a few you’ve got your music genre ‘American Idol/X- Factor’, game shows like ‘What’s in the bag/ Wipe out, and many documentaries about gangs, drugs, politics and many more. So how can you define such a diverse genre as ‘reality TV’? According to Hill (2005) he states that, “there is no one definition of reality programming” but is more of a term to describe the type of programming of a television industry. Although the important part of ‘reality TV’ is the ‘factual’ component used, which attracts the audience, (Hill 2005).
Some good intial comments, but it would have been interesting to develop your discussion further. I was especially interested in your response to your last reference to Hill (2005)
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