Reality TV & Some Notes

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic/humorous situations it features ordinary people instead of professional actors. In many reality television shows, the viewer and the camera are passive observers that follow people going about their daily personal and professional activities; this style of filming is often referred to as fly on the wall or factual television. Often plots are constructed on reality TV shows through editing or planning situations.

Below some notes on Big Brother and other shows and a bit of history on them.

Some documentary-style programs place cast members, who may previously did not know each other, in artificial living environments; The Real World.

In almost every other such show, cast members are given a specific challenge or obstacle to overcome. Road Rules, this show started in 1995 as a spinoff of The Real World.

Big Brother is the best known program of this type in the world with different versions produced in many countries around the globe.

Another example of a show in this category is The 1990 house where cast members are forced to live and work as people of a specific time and place.

A show in 2001's Tempation Island has achieved a bad name by placing several couples on an island surrounded by single people in order to test the couples' commitment to each other.