What do you think of reality shows?

I don´t like them at all, at least the ones that are shown in my country. They surelly don´t represent real life: noone will act the same with cameras watching your every movement. At least, not normal people. Most of us need some privacy. That´s why we have doors, even within our homes where we live with our closest family.

I have never been crazy about the reality TV thing either. There are too many cut areas and I can't believe that there aren't a certain amount of staging involved. Like you said too...there is the knowledge of the camera being there too. I have watched a couple of reality shows when the genre first started but it seemed like each new one got worse to me. More ridiculous. That's just my opinion though. There are obviously a lot of people that enjoy them.

I have to say, I was one of those who kind of got sucked in on some of the reality shows. Well, one night I was at work and began watching a show on TruTv called Southern Fried Stings. As it turned out, the more episodes I watched the more I noticed that the same people were in every episode. There are other shows that I've watched from TruTv, like Black Gold, where after watching the previous seasons you begin to see that it's all the same stuff. I've never seen an employer hire and fire the same people so many times. But when you first start watching they appear to be interesting and I guess for some people who don't really pay attention to detail then they wouldn't notice just how fake they all are. I hate to watch Jerry Springer because it is so ridiculous. There is no way that it is not staged. Regardless whether the producer is the one staging it or the people they have on the show but somewhere along the line it's staged.

I have thought that Jerry Springer for years has been a set up show and things are so scripted on it and it even really looks like it. Now the Maury show is getting the same way to me and im nto really liking the talk shoes anymore and i use to like watching so many when they were more talk show hosts on during the day. Now i do watch Jersey Shore and think that isnt scripted at all and i really enjoy that too because its real life drama that goes on and sometimes people can relate to those. I do think its a good show and many dont but its kind of silly at the same time. American Idol is scripted at times because its not the first day you get to see the famous judges you actually have a day or two in between when you see other judges that make your deicision of going on or not. They put the bad people through for ratings of course so we would all watch the funny people try to sing.

OMG! I am a reality show junkie! Survivor, Big Brother, Chopped, Top Chef, Hells Kitchen, Dancing With the Stars, yea, I watch them all! The only one that I refuse to watch is that Kardashian bunch. I just don't like them! You know the shows that paved the way for present day reality TV was shows like Candid Camera, America's Funniest Videos and Cops.

I'm fond of reality shows like Survivor and The Amazing Race, but I'm not fond of The Bachelor and the like. What you say is true, I find it hard to believe that these shows would be '100% legitimate' when the people who join them always assume a character to entertain so that they would get their 15 seconds of fame. Nonetheless, I really love the competitive aspect of reality shows, so I can't stop watching them no matter what I do!

The only "reality" show I have cared for was Biggest Loser, but I get tired of it easily. I am also not a very competitive person and so I feel bad for the people who get sent off. I do not find reality shows to be very real either.

I've not watched too many of them, although I have watched the Jerry Springer Show quite a lot in the past although I'd call that a talk rather than a reality show as such. The only reality show I can think of I've watched extensively is Big Brother UK. Although even at that, several of the series I barely watched at all as I recall. However, one or two of them I got drawn into, and found myself "following" as it were. I even auditioned for series 1 of Big Brother UK, as I did for the X Factor, and several other entertainment shows. However, I've only ever appeared on TV in one entertainment style programme, and that was a quiz show back in the late 90s. Although I think I may have appeared on a sports show as a kid. And I've done a lot of extra and walk on work for both movies and TV.

OMG! I really like to watch a couple of reality shows like the one that show contestants drinking and eating those bugs and flies mixed in with their soda, milk shakes or food etc.. these idiots are puking while struggling to down those drink into their throat in order to come out first, so that they can win the first prize of ten of thousand dollars. It is just gross some one will run the risk of getting sick in the stomach in order to win the prize by swallowing those bugs, insects, ants, flies, worms and sh*t in front of camera. It is so funny looking at the expression on the face of those contestants.

I share your sentiments on this. I'm also not big on reality shows. I watch one or two shows, but I guess the rest are just "non-reality." I think that even though it's not scripted, like you said, the mere fact that they know they're on camera somehow makes them act up a little. I mean, we're not really seeing spontaneity in those people since they're mindful of what they're doing.

i think it's a good way of showing the true colors of some actors/actresses.... We're able to see how they deal with people not in a scripted way...

For me reality shows are the stupidest thing they ever made. I don`t see the point of this. But people like to watch the problems, pain, disasters from other people. thats the only way that you can enjoy watching any kind of reality show. I think its better to watch the worst movie, its still better than reality shows.

There are some reality shows that I watch like Amazing Race and The Pickers. Most of the supposed reality shows out there are just plain nonsense most specially those shows that are about following the life of celebrities or wannabe celebrities for 24/7. For sure, they are just acting out most of the parts shown so as to attract more of the attention of the viewers. They'll create scenarios that are just stupid just to get additional viewership. If I am super bored, then I might kill time by watching those garbage reality shows. Or maybe I'll just continue reading my books or do some gardening instead of wasting my electricity on those nonsense shows :)