One of my guilty pleasures is watch The Bachelor. I know, hot guy, 30 attractive-too-skinny-yet-pretty single women and a whole lot of emotional baggage attached. It is just asking for disaster and how can you tear your eyes away from that?
- Reality TV actually started on the radio with Candid Camera precursor Candid Microphone in 1947.
- Survivor and American Idol routinely top the ratings when they are on, beating scripted show
- In 2001, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences added the reality genre to the Emmy Awards with the category of Outstanding Reality Program. In 2003, to better differentiate between competition and informational reality programs, a second category Outstanding Reality-Competition Program was added. In 2008, a third category, Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program was added.
- There have been at least three television channels devoted exclusively to reality television: Fox Reality in the United States, launched in 2005, Global Reality Channel in Canada in 2010, and Zone Reality in the UK, launched in 2002.
- Various reality shows (notably Joe Millionaire) combined audio and video from different times, or from different sets of footage, to create an artificial illusion of time chronology that did not occur, and a misportrayal of participant behaviors and actions
The following is a list of television shows with the most instances of product placement; Eight out of the ten are reality television shows.
- The Biggest Loser 6,248
- American Idol, 4,636
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', 3,371
- America's Toughest Jobs, 2,807
- Deal or No Deal, 2,292
- America's Next Top Model, 2,241
- Last Comic Standing, 1,993
- Kitchen Nightmares 1,853
- Hell's Kitchen, 1,807
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