A Look Into Reality Television

A Look into Reality Television

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A Look into Reality Television

Over the years, reality television shows have increased dramatically by involving millions of people and making it impossible to avoid this genre of television. It has been the most talked about on social media, the internet,magazines and other forms of media. It is a new kind of entertainment that has attracted the youth of the society and they can relate their life with the show. It’s good to watch such entertaining shows which are somehow close to the reality of life.

They show the actual and real aspects of life but in between the portrayal of reality and entertainment, they sometimes lose track of the original context and show an entirely different kind of cheap reality. This genre of TV is important for me because I have been watching these reality showsfor quite a while now andenjoy them too, but now they have become more scripted.The cheap conflicts along with extra vulgarity these shows provide, is somewhat to be work on. Not every conflict can be reality-basedand extra vulgarity on television is not entertaining, especially for teens who are addicted to such shows.

It is very unique of television that it has now started showing the real side of the characters by involving them in shows that are produced only to entertain people. Withthe engagement of millions of people, it has now become an important part of television. People enjoy the entertaining parts of these reality TV shows but they are much bothered by the fact that they now have become a scripted form of reality. Everything the characters do in the show,is actually scripted which makes the audience lose interest, thus the program becomes boring. For example, the reality tv show ‘Big Brother’ has become a scripted show, away from reality because their activities have become fake and unreal. They try to provide entertainment but the audience has now become more clever and knows the realistic level of the show.

The sole purpose of such TV shows is to provide entertainment and that's what I love about these shows because they give so much relief after a tiresome day. This purpose has lost its track and the characters are creating so much disturbance that it makes the audience to switch the channel. They take the support of unnecessary conflicts to come in the spotlight and in this way the get more attraction than the other characters. Every show tries to do something different with their characters like the show ‘Naked and Afraid' is very much a disturbing show because the writer puts the contestants on difficult situations which I think acceptable but to make them extra suffer for an award is not fair at all. If it is meant to provide entertainment than how can they make them so miserable that they end up going into depression in real life. Here the audience, the youth especially is the most affected by such shows.

Glam is good for these kinds of reality shows but extra glam can make them B grade programs which mostly flop. We should be careful with our kids and keep an eye on them when they watch TV. This is important because they will be effected by these shows which is not good for kids their age. For example, they cannot watch‘The Bachelorettes' because it is too much glamorous and there are too many bold scenes in that show and one cannot watch it with their children. It is good they are spreading love and happiness among the audience but at the same time, they are promoting vulgarity in the name of glam. So we should be careful about such programs that are not good for people under a certain age.

It’s a good thing that television is evolving day by day and providing so much entertainment to millions of people but their negative impacts are increasing day by day which is worse. If this happens to continue then we would also see a drastic decrease in the production of reality tv.