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How real is Reality TV?

Reality Television is how the images, formats of genres of Reality TV fix themselves into the way television, its schedules, structures and viewing cultures conferences (Holmes & Jermyn, 2004). Reality TV is aware of what kind of show they will do to attract broadcasters are seeking to draw audiences in particular ways (Holmes & Jermyn, 2004). The practices relate to their cultural power and multimedia experiences; the ways can resonate so extensively in the culture sphere (Holmes & Jermyn, 2004). Therefore, 

A reality show is the broader context in which showing the difference between the performance and the celebrity culture in every day has not evident (Escoffery, 2014). “Reality TV where the discursive environment has fostered roles which are in part interchangeable: academics and public intellectuals can become contestants/participants, contestants can become media commentators, ad producers can mingle with academics (e.g. Carter)” (Escoffery, 2014). Reality Tv programs can be low living in the house such as the employed urban on housing estates (Dahlgreen, 2013). Some of them can be labelled as “stressing the viewing’s distance from the scenes represented and by facilitating an unethical passivity before representations which are framed and marketed as entertainment” (Hester, 2014). Reality television genre dominate schedules now. It is observed in different ways. Many different types of reality TV nowadays can relate to “politics of identity” or a group power (Biressi and Nunn, 2005). 

For the show Big brother, there is a discussion of the program may be an argument for a different format of the construction of fame. In reality, TV is concerned (Escoffery, 2014). It can pinpoint that the term “Reality TV” gains more comprehensive from this point to another point in areas such as the press, television trade press and TV viewing guides (Escoffery, 2014). Defining things happen in “Reality TV” shows that the importance of a focus on “real life” and “real people” as the primary point in the show through the subject matter in the front. However, whether all the reality show is real, that is still a question to people. The show can capture the real-life, but it doesn’t mean celebrities are showing their life. Reality TV is combined with very self- reflexive and self- conscious connected to create a different form of genres in a reality show (Holmes & Jermyn, 2004). Roscoes’ research how this marks the program of a reality show and Big Brother is not as a real game but as a “reality-life soap”, because of its editing and construction from the perspective of production. 

Reality TV can manipulate the realities that the audience may not be aware of. Reality TV has a prominent link to market the program of reality TV, and it can be stimulated. Reality TV can be in many areas such as marketing, promotion to make a reality show but it can be a “cheap TV” that tend to conflate the “event” or show with other areas of Reality programming. Therefore, that is up to the audience what they think of the reality show on their point of view. Reality show can be real or not depending on how they set the programme to show the audience. How they want to commerce and make fun in reality TV can be rethinking of whether it is real or not. Often some reality shows tend to create fun and combine genre in their performance to attract more audience in their presentation. 

References:

Holmes, S., & Jermyn, D. (Eds.). (2004). Understanding reality television. Psychology Press.

Escoffery, D. S. (Ed.). (2014). How real is reality TV?: Essays on representation and truth. McFarland.

Dahlgreen, W. (2013, May 31) Poverty-Porn TV in Bad Taste? You Gov. Retrieve October 22, 2020, from https://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/05/31/poverty-porn-tv-bad-taste/ 

Biressi, A., & Nunn, H. (2005). Reality TV: realism and revelation. London: Wallflower Press.