[Kirby]

We all know that reality tv quality is going down the toilet faster than a bad case of mud but, I know thats like saying "shit can get worse than their orginal shittyness" but I know we can do better than "Surviver 2021, the reckoning".
First we must find the problems, which will end up in a 3 page flamefest, then find the solutions to those problems in hopes of an english TV executive reading this so he can finaly create the better reality tv show so that us americans can steal it at a later time. We stole this desese from the brits, we must steal the cure.

This post has been edited by Kirby: 02 January 2005 - 07:00 PM

[Despondent]

I don't mind survivor, even after nine or so batches. They don't each carry the mystique of the first season or two, but they do a good job bringing a quality product into people's homes. It's ok. It's not Masterpiece theater, but it's not fear factor either.

I'd even enjoyed that Joe millionaire show. It was new ground and had nice plot twists and lavish situations. I'm also a fan of that cartoon, "Drawn Together" on comedy central. Reality tv is like anything else however. The more there is of it, the more bad you're going to find.

[Kirby]

Good point. But that doesn't mean that we have to wade through the crap,*chough Real World chough* to get to the good stuff.

I never realy thought Drawn Together as a reality tv show, more as a reality tv show parady.

[Chefelf]

Good point. But that doesn't mean that we have to wade through the crap,*chough Real World chough* to get to the good stuff.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey, don't forget your roots. While I admittedly have never seen an episode of Survivor and try my best to ignore most reality programming, "The Real World" is what started all this nonsense. I have a remedial understanding of that crappy show. Enough to know that the fourth season was the best one. It was most likely a failure for the execs at MTV as everyone in that season's cast got along famously. That's why it was the best. Everyone was just friendly and had a good time. I'm sure ratings sucked and some people lost their jobs for that casting call.

[Lord Aquaman]

I'd rather reality TV not be saved. I can't stand those shows...

[Despondent]

I never realy thought Drawn Together as a reality tv show, more as a reality tv show parady.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, fine then. But it's still a half hour of television that Looks just like reality tv, that ought to count for something. If I'm going to admit to viewing any reality tv I'm claiming that.

[Heccubus]

Reality television was beyond saving before it even began. The idea that people are so entertained and enthralled by watching the emotional distress that shows like that cause their participants is sickening. There's no entertainment value there for me. If anyone had been able to predict that this is what would become of popular television, I'm sure that they would've abandoned the device decades ago.

[Chyld]

I'd like to draw a picture of what I'd do to save reality TV in Paint, but it'd amount to a lot of red spray, and the words "Everyone Involved".

I think Yahtzee quite nicely covered it in YTOTW. Kill them all in a selection of inventive ways...

[SimeSublime]

I steer clear of reality tv whenever possible. Which thankfully is almost always. I got stuck listening to Australian Idol whilst washing the dishes last year. So much crap.

[Chyld]

You think that's bad? Part of coming home from university was getting away from northern accents. So what happens when I get home? Ant and freaking Dec on "I'm A Celebrity Tosspot, Get Me Out Of Here Before My Carrear Dies!"

On the other hand, Princess Diana's butler eating a cockroach and squirming like a little girl was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

Hey! That's how we can save reality television! Replace it with the upper class being force-fed insects!

[Kirby]

"I'm A Celebrity Tosspot, Get Me Out Of Here Before My Carrear Dies!"

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

"Before" their carrer dies, Well I guess B list celebreties can be funny from time to time, look at Surreal Life, the first one, before it was taken by VH1.

[Despondent]

I steer clear of reality tv whenever possible.  Which thankfully is almost always.  I got stuck listening to Australian Idol whilst washing the dishes last year.  So much crap.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

OH that's right. THAT show is about to come on again (here in the states.)

On the bright side, it only runs for a third of the year, and during a down season at that.


Fewer shows; of the highest quality caliber, would save reality TV. Tax them heavily.

[Shawnathan]

If reality Television was saved from ridiculous crap that actors go through (i.e. Actress messes up her perm in cat fight), it wouldn't be interesting. I don't know why they call them reality TV, it's usually not real. If it was, viewers would be watching other people ride bus' to theirs jobs, smoke weed and find out they have aids.

I personally don't like reality TV, I think it's montanus and annoying.

[Laughlyn]

What can save Reality TV? Simple;

Abandoned island, Celebrities, Velocaraptors.

Guarenteed rating hit.

[Kirby]

Yay! A practical use for cloning we can all agree on.