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Reality Television (Hardcover)
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Reality Television (Hardcover)
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Reality programming-a broad title for unscripted shows that involve
non-actors-is really an updated version of a classic television
genre that had its first successes decades before The Real World or
Survivor made their premieres. NBC launched Try and Do It, a show
in which audience members attempted to complete tasks such as
whistling with a mouthful of crackers, in 1949. In the 1950s Queen
for a Day crowned the most down-trodden of its four contestants,
draping her in a sable-trimmed robe and granting a previously
declared wish. The wild success reality television has achieved of
late has pushed the envelope of such programming ever further away
from the genre's innocuous beginnings. The time is now ripe for a
look back on how this genre has developed, what it reveals about
us, and what has transformed it into one of the most powerful forms
of entertainment on television today. Reality programming-a broad
title for unscripted shows that involve non-actors-is really an
updated version of a classic television genre that had its first
successes decades before The Real World or Survivor made their
premieres. NBC launched Try and Do It, a show in which audience
members attempted to complete tasks such as whistling with a
mouthful of crackers, in 1949. In the 1950s Queen for a Day crowned
the most down-trodden of its four contestants at the end of each
show, draping her in a sable-trimmed robe and granting a previously
declared wish. The wild success reality television has achieved of
late has pushed the envelope of such programming ever further
away-from the genre's innocuous beginnings. The time is now ripe
for a look back on how this genre has developed, what it reveals
about us, and what has transformed it into one of the most powerful
forms of entertainment on television today. Using interviews with
network insiders, reality producers, and other experts, Richard
Huff supplies fascinating insights into the diverse content and
often erratic development of reality television programming,
augmenting this information with illuminating general connections
between the past and present forms these shows assume. From Queen
for a Day through Extreme Makeover, from Cops to Fear Factor, the
genre is placed before us in this exhaustive and many-sided
account, an account that uncovers the foundations and the future
potential of the compelling and dominating phenomenon that is
reality television.
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