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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 1789122" data-attributes="member: 710">I think one of the important part of this reality programming is in fact that they don´t need real actors or comedians do to it. There are currently one or two popular examples of "unscripted programming" with comedians on German TV. I think they probably cost more than Big Brother, just because the comedians already have names and talents...I am not exactly a regular watcher of this type of shows, but I think the concept is quite interesting.Anyway, it´s definitely not the only thing I want to see on TV. Today, there are dozens of reality based shows, most of them simply suck and I will never care and/or watch them, no matter how desperate the situation is.But I wonder if there are enough people to do it to make these shows even more dominant, at least on commercial channels. They are extremely cheap compared to a well-made (let alone Sci Fi) series, and maybe that will always compensate for the lower ratings, even if they decrease further in a few years after the viewers are saturated. I hope not, but if, this might actually make TV uninteresting for many people... It could also just change in a different direction - maybe actors and other professionals will have to accept lower rates. I guess most of the FX on TV and cinema is so costly because of the prices the professionals ask, not neccessarily for the Hardware it needs... But maybe we are learning now why so many Sci Fi settings seem to lack TV shows <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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