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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2764519" data-attributes="member: 149">Actually there is a fair amount of footage "Shot to order" AKA Restaged, from what I understand. "Reality" TV shows are about as real as most other shows, just not "pre-scripted" to the same extent.Psionicist, DVDs may actually be bringing TV more towards what you want out of things. Since they may be moveing the profit center from re-runs to DVD sales. They have certainly made the difference for several shows in the past couple of years Family Guy being the most notable example. Lost at least as I have heard things has been planned out for a 5 year run with cut outs built into the series in case of premature cancelation.But greed and the problems it creates are nothing new and have always plagued TV. In most respects I think things have actually gotten far better than they ever were in the past. Most TV when I was growing up in the '70s was at about the level of "Three's Company". Episodic TV where nothing ever really changed and the characters were essentially fixed for the run of the TV show. Yes obviously there were exceptions, but those exceptions are now pretty much the norm. Compare Lost to Giligan's Island for example. The characters grow over time, we're introduced gradually to who they are, why they are who they are and how they wound up on the plane and the island. We also can be pretty sure that at some point they are actually going to get off the island. Giligan's Island and so many shows patterened after it, the characters were pretty much fixed in the premier, had new ways of getting off the island introduced pretty much every other episode, but you knew they never were going to get off, because the show would be over.</blockquote>

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