Reality Shows: Your opinions

[WayneLigon]

I haven't seen very many of them, nor have any appealed to me. They're popular with the networks because they're cheap cheap cheap to produce. And it shows. I just can't help thinking 'you know, something I might have really liked got bumped because the network wanted to show this thing'. I don't watch that much TV anyway, though, so.

 

[Ranger REG]

and now there's going to be a show with OJ Simpson. CRAP.

* shakes head in disappointment *

What's next? The Charles Manson Show?

OTOH, it's a good career opportunity for such individual like the Iraqi Information Minister.

 

[Henry]

The only reality show I have watched for more than one episode, or even more than ten minutes, has been American Idol - because I actually get some entertainment value from it. If anyone is watching the current American Idol, my current bets are between Ruben Studdard, and Clay Aiken - everyone else is going to wind up going home within the next four weeks.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

The Anna Nicole Smith show,

Ack! Mention ye not the thrice-accursed name!

IMHO, Anna Nicole ranks up there with Hastur as She Who Shall Not Be Named. Just seeing a commercial for her show fills me with a hot rage to the very core of my being...

Oh, I don't like her too much.

 

[WayneLigon]

We are very near the End, now...

LOS ANGELES - The audience appetite for reality television could be tested by a planned cable channel that will offer a diet of all reality, all the time.

Reality Central, scheduled to debut in early 2004, is being developed by Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, and Blake Mycoskie, a businessman who was a reality show contestant.

Namer and Mycoskie contend that reality TV has proved its staying power and can attract and hold enough viewers for a niche channel.

Reality Channel Announcement

 

[Assenpfeffer]

Reality TV is just like everything else - 95% of it is crap.

I've watched a whole season of Survivor, which was entertaining enough to keep me watching but not enthralling enough to get me to tune in when they changed the cast for the following season.

'Scare Tactics' I thought was a mixed bag. Some of the stunts were amusing, others boring.

If I'm ever caught watching even a single minute of 'American Idol,' 'Mr. Personality' or 'Jackass', please come over to my house, board up my doors and windows and burn the place to the groud with me inside.

 

[KnowTheToe]

Reality TV is just like everything else - 95% of it is crap.

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If I'm ever caught watching even a single minute of 'American Idol,' 'Mr. Personality' or 'Jackass', please come over to my house, board up my doors and windows and burn the place to the groud with me inside.

Amen Brother!

But, once in a long while I do like Trading Spaces. I also don't mind Blind Date as long as the date bombs and people are less than cordial.

I would say something bad about American Idol, but Henry worked so hard on getting my avatar to work that I can only say American Idol Rocks!

 

[LrdApoc]

I wouldn't consider Trading Spaces a Reality TV show.. it's a project based home improvement show, same with the TLC shows like Junkyard Wars. They actually do represent reality in a larger degree than anything by the SUX network or CBS.

 

[LightPhoenix]

The only reality show I have watched for more than one episode, or even more than ten minutes, has been American Idol - because I actually get some entertainment value from it. If anyone is watching the current American Idol, my current bets are between Ruben Studdard, and Clay Aiken - everyone else is going to wind up going home within the next four weeks.

Yeah, American Idol is the one "reality" show that I can stand. Mostly it's because the people up there have to have some kind of talent to get so far, and not just be quirky.

And is it just me, or has Clay gone from complete and total dork to pimp daddy? Just watch him when he's around the ladies.

 

[Chun-tzu]

...and now there's going to be a show with OJ Simpson. CRAP.

No, there isn't. OJ shot down those rumors.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030424/D7QK6IU02.html

Simpson, a football Hall of Famer, was tried and acquitted of murder after the 1994 slayings of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, but a civil jury later held him liable and ordered him to pay the victims' survivors $33.5 million. He hasn't worked since then because any money he makes could be seized to satisfy that judgment, which remains largely unpaid.

"I'm well aware of my situation," he said Thursday. "I didn't commit the crime and I don't think these people deserve anything. I'm not putting myself in a position of having to give them anything."