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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrooklynKnight" data-source="post: 1830230" data-attributes="member: 4490">Absolutly true. Making Reality Shows shaves billions from the production budget! Why? You're not paying actors. And staff can get paid less. On a reality show the entire cast works for free. You recruit fame seekers and other people willing to put on a show for a small prize, typically between 25,000 and 1 mil. In the end you end up spending far less money.  Survivor for example. One might think that filming in all these exotic locations is expensive but the opposite is true. It costs near nothing to achieve a license from the nation where they film. In some places they dont even need one.  The networks will be in huge trouble come the time when the audience will be fed up with reality shows. Another year or two tops and there will be a rush of drama, comedy and other shows as ratings plummet for reality shows. Or reality shows will get more bolden till something horrible happens and the FCC bans them. As for the Neilsons those are dying too. I learned about them in my TV/R classes and from day one I said they were I SHOULD REMEMBER NOT TO SWEAR AT EN WORLD. You'll never get a big enough sample of any demographic to learn a close enough number of who watches. Eventually all TVs will have a broadcast chip that lets someone know what you're watching. Some bills to allow them (and block them) have already been to the Congress. In the end, allowing the monitoring of what we watch WILL be better. Despite the privacy issues. If the production companies knew the true numbers of watchers, then they could estimate the true value of a show and find a place for it. They could better program and insert commercials. Thats what TV has always been about. Commercials. We're not being entertained, we're being sold too. The TV show is just there to keep our attention till the commercial can buy us.</blockquote>

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