When will reality shows DIE!!!

my mom is watching hell's kitchen right now. I hate being able to see the tv from the puter.
For those of you who know me, I love to cook, and i love food. If i put my heart and soul into a meal (I never do any less!) and some asshole threw it across the room, he would be flying across the room after it. Fuck hell's kitchen and it's "better than most" reputation.

 

Speaking of cooking shows, I liked 'Alice' from the late 70s to early 80s. Great characters. 'Mel, kiss my grits!'

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so far so good, i've managed to avoid big brother! here's hoping i will succeed in not seeing one show!

 

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't really "get" reality TV. Give me a good story, and I'm happy.

 

I believe you are talking about American Chopper. Paul Teutel Sr. runs a shop that builds a chopper and one of the designers is his son Paul Teutel Jr. Senior can be bossy but for the most part it is usually directed at his son and he usually deserves it.

There is another show called American Hot Rod. The premise is the same as American Chopper except they build Hot Rods. The difference is they can't build one Hot Rod without stuff going wrong. The place is so badly managed it's funny. A couple of examples:

A new worker from Montana is called a sheep fucker by another employee, right in front of a foreman, and nothing is done.

The owner's ex-wife is in charge of the budget for the projects there working on. Everytime one of the employees needs money for a part for the car she refuses to give them the money or hassles them to death before she gives them the money. It doesn't help that the owner's wife is a hot young girl, half his age, who sometimes visits the shop. This is recipe for disaster.

A new worker was assigned a certain job (I believe it was cutting metal but I can't be sure) that he was not trained for. The poor guy did the best he could but, of course it did not come out right. A foreman gets mad at him for not doing a good job when he knew the worker was not trained for that certain job.

One of the workers goes skiing for the weekend and injures his foot. He comes in on Monday with a noticable limp and could hardly get around. I give him credit for having the guts for even showing up to work but, the owner and a foreman didn't think so. They got mad at him for being selfess by risking injury and skiing on his day off. I guess they think that this shop suppose to be the center of their lives.

I swear to God, the Keystone cops ran a better police force than these guys run their shop.

 

There's a restaurant in my area where the waitresses insult you, but it's all for fun, like the insults Don Rickles does. It would be neat if there was a TV show like that.

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reality tv is the lowliest form of entertainment, I mean I have got enough shit in MY life why do I need to put up with yours

 

argh Big Brother.
i am all alone, my family is glued to it, my friends..
when will i be able to walk into the living room without everyone going "ssh! it's on"
flippin heck.

 

I finally watched 'Boiling Point' on BBC. Wow wee. I haven't seen that much sniveling, whining, bitching, and bickering since that whining yuppie show 'Thirty Something' back in the 80s. These folks must be the sons and daughters of those yuppies.

Are Hell's Kitchen and Boiling Point the exact same shows?

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When is this 'stuck on an island' thing finally going to pass? I'd like to see the TV industry do something other than trying to rehash old shows.

http://tbs.com/shows/therealgilligansisland

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It'll end when people stop watching. They're cheap to make, get lots of buzz and make enormous amounts of cash for those who make them.

"You could win $1,000,000!" that's the salary they'd be paying talent in a real show for ONE EPISODE>

 

Reality TV shows are training America to be watched at all times. Society loves being on TV and it's ratings are actually pumping money into the concept of video taping normal people in normal settings and how to further this technology. Think about it

 

hahaha what a load of crap. apart from them NOT being that normal NOT being in a normal setting. If you think about it for about 1.5 minutes what your saying is comical..

This is the new reality coming to TV soon <--- click (think about it ?.)

 

I think there is something significant about the way TV has become a diversion from reality. And it seems to be worse today, particularly with the way the news media has become obsessed with meaningless reality show type stories (the Michael Jackson case, Scott Peterson, etc.) It has a way of taking people's minds off real issues, such as the war in Iraq, the economic situation, etc.

What about a reality show that follows U.S. troops around in Iraq instead of one where we watch nothing happen at Ozzie Osborne's house week after week? Now that would be a great reality show but no one in the TV industry will dare do it.

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There's always a hundred reasons for not trying something new, and many people know all hundred reasons.

We used to get real reality TV coverage of Vietnam back in the 60s. Today's coverage is so watered down that it's almost meaningless. At least back in the 60s, the coverage was there if you chose to watch it. If you didn't like it, you could always turn it off. Today, at least in the U.S., you don't really have that TV option because real coverage isn't there to begin with.

I think they could do a great reality show following a troop in Iraq. It doesn't have to be all guns and violence. There was some coverage of this sort at the beginning of the Iraq invasion when there wasn't an insurgency. Now that the situation has gotten so dangerous, the U.S. networks don't want to take the risk.

If we can follow Ozzie Ozborne or Nicole Simpson around, we can follow someone else around who is doing something much more critical. There's a channel called The Pentagon channel that comes close to this. I'm not sure how many cable networks actually carry it. They follow the work of the troops, such as setting up equipment, detonating old munition dumps, clearing land mines in civilian areas, and other activities. There could be a similar reality type show on cable TV. The closest thing of this nature that I can think of would be the cops reality shows of the 90s.

What I saw on the Pentagon Channel was better than the 'nothing going on' that I saw on Boiling Point and God knows how many other hapless reality shows in the U.S.

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The only reality tv show I've seen that I haven't sneered at was several years ago, based in Australia called "The House From Hell" where the participants were in a house for three months and had to stay the whole time to win money, now before this sounds like big brother it certainly wasn't, they could leave at any point but weren't allowed to returm if they did.
The point of the show was that every day, few days, week, the rules and tortures would change, like not being able to have any booze or smokes at all, being chained to each other in a line, having live hardcore music constantly played for 3 days straight in their living room (one band would play for a few hours, then switch with another band)
in order to get any money they had to put up with each other, the tortures, and not break any rules because for each time a rule was broken by a person, their individual reward was diminished by an amount (can't remember how much), so the potential was there for someone to suffer the whole three months through only to find they get nothing because they broke too many rules
the show was brilliant

 

that hardcore music bit sounds coo

 

It may need to die, but reality tv is the new drama. People have run out of ideas and therefore just put on the world's worst DIYer or working-class school kitchen tv or whatever.

 

Actually, reality shows are REALLY cheap to make.

They started cause the scriptwriters went on strike in Hollyweird. Then they realised they could make a hit series with a PRIZE of $1,000,000 rather than paying $1,000,000 in salaries PER EPISODE.