I have come to realize...

[Trainer Monkey]

I'll admit I like SOME reality TV, but it really depends on how it is produced. I don't like anything on MTV they pass off as reality. Primarily because it's not geared to my age group. But also because it in no way shape or form resembles reality. Cops is reality (except for when the cop decides to get extra flexy when he brings down a baddy), Taxicab Confessions is reality, Intervention is hella reality. The only show I can really think of that is more like MTV is Scream Queens and it's for a very specific reason: it's more of a gameshow than reality. They are competing for a definite, real prize; a starring role in a hit movie franchise (Saw series). It's not trying to improve a group of crazy women (Charm School) or picking off fatties one by one (The Biggest Loser). Sure 'Loser' has a prize at the end, but the purpose of the show is to help these people lose weight. Why are they being eliminated then? Shouldn't they all stay on the show and the person who loses the most at the end win? If the 'Charm' girls need this help, why boot them? Because it's about something other than this alleged improvement they state. At least with 'Queens' we have a defined task and only one can win. It makes sense that they be elminated one by one. Who the hell cares who wants to be Paris Hilton's next best friend who she'll be dumping on sometime in the coming year? And the dating shows are the worst. My parents hate my girlfriend so much they set me up to go on a date with two other girls. No, in REALITY, my parents wouldn't allow my girlfriend in the house if she were an uber-bitch. And don't stick my whiny ass in a house with a bunch of whiny 20 somethings. I used to love 'Real World', hell, I wanted to be on the show, but now I would be terminally bored.

As close as I get to reality TV, is Survivor Man, I used to watch Man Vs Wild, until it came out the whole thing was more or less canned,ruined it for me.

The only reality TV I watch is the news. Those other reality shows I stay away from. I find nothing more tedious than watching stupid people with nothing to say. And putting them in bizarre locations is just futile too.

I would love it if we could put all of these people into a situation where their life depended on a single question though. And the minute they get the question wrong, their brains are blown out live or even prerecorded on television. Now that would be reality TV I might tune into.

Its all bollocks.

They have this show here that my wife watches and its basically famous people sharing a house and the cameras observe them eating yoghurt. I refuse to watch it and typically resort to posting on the internet!

I think that was the show Johnny Rotten got kicked off of,for,well,being Johnny Rotten.
Id LOVE to see those episodes