Week 11: How does Hill define reality TV?
Hills classifies reality TV as three main parts in defining a genre which are television industry, television scholar and television audiences. The most of television industries is creating factual entertainment as realty TV show or popular factual television in traditional. But now, Hill says reality TV is flexible which could fit any types of TV programs that industry wants to make high audiences watch rate.
There is an argument of defining reality TV from scholar in the text. Hill points that most of television scholars have same trend to discuss reality TV to ‘reality genre’. They highlight that “subgenres within realty TV are the result of a complex borrowing from other television genres.”(p 49). The definitions from television audiences are quite different as well. The reason they have several definition is because they have added what they think of reality TV and it depends on what show they have been watched.
Thus, why reality TV shows is so successful is because it has created the real environment, some real personality on character and manipulate how the viewers would feel. There is no such correct definition of reality TV but many completed definition of reality genre.
Hill, A. (2005) The reality genre. In A. Hill, Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television. (pp. 14 – 40). Oxon: Routledge.
According to wikipedia, it defined as :Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded." For me, the reason this program would be so successful, is that they presented a real situation, let the audience at the scene.
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