Timeline for Looking for another term for "reality tv"
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| Sep 27, 2021 at 23:24 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 27, 2021 at 16:48 | answer | added | Keeping Tabs | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 1:40 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I don't watch such shows very much, but I've definitely seen staged scenes, outcomes chosen for their effect, etc. "Unscripted" is probably more honest (though even that's likely a stretch in some cases). | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 1:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/838921948591763458 | ||
| Mar 6, 2017 at 20:25 | comment | added | 1006a | @Josh That's the distinction that producers themselves have made to justify the "reality" label—that there isn't a script, at least in terms of actual lines for the a̶c̶t̶o̶r̶s̶ participants. But I'm sure there's the closest-thing-to for a lot of shows. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 19:53 | comment | added | user66974 | @1006a - are realities unscripted? I do doubt it, but people love to believe it. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 19:24 | comment | added | 1006a | The slightly more accurate phrase "unscripted" TV is sometimes used. Some folks try to make a distinction between "unscripted" and "reality" (one is really just letting cameras roll on reality, the other has an outline and agenda, basically everything shy of an actual script of dialogue) but the distinction is very fuzzy and it's not consistent which is which so I think you could probably just use it as a very near synonym. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Shows about "real" people doing "real" things in "real" life Too wordy, huh? But it's accurate. You could call it "Cheap TV" making reality shows is more economic than producing dramas, or comedy shows. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | Alternate-reality TV | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:59 | comment | added | user66974 | @HotLicks - a "faux-reality" show? Come on!!! | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:58 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I would probably say "faux-reality". The shows are, of course, highly "staged". | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:48 | answer | added | user66974 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 18:42 | history | asked | Al Maki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |