TV is it really reality?

I want to thank one of my friends @IELLIE for giving me the idea behind this blog entry ,without even knowing it, when she twittered this yesterday :

"How the hell did New York get another show on VH1? When is the reality TV going to disappear??   iellie Mon, 18 Aug"

 

Its been almost 8 years since the birth of reality television phenomenon.Perhaps movies such as The Trueman Show and ED TV were hints of where the future of Television based entertainmen is headed. According to http://www.boxofficemojo.com   The Trueman Show and Ed TV are respectively  1st place and 5th place most grossed movies based on Reality TV  http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=realitytv.htm

But how much of it is truly reality? Ive seen with my own two eyes "Writers: ...." at the end credits of some Reality shows!!! Or "Director: ..."  .  So if these shows are being written and directed can we really call them Reality TV?

To me a true Reality TV is one without writers or directors.The closest thing to that on television I guess would be Big Brother.Nowadays with the improvement of computers and the Internet, many people's entertainment  is their PC rather than TV. Music, Videos, pictures and some people even watch TV on their PC!! So the old definition of  the word Television  being tied down to an actual TV set is really no more. With that in mind, here lies true Reality TV within such domains as Ustream.tv , Justin.tv, Yahoo Live (http://www.live.yahoo.com) and many more live video streaming services that are available out there. True Reality TV is watching Chris Pirillo (http://live.pirillo.com) sit at his desk for hours on end  and then get super excited about the latest and newest gadget or software release or get into a  cute funny quarrel with his lovely wife Ponzi!! Or watching cages and cages of parrots in what seems to be a big room or warehouse on Yahoo Live, or just watch people who go about their daily routine while interacting  with an existing chatroom 24/7. If U thought watching people sleep, or watching an empty office room is boring and pointless, clearly U have not watched any of the streams people do 24/7. An empty office room according to http://live.pirillo.com  can get as many as 700 viewers for hours on end with nobody at the other end to interact with them!!!

 

So I guess to answer @iellie s  question, In my opinion its going to be a looooooooooooooooooong while or perhaps never till the craze for reality TV dies down!!!

But thats just my opinion and Id love to have yours, so please leave your comments on this subject for me and others to read :)