Hill (2005) defines reality TV shows in few different categories such as Television Industry, Television Scholars, Television
audience, real lives, showing and telling and more.
Why do people choose to watch reality TV shows?
In today society, reality TV show popularity is increasing worldwide.
There are a lot of different reality shows such as “The amazing Race”, “Fear
Factor”, “X-Factor”, and much more. Reality TV show can cover a wide range of
topics. It sometimes can be a race between participants such as “The Amazing
Race” or even auditioning shows such as the “American Idol” I came
up with some ideas why people may choose to watch reality TV shows.
I personally love watching reality show such as “Survivor” and I am a big
fan of it. The question is why do people choose to watch reality TV shows? In a
survey conducted in America, most repeated answer that the people gave was “truth.”
Reality TV shows clearly tells the audience how the real people react when they
are fighting for something. The something maybe price money or missions that
they have to accomplish. The price money amount is huge, so each participant
are very competitive. This makes the TV show more interesting. They fight,
revenge, and trick other people so that they can survive and other people to be
eliminated. These stupid and silly acts they do make audience more interested.
Also it makes the next episode really interesting and unable to miss a single
episode. This is because viewers are dying to wait to see who is going to be
eliminated next week.
Another reason why people choose to watch reality TV show is because people
fantasize about gaining status through automatic fame. Winners of Reality TV
shows such as X-Factor, they become really famous and most likely to become a
celebrity. Audience also fantasize about the participants who are good singers,
actors, even dancers. They wish, fantasize and imagine themselves as the
participants that are in the audition. Lastly, many of the participants are
commonly known as “nobody.” However, these “nobodies” can be a star in
immediately. Ordinary people such as I tend to watch these TV shows, wishing
and imagining that they could be a celebrity and gain fame.
Reference
Information Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200109/why-america-loves-reality-tv
Hey Daehun,
ReplyDeleteI like your blog on reality TV shows and why people like to watch it. I definitely agree that it’s interesting to watch people see how they react and compete in competitions for money or fame. I don’t really watch survivor but it was on the other day and I ended up wanting to watch the whole episode. The reason being I like watching the tasks they have to overcome and it’s especially interesting when people actually surprise you. A good example like on X Factor when you’re not expecting someone to sing really good surprises everyone.