Same with with Storage Wars. Producers bought storage lockers and filled them with expensive antiques and then had fake bidding competitions on their own lockers.
Really? That sounds really shifty. It’s one thing to only show the big hits and not the 100 lockers it took to find a big hit, but to just straight up fake it goes beyond reality TV. At that point it’s just a fake sitcom, not reality TV.
Thats always been their method. The “Real world” would intentionally cast the most insane people to live together, then goad them to fight or fuck.
Literally been rigging the “reality” since day 1.
I mean think about it. You could probably do 3 lockers a week for a year and not find anything valuable. Most people don’t keep Jackson Pollock paintings in some rundown storage locker.
I don’t understand how the Revelation that reality shows are strictly didn’t just kill off the whole genre. I mean at that point why not just wash a scripted show that isn’t trying to hide it behind fake drama bullshit? I mean the real answer is that cable is a dying industry and most shows are just there to fill the airwaves during the odd hours when more expensive produce programming doesn’t make Financial sense in the managed decline scenario but really
I just don’t get how anyone is entertained by “reality tv”. It’s just… utter drivel.
Was bullshitting one night with a coworker and asked him what his greatest culture shock was coming to America and without hesitation he said the Jerry Springer show and started telling me how he would tape it and watch it every day after work calling up everyone back home telling people how insane it was. I mentioned that it was all fake and watched as he crumbled. I really regret those words.
My wife and I enjoy shows like House Hunters occasionally. We like watching house tours plus they discussed the pros and cons of each home and how they would renovate or remodel the home. Plus, you get to see one of the houses redecorated (even if it was just staging).
Sure, the buyers and agent might be actors, but the houses are almost certainly real (it seems much cheaper to just rent and stage a couple of houses to film in than to build multiple rooms just to get 10 minutes of footage).
Also, reality shows have inspired some amazing progress in documentary editing. I don’t think shows like Last Chance U and Drive to Survive would have been half as good without it (even if they are not educational or totally accurate).