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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
A poll on Yahoo! indicates that 94% of the people are sick of them. I have never ever liked them.

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
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I have never ever liked them.

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
Following American Idol for a single season is the farthest into watching any of them as I've ever gotten.

Never understood the appeal.

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
I can say with pride that I've never watched a full episode of any reality show..

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
I enjoyed the early times of them. They were fresh and new (The first season of MTV's The Real World)...

Then one by one, so many popped up, it got more and more trashy...

Now? talk_hand

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
I might be talking out of my ass here, but I suspect the reality shows are targeting the dumb people.

 

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I might be talking out of my ass here, but I suspect the reality shows are targeting the dumb people.
If you get any farther out on that limb, we might eventually be able to see daylight between you and the trunk. wink

Rho

 

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I can say with pride that I've never watched a full episode of any reality show..

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
I see what you did there.

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
I've ranted plenty about them before but I will gladly rant again. YES I HATE THEM. I don't even want to list them because there's way too damn many and they all need to go away.

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
Gaevren posted:
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I have never ever liked them.

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
Big Survivor and Amazing Race fan

so suck it

Really

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
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Big Survivor and Amazing Race fan

so suck it

Really


I don't like Survivor but I do like Amazing Race.

 

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I enjoyed the early times of them. They were fresh and new (The first season of MTV's The Real World)... Then one by one, so many popped up, it got more and more trashy... Now?
pretty much this...and with more and them more popping up the more "fake" reality they became if they ever were real reality to begin with.

 

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Amazing Race is closer to being reality. I think that's really the problem with reality TV - there isn't much real about them.

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
they basically ruined television as I knew it. when I was a kid i watched the history channel, discovery channel, and learning channel all the time. but once the real world hit and every network picked up reality shows the once good and holy networks did as well.

with that said there is something legitimate to them. sometimes it is like people watching even though the circumstances are so heavily manipulated.

 

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Yeah, I guess there has been the rare exception... Amazing Race, the occasional Dog Whisperer or cooking show but the scripted sudo reality crap without some purpose behind it I can't stomach.

 

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Steelwind_Oo posted:
Yeah, I guess there has been the rare exception... Amazing Race, the occasional Dog Whisperer or cooking show but the scripted sudo reality crap without some purpose behind it I can't stomach.


Wipeout needs to be on that list of the few:P

 

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I enjoyed the early times of them. They were fresh and new (The first season of MTV's The Real World)... Then one by one, so many popped up, it got more and more trashy... Now?
pretty much this...and with more and them more popping up the more "fake" reality they became if they ever were real reality to begin with.


While from the beginning, they were 'scripted', now it's so obvious, and sad, and not worth watching. talk_hand

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
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A poll on Yahoo! indicates that 94% of the people are sick of them. I have never ever liked them.

Nope. You have to watch something to get sick of it and I never wasted time with reality shows. Always found them boring.

 

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oh i thought this was an advertisement for another reality tv show

 

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Subject: Have you grown tired of reality TV shows?
The television only shows what you want to see. That being said I love Jersey Shore, Dual Surival, Survivorman, and I used to watch Real World back in high school.

 

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The television only shows what you want to see. That being said I love Jersey Shore, Dual Surival, Survivorman, and I used to watch Real World back in high school.



You should explore your viewing options. Or maybe it is that your options are that limited... this needs to be fixed.

 

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I don't mind the talent competition shows (_______'s Got Talent, X Factor, American Idol, etc)...I do not like Survivor at all. I watched the first season off and on, but it was too cheesy.

the other stuff, I totally agree (jersey shore, real world, all of those real housewives crap)...I just don't see how people can know that with their watching it, the retards on the show are getting paid. Making it possible for more of the same crap shows to be made. I mean, how can you even watch a preview of jersey shore and think "WOW, I want to watch that!"???? It makes me gag a little when I see previews for some of those.

 

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I don't mind the talent competition shows (_______'s Got Talent, X Factor, American Idol, etc)...I do not like Survivor at all. I watched the first season off and on, but it was too cheesy.

the other stuff, I totally agree (jersey shore, real world, all of those real housewives crap)...I just don't see how people can know that with their watching it, the retards on the show are getting paid. Making it possible for more of the same crap shows to be made. I mean, how can you even watch a preview of jersey shore and think "WOW, I want to watch that!"???? It makes me gag a little when I see previews for some of those.


I agree with everything so far, and agree that with competition shows, they have been compromising most of those as well.

 

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I might be talking out of my ass here, but I suspect the reality shows are targeting the dumb people.


If you could really talk out of your ass you could have your own reality show.

 

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I enjoyed the early times of them. They were fresh and new (The first season of MTV's The Real World)... Then one by one, so many popped up, it got more and more trashy... Now?
pretty much this...and with more and them more popping up the more "fake" reality they became if they ever were real reality to begin with.
While from the beginning, they were 'scripted', now it's so obvious, and sad, and not worth watching.
yeah I dont mind the "creative" editing that some shows do where they can make someone look like the good guy or bad guy(mainly the latter) what I hate is when they get people to redo fights or something like that or add in a fight where there wasnt one.  Or make a situation out to be worse than it was to begin with. If it wanted to watch something thats that made up I would just watch a regular show like Glee or Law and Order.

 

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Deadliest Catch, Storage Wars and Gold Rush are my favorite

 

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Deadliest Catch, Storage Wars and Gold Rush are my favorite



Deadliest Catch and Storage Wars are both great. Deadliest Catch is a genius concept.

 

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I have never ever liked them.

 

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It cannot be a reality show if people know they are being filmed. End of discussion. There are no reality shows. Guys would be jacking off half the time and everyone would be picking their nose. The idea that someone could act natural with a camera crew around them is so stupid its funny.

 

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"reality" shows are stupid

 

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I have never ever liked them.

 

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I have never ever liked them.

 

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I hate most of them...and even the ones I do occasionally watch, like American Idol, have things I hate...like where they show the contestants sobbing about how they had to overcome hardships and now they're hoping a chance at winning will help them save their family blah blah blah, or where they air the auditions of people who suck. I just want to hear talented people sing.

 

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