Poll: Reality Television Shows?

[dead0man]

They very wildly depending on the type.

Group 1: Game-driven competition shows where one person/team gets eliminated each week - Massive Freedom Shows (Survivor and The Mole (early 2000s reference there) are the two best unscripted shows ever made)

Group 2: Single-week competition shows- Fun to watch, but I won't go out of my way to not miss a week

Group 3: Talent-driven competition shows (i.e. any singing/dancing show- cooking shows are kind of a hybrid of Group 1 and Group 3)- They're fine, but not exactly my cup of tea all the time

Group 4: Melodramatic MTV-type reality shows, usually without any sort of competition- Awful, and usually fake (legally, a show only has to be real if there is a prize)

I generally agree with this.  I'll add...
Group 5: same group of people over and over buying, selling and/or fixing sh**t-if I like the people it's fine, if not, unbearable.

[dead0man]

The shows I seriously enjoy religiously include:

1. Keeping Up With the Kardashians
2. Chrisley Knows Best
3. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
4. Long Island Medium

The ones I watched regularly:
5. The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Teresa only)
6. Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice (at its peak)
7. Kentucky Justice
8. Dance Moms - I used to watch this religiously with friends, but the lady is way too mean

I also enjoy(ed):
9. Next Food Network Star (and similar)
10. Cake Boss
11. Breaking Amish
12. House Hunters (and similar shows)
13. Sarah Palin's Alaska
14. Cops (for the fleeting hope that the oppressed narrowly avoid capture)

I've been meaning to check out Growing Up Gotti, but I haven't found the time.

That's a pretty solid list, so overall a FF genre. The Voice, Survivor, Fear Factor, etc. sound like things that wouldn't interest me past age 10-11 very much however. That's very low-brow.

I see what you did there.


(at least I hope I did, if this is a serious post.....eeeks)