Poll: Reality Television Shows?

[MasterJedi]

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'm mad at Survivor over how they handled a controversy a couple weeks ago, but I still love the game, even if the producers tried to interject a liberal agenda into it.

Knowing you, you're probably mad they didn't support Varner for being an awful person. If you're like a normal person they asked Zeke if he was ok for it to air and he said he was, so no violation there.

[MasterJedi]

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'm mad at Survivor over how they handled a controversy a couple weeks ago, but I still love the game, even if the producers tried to interject a liberal agenda into it.

Knowing you, you're probably mad they didn't support Varner for being an awful person. If you're like a normal person they asked Zeke if he was ok for it to air and he said he was, so no violation there.

My issue wasn't so much that they didn't support Varner as that no one questioned transgenderism after the fact (not even Sarah "I come from a very conservative place and I've grown so much that I'm not bothered by this" Lacina, though Ozzy never spoke in the whole situation).  Though, I suppose that when you are trying to win $1 million and need interpersonal relationships, you can't afford to be politically incorrect.  By the way, Varner is really liberal himself on the issue, and he meant more that "Zeke is hiding something from you [like when a contestant doesn't say that he is a cop]", and not that "Zeke is being deceptive by being transgender".  I just didn't want to hear about transgenderism on my entertainment, and I expect that a lot of so-cons felt the same way.

By the way, a Slate article following this controversy said that Survivor's audience was found in 2010 to be the eighth-most conservative audience of any TV show (presumably excluding cable news), so they may have turned away their own viewers.  And, despite the good amount of publicity that this incident got (the 4/12 episode), the ratings for the 4/19 episode were actually down from 8.3m viewers to 7.9m viewers (and it did shoot up to a season-high 8.5m for the 4/26 episode, after the whole thing was finished).

And now it's back up, so just weak minded people who are scared that their TV is going to make them transgender or something.

[MasterJedi]

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'm mad at Survivor over how they handled a controversy a couple weeks ago, but I still love the game, even if the producers tried to interject a liberal agenda into it.

Knowing you, you're probably mad they didn't support Varner for being an awful person. If you're like a normal person they asked Zeke if he was ok for it to air and he said he was, so no violation there.

My issue wasn't so much that they didn't support Varner as that no one questioned transgenderism after the fact (not even Sarah "I come from a very conservative place and I've grown so much that I'm not bothered by this" Lacina, though Ozzy never spoke in the whole situation).  Though, I suppose that when you are trying to win $1 million and need interpersonal relationships, you can't afford to be politically incorrect.  By the way, Varner is really liberal himself on the issue, and he meant more that "Zeke is hiding something from you [like when a contestant doesn't say that he is a cop]", and not that "Zeke is being deceptive by being transgender".  I just didn't want to hear about transgenderism on my entertainment, and I expect that a lot of so-cons felt the same way.

By the way, a Slate article following this controversy said that Survivor's audience was found in 2010 to be the eighth-most conservative audience of any TV show (presumably excluding cable news), so they may have turned away their own viewers.  And, despite the good amount of publicity that this incident got (the 4/12 episode), the ratings for the 4/19 episode were actually down from 8.3m viewers to 7.9m viewers (and it did shoot up to a season-high 8.5m for the 4/26 episode, after the whole thing was finished).

And now it's back up, so just weak minded people who are scared that their TV is going to make them transgender or something.

MasterJedi, as a side note, how do you think Varner knew in the first place?  I didn't quite understand that part.

I think Jeff's active in the LGBT community and just picked up on the mannerisms?

I also think Zeke told him in confidence since Varner is active in the community. Wasn't shared on-screen since Zeke didn't want it to be but after it came out at tribal and everyone knew and it would be hard to edit it out he was ok with letting it out then.