It is amazing the success of Reality TV. Survivor, You're fired, and the Contender have blown out all other television shows. While in 2014 only one scripted show INXS: Never Tear Us Apart made it into the top 20 most watched episodes (with reality and sport taking all other 19 positions), in 2013 reality made up 13 of the top 20 most watched episodes, alongside sport. And for day-in-the-life shows about different occupations, many producers fake scenarios (like a tree falling on a logger) to add drama.
To give competition ZEE TV launched another game show titled- Sawal Dus Crore Ka and Sony TV launched Jeeto Chappar Phhad Ke but KBC's popularity didn't deter; making it the most successful reality show in Indian television. Production companies scouting online at websites like the TV Writers Vault are required to agree to a Non Disclosure" agreement, and are tracked electronically by the database as they access materials, reading your TV show pitch.
We filmed Jeff, One Lonely Guy (a man who has taken over 150,000 calls and texts to his personal cell phone) at a time when he was at a breaking point and wanting to find ways to transition away from taking so many calls from strangers all by himself.
Since season three, no reality show has been more agenda-setting but if makers ITV continue to offer viewers more of the same, some will inevitably fall off. So we end up with 616 hours of video for just one week's
Funny episode, which allows us to create the story line we want.
I can hear them clearly in Chad's interviews on The Bachelorette; whatever he may have been talking about in real time, it ends up sounding like he's talking shit on the show. This is fine as an initial idea for a TV script, but it's missing that wow factor." A boy just going missing by itself is not interesting or original enough a concept to sustain a full TV series.
The want to push the envelope of what reality is, how far you can go, and that's exciting," says David Granger, creative director of British-based Monkey Kingdom Producers, makers of Brit reality soaps Made in Chelsea and Real Housewives of Cheshire.
But unlike other competition style reality shows, GBBO doesn't offer any cash prize for the winner, which means the rest of the competitors don't get anything either. What's more powerful in even the highly formatted reality-based programming is that even though the situations are set up and driven to deliver a result for content, we are watching people with real emotions in circumstances that create real drama.