reality tv
...es being watched 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They’re given a task and are obliged to overcome it. What is so difficult about this? An average person who does not come on television has to overcome tasks every single day. How can this be a source of entertainment? Watching these people walk around doing the same deeds a normal person would be doing while on the street? What has our sense of entertainment come to? Then there’s the all new ‘Survivor, the Outback’. Again, there are 12 people, 6 males, and 6 females. They have to survive in an outback habitat completing wildlife tasks or have the consequence of being evicted. What is so intriguing about this? Yes they may have to rustle with the all mighty crocodile but in reality, a normal person would not have to do that to survive the world we live in today. What about the love-strucked ‘Temptation Island’? A program enlisting four couples who are apparently in-love to challenge how strong and deep their love is by dating other people on a deserted island. So much for the theory of commitment in love as in the end, all of the couples cheat on one another whether it just be an insignificant kiss or even sleeping with someone else. For what reason do people watch others being in torment? When a scandal occurs this is not fiction, this is someone’s life and heart being broken and we are getting entertainment from someone else’s misfortune. The ideas of these types of series started nearly three decades ago. It was not until Europe that started to introduce this genre of reality television, beginning in 1997, in Sweden with their show of ‘Expedition Robinson’ or known to us as ‘Survivor’. And in 1999, the outburst of Big Brother broke out in Holland, long bef...