Week 10 & 11

How does Hill define reality TV?


Reality TV is very different to normal TV, it is a genre created in the modern times and is growing ever so popular. There are more and more reality television being aired, so now you can almost watch anything on a TV show, whether it is home building, cooking, restaraunt managing, beauty shows and much more. One of the main factors of reality TV's success is that the reality adds more tension and realness in the things that are happening on the show, therefore viewers can feel more involved and pulled in to the TV show. According to Hill, (2005) “there is no one definition of reality programming, but many competing definitions of what has come to be called the reality genre. The reality genre is made of a number of distinctive and historically based television genres, such as lifestyle, or documentary. These television genres have merged with each other to create a number of hybrid genres that we now call reality TV, or popular factual television.”


Reference

Hill A. (2005). The rise of reality TV. In A. Hill, Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television. (pp. 15 – 40). Oxon: Routledge