
The Reality of Reality TV
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The History of Television
There are multiple episodes of the same competition. And so you can see the producers or showrunners tilting things in favor of one person or another based on their ratings, right, or based on audience response. You'll see people vying for a specific prize, a music deal, a million dollars, weight loss, love it or hate it. This is a massive genre. It's older than a lot of us in the audience today probably think like you think big brother or you think the real world and puck and everything. But the truth is something like this genre has been around since the earliest days of television.
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