Approaches to Reality TV

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Approaches to Reality TV

Reality TV shows in today’s society cannot be avoided whether you like

them or not. Once one has finished another appears to take it’s place

and before you know it every opportunity that is offered for a great

evening out and intellectual conversation with a group of friends is

slammed with the old age excuse ‘I’m washing my hair’, because you

dare not miss occasion to sit and stare passively at the people within

the square box making complete utter fools of themselves in the name

of entertainment. And I myself fear to ask the makers of these

programmes if they do genuinely believe that these programmes reflect

the ‘reality’ of today’s society. Although reality TV programmes have

been around for quite along while, the whole phenomena has only

emerged these last several years, not just in the UK but all over the

world. Individual’s obsession with ‘celebrity’ and its processes has

increased dramatically and as an endless number of reality TV shows

emerge contestants become more and more shameless in their bid for

fame and fortune. Although there are many reality TV shows present

today such as; Pop Idol, Survivor, Temptation Island, Joe Millionaire,

The Real life etc. there is one culprate that by all means is the

ultimate ring leader and that is BIG BROTHER.

I am going to be analysing a segment from Big Brother (BB), series 3

on the 8th July, where Jade Goody a contestant on BB strips totally

naked on national TV after losing a dare between housemates that

evening. After she had put her clothes back on she then ran to the

bedroom where she jumped on the bed of a fellow contestant Alex and

said;

“My fanny was on national TV.” (Goody, Jade. 8th July, Big Brother 3)

An astonishing 5.8 million viewers watched this.

BB unique selling point (USP) is its reality TV aspect. However

excluding the incident that I highlighted above there are many more

occasions where individuals display obscene behaviour, that stem

heavily away from actual reality.

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