Reality TV just keeps going

Each time I talk about this topic I think that I've addressed it but then I find that there is even more. I never thought of Dancing With the Stars OR Survivor as reality TV. I know saying this seems naive though, especially because Survivor was a major kick off for the genre. But, its hard to look at this because we do not typically see reality in terms of survival, at least not successful ones. I say this because the "celebrity" knock off of the show did not experience any success, this shows that imitation did not work in the way that producers had hoped.

I don't think I characterized Dancing with the Stars at all as reality because I view it as a competition or game show. It revolves around the performances of difference couples, however, I guess I can see where the stereotypes, knowledge, and attitudes of the "famous" play a huge role on who is voted for regardless of the performance, but actually based on popularity.

Survivor does format the basis for the show, and I say this because all those following revolve around similar conflict structures, however that adapt according to the setting and situations that are constantly changing in these shows.

In the article by Murray he talks about a different "series" however he does reference the use of hand held cameras, emphasizing the actions, movements, and conflict between people each and every day on the show. He also says, "in order to court a particular type of audience identification and set of expectations, television networks can take a program that has somewhat liminal textual generic identifiers and sell it as either a documentary or reality program by packaging it in such a way as to appear either more educational/informative or more entertaining/sensational, or in some cases both." The tendency, I have found is that producers tend to use something that is entertaining, most of the time it has to do with conflict between two people. Even in the episode of Dancing with the Stars there was conflict between multiple partners during practice sessions. I find it interesting that such a limiting genre, in terms of a way that they can be made appealing, but the changing in setting and people completely alters the show itself - and thus multiple different creations have experienced success.

The development does portray closely to documentary, in the fact that it is supposed to be somewhat of an uncensored following, while in reality tv it is entirely uncensored... or at least that is what we are expected to believe.

Reality tv is actually quite constricted to what audiences find interesting, we can follow someones "life" based on either a situation or just everyday interactions. So, to say this is to infer that the structure and the content have to maintain something similar. The ONLY thing that I see change in is the "characters" and the situation that produces conflict, competition, or relationships.