Reality show overload

I was just wondering how many reality shows are on so I looked it up. Holy sh*t! There's way, way too many. And this is just for this winter. Now, I'm sure there are probably more than what is actually listed. It seems like the networks are getting lazier and lazier. Most of them have cheap to produce reality crap, back to back reruns of shows, and copy ideas from each other. How many alaska, gold, pawn, swamp, housewife, dancing, talent, bachelor\bachelorette, look how many kids we can squeeze out, look how cool my kids are and redneck shows do we need anyway? Add more commercials and tons of paid programming to the mix and what's left? I can probably count less than 10 shows I actually like. Even the History channels are just as bad with back to back repeats and reality dung. Discovery channel too. VERY disappointed about that. Anyways, I cant decide which circle of hell this belongs in. I've narrowed it down to the  4th, 5th or 8th. But hey, there's enough of this reality sh*t to smear between the 3. 

^ Your post is spot on, i8!  Creative, entertaining and real -- just like the myriad of "reality shows" are supposed to be.

The L.A. Midgets?  It's so sad to see what people will do for attention (and money).  To debase yourself like that is just pathetic.

About Reality shows, I'll admit, I got a good laugh when a "woman," did an audition tape to be a Contestant to be Flava Flav's girlfriend on Flavor Of Love, Season 3. "She" was obviously a transgender. "She" began talking about how horny "she" was for Flava and how "she" could give it to him good, as he begun to play with his clock(his oversized clock he wears around his neck) uncomfortably... Flava said, "Get that *beep,*off my TV."

I saw a cool movie today, I'll be damned if I can remember the name of it. Set in Sao Paulo Brazil, cool movie.

I agree. Television show quality keeps disintegrating.  The only things I watch now are Antenna TV, Me TV, PBS and crime/detective type shows. The rest is garbage.

sunbreak777 wrote: I agree. Television show quality keeps disintegrating.  The only things I watch now are Antenna TV, Me TV, PBS and crime/detective type shows. The rest is garbage.

Seconded!

If Mob Wives doesn't peak your interest,  maybe Amish Mafia will? 

Thor wrote: ^  Agreed.  I was going to say the same thing last night, but couldn't come up with a list of all the well-received shows offhand.  I've heard both critics and people say good things about most of those shows.  I watch a lot of The Walking Dead, and it's definitely not garbage.   But I've been around practically since TV began, and I've been hearing the same thing forever---that TV used to be so much better.  I think people just look at the past through rose-colored glasses.   It's also possible that TV viewing habits have changed.  It used to be that there was a limited number of shows, everyone watched the same ones at the same time, and everyone talked about them the next day.  With cable, On Demand, DVR, Netflix, etc., that's no longer the case.  TV no longer has that unifying effect.

While I do agree that it's human nature to look at the past through rose colored glasses, I will say this.  IMO, TV started going down the toilet when reality television started.  My first exposure to it was Real World, on MTV.  I never watched it, but my wife did.  She watches a bunch of them, and I can't even stand to be in the same room as the tv, when they're on.  When I was younger, the only reality shows I remember were variety hour types of shows.  There may have been others, but I don't recall them.

DKS wrote: usmaak wrote: Now, it is cheaper and easier to just keep shoving this reality crap at us.  They're cheap and easy to make.  They can try them by the dozen, and failure doesn't really matter.  They just throw them out and try the next pos that they came up while they were all snorting coke in some room somewhere.  Quality television costs money.  This crap does not. Except, as I listed, there are lots of quality, non-reality TV shows on. The difference is, there are lots more shows TOTAL on now than there were in the past. Years ago, there may have been 5 good shows on at a given time, but that's out of 10 shows total. Now a days, there's 20 good shows on at a given time, that's 4x as many good shows, but  there's also 10 times as many channels, so you get 20 good shows out of 100 shows total.

I am not disagreeing with you at all.  I watch a some of the shows that you listed, and many others.  I usually have two DVRs loaded with shows to watch.  It's just that this is a thread on reality shows, and I NEVER pass up an opportunity to discuss how much I hate the entire genre.   I know that I'm in the minority with my hatred of all things reality TV.  It's good to find others that dislike them as well. 

I read somewhere that Reality Shows , were invented because people were getting tired of Sitcoms that had family problems solved within 30 minutes, when real life family problems would take a whole Season to be dealt with, so Reality shows were ushered in to embody real families. The Reality show fad is too much now, with a bunch of nonsense Reality shows, such as Terry Crews family show. Terry is funny, I'll admit, but a show focusing on his family is stupid....

Been seeing commercials for the "new" season of Naked & Afraid. Couples frolic around deserted islands buck naked trying to survive on their own. 

PBS had a music/reality show kind of like American Idol on not too long ago. It was this year.