(from CNN.com)
The big chill that blew through reality TV this summer is starting to look like a deep freeze.
Nearly every returning entry in the once white-hot genre is either flat or down among the broadcasters in primetime. Even unscripted's most reliable war horse CBS' Survivor, is flagging, down 19 percent in the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in the first three weeks of the year versus either the same period last year or the entire run.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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if I really wanted reality TV -- i would have walked around with the square cardboard frame of a fake TV in front of me all the time.
Reality TV can't thrill me the way really good television can. I have this conversation with other TV lovers that appreciate a good show. A good TV show can be just as amazing or if not better sometimes than a film. You have longer to spend in a story arc, explore characters, get attached to them, have the anticipation of waiting every week for the new one. I am currently hooked on Veronica Mars. The mystery from week to week is great, the dialogue is fresh and never really makes me wince like some people trying to write for high school can. I am in the middle of my crack like addiction to Six Feet Under -- the discs cannot come quickly enough from Netflix.
From this I would like to see the sitcom be rejuvinated as well. Scrubs, Malcom in the Middle and Arrested Development have embraced the non studio and no laugh track approach -- lets all go there! I think the laugh track is the most annoying part of a sitcom.
I do not mourn the too slow death of reality TV. I dance with Joss Whedon on its grave site.
Yes, and there is the TV rant for the day.
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