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From what I can remember, reality-TV shows have been present in our TV since the 1990's and my personal opinion is that, with them, although followed by a large public, the quality of TV programs has really reached the minimum.

If these programs reflect and witness the reality of VIPs' life or that of common persons aspiring to become so, becoming part of a "golden" world where exhibitionism, superficiality, triviality are like bread every day, it's true: these shows are faithful in representing it and the guys protagonists of these programs can be considered typical representatives of this world and are even a model for many people, not aliens coming from the stars. Instead, if these programs want to represent the reality of normal life as they affirm, they are false and deceiving.

Most of these programs are based on the h-24 broadcasting of what happens in a closed and insulated circle of persons in particular conditions, like living together in a house, in the jungle or on a desert island (the last version, present obsessively every day for months also on the TV of my Country, Italy) without the facility of our civilization and obliged to survive.
Who is considered the smartest or the most excessive is then judged by the TV public who expresses weekly or daily its preferences for the protagonists and the loser is eliminated from the circle, so, failing his or her run toward "celebrity & success".
Already in this judgement and selection there's the first falsity because this doesn't exist in the reality, when a group of persons is obliged to live together by circumstances.

The real nature (positive and negative) of a person emerges in the real situations, not surely like in reality-shows....In this way, the guys "prisoners" in the reality TV undergo the first great pressure that make them act and speak to win the contest among them and they try in every way to play some roles and make certain things to impress the public.

The authors of these programs claim there's not a programmed direction of the show that continues for many weeks, everyday and that can be followed also through Internet or the satellite TV-channels at every hour, to show every detail; this is false, in my opinion.

It's enough to observe all the mini-cameras placed in all places where the guys can stay, even in the desert island, so that each guy is never at more than 2-10 metres from the camera, always shot in the best way to show all details.

Another proof of the not spontaneous behaviour

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