Reality TV Essays

Go back is a reality TV text that hinges on the participant’s transformation as a result of their new discoveries due to exposures and experiences during the program. The events and situations are planned by the program’s creators but the impact of the experience and how the participants grapple to …

“Survivor” recently made news after it came out with its 16th season, and after CBS announced the renewal of the show through another two seasons. According to CNN, “Survivor” has won the People’s Choice Award for favorite reality show every year since 2000.  The show has also won two Emmys …

A reference group is a group which serves as a framework, benchmark or a standard of comparison for assessing or shaping behavior and other sociological characteristics of people.  (Corbetta and Patrick 2003) Reference groups are deemed as models that people emulate in their activities and decision making which they apply …

In the reading “Reality TV: Surprising Throwback to The Past”, Patricia Cohen reports a woman whose name is Lisa Shannon, wants to find a kind man to be her husband by a dating TV show. The shows lets a twenty-five-year-old woman to marry a man, and if they stay married …

Summery of the article “When Reality TV Gets Too Real” (2007) The text is an article from a newspaper named “The New York Times” and is written in 2007 by Jeremy W. Peters. Peters starts the article telling that in a recent episode of Intervention the televisions canal A&E’s documentary …