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The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a
sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The …

Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is
'I wouldn't want anyone to know this but…'Why do people love and love to hate reality TV …

TV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants
completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the …

Introduction The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television 1 chapter one Oasis of the Vast
Wasteland 23 chapter two The Quest to Cultivate 67 chapter three TV Viewing as Good …

'Popular Factual Programming'has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of
contemporary television culture on an international scale. Tracing the history of reality TV …

Dates are anathema to Reality TV. As markers of historical time, dates have a distancing,
objectifying effect. Instead of dates and years, Reality TV counts hours, minutes and …

“Whether or not you're a fan of What Not to Wear and its ilk, Makeover TV is a great read
which raises some serious questions about our society's obsessions with appearance and …

In June 2006, ABC TV encouraged families to'get healthy'in conjunction with its new reality
series, Shaq's Big Challenge. Each week, NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal worked with …

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of 'life'. It is an enquiry into the
contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of …