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I'd have made some coffee :-D Nowadays, more and more television networks are abandoning traditional, scripted television programs and airing unscripted reality shows. Reality shows are cheaper to produce, popular with audiences, and easier to make. When you put real, attention-seeking men and women on TV, almost anything can happen, and reality shows have provided some of the craziest, funniest, and most controversial moments in TV history. The viewers can't seem to get enough of the drama. Everyone knows reality TV isn't always 100% real, but it's entertaining enough that most viewers don't care. The First Reality TV Show Was Candid Camera In 1948 Candid Camera is the oldest reality TV show, and it actually started on the radio in 1947 and premiered on television in 1948. The show also started out as Candid Microphone, but when the show became popular, they started using cameras instead of microphones and switched the name to Candid Camera. The show involved having hidden cameras and filming unsuspecting ordinary people reacting to pranks. It was hosted by Allen Funt, and the show has been revived several times throughout the years. The First TV Game Show Was Beat The Clock In 1950 Beat the Clock was the first reality TV game show, and it began as Time's A-Wastin' in 1948 on the radio. It was renamed and moved to television in 1950. Beat the Clock was also television's longest-running stunt show, and it was produced by Frank Wayne. The game show was a television game show that involved people trying to complete challenges in order to win prizes while under a time limit. The contestants were usually married couples and were picked from the studio audience. The Dating Game First Aired In 1965 The Dating Game was a reality dating show that first premiered in 1965 and was the first show where contestants were willing to sacrifice some of their own dignity for the chance to be on TV. The show had a bachelorette that would ask questions that were written in advance to each of the bachelors. She would continue asking the questions until the time ran out and then based on the bachelors' answers, she would pick one of them. Starting in 1966, The Dating Game was often paired with The Newlywed Game, and both shows have been revived several times. Not All People On Reality Shows Get Paid It is assumed that reality television stars get a lot of money for taking part in the shows, but most people don't get much in terms of compensation at all. Some shows don't compensate the reality stars at all. However, established personalities can actually make a very good living from appearing on reality shows. For example, Todd Hoffman from Gold Rush could earn as much as $25,000 an episode, and then you have the Kardashians, who make millions on their reality show. An American Family Was The First Reality Show In The Modern Sense An American Family was the first reality show in the modern sense and is widely credited for birthing the reality TV genre. The show showed a nuclear family going through a divorce, a son coming out as gay and a business crisis. It was filmed in 1971, and the purpose was to capture the living patterns and mentality of a typical middle-American household. The show was a twelve-part series and was more or less a documentary in purpose and style but was also considered a reality show. Real People Real People was a reality show that premiered in 1979 and ran until 1984. The show captured the triumphs and challenges of real individuals and featured real people and humorous individuals, situations, and events that highlight the common man. The people opened up about their toughest endeavors. George Schlatter called it a theater of reality and said, "There's no doubt that the NBC series was an early seed of the 'real people' stories that would inundate TV listings for decades to come." The Phenomenon Called 'Channel Drift' The phenomenon 'Channel Drift' is what they call a television network that was previously noted for its scripted programs but then abandons them in favor of reality programs. The stations that have been called out as 'Channel Drifters' are History, A&E, and The Learning Channel. The amount of reality TV shows on television today by far outweigh the number of scripted shows on television. Reality TV shows have become so popular and have caught everyone's interest. Star Search Was The One Of The First Shows To Give People The Opportunity To Show The World Their Talents Star Search was a major reality TV show that helped to discover America's rising stars. The contestants would perform for the audience and continue to the next stage unless eliminated. The winners were awarded $100,000. Fred's doing something outside. I have no idea what and I don't care either. Star Search premiered in 1983 and ran until 1995, and some of today's biggest stars started out on Star Search. Some of the names associated with the show are Beyonce', Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Kelly Rowland, Christina Aguilera, and Jessica Simpson. Cops Is The Longest Running Reality Television Program In History Cops was a reality show that began in 1989 and is the longest-running reality television program in history. The show was on the air for thirty-two seasons and followed police officers all over the US as they performed a typical night on the beat. The show was originally created to help the Fox Network through the television writers' strike in 1988. The show was filmed in cinema style with incidental music and sound effects, scripted dialogue at times, and narration. Everything Is Edited On Reality TV Crews film hours upon hours of reality television shows, and then the editors take that footage and edit it into episodes. Editors can really tell whatever story they want to by some fancy editing; people can be made to look argumentive, foolish, or even do things that never even happened. They, of course, want to create as much drama as possible, so they edit the conversations and interviews to make them sound worse than they were. They can even piece together different footage to make someone say something that they never actually said. America's Funniest Home Videos America's Funniest Home Videos is a reality television show that has viewers send in humorous homemade videotapes. The show was debuted in 1989, and the host was Bob Saget, and the show is still airing today with Alfonso Ribeiro as host. In every episode, three videos are chosen by the producers and then are voted on by the studio audience. The viewer that sent in the winning video receives $10,000 and is in the running for the $100,000 prize at the end of the season. MTV's The Real World Premiered In 1992 The Real World was MTV's original reality series, and it premiered in 1992. They put together a group of seven young adults, all strangers, in a loft and then taped their interactions with each other. The seven young adults got into serious issues, including racism, privilege, and several other topics. The first season showed real people, but in the seasons since then, the participants showed up already knowing what character they wanted to play. The newest show to come from the original Real World is The Real World: Homecoming: New York. Road Rules Road Rules was a sister show to The Real World, and it premiered in 1995 and ran until 2007. The young adults were all strangers and lived together in an RV with no money, and they moved from one place to another while collecting clues and completing missions along the way. Road Rules was also on MTV and was a pioneer in travel, adventure, and reward reality television. The show ran for fourteen seasons and featured five to six strangers between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. Producers Always Have The Final Say Over Eliminations Several of the reality TV shows feature contestants or participants that get voted off of the show. It looks like the judges are making the decisions on who to eliminate, but in reality, the producers are the ones that make the final call. They will keep people in that they think will make for a better show, even if the judges or other people want them voted off. This happens on shows like The X Factor, Survivor, America's Next Top Model, and so many more. Eco-Challenge Was The 90s Genesis Of Adventure Reality TV Eco-Challenge was in the 1990s, what today's adventure reality shows are. It ran from 1995 until 2001 and was created by Mark Burnett, who also created Survivor. The show organized small teams of four people to compete in a race. Every day the teams trekked through a three hundred-mile course and completed the full series of endurance challenges. Eco-Challenge led to the extreme popularity of adventure racing, and the show was revived briefly in 2019 for Amazon Prime. The First Makeover Type Reality Show Was Changing Rooms In 1996, Changing Rooms first aired on September fourth and was the first reality show with a self-improvement or makeover theme. The show had couples redecorating each others' houses and was hosted by Carol Smilie. Andy Kane, a carpenter, assisted with the remodeling and eventually went on to host his own DIY shows. The show was canceled in 2004, but a special was aired in December 2004 with the team restoring the decor of homes and businesses that were damaged in the floods of August that year. DIY Shows Lie About How Long It Takes To Carry Out Work One of the popular features of DIY and renovation shows is that they have some sort of time limit. However, the workers actually take much longer to finish the task because the professional tradesmen take days or weeks to properly renovate a house or build a new project. They also lie about the budget because the shows receive heavily discounted labor and materials through their partners and sponsors. They are also known for using cheap materials and rushed labor, so in reality, the project with high-end materials would not be done for the budget they give. The Challenge Is One Of The Longest-Running Reality Shows Ever One of the longest-running reality shows ever is The Challenge, and it debuted in 1998 and aired until 2021. The show is a mixture of MTV's Road Rules and The Real World. There are different missions the contestants can complete to advance in the game and win prizes. The winners of the final challenge receive a large cash prize. The Challenge likely inspired later series because of the individual confessionals and the group drama. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a reality game show that first premiered in 1999 and ran off and on until 2009. The show was a quiz competition with one contestant attempting to win the top prize of $1,000,000. In order to win the top prize, they had to answer a series of multiple-choice questions that got harder as they went. The show was one of the longest-running shows and was hosted by Regis Philbin. It made television history by becoming one of the highest-rated game shows in the history of US television. The Houses On House Hunters Aren't Always Even For Sale House Hunters is a top-rated reality show where couples, individuals, or families are searching for a new home and have to choose between three potential houses or apartments to buy or rent. However, it's not unusual for the homes in the show to not even be for sale. The producers sometimes contact friends, family, and local residents to see if they will feature their home on the show even though the house is not available. Elizabeth Newcamp was on the show twice and stated, "In one episode, the house my husband and I chose had already been our home for over a year. In the other episode, we had already closed on the house we chose before filming began." Contestants Will Alter Their Entire Personalities For most reality television shows, the producers prefer to hire people who either have weaknesses or are not very experienced, ones they think might cause drama. Producers will often ask individuals on the shows to appear more friendly or less friendly with certain people. They also ask the contestants to change their personalities so that they act in an unnatural way. Doing this allows the editor the ability to create a storyline that will make for better TV. Survivor Survivor, a television mega-success, first aired in 2000 and still airs new seasons today. They drop sixteen strangers onto an island where they have to survive on their own while voting each other out while the whole thing is filmed. The first season of Survivor paved the way for how so many other competition reality shows would take shape. Here comes Freed with something in tow on the wagon. I really hate that Son of a Bitch.