I've never really sat down and made a definition of what I consider reality tv to be. Now that I am thinking about it I think that reality television is a super broad category that has many different sub categories. I consider anything that doesn't have a set script to follow throughout the entirety of the show to be reality tv. This means that I consider sports shows to be a form of reality tv because there is absolutely no script at all. Up until MTV aired this new show called Skins, pretty much every show that was aired on tv i considered as reality tv. Also shows that follow the lives of different people and the experiences that they go through in real life is reality tv. Examples of this include: Intervention, True Life, Animals Hoarders and etc. News shows are tricky for me. News that is broadcasted from a studio I don't consider as reality tv since they have to follow a script, but new reports from out on the field are different because they involve interviews of different people. So to conclude all of my rambling, my definition of reality is: Any show that does not have a script that needs to be followed.
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I agree with you, now that you mention it Reality TV really is just a huge genre with many subdivisions. Even though some shows are not based on comedy or partying like most MTV shows, they are still reality TV. Game shows and sports can be reality tv if you think about it in a certain perspective, because they are unscripted.
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