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Rad! Now I can rewatch MTV videos before the channel was utterly destroyed by low budget "reality TV" game shows.

>>erickh+(OP)
"The Real World" started in 1992

>>cortes+t2
real world boston was the only reality tv show i watched more or less all the way through. it was fun while it lasted but once it was over, reality tv felt "done" and i didn't really want to watch much more of it. i still don't understand the lasting appeal tbh.

>>erickh+(OP)
A good video about how that came to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1gqLVHZWo

>>clairi+Q9
It's cheap to produce, yet gets enough eyeballs to validate its existence.

No more paying actors, script writers (at least, not at the same level), etc.

>>cortes+t2
True story!

>>erickh+(OP)
Reality TV and game shows are two different things. MTV's first game show (and first non-music programming) was "Remote Control" begun in the late 1980s.[1]

I used to watch regularly -- funny how I remembered the names of Colin Quinn and Kari Wuhrer, but couldn't remember the host's name without looking it up.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Control_(game_show)

>>PopAlo+L21
I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to "win" something).

>>erickh+W42
> I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to “win” something).

Reality competition shows are definitely a kind of game shows, but not all reality ahows are reality competition shows; MTV’s The Real World was not – nor was its loose inspiration, PBS’s An American Family. Expedition Robinson from 1997 (and the international version, Survivor, from 2000) really kicked off the reality competition format.