After "The Jersey Shore" rose to national fame in 2009 and made most of its "guidos" and "guidetes" famous, everyone seems to want to be in a reality show. Why wouldn't we? Its instant fame, money and we want to get to go to those red carpet events that we have always dreamed of.
So what exactly is it?
According to Wikipedia "
Reality television is a genre of
television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors.
[1] The genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television (primarily with game shows), but has expanded significantly since the series
Big Brother first aired in 1999.
[1] Programs in the reality television genre are commonly called "reality shows" and often are produced in series. Documentaries and nonfictional programming such as news and sports shows are usually not classified as reality shows.
The genre covers a wide range of programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (such as
Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism-focused productions such as
Big Brother.[1]
Reality television frequently portrays a modified and highly influenced form of
reality, utilizing
sensationalism to attract viewers and so to generate advertising profits.
Participants are often placed in exotic locations or abnormal situations,
[1] and are sometimes coached to act in specific
scripted ways by off-screen "story editors" or "segment producers," with the portrayal of events and
speech manipulated and contrived to create an
illusion of reality through editing and other post-production techniques."
I will keep adding to this post, but here are some new shows being created that I found interesting:
- Ford is teaming up with the Emmy Award-winning creators of The Amazing Race, Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, to create the first real-time interactive road rally starring the new Ford Focus
- Focus Rally: America, which combines the social vibrancy of the Fiesta Movement with The Amazing Race reality concept to create an unprecedented level of interactivity between contestants and fans, begins taping in February; episodes will be streamed on Hulu™
- Focus Rally: America marks the first time producers of The Amazing Race join forces with an advertiser to produce an online reality show
- There will bea nationwide casting call for adventurous, socially connected people to participate in the rally; interested parties can apply at www.focusrally.com or at one of the 11 open casting calls held in select cities throughout the country
The producers of the ABC reality series
Shark Tank are on a nationwide search to discover the next successful - and possibly wealthy - entrepreneurs, inventors, businesspersons, dreamers, promoters, creators and innovators. In each episode, budding entrepreneurs are given the unprecedented chance to make their business dreams come true.
Whether you just have an idea, are a start up, or are already operating successfully and looking to expand, if you feel you have a lucrative business/idea and could use financial backing then
Shark Tank is just the show for you. Casting is looking for aspiring entrepreneurs who can pitch their breakthrough business concepts, products, properties and services to moguls in hopes of landing investment funds from the moguls on the show. If selected, five self-made, brilliant, but tough investors (the Sharks) could be willing to part with their own hard-earned cash and provide you the funding you need to jumpstart your idea. But the Sharks aren't just out to invest; they too have a goal -- to own a piece of your next big idea. Who are the Sharks? Real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, "infomercial" industry pioneer Kevin Harrington, technology innovator Robert Herjavec, fashion icon Daymond John, and financial expert Kevin O'Leary. And in season 2, successful businessman and comedian Jeff Foxworthy will join the panel for 3 episodes.
Your business idea should be top-notch and something the Sharks will really want to sink their teeth into and might even spark a bidding war between them. Who knows - you could be the fortunate entrepreneur who gets the Sharks to reveal the true level of their interest and bid up the price of your investment!
Apply now for your chance to enter the
Shark Tank and see if your idea is good enough for a Shark investment.
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We're seeking all sorts of personalities with interesting and complicated living situations. Is this your 3rd move this year? Are you moving out after fighting with your last roommate? Whether you're moving into a room in a mansion, or a closet space in a studio apt, we want to follow your journey as you hunt for a new apartment and new roommate.
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