What new direction is the reality TV genre taking?
In my opinion, reality television has done a good job exploring drama. It’s explored drama in many ways. From the kind of soap opery drama, tear jerking drama, like Extreme Home Makeover, competition drama, romance drama like The Bachelor. It’s dealt with a lot of genres of drama. What it has not done yet is dealt with a lot of genres of comedy and I feel like the direction that reality television is taking now and will continue to take in the future is in a comedic direction because audiences a.) they like comedies as much as they like dramas and they’re not being serviced by reality comedy as much as they are by reality drama and also because comedies tend to repeat better. That an audience can watch a funny show over and over again like South Park, and The Simpsons, and Seinfield, and Friends. Whereas once they see a drama and they know how it ends, they are not as interested to watch it again, they don’t repeat as well. And because of the economics of television the necessity of a
