Too much reality tv?

i find it really hard to find something to watch that i enjoy. our cable bill is so high & half the time u can't find anything u want to watch.

I was pretty intrigued by reality TV when it first started becoming popular, however, after a few weeks it really started to become old. I think reality TV is just a sad excuse for television because it's really not reality at all. People are put into situations soley created by people that create TV shows to create favorable outcomes. I'd rather watch fiction thanks.

hello violeta, Yes I do watch reality show. But you are right there is so plenty nowadays. I even manage to watch one episode of a reality show, about super heroes wannabees.. hahah.. kinda weird. I didnt watch it again Though in our place there is still, quiz shows, comedy shows and soap operas. take care

I do watch reality tv shows but i am a bit picky about it! i just watch American Idol and Fear Factor..but i do not go out and vote! lol it is a waste of money for me...but i enjoy wactching them..but there are reality tv shows that i do not like watching like the reality ones about the lives of movie stars which shows how bratty and spoiled persons they are! and how rich they are and how much they have and they can buy anyhing tthey want! what is the point? to show they are human after all? lol its crazy. i don't know why they sell.

Hey now....cooking shows rock! Some reality tv does go overboard to the point where I just don't give a hoot. You know....like where they throw 8 people in house together somewhere and film the whole thing. Of course they always add drama to those...sort of like of Jerry Springer. I like the more suspenseful life shows. Sometimes I just want to sit down to The Simpsons and sometimes I feel like Jeopardy. They don't make shows like they used to lol...

I do think there is tooooooo much reality TV. I guess there are no longer anymore creative people left in this world to think up a good sitcom. Maybe that is why all the old sitcoms are back, like the Cosby's, Full House, Rosanne, etc. People want a nice show they can sit and watch, so they go to the old classics, because that is all there is now.

TV has always gone through phases like this. One network will find a type of show that everyone wants to watch, and then it isn't long before the others follow suit. When I was little everything on TV was a western. The cycles have gone through sitcoms, medical shows, game shows, primetime cartoons, and now reality shows. You'd think the networks would figure it out that people like a variety instead of the same type of thing on every station, but apparently not. I wish there were some of the good, old family sitcoms on again. They don't have to be as hokey as "Leave it to Beaver" and some of those were, but the kind that have family values and no swearing or off-color jokes. We haven't watched sitcoms since "Friends" went off the air.

I lo9ve my reality shows but i will agree it is getting bad. I mean any given time you can find a few different reality shows too watch but if you want something with good writing good luck finding it.

I love cooking shows, but I hate those Survivor and Big Brother and those Bachelor shows. I wonder what happened to people's imagination. Why can they not just imagine things and write plays like they used to do?" As for American, Australian, Canadian and all those other Idol shows. I can sing, but I am too old to qualify and the voices on those shows have not been set yet. So why praise someone whose voice has not matured?

I do agree that reality television has really taken over this day and age and is everywhere! I especially cannot stand those reality shows like Orange County housewives or whatever it is called and The Bachelor type programs. I think it is filth right on tv and the world has really lost it's morality in terms of acceptable programs. I do like American Idol only because I love watching truly talented people being able to showcase their talents and have an opportunity to follow their dreams and use the gifts they were born with. That is about the only reality television I watch though.

Yeah i hate when i turn on the tv and all there is to watch is these darn reality tv shows. I like to watch actual shows like friends or seventies show. Stuff thats funny or supsense. Half the time though there is more reality on then anything else. The actual shows that i enjoy i may get lucky if it comes on once a week.

ya you are absulatly right violeta. i am from india and i have senn that now a day there are lot of reality tv show are in varios chennal . maong thaem indian idol which is the indian verson is very popular and kaun banega carorepati which is the indian verson of who wants to be millioner .this show is in slumdog millioner film so you might be fimmilliar whith this.

I thaught only in India this reality shows are going on well so such shows are going world wide ,well i to hate watching such shows and they give sms to vote well the telecom companies are earning good amount by this shows , There is no comedy ,quiz shows are a days on tv only such reality shows are going on well its useless

i completely agree with you there are far to many reality tv on now its just so ridiculous. i say one every now and then is fine but the way the programing is set up now its like there trying to turn our brains to mush

enough is enough if i see another one iam going to really get sick it,s just to many of those shows what happen to making a simple good movies.we need to get back to the basic of things it.s just to many.

Yeah I think there is to much reality tv. It seems that has controlled tv latley especially mtv. Which every show there is some stupid reality show I could care about. And thats why I hate mtv now. But im pretty sick of all of these reality shows.

Gotta admit, violeta_va, I do watch "Survivor", and enjoy it, and what I enjoy most about it is that I can visually travel to all of these wonderful places in the world, (like now it is Brazil---where my son is) and never leave my couch! I get to see flora, fauna & wildlife that I will never have enough time in this world to see! So it's kinda like watching "National Geographic" with a human twist! Beings that I do not have cable or satellite T.V., we don't have a huge selection, so therefore not many reality shows!

Maybe it's the way of the TV they earning money, to show how others react to a situation when they in or to let others prepare of what things to come in the near future.

yes, i agree.. there are too much reality tv shows these days and most of them aren't worth watching.. i must admit that i watch some like amazing race, survivor and top chef to name some.. but i guess those shows are good to watch as there's no money involved..

Don't hate me but I L..O..V..E reality tv. Quite honestly, those are the only shows that I watch. I watch Dancing with the Stars and American Idol but am much more hooked on shows like Survivor, Amazing Race and Top Chef. I pretty much never met a reality show that I didn't like and outside of the news that's virtually all that I'm interested in watching. Something about the dynamic of human interaction I think and once you watch an episode or two there are people you like and people that you love to hate. You get hooked to keep on watching tos find out how those people fare.