Why must it all end in Reality TV?

[Tev]

Okay, this is sorta a news thing but it isn't. It's about that girl who got lost out in the ocean or something yadda yadda yadda.....but then she get back, is all safe, and what the first thing we need to know about her harrowing adventure? That she's decided not to do a reality show. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gHjXcYeUuFF-2s5nbXWGWMoG0OiAD9GB7RE81)

LOS ANGELES — A spokesman for the family of the California girl who was rescued from the Indian Ocean while trying to sail around the world says the family has no current plans for a reality TV show.

Jeff Casher says he spoke with Abby Sunderland's father Monday morning and Laurence Sunderland says such a show was discussed last year when her brother Zac sailed around the world, but it never came about.

Magnetic Entertainment lists plans for the show on its website, but officials from the company did not return calls Monday.

The New York Post reported Monday that Laurence Sunderland signed a contract for a show weeks after his daughter set sail.

Casher says Abby Sunderland brought cameras on her voyage. The 16-year-old started sending an emergency signal from her storm-battered boat Thursday. She was rescued two days later.

Oh how nice. Good. We don't need more people doing crap with the end goal of getting a reality show. Octa-mom wanted one, the White House party crashers wanted one, and even those parents of the kid with the big ass balloon here hoping for a season or two of TV fame out of their little stunt.

Can we please be done with Reality TV? It's practically on every channel. Hell, even Cartoon Network has both real life kids reality shows and the animated reality shows making fun of them.

[krogothwolf]

If Reality shows have done anything good, and it's not a lot, it's the hilarious animated reality shows that they spawned. Man those are awesome.

But yeah, I don't really understand Reality TV shows, specifically survivor. That "Heroes vs Villains" one confused me. Every commercial they showed was about everyone hating Richard or Robert or something like that. Uh, if you hate em, Vote em out. And how do you have "Heroes" in a Reality show where everyone stabs each other in the back?

[Donomni]

The problem with reality TV is that it's literally the cheapest shit you can produce.

Studios see that, and have gone batshit crazy with the concept for more-or-less a decade since Survivor and Big Brother hit it off(Yes, MTV predated them, but some trends don't really take off unless they air on the Big Three).

The problem now is that studios are finding it either too costly to not produce more reality shows to stay afloat, or are greedy douchebags who want profit over quality, like the people who wanted CNReal, who I've heard thankfully had their plans backfire.

Obviously, we're finding limits to how much TV can handle reality shows, but it sadly seems to be "near-total-saturation of the airwaves".