8. Many Reality Shows Have Script Outlines
We all knew this was true in our heart of hearts, but it’s not so often that it’s laid out so plainly – even though The Hills admitted with a bold-face that their show was scripted in their series finale! There’s plenty of evidence that many popular reality shows aren’t all that real: Duck Dynasty follows a scripted guideline given to them by producers, though they ad-lib many specific lines; House Hunters has a strict formula it adheres to for every episode; Keeping Up With the Kardashians has filmed scenes on a studio set that supposedly took place in Dubai! Reality shows can really be separated into two categories: planned stories, in which the show is entirely plotted out in advance (like The Bachelor and Survivor) and followed stories, in which the subject is filmed and editors sift through the film for interesting plots (like The Real World and The Osbournes were).
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