The current popularity of reality TV all over the world has made reality TV as one of the potent movers of real life drama, challenge and social conflicts in contemporary television entertainment. Reality TV symbolizes the social life of contemporary viewers. It brings out into open the true to life experiences of the participants and allows its viewers to relate or associate these experiences to their own lives, and perhaps serve as one of their inspirations. Reality TV brought about the social dilemma of modern society in interacting with regular people, with life's daily obstacles, and with realization of dreams of making it big in the quest for victory. As indicated by Cynthia Frisby (2004), in her article Getting Real with Reality TV,
"Reality TV allows audiences to laugh, cry, and live vicariously through so-called everyday, ordinary people who have opportunities to experience things that, until the moment they are broadcast, most individuals only dream about."
Though reality TV may be appealing to majority of its audience because of the straightforwardness of "real life" events and dealings of the participants, others view this kind of entertainment as a blunt display of commercialism wherein producers and networks take advantage of its mass appeal and manipulate the mind of its viewers to patronize this kind of entertainment. Some viewing critics claim that some reality TV plots some kind of a hoax with call-in participants who are actors and actresses in order to make the show more believable and realistic. While others have branded reality TV shows as only a spin-off of other shows with a new conceptualized format, Clay Calvert (2003) suggests that,
"Reality" programs merely are extended-viewing game shows in which contestants,
instead of testing knowledge on current event or trivia, apply very different social-perhaps even Machiavellian-skills and engage in a test of wills. Everything
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