Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

Rad! Now I can rewatch MTV videos before the channel was utterly destroyed by low budget "reality TV" game shows.

"The Real World" started in 1992

real world boston was the only reality tv show i watched more or less all the way through. it was fun while it lasted but once it was over, reality tv felt "done" and i didn't really want to watch much more of it. i still don't understand the lasting appeal tbh.

A good video about how that came to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1gqLVHZWo

It's cheap to produce, yet gets enough eyeballs to validate its existence.

No more paying actors, script writers (at least, not at the same level), etc.

True story!

Reality TV and game shows are two different things. MTV's first game show (and first non-music programming) was "Remote Control" begun in the late 1980s.[1]

I used to watch regularly -- funny how I remembered the names of Colin Quinn and Kari Wuhrer, but couldn't remember the host's name without looking it up.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Control_(game_show)

I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to "win" something).

> I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to “win” something).

Reality competition shows are definitely a kind of game shows, but not all reality ahows are reality competition shows; MTV’s The Real World was not – nor was its loose inspiration, PBS’s An American Family. Expedition Robinson from 1997 (and the international version, Survivor, from 2000) really kicked off the reality competition format.