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653 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source
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erickhill ◴[28 Jul 23 16:02 UTC] No.36908875[source]▶
Rad! Now I can rewatch MTV videos before the channel was utterly destroyed by low budget "reality TV" game shows.
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PopAlongKid ◴[28 Jul 23 20:31 UTC] No.36912890[source]▶
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)

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1. erickhill ◴[29 Jul 23 04:20 UTC] No.36916869[source]▶
I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to "win" something).
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2. dragonwriter ◴[29 Jul 23 04:35 UTC] No.36916976[source]▶
> 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.