Now, with cable channels, reality television, talk-back live and blogging on the spot, with viewers and readers hip to stagecraft and expecting to be taken behind the scenes, there seems no turning back.
Reality television and cable news don't ask us to identify: they ask us to judge, to stand outside what we are watching, even while we indulge in and are entertained by the spectacle of it all.
"If you see [someone] ziplining across a rainforest or traipsing through China, it inspires you," he says, referring to reality television and cable programming.
The GSN cable channel plans to expand into reality television for the 2012-13 season, the channel's programming and advertising executives said at an upfront breakfast on Wednesday.
And with so many networks and cable channels producing some form of reality television — from CBS to the Style Network to the History Channel — there is a glut of material.
Harisu and Jung starred in a reality television show on cable network Mnet showing their everday lives and preparations for their wedding, but the couple were subjected to harsh criticism from netizens.
The History Channel was once best known for its multitude of World War II documentaries, but over the years it has amassed one of the most robust lineups of reality television found on cable.
Mr. Johnston, a bit player in the last presidential election, is pitching a reality television show to several cable channels.
This was when he began to reinvent himself as a star in new genres: reality television, pro wrestling, and cable news, particularly Fox News.
