Sentence examples for cheap reality from inspiring English sources

No matter how impossible the promises, kids kept ordering anyway; it was a triumph of rich anticipation over cheap reality.

ABC had a surprise hit with "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and CBS triumphed with its own cheap reality show, "Survivor".

To save money, broadcast networks are likely to keep lots of cheap reality programming in their schedules, which will mean less work for writers, says Michael Nathanson, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, a research firm.

"It was a really dumb decision to go on strike," says Michael Nathanson, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, a bank, who gives warning that broadcast networks are likely to keep lots of cheap reality programming in their schedules even when the writers come back, which will mean less work for them.

When a fight begins in the bar, Mike pulls out his badge and the camera shifts from film, and the smooth glossy look of most television dramas, to grainy video with the down-and-dirty style of cheap reality programs like "World's Wildest Police Chases".

Doug Herzog, the president of USA Network, said cable is becoming more like broadcast television by adding more expensive scripted dramatic series in the summer even as broadcast television is becoming more like cable by adding the cheap reality programming that has been a cable staple, especially on MTV.

Now, with a new show at HBO/Cinemax, he's on a mission to prove that technology can make high-quality televsion cost-effective enough to compete with the current cultural waste-land of cheap reality-show TV.

With the rise of much cheaper reality TV programmes, several TV executives fear that launches such as EastEnders belong to the past.

But along came network bean counters who neither knew nor cared about movies and culture but were determined to cut costs and replace good shows with cheap, unwatchable reality programs or drivelous "lifestyle" programs.

A shoddy, cheap looking reality show that raises dramatic tension with what seems like a thousand dramatic zoom shots per episode.

In a way, nothing is cheaper than reality.