Sentence examples for structured reality from inspiring English sources

They're all "structured reality" shows.

Documentary, as MacDonald reminds us, is essentially structured reality.

Now, structured reality gets in on the idea, following a David Beckham doppelganger's lookalikes agency.

It's part sketch show, part structured reality show and part quiz show.

Or Kim Kardashian, the recently married/divorced queen of Stateside structured reality.

Such accessibility is at the heart of the structured reality star's appeal.

And when you tune in to a structured-reality show you, the viewer, are actively choosing to spend 60 minutes watching a glossy-looking soap opera performed by non-actors half-improvising a non-script.

It doesn't matter that were you to wander into the backstage area, you would find a small door beyond which lurks only the shrieking void of eternal structured-reality nothingness, and Ollie from Made In Chelsea, crying.

Flagrant structured-reality slander aside, the largely excellent Grayson Perry's Dream House follows the process of building a fully habitable and rentable house to Grayson's artistic specifications, as commissioned by Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project (but don't let that put you off).

And it's had a mini-resurgence in recent years, with BBC3's warped gameshow Murder In Successville and Channel 4's structured-reality comedy Lookalikes, while original trailblazers The Comic Strip Presents… returned earlier this year with the phone-hacking scandal spoof Red Top.

Its final series wasn't bereft of fun segments (Hammond being dropped into the British Columbian wilderness was one highlight), but even these were blighted with the issues that had long outweighed its initial knockabout charm: bloated scenes of forced scripted comedy, an over-reliance on Hollywood visuals, and carefully plotted structured-reality taking the place of anything really happening.